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People doing really stupid things with animals…

I don’t have a problem with people who want to do stupid things – jump out of perfectly good planes with a bit of silk on their back, off a bridge with a bit of rope around your ankles, play cricket…

But I don’t like seeing animals in cages…I just can’t see the point and my goat really gets got…

Buenos Aires – mugging and pick-pocket capital of the world?

I’m in Argentina at the invitation of BirdLife International, my favourite conservation NGO of all time.
Unlike many/most NGOs, it works from the bottom-up (I don’t like that top down/bottom-up analogy/metaphor/simile but it’s the best I can find for now), with most of its membership spread around the globe working on small, community-based bird conservation projects, [...]