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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, the San Clemente Island goats who were live-trapped, now living on the mainland, were the last San Clemente Island goats.

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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.