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Bird art on grain silos

10,000 Birds

The main pollinators are the Honey Possum and the New Holland Honeyeater and they have both been painted onto the silos. As for the Honey Possum in the artwork they are a species that I do not have a photo of! It took 31 days for Amok Island to paint the grain silos in Ravensthorpe and 338 litres of paint. New Holland Honeyeater.

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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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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

10,000 Birds

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Australian Fireman Honored by Animal Rights Activists

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Tree, 44, has been rewarded for his compassion by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) which gave him its Hero to Animals Award. I also agree with PETA that the guy they've arrested for starting the fire should face animal cruelty charges. And getting recognition he deserves for his kindness.Mr

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. Birds seem to be mostly some kind of common looking grayish speckled yard birds that I don't know what they are. Birds seem to be mostly some kind of common looking grayish speckled yard birds that I don't know what they are.

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Lost

10,000 Birds

The film also featured hostile possums and a satisfying variety of angry birds, along with the Australia-requisite menacing snakes and spiders. But sudden inexplicable animal behavior, though vital to the plot, is not the only scare factor in Long Weekend (which I should note here was released in the U.S.

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