These positive trends are largely attributed to mitigation measures to reduce mortality associated with powerlines, supplementary feeding, reparation of nests, reintroductions and decreases in the disturbance of breeding birds, although some of the observed increases may be due to more thorough searches within its range.
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The statement said for the past six months U . S . specialized agencies have been looking at increasing their overall presence in Somalia to provide food relief, supplementary feeding for children, clean water, public health and education to one of the poorest countries in the world.
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FCKS kittens that survive but who have not been given any drug treatment or support other than supplementary feeding, generally recover over a period of 4 10 weeks, and are usually normal by 12 weeks of age, though some take as long as 6 months to normalise.
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In 1979 the International Baby Food Action Network ( IBFAN ) was formed to help raise awareness of such practices as supplementary feeding of new babies with formula and the inappropriate promotion of baby formula, and to help change attitudes that discourage or inhibit mothers from breastfeeding their babies.
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Supplementary feeding not only increases kakapo breeding frequency, but also affects the sex ratio of kakapo offspring, as maternal conditions influence this ratio . ( See section " Reproduction " . ) This finding was subsequently used to increase the number of female chicks by deliberately manipulating maternal conditions.
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Other services fluctuated over the years, but in September 1983 supplementary feeding was being handled by Catholic Relief Services ( CRS ), sanitation and maternal-child health by World Concern, physical rehabilitation by Handicap International, and security by UNBRO . CRS also operated a mobile dental team and the Japan International Volunteer Center ( JVC ) provided a weekly X-ray service.
