10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

2008 and this video recommended by the Ted Talk people: The Early Birdwatchers ), or the social behavior of Common Guillemots (what we North Americans call Common Murres) ( Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird , 2012). It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

4, 2008 by the Environmental Protection Agency to charge a fee for air-polluting cows and hogs. The proposal was one of several drafted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases the animals emit through flatulence or belching amounts to air pollution. knee-jerk reaction to anything and everything.)

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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.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Indeed, by 2008, when I first really became aware of the issue, the West Coast of South Island was pretty much their only stronghold. I mentioned 2008 as the year I became aware of the issue. Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time. Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed. 9, 2008 The writer is president of United Poultry Concerns , a nonprofit organization that is a sponsor of Proposition 2.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ A Disgraceful Farm Bill ” (editorial, May 16): While the farm bill recently approved by Congress deals with enormous agricultural policy issues, it also includes three important provisions to protect animal welfare. Enforcement has been inconsistent at best.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. she’s Texan.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

To the Editor: In his past comments about protecting animals and nature, Pope Benedict XVI is building upon the Roman Catholic Church’s tradition of promoting faithful stewardship of all creatures (“ A Cat Lover in the Vatican Strikes a Chord With Cat Lovers Around the World ,” news article, April 20).

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. And you do not acknowledge the individual care that pigs get in such systems and the protection from predators, diseases and the aggression that pigs often exhibit toward each other in group housing. To the Editor: “ Standing, Stretching, Turning Around ” (editorial, Oct.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2008

15), is precisely on the mark regarding the urgency and importance of today’s plant and animal extinction crisis. And Mr. Klinkenborg’s conclusion that an international effort similar to what is happening to address the current global financial crisis will be necessary to protect species prompts a question.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

To the Editor: Thank you for publicizing the plight of satos—street dogs—in Puerto Rico in “ Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment ” (news article, March 9). As one animal advocate put it, “we need to work together and keep the finger in the side of government.”

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Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Mustangs Stir a Debate on Thinning the Herd ” (front page, July 20): The Bureau of Land Management is charged with protecting wild horses and burros on the Western rangelands. Davis, an emeritus professor of animal science at Oregon State University, says the horses “damage” the environment. July 23, 2008

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Many of these antibiotics are routinely added to the feed of healthy animals to promote rapid weight gain. Department of Agriculture have all declared drug-resistant diseases stemming from antibiotic use in animals a "serious emerging concern." Slaughter’s bill banning the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

Around the world, animal migrations are disappearing because of conflicts with development, agriculture and other human activities. Migratory birds protect forests and crops from insect pests; butterflies, bats and other migratory species are important pollinators. The loss of migration is of more than aesthetic importance.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2008

During training with active sonar, we protect marine mammals by employing rigorous protective measures. Such protective measures were developed in concert with, and were approved by, federal environmental regulators. Larry Rice Director, Chief of Naval Operations Environmental Readiness Division Washington, July 3, 2008

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

While Alaska is increasingly devastated by global warming—melting glaciers, permafrost and sea ice, as well as the severe impacts on wildlife, ecosystems and people—she seems to be working not to protect the polar bear or ultimately the citizens of her state, but to make sure nothing gets in the way of energy company plans for expansion.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” And, they look like frogs.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 28, 2008

Since the introduction of longline fishing in the 1960’s, the Atlantic bluefin population has fallen by 97 percent, and the international bodies responsible for protecting this fishery have, because of its huge profitability, failed to impose catch limits that ensure its survival. Gil Kulick New York, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2008

Ratification of the Law of the Sea would send an important message to the more than 150 countries that have already joined the treaty, including all of our allies, that we are committed partners in protecting the planet and its people. Howard Salter Director of External Relations, Citizens for Global Solutions Washington, March 10, 2008

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Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter. May 5, 2008 The lack of maintenance and patrol is staggering under the stewardship of Joseph N.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. Lucky for us, world-traveler Tim Ryan of From the Faraway, Nearby was good enough to provide a profusely-illustrated account of his visit to Tambopata as a volunteer in 2008.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. Africa’s only rainforest canopy walkway in Kakum National Park. million hectares in 2007.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2018

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (“ESA”) protects species of plants and animals threatened with extinction by listing them as either “endangered” or “threatened,” which in turn confers certain legal protections. What does that mean? Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.). The opinions: Ctr. Zinke , 2017 868 F.3d

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2008

Secretary Kempthorne needs to do the right thing by following the model of Senator Kempthorne. Carter Roberts President and Chief Executive World Wildlife Fund Washington, Jan.

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