Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2011

Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. Therefore, we are the only ones who matter and the only ones who should have rights. Therefore, we are the only ones who should have rights. What laws should be in effect, blah, blah (I could go on and on. ).

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

It is now law as of March 1. The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Veterinarians are now required to report any instances of abuse or neglect.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2023

In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. But, if your eyes are constantly scanning the sky while you are talking to someone, if you are twitching at every trembling tree branch outside your office window, if you watch birds in your dreams… this is the right stuff! What is the right stuff for you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2022

In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. But, if your eyes are constantly scanning the sky while you are talking to someone, if you are twitching at every trembling tree branch outside your office window, if you watch birds in your dreams… this is the right stuff! What is the right stuff for you?

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

An important read for pet owners about their legal rights. In New York there is a law that says that if you keep a pet that your owner knows about for more than three months in a manner that is “open and notorious”—in other words “for all to see”—then you can’t be evicted even if you have a no-pets clause in your lease.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

Tags: animal rights animal law.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. Tags: activism musings animal rights animal welfare.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2024

She did just that, and the fact that they were well used gave exactly the right impression she needed of someone who knew, when it came to birds, what she was talking about. It’s difficult to explain why, but it just feels right. I’ve no idea what binoculars the current CEO of the RSPB, Rebecca Speight, uses.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Unfortunately, my daughter, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law all work for Mexican entities that do not give them the day off, so the celebration was moved to Saturday. One distant Violetear was positioned just right for us to see its full irridescent colors, although a small branch between us kept my camera from focusing exactly.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2021

I picked out this week’s Parula Pilsner from The Warbler Brewer of Delmar, New York solely because it’s the very end of April, right around the time I generally see my first Northern Parula ( Setophaga americana ) of the year. But with May right around the corner, the floodgates seem about to burst.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2022

I met Jonathan because his mother-in-law lives here in Morelia, and when he visits her, we sometimes find a space to bird together. That’s me on the right. Snowy Plovers also breed half an hour north of my home, so we have those in common. Jonathan also works as a birding guide up in Baja California, if anyone is interested.).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I'm a longtime proponent of animal rights, but this suit is ridiculous. Second, it is not a necessary condition for the possession of rights (legal or otherwise) that one be a person. That fact alone suffices to grant them a legal right not to be made to suffer. The right is defeasible, of course, as it is in the case of humans.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2023

After she died, William decided to stick with the family and married the widowed daughter-in-law of Sarah Amherst and like Sarah, a dowager countess of Plymouth (it took me a while to figure out what this means, but then my parents always had difficulties explaining to me at family gatherings who was related with whom).

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

Some access issues are addressed by federal law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. That’s the hashed-out area to the right of the top space in the photo below.) Bush in 1990. An observation deck is between them.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

The legal rights of nonhuman animals might first be achieved in any of three ways. In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” What is the common law? Steven M.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It might be a good idea not only to pass laws but also to enforce them – just a thought. However, it is cursed with a rather unappealing species name – sordida , or “shabby”, which makes you wonder whether the person giving the species this name had actually ever seen the bird. As it does not look shabby at all.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In some instances, the birding is incongruously right next to oil rigs or pads. When the Corps of Engineers purchased the land that would later become Lake Texoma, it did not purchase the mineral rights under the land. Those rights were — and continue to be — owned by third parties. So the oil wells keep pumping away.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In law, there is often a similar approach, memorably articulated by Justice Louis Brandeis , who said “in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right.”. This preference for stability seems uncontroversial in principle, in many disciplines, not just taxonomy.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A group of animal rights activists sued the U.S. government Thursday to challenge the constitutionality of a rarely used law they say treats them like terrorists if they cause a loss in profits for businesses that use or sell animal products. Read the full article in the Washington Post.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. In some countries (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2021

A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live. Look in the right place, and year-round you can also find Violet-crowned and Rivoli’s Hummingbirds , Blue-throated Mountain-Gems , and Plain-capped Starthroats here.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Over the last weekend, my wife and I made a whirl-wind trip from Mexico, up to the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle area, where we stayed with the in-laws. They have a nice large back yard, complete with a variety of bird feeders, and a fence that backs right up to a Green Belt.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

southern border; and set regulations to waive environmental laws for building on public lands. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? S ierra Club Environmental Impact Brochure – with the list of laws being waived. The Border Wall. Photo courtesy of © KristaSchlyer.com. 27, August 2018, Vol.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Those who work to help repopulate and protect decimated bird colonies do it because it’s critically important, it’s right, it’s just, and at the end there is the unimaginable joy of seeing a wild bird spread its wings and disappear into the sky. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds. Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2020

Or, it’s just “bad luck”, that the laws of probability just have not worked in your favor. However, if there’s a good thing about the laws of probability and birding, it’s that the longer you don’t see a bird when you “should”, the more likely you will see that bird with every try.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2017

That can take years, particularly in Texas, where property rights are deemed sacrosanct. But alternatives are being largely being ignored and laws that would require consideration of other options will be simply be waived. If permission is denied, the government must use the legal power of eminent domain to obtain the land.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2009

Tags: animal law conferences.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I haven't heard the "it's legal" argument in a long time and find the law to be such a completely separate concept that I don't even know where to begin. The law, as I was told by one of my professors during my ten minutes of law school in 1991, isn't about justice (it's about society functioning smoothly).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Change in Law. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. That’s easy!” wrote Veronica in California. “I

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

This June my brother-in-law and I took off to Kangiq (Cape Crauford), the western edge of of the mouth of Admiralty Inlet to Lancaster Sound. This is big country, Kangiq is just off the right of the photo, jutting out into Lancaster Sound. I don’t get there every year, but I managed to spend one day there again this year.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place. All birds of prey are protected by state and federal law,” says Eileen Wicker. “If But they were abysmally ignorant, not only of the facts but of the damage that can be done by posting something so stupid. If you have a cat, keep it inside.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

…a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights?

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