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The punishment of Birching and cat o' nine tails continued to be used in Northern Ireland into the 1940s. [7] The Isle of Man caused a good deal of controversy by continuing to birch young offenders until 1976. [8] [9] The birch was also used on offending teenage boys until the mid-1960s on the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey.
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Birching of Anabaptist martyr Ursula, Maastricht, 1570; engraving by Jan Luyken from Martyrs Mirror [3]. Singapore's use of caning as a form of judicial corporal punishment became much discussed around the world in 1994 [4] when a United States citizen, Michael Fay, was caned for vandalism. [5]
An adult male donkey is a jack or jackass, an adult female is a jenny or jennet, [4] [5] [6] and an immature donkey of either sex is a foal. [6] Jacks are often mated with female horses (mares) to produce mules ; the less common hybrid of a male horse (stallion) and jenny is a hinny .
The avifauna of Indonesia include a total of 1809 species, of which 786 are endemic, and 3 have been introduced by humans. 150 species are globally threatened. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist ...
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Most endemic birds are in the Wallacea region of eastern Indonesia. Sulawesi supports twelve endemic bird genera . Of all Indonesian endemic birds, about sixty-one species are threatened: thirty-seven species are listed as vulnerable , twenty-three are endangered and eleven species are listed as critical on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
[1] [2] Conservation protection and scientific studies of the ecology of Vietnam, particularly in the protected forest areas, have been given priority attention by the Government of Vietnam. Laws were enacted to set up Xuân Thủy Wetland National Park , four UNESCO Biosphere Reserves , and Hạ Long Bay and Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Parks ...