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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

10,000 Birds

This is probably due to the book’s origin as a conference on “Why Nature Matters to New Yorkers”, held in 2005 at the City University of New York. She writes, “it is entirely possible that by 2050, Battery Park City, the Rockaways, Coney Island, Alphabet City, Red Hook, Jersey City, and much of the financial district will all be drowned land.”

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Consolidation of Egg Industry

Critter News

and Canada are actively opposing battery cages. egg industry is planning a strategic conference after the presidential election to plan for the future. At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S.