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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

10,000 Birds

My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. 27, August 2018, Vol. Destroy the habitats – destroy the wildlife. 360 miles of National Park land at the border!

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

10,000 Birds

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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