10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 239

Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

pleaded guilty in March to five counts of trafficking in wild animals. Attorney Julia Dudley said Blevins had bought animals for several years from trappers in different states and brought them to Virginia to sell to the owners of "fox pens." Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. Howard Glen Blevins, 68, of Asheville, N.C.,

Virginia 100

Virginia Fox Trafficking Coyotes 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

I finally read SPECIESISM , by Joan Dunayer, which was published a couple of years after ANIMAL EQUALITY , which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. In literature as well as life, the ideal is the safely rescued animal finds the perfect home and becomes the perfect pet. Turns out even though they knew that Hunter had found his forever home, he didn’t know it.

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

Killing 100

Killing Wildlife Groups Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? That’s what you do with other game, right? Do all hunters realize that?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242