Critter News

AUGUST 4, 2011

It's from Time Magazine. Apparently, wildlife in Afghanistan is managing to survive despite the horrors of war and violence. The stupid video won't embed, so here's the link to the web page.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I was reading Ocean Conservancy's magazine today. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. Tags: oceans marine animals. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe." The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. But I may not find one.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. Getting familiar with birds is a process.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

You may have read about Kikinda in the Wall Street Journal or the BBC Wildlife Magazine. These are overgrown in steppe grasses and local sheep herders are subsidised by the authorities to bring their animals here to keep the grass short, prevent succession by bushes and manage the habitat. Great Bustard Sanctuary.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A few years back, Audubon magazine published a thoughtful article and series of musings (including those of our very own Corey Finger) on the subject of why birds matter. Of course, if you’re reading this, then birds clearly matter to you, for any one of a number of reasons. The trees are also likely to disappear over time.”.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Pets Aplenty is a humorous book written by Malcolm Welshman, a retired vet who has worked at London Zoo, in a small animal hospital, and as a consultant dealing with exotics. You are sure to find a favorite character among the animals, and the people, in the story. It’s a fun read for anyone who loves animals and humor.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Although the class focused “on birds, students also pick up some botany, geology, hydrology, forestry, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife management,” students also learned “the names, habits, and importance of local animals and plants.”

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

I first read about Rescue Ink in Best Friends Magazine. They are a group of big tattoed guys that go around rescuing animals. Tags: animal rescue. Now they have their own show on National Geographic Channel. NGC must be having success with Dogtown in order to bring on another rescue show. I just love the picture of these guys.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 17, 2012

Purina ONE® beyOnd® brand dog and cat food and GOOD have teamed up to host the Shine a Light on a Shelter challenge and award a $10,000 grant to an animal shelter doing great work. Ben Goldhirsh, co-founder and CEO of GOOD Worldwide commented, “Animal shelters play a very important role in our world. Voting runs Aug.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Their justification was that the animals don’t necessarily approach the very few reinforced areas and must be tracked down and baited so further studies can be made, despite the fact that this disrupted the animals’ natural cycles (thus rendering observations invalid) and caused irreversible damage to the delicate environment.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The show's narrator mentioned that hoarders often start off as trying to save animals and then just get overwhelmed. I know it's more than that though.and I know it from an article in Best Friends Magazine itself. We've posted about hoarders before, but animal hoarders are more than just overwhelmed rescuers.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 15, 2010

Among many press accolades, the book was included in People Magazine’s Mother’s Day Gift Guide. The book was recently reviewed and highly recommended by Best Friends Magazine. Dog Days of Summer Giveaway originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 15, 2010. Would you like a chance to win your own print?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Dun’s innovations included advertising in gardening magazines, growing mailing lists, and seasonal catalogs. Readers are referred to the text itself for citations of historical periodicals such Bird-Lore, the magazine that preceded Audubon magazine. This is too bad. The writers have created a good book.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 5, 2009

And, for the month of August FlexPet , is running an awesome promotion on behalf of Best Friends Animal society! Every FlexPet customer will receive a year membership to the Best Friends Animal Society which helps provide a year of quality care for an animal at the sanctuary. A donation made in their name.

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Animal Person

MARCH 19, 2009

There's already a fairly large number of comments that raise the usual topics against vegans and veganism and I didn't see any Animal Person readers in there, though there's no law that says you have to use the same username everywhere so that might not be evidence of anything. Include your name, address and daytime phone number.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation. by Tim Birkhead. Size: 6.13

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine. So, I was excited to go through my new job’s trade publications. I suppose it is possible the lady in the above photo is doing field work from the beach, perhaps she is a plover warden?

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APRIL 12, 2013

(The copyright page even contains the heartening disclaimer that “no birds were touched or disturbed for any of these photographs” — something that would be welcome on the pages of many outdoor magazines.).

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter." The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article. To treat animals fairly, he needs to treat his workers fairly."

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

And the much-larger question is the idea of animal ingredients versus non-animal ingredients that were processed using animal ingredients, and that of course expands, ad infinitum , into every area of our lives (e.g., municipal water). If not, don't flog yourself over it.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Otrada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). Several of Otrada’s jewelry items, gift ornaments, and belt buckles can be customized with your animal’s photograph.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Ortada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). Several of Ortada’s jewelry items, gift ornaments, and belt buckles can be customized with your animal’s photograph.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Compassion for animals is part of the planet’s social and environmental equation.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2014

Observation towers and canopy walkways were initially built to help study the plant and animal life in the forest canopy, which is impossible to study from the forest floor. These are the most iconic of all rainforest birds; they are the colorful birds that often make it to brochures and magazine covers.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Over the past couple of decades, at least two paramilitary groups in the Central African Republic have operated with government approval, as reported recently in an article on "armed environmentalism" in The Ecologist, a British magazine. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Sheldrick is fourth-generation Kenya-born and has spent the better part of her life tending wild animals. The above excerpt is from the September issue of National Geographic magazine, on newsstands now. Shortly before David’s death, the couple finally arrived at a precise mixture of human baby formula and coconut.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. This very personal story might seem out of place in a bird book.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Next, there's Parade magazine on the Iditarod , which frankly I can't even talk about this year and is a disgraceful display of barbarity. I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. There is an elephant who deperately needs our help.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2009

Next month, Meredith will begin an aggressive marketing campaign for Mixing Bowl, start a companion print magazine—and start launching cookbook authors through the site. The site is approaching 12,000 members, which Meredith v-p and general manager Jeff Myers said is “ahead of expectations.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Department of Agriculture’s Animal Damage Control unit tried to remove them, sparking a fight with Mayor Washington’s neighbors, who also loved the parakeets, and the establishment of the Harold Washington Memorial Parrot Defense Fund. And, there I saw the famous Monk Parakeet nests saved by Mayor Harold Washington.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” The poison dart frog pictured here is the Golden poison dart frog, Phyllobates terribilis, known as the world’s most poisonous animal; its skin secretions are used by South American Indians from the Colombian Andes for their blowgun darts.

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Animal Person

MAY 16, 2009

I don't pay as much attention as I should by watching regular television networks or reading newspapers or magazines that reflect the zeitgeist, but I do get snippets. Vegans are now on the mainstream's radar, and unlike some vegans, I do care about what goes on in the mainstream.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I am a columnist for VegNews Magazine, a contributing writer for Satya, a contributor to KQED radio, and a contributor to Common Dreams and Alternet [see here , just published today].) The mission of Compassionate Cooks is to empower people to make informed food choices and to debunk myths about veganism.

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