Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. State law on the issue is murky.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Black Bear. During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. City folk and suburban folk apply to VLS not just for its world-renown environmental law program, but also for its rural atmosphere.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2014
This June my brother-in-law and I took off to Kangiq (Cape Crauford), the western edge of of the mouth of Admiralty Inlet to Lancaster Sound. The tracks of two young Polar Bear skirt a crack in the sea ice in Admiralty Inlet. Still, with that many bear you have to stay vigilant. A scant 24 hours to take it in.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value.
Critter News
MARCH 8, 2010
Police seized tiger bones, anteater scales and bear gall bladders in an international operation against the use of endangered plants and animals in traditional medicine, officers said Friday. Illegal animal and plant products with a retail value of 10 million euros (13.6
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2009
First wolves, then polar bears, now beluga whales. And those are just the endangered animals (remember the turkey being ground up during her tv interview?) This listing decision didn't take those efforts into account as required by law."
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). Enough History – Back to the Future.
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