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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

10,000 Birds

Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I’m not unsympathetic to concerns about animal welfare, really. I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola.

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

10,000 Birds

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. Capturing wild animals for live trade and captivity should not be permitted.

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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

Animal Person

By encouraging people to bake with higher welfare eggs (as well as organic milk, butter and chocolate) vital funds will be raised to campaign against battery cages. Now, I'm the first one to say that when I began blogging I thought the end of the use of animals would never come, so in the meantime, welfare reforms could at least be supported.