Birds and Canada's Tar Sands: Why America's Number 1 Source of Oil is Removing Millions of Birds

By clock on December 5, 2008.

Millions of birds could die from oilsands development: report
Report Finds Millions of Birds will be Lost from Tar Sands Development

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