Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Advocacy Rights Marine Life 100

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

Animal Person

JUNE 16, 2010

" Creature Quotes: Advancing Toward Freedom For All Species ," compiled and edited by SBH Clay, is now available. Or, open to change, he can take the message in the ensuing pages to heart, let it shift his mind and stir his soul, and thus begin, right now, his advance toward freedom for all species (7)." There is story. There is pain.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Vegan Ethics Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

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. In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Mostly adult males.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103