10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so.

New Zealand 166

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2018

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.

Possums 100

Possums Australia Birds 2016 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

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?”

Animal Rights 270

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 270

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Contest killing – where individuals or teams gun down as many of a single species as they can within a specific time period, with prizes going to the winner(s) – is legal all over the country. Since no one was vilified by gun club defenders more than Friends of Animals , I called its New York director, Edita Birnkrant.

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Killing Hunting Hunters New York 260