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Santa Paws Drive 2012

4 The Love Of Animals

The mission of the Santa Paws Drive is to bring holiday cheer to shelter animals around the world. Six shelter were chosen out of many nominations to recieve the special packages, but now it’s up to you to help the shelter animal’s dreams come true! Foundation of Animal Protection – Fuzesabony, Hungary.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of September 2012)

10,000 Birds

Every wildlife watcher, no matter how specialized, becomes attuned over time to the ebb and flow of each local plant and animal’s life cycle. For example, here in western New York, our warm winter and dry spring dramatically impacted many of our fruit crops.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. 21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.

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Birds Threatened by Asiatic Sand Sedge Invasion on Long Island

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Steve Young of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is the coordinator of the Long Island Invasive Species Management Area. He kindly agreed to share his knowledge of this new threat to the beaches of New York and the animals and plants that rely on them.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

This holds true whether it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo or right here in New York City, where Cyrus R. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. ELIZABETH L. BENNETT Jeju, South Korea, Sept. Note from KBJ: I take it that rats are not a "charismatic species."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauds the efforts of those district attorneys and animal control officers who are enforcing the law against those few chefs who continue to flout it. PETA urges everyone to avoid this product of cruelty to animals. 13, 2012 GABE WALTERS Counsel, PETA Foundation Norfolk, Va.,

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Beautiful Bird Portraits from Space Coast

10,000 Birds

Back in 2012 when I made my first foray to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I put up back -to- back posts featuring up-close-and-personal shots of some of the cooperative birds I encountered. Anhinga is a bird we don’t ever get to see in New York. Someday I would like to find one at Jamaica Bay.

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