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

10,000 Birds

Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in making the already interesting biogeography of this country even more complicated. The solution, as you might imagine from this go getting era, was to bring some better ducks to New Zealand.

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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. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Alleged Police Spy Found in NZ

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According to this post , a police spy in New Zealand who infiltrated animal rights groups as well as other activist organizations.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” Studying a wild animal is a multi-disciplinary exercise.

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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. Like with animal rights, the goals of conservation and hunting are not quite lined up, but they can be quite similar. Shoot something!

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