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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

Most of the people debating this issue are for conservation, they are against wild areas being destroyed and wild species being threatened with extinction. I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. And embattled minority should be protected.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.