10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. 27, August 2018, Vol. 360 miles of National Park land at the border! The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame!

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The celebration was occasioned by 2018 being the centennial of the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act , a seminal environmental law. (Fun Fun fact: only three species in the lower 48 states are not protected by that statute – the House Sparrow, Rock Pigeon, and Common Starling.).

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Birds Minnesota Protest Protesting 125

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Many social network protesters found it obscene. Actually, the numbers are even higher.

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Owls Protest Protesting Protesters 230