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Invasive Species Week Wrap-Up

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For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. – Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand – The Cattle Egret Expansion – Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere) – It’s a Myth – Isn’t It?

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Rather than accepting the CO 2 emissions resulting from building a new nest scrape, it reuses those of other birds (“ Inter-specific nest scrape reuse in waders: Little Ringed Plovers taking over the nest scrapes of Northern Lapwings” ). When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit.

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

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. Increasing rBST milk would just move food production in the wrong direction.