Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law?

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Meat illegal Trafficking Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado. You might also want to see how the World Parrot Trust works to protect parrots in the wild.

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Protection Brazil Parrots Paraguay 193

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

While snakes protect their eggs, and may protect their young for a short period of time after they hatch, baby snakes are very soon on their own. Raptors feed their young meat. Call a wildlife rehabilitator! Milk + Wildlife = Big Mistake. Songbirds feed their young mostly insects, sometimes seeds and berries.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Eggs 255

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected. Money and effort are being invested in that protection. The cargo consisted of huge number of protected passerines such as larks and pipits, beside huntable species like Common Quails and Turtle Doves.

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Serbia Slaughter Slaughtered Turtles 270

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.

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Hunters Wildlife Rehabilitation Hunting Legislation 187

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2012

And while finding snails is not difficult for a long legged bird that is not afraid to wade into alligator-infested marshes it is difficult to extract the yummy snail meat from its protective shell. The snail was not very large but I was impressed with the size of the chunk of snail meat hiding in the recesses of the shell.

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Meat Alligators Florida Collecting 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267