10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. Sanderling: A bird with strong work ethics. Cattle Egret … though some of them seem to want to hide (which is really difficult for a white bird). ” .
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2018
As an aside, although we know there’s only one rule to birding, it bears to mention that “doing what it takes” doesn’t mean harming birds to see them, nor, of course, harming people or being a jerk to others so you can see a bird. At its core, the kung-fu birding approach is also ethical in every way.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. I do wish that the ethics section included guidance on the use of playback and that all the sections included titles or websites for further reading.
Animal Person
MAY 12, 2009
Creatures have come in phases for me: the duck phase, the cat phase, the dog phase, the bear phase (I was living in Vermont--it was unavoidable), the Canada goose phase. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Now I have the drama of the feral cats and of course the greyhounds. There's never a shortage of creatures who need our help.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 1, 2008
Some indication of the genuinely biocentric value orientation of ethical environmentalism is indicated in what otherwise might appear to be gratuitous misanthropy. As omnivores, the population of human beings should, perhaps, be roughly twice that of bears, allowing for differences of size.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 7, 2007
Here is a website that contains much useful information about animal ethics. I'm not sure what relation it bears to Tom Regan, the philosopher from North Carolina State University. It appears to be organized around Regan's book Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights.
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