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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays. required to determine those catch limits.

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Steve Best on The Left's Ignorance of Cognitive Ethology

Animal Person

But now the blinders are coming off, and it is time Leftists take their own off and wake up to the fact of the ethological revolution and its profound implications for human identity, our moral relationships to nonhuman animals, and to politics. Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk).