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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

And I am a serious environmentalist, and my heart bleeds every time I take my old car batteries and leftover rat poison and dump them in the river. “My cat is a ferocious birder … and I am also a serious bird lover.”. Does Birdsbesafe work? It certainly works better than nothing.

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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

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.” Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.