10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
A 2004 paper looking at the conflict between this owl and cold-water fish farmers in Taiwan found that owls were an issue at a quarter of the farms observed. Sadly, at the majority of these farms, owls were trapped with steel leg-hold traps or mist nets, resulting in 10 owls being found drowned in the fish ponds.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2012
It was on the side of the road in a field at Blue Chip Farm, a large horse farm near the town of Wallkill. In 2004, in a long anticipated decision, the American Ornithologists’ Union decided that the tiniest types of the Canada Goose were actually a completely separate species – the Cackling Goose , Branta hutchinsii.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 27, 2015
From 1993 to 2004, biologists released 289 captive-raised whooping cranes into central Florida. One of the remaining birds is known to frequent Joe Overstreet Road, a dirt road that runs a few miles through sod farms and cattle pastures between Canoe Creek Road and Lake Kissimmee in Keenansville,about an hour south of Orlando.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 12, 2012
Modern farms (so-called factory farms), for example, raise animals in unnatural conditions. Quite the contrary, just as would be true in the case of my son, what we should say is that part of the harm done to these animals by factory farming is that they do not know this. (
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2012
Especially because animals are made to suffer in the pursuit of human purposes—in the name of "efficient" factory farming, for example, or in pursuit of scientific knowledge—the utilitarian injunction to count their suffering and to count it equitably must strike a responsive moral chord. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,
Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 6, 2009
In 2004, Robert Stevens was convicted of violating this law and sentenced to 32 months in prison for selling videos featuring pit bulls chasing wild boars on organized hunts and depicting a pit bull attacking the lower jaw of a domestic farm pig, according to the Philadelphia-based appeals court. In July, a divided U.S.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2019
Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). –Campus Farms and River 740-815 msnm. Uzdin fish farm (Private access, must have permission to enter). Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e San Joaquin coffee. 12 Jan 2018. 01 Jan 2018.
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