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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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But, it’s more than that, because each essay also includes “a big idea, a method or technique or resource, about bird study in our age” (p. Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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Additionally, Wildlife Services puts little emphasis on using non-lethal methods, and puts few resources towards developing new, ethical non-lethal research; • Unnecessary and Fiscally Unsound - Taxpayers are paying the bill for these activities, and Wildlife Services fails to protect the businesses it supposedly helps.

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From Today's New York Times

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Response is what our humane law enforcement officers do; the prevention aspect is then taken care of by the other resources of the A.S.P.C.A., We constantly stretch our limited resources to save lives as a nonprofit organization. New York, July 23, 2007 The real story here is our tireless commitment to fighting animal cruelty.

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Animal Ethics

There is only one way to avoid future noncompliance and free city resources that are already spread too thin —institute a ban. 6, 2007 Note from KBJ: I couldn't resist highlighting the metaphors. Now that the carriage industry is being held under a microscope, it’s clear that it puts a black mark on the city.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Those who continue to abuse every animal and natural resource for their own pleasures will come to represent the ugly. 12, 2007 Note from KBJ: You are what you wear. Some day it will be the ultimate in chic to be a compassionate consumer. Kat McAfee Princeton, N.J.,

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Animal Ethics

Whaling for scientific research is indispensable to establish the proper conservation of whales and ocean resources. Japan Information Center Consulate General of Japan New York, April 4, 2007 Scientific research from Japan has been highly commended by the International Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee. Jiro Okuyama Dir.,

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We are Just Money Grubbers

10,000 Birds

annually) was detected in the Baltic Sea, with counts in 2007-2009 putting the wintering population at c. But, must we as a society always hungry for resources develop in such a destructive direction? Since surveys in 1992-1993, an apparent decline of c. 373,000 individuals, down from c. 933,000 in 1992-1993.

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