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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. April 20, 2010 At 9.45

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. We serve them.”. Could I do this?”

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.

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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

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The culprit for this surge in animal homelessness is a testimonial to these trying times: human homelessness. Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 15, 2010. Guest post by Sarah of Maxi Dress Mania.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It We operate shelters in the hopes of giving abandoned pets a second chance at a loving home, not subjecting them to lives of continued abuse and neglect,” Florez said. “A The current bill’s sponsors are Rep. Visit www.aldf.org.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Deepwater Horizon, 2010; Paruk et al. Then one day they are gone. Here’s one of the maps from that paper: *FIGURE 1.

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