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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.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

They symbolize everything that is wrong with using animals to entertain people in circuses and that will be vividly clear when they run free in their new home. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide. What a way to start memorial weekend. These lions really are home for the holidays.””.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

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. There is no solidarity among the big cats. You protect an entire ecosystem that holds 350 bird species. You do a lot of good.

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