Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
former president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), died on February 15, 2024, at the age of 73. Wise was a trailblazer in the fight for legal rights for animals.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
To wit: A lingering Snowy Owl plopped down right outside a television news station in Vermont. After watching the three-eyed ravens on Game of Thrones , it seems some other members of the bird kingdom want a piece of the small-screen action. The BBC’s Winged Planet and Earthflight programs are now available on DVD.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
But efforts like The Bobolink Odyssey , a project run by the Perlut Lab of the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, are attempting to bridge that divide by investigating land management practices in Vermont that balance the needs of both farmers and grassland birds.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 23, 2019
The places I expected ( Pillar Point Harbor in California and Ridgefield NWR in Washington) are right at the top of the list, but even places I thought I’d been to countless times have modest numbers. My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont.
Animal Person
MAY 12, 2009
So there was no traffic, no noise, and each day we awoke to the drama of the creatures who lived right outside our door. Creatures have come in phases for me: the duck phase, the cat phase, the dog phase, the bear phase (I was living in Vermont--it was unavoidable), the Canada goose phase. And a dead end.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Kaufman guides are colorful and well-designed and convenient, just the right size and weight to slip into a backpack or even a pocket. They have one primary goal: to enable people—beginners and experts, the active seekers and the hesitantly curious—to identify natural things easily, while in the field.
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