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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks). Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

10,000 Birds

The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” The preferred alternative to collecting a bird is to take photos and a blood sample. Studying a wild animal is a multi-disciplinary exercise. One look at his bio and you know he’s trouble. Science doesn’t work that way!