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Threatened Birds of Nanhui, Shanghai

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This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. Other areas in Lingang are starting to be covered with factories (Tesla) and residential buildings.

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How to Confront Cruelty

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The norm of moderate concern for animals - that animals matter albeit less than humans - permits the (ab)use of animals in vivisection, factory farming, bloodsports and other contexts where animals suffer. It would also be useful to students of sociology and politics in general, and social movements in particular.

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Autumn colours

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In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes. This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. Get yours today! Very well done! Beautiful post again.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To replace factory-farmed meat without further tropical forest destruction is impossible. Barry Brook is a professor of climate change at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Hence the call to cut down or eliminate meat-eating, especially beef, should be supported by everyone concerned about the future of our planet.

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Australian Scientists to Study Animal Feelings

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The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. Advertisement: Story continues below "Ultimately, the outcomes of this research will expand on our understanding of emotional and cognitive functions of livestock and the impacts of farming practices on animal welfare."

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Use it or lose it?

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Personally, I’d sooner take the National Party seeing the value of conservation on their terms over the right wing government in Australia, which sees conservation as a barrier to money and is planning, and I am not joking about this, to bulldoze away massive chunks of the Great Barrier Reef in order to make it easier to export coal.

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

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Wanting to celebrate the owl that has brought birders from many European countries, even from USA, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and China to their town, the authorities have erected the One Owl, a 9 ft terra-cotta statue of an owl by a local sculptor Jovan Blat.

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