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Animal Stories Wanted

Animal Person

U PCOMING THEME: Animals For an upcoming issue, we're seeking new essays about the bonds--emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise--between humans and animals. Tags: Ethics Language. Creative Nonfiction editors will award one $1000 prize for Best Essay and one $500 prize for runner-up. Attn: Animals.

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American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Ontario: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

He’s one of the best photographic portraitists of birds in North America with a number of field guides on his resume, including his own Birds of Eastern North America: A Photographic Guide and Birds of Western North America: A Photographic Guide ( co-authored with Paul Sterry, PUP, 2009). by 1 by 7.5

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

Kennedy initiated the original project, and has returned to the Philippines many times since for research purposes; he seems to think that Rettig’s new project is crazy, but in a good way, and offers a larger perspective from the comfort of a room in (I assume) Cincinnati, where he works for the Museum of Natural History.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

March 2009 Contact: David Cantor, 215-886-7721 or RPA4all@aol.com Arriving at all 50 states’ governors’ offices in mid-March, a special request: Get our land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Thanks and best wishes!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

percent for 2009 versus 0.99 11, 2010 To the Editor: I’ve been involved in beef safety research since college, and I don’t recognize the industry you’ve depicted in recent articles. Mandy Carr Johnson Executive Director of Research National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Centennial, Colo., Food safety is the No. 11, 2010

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Peter Singer Geoff Russell Barry Brook Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2009 The writers are, respectively, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, an independent researcher in Adelaide, Australia, and professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide.