article thumbnail

Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. Outdoor/feral cat people are bullies who prey on people unable to fight back, just as their cats do with birds. Sealed With A Trap.

article thumbnail

Is my Rhino Still Alive?

10,000 Birds

Fast-forward to the present murky sky and the 1,215 rhino butchered last year. My eyes will be returning to the lonely acacia next to a waterhole, trying to spot a large shadow in the sunset.

Rhinos 173
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. I say they were butchered, face-off. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes.

Elephants 184
article thumbnail

Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Butcher, A. Poisoning of wildlife with anticoagulant rodenticides in New York. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35: 187-193. References.

Ethics 141
article thumbnail

When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

10,000 Birds

Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

article thumbnail

Birding Protection Island, Washington

10,000 Birds

It even made one very close pass by the boat, within twenty yards, but I managed to butcher the photographic opportunity so you will have to make do with these two shots, the best I got of any of the six Tufted Puffins we totalled.