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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand).

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

In the past I have attributed some of this conflict to differences between the conservation mindset and that of animal rights/animal welfare. I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be.

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