Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2011
I can also imagine how much it costs, which kind of kills the dream a bit. I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding. 5 Responses to “Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?&# Duncan Mar 7th, 2011 at 5:15 pm I can imagine being there.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. It does not make them more or less a "tool."
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2016
In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2015
The high nutrient loading led to massive and unprecedented algal blooms which in turn killed productive plants and changed the once crystal-clear lake into pea soup. Massive quantities of nutrients, sewage, fertilizers and citrus effluent were pumped into the lake from the farms. Fish populations plummeted and bird populations declined.
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Then in 2002, the news of a dramatic discovery of a relict colony in Palmyra, Syria, a country where they had been declared extinct for 70 years was greeted with jubilation.
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