10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Protection of the area is far more important than my personal birding needs (my birding obsession, to be honest, addiction even). In the 21st century this may sound like 19th century reasoning, but I fight because it’s the right thing to do. And the area is accessible to walkers, it is only me who found himself cut out.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964. Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. But what is “wilderness” and how does it differ from any other federal land? The longer answer is below.

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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. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

Do the maps right, and you are the leader of the pack. There is one more reason to take my hat off: all funds raised from selling the books go directly towards bird protection projects in Greece. This book is sure to become an essential companion on my future birding trips in Greece. Now you know which guide you really want.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

Sunstein is a Harvard law professor who has written about animal protection issues. He is the co-editor, for example, of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, which examines views both in favor and against animal law. Tags: Obama animal rights farm animal welfare politics agribusiness.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today.

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Critter News

JUNE 29, 2009

Here's a video and transcript of Amy Goodman's interview with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. He was jailed along with six other activists for violating the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Tags: animal rights.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If habitat is protected, they can also act as important pathways to fantastic places and can greatly facilitate connecting people with birds and biodiversity. Roads near Dominical – There is good forest right along the coastal highway but there’s also a fair bit of traffic.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present. Other results from this Gallup poll can be found here.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2023

Our resident shorebirds have started to breed in the last few weeks and there are numerous Pied Oystercatcher nests along our shores right now. We knew that she may well not be right at the nest when we initially noticed her movement and moved slowly forward making sure that we found her footprints and therefore the nest.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

Ruili is a Chinese city right on the border to Myanmar, and a major border crossing. As we continue exploring Nepal’s unparalleled beauty and biodiversity, let us appreciate these bright gems hidden in its forests and strive to protect them for future generations to admire.”

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2009

In a brisk, readable narrative, The Longest Struggle traces the campaigns of animal rights pioneers like Henry Spira, Alex Hershaft, and Ingrid Newkirk, as well as leaders who have come more recently on the scene like Heidi Prescott, Karen Davis, and Bruce Friedrich. Tags: animal rights. Worth a look.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. In the most poignant (and amusing) point of her training, once she has become serious, her tutor Nancy tells her she must order her own falconry glove, a leather one to protect against the razor-sharp talons of the bird.

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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Worried by the lack of appropriate action by the authorities (as described in the previous post ), this year I invited two more wildlife protection organisations to take part in the annual census of Pygmy Cormorants in Belgrade. “The Pygmy Cormorant is a strictly protected bird species in Serbia, as well as in the European Union.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2018

As we enter the second century of protecting, preserving, and respecting our wild spaces, certainly no one would actually consider undoing, reversing, and exploiting our national parks, forests, and monuments. After all, removing resources is the exact opposite of protecting resources. And yet, it has begun. Horned Lark.

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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

MARCH 22, 2024

Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Could scientists use weather radar data to track the spread of avian influenza, and thereby help poultry growers protect their flocks? (To see some in action, check out Bella Hummingbird’s site on Explore.org !). That’s the subject of a study focusing on California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. Ecka Fish Farm by Mileta Cekovic Soon we reached the Ecka Fish Farm, a part of the wider Carska Bara Important Bird Area (yet, not a part of the protected Carska Bara Reserve). Protest indeed!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Irv’s right! Right now, based on recent birding, a heck of a lot of them are in Costa Rica. Oh right, more vireos. Costa Rica is just the half way point, I’m glad to see them, happy to see Red-eyed Vireos finding food in protected forests. Where the heck are my kids!?” Red-eyed again.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Brief commentary follows this e-mail I received regarding greyhounds, animal rights and Ireland. We're simply asking you for just a couple of hour to help greyhounds in serious trouble right now. Donate to ARAN, make checks or postal orders payable to Animal Rights Action Network and mail to the address above, thank you. "The

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2023

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. That’s right, we’re in Shanghai—a place where birds and concrete collide in a remarkable display of irony. Collisions with buildings?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2021

However, once they have chicks to protect they have a lot more work to do. It is only early in the breeding season here right now, but we always hope for the best with all of our breeding attempts along our coastline. It is not somewhere where people generally walk, because they prefer the actual beach.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2021

Other stops revealed more Red-eyed Vireos, additional Scarlet Tanagers, and a few Summer Tanagers but the biggest movements of birds took place right on the coast. From the Amazon to Ohio, protecting birds also means protecting habitat through supporting and promoting sustainable use from home to the foothills of Colombia.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

In June 2021, the Mayor of Belgrade announced that Beljarica will finally become officially protected. Now you can check the fish farm lakes on your left (but here you have to ask for permission in the management building, the last one on the right hand side) or you can drive on until the first, very slight band in the road.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

No product works as well as taking responsibility for the agonizing deaths for which you are personally responsible, and keeping your cat indoors has the added benefit of protecting it from cars, predators, disease, starvation, fights, traps, guns, poison, etc. Birds birds and cats Birdsbesafe cat collars protect birds from cats'

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2020

After a lot of backing and forthing, the vendor accepted our offer and the wood is to become a trust to be protected in perpetuity. The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. Anti-social behaviour has degraded the ambience of the wood in the past.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Established to protect a watershed and used for environmental education in the eastern Central Valley, Rio Loro has a few nice trails, picnic tables, and even has a small canopy tower (!). No, not a warbler but big enough to be one and a star in its own right. Yes, you read that right. Violet Sabrewing. Chestnut-capped Warbler.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. I imagined walking right up to them.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is a bit of a dilemma for local authorities – on the one hand, they would presumably like to protect the birds, on the other hand, they also want to draw as many tourists to the place as possible. It is famous for its mudflats that are used as a refueling stop for Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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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. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

The Masked Lapwing is one of the noisiest shorebirds in the north, especially when they are protecting a nest or young. On a recent day trip to Derby from Broome we took the road into the Derby airport to get views of the end of the mudflats and encountered a Masked Lapwing sitting on eggs and chicks right beside the main road at the airport.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2023

Serendip Sanctuary is a 250 ha protected area that is near the You Yangs and the small town of Lara, Victoria. Although Tawny Frogmouths are well camouflaged I did notice the shape of the tree was not quite right and there they were. Lara is about 20 kilometres from Geelong or 60 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2020

Dubovacki Rit (Dubovac Wetland) is a part of the Labudovo okno Ramsar Wetland and protected within the Deliblato Sands Reserve. To reach the western section, turn right at the first cross junction (coming from the direction of the town of Kovin) and just follow the street until you climb the levee. Dubovacki Rit , Labudovo okno.

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