10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
They argue for the elimination of free-range cats entirely. Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp.,
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
But one tree isn’t going to reverse the damage occuring in Latin America. The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) That would, of course, be better than nothing.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
It was not a kitty cat, even though all of its relatives in the Americas were. But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. The fury this meal caused my friends and family back in America motivated me to examine whether eating any animal was justified. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. We carnivores have to become more benevolent.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2020
This species was once restricted to North America’s Great Plains, where they followed herds of American Bison, eating both the seeds in their dung and the creatures that bison’s trampling brought into the open. In contrast, the Brown-headed Cowbird is a same-continent invasive species. Starling -numerous.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Clapper Rails are common but rarely seen birds across the islands and on my own island are common in a range of habitats that may surprise readers used to seeing them in wetlands in North America.
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