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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

10,000 Birds

Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. adding wolves, who displace coyotes) can dramatically change the ecology and directly affect species diversity and abundance. One of the projects I did was related to the famous Big Dig in Boston, the largest public works project ever carried out by human beings.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

26, 2011 To the Editor: I don’t have all the answers concerning Pennsylvania’s burgeoning deer population (most of it caused by the burgeoning human population), but I want to comment on the self-serving tone of Seamus McGraw’s article. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? BRINNING Boston, Dec. Nothing noble there.