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When conservation and animal rights collide

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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.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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How it is being affected by human intrusions? The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” I used the collections in Australasia to examine how climate and isolation affected the sized and shape of birds across New Zealand. Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food?

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We Should Kill More Lions

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The interests of those working for conservation and those working for animal rights and animal welfare don’t always perfectly align like you might think they do. With no permanent habitation inside its boundaries, human disturbance is low. Conservation Animal Rights hunting' Shoot something!

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