10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2014
As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide. Environmental officials believe the plan can be reworked so that the Plovers’ habitat is protected.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2017
From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. the hits keep coming.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Some of our greatest human pleasures come from those toxins, and I’m not just talking about various narcotics, though there is always that. Insects ruled. One way to do that is to be toxic.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2019
” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. Portillo Padua’s previous documentary, the 2012 Diario a Tres Voces, was well reviewed and made the festival circuit, but it was of the creative, personal documentary subspecies.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2013
At 8am on Tuesday 30th August 2012, we arrived at Leeudril after leaving nearby Tweerivieren camp and were thrilled to spot a young female Leopard next to the water tank. You can notice in the above images how the Leopard uses her eye-lids as hoods to protect her sensitive eyes from the bright sun as she sprinted towards us.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.
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