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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Unfortunately, once we discuss anything beyond this basic point, people vastly disagree on what is right and wrong. The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. This makes perfect sense.

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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

Critter News

s director of wildlife, Gabriel Nirlinguyak} said, recalling that the two had cooperated on bowhead whale management issues. He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears. But not with polar bears."

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”