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‘One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.’ —Leo Tolstoy


Intellectual Property Rights | The Kingfisher is an open-access, peer-reviewed environmental magazine. The Kingfisher welcomes readers to view and use information from this website for personal, non-commercial use. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, where users are able to read, download, or link articles. However, articles must be referenced accordingly [©The Kingfisher, author]. Articles and content originally published under The Kingfisher name should not be formally published on any other website whilst still remaining on The Kingfisher platform. You are not permitted to rephrase information obtained from this website in such a way that it is represented inaccurately or inappropriately.


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