article thumbnail

The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book.

Falcons 200
article thumbnail

The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle.

article thumbnail

The Irony of The Girl Effect

Animal Person

For example, Oprah (or Kristof) said: "At the peak of the transatlantic slave trade, 80,000 slaves were transported from Africa to the new world. But it's the same concept that underlies both situations: viewing others as commodities that you have a right to exploit. Our job, it seems to me, is to help them see it.

Cows 100