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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 3319558" data-attributes="member: 12449">Maybe I am wrong, but isn't this only the second ever Global Big Year? It is never going to become a mass event, perhaps at most one or two dedicated 'crazy' dudes every year or two (and full respect to them from me) ...so in the big scale of things, actually nothing at all in terms of overall effect.Far more significant surely are the tens of thousands of little trips made each day by the likes of 'normal' birders, you and I, as we drive to the coast for that migration day, as we fly on our annual holiday, etc, etc. So rather than demand it mandatory for carbon-offset programs to be part of Global Big Years, wouldn't it be more logical for us to look closer to home first?</blockquote>