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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Even more telling, the support the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission was expecting from its hunting community simply never materialized. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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Always Question a Scientist

Critter News

and an accountant and an economist and any other "expert" that uses their field to claim a moral authority. This statement is mainly motivated by a recent conversation with someone who has a science degree (I think it's biology), but who actually works for a clinical testing company. Science does not solve everything.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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We inferred that the infanticide sequence was done as food resource competition and/or sexually selected infanticide.” A short paper i n the Journal of the Natural History of African Birds points out shoddy research that ended up describing the Eurasian Hobby as a “hunter of dusk and dawn” It is not.

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