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What's Up with the UK and Soaring Wildlife Crime?

Critter News

The Brits are known for their animal rights activism, but there's been a rise in wildlife crime against all animals. Bats are being targeted. Tags: wildlife crime UK animal cruelty. I don't get it. Apparently they are seen as nuisances. Badgers are being caught for dog-baiting.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? What do you think?

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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. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.