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Biologist Brian Latta, who helped move peregrine falcon eggs to a safer location from a precariously perched nest on a bridge in San Francisco, on the plight of the male falcon guarding the nest in his partner鈥檚 absence (, 30 March)
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US Congressman Brad Miller, in a letter to the CEO of Google, complaining about the use of pre-Katrina satellite images on Google Earth (Boston Herald, 1 April)
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Martin Balluch of the Association against Animal Factories argues the case for a court to grant human rights to Hiasl, a chimp facing possible vivisection after the animal sanctuary in Austria where he lives went bankrupt (The Observer, London, 1 April)
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Roger Robertson, licensee of a gay pub in Sydney, on a drag show held in the pub during Earth Hour, a voluntary blackout in the city to raise awareness about climate change. The audience held mini-torches to light up the stage (BBC News online, 31 March)
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Derrell Teat of Tampa, Florida, on her plan to get a DNA sample from a man she believed to be last male descendant of her great-great-great-grandfather鈥檚 brother. Teat is part of a growing army of amateur genealogists in the US, many of them willing to get DNA samples by any means (The New York Times, 2 April)