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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

Seamus McGraw tells us he has to kill deer in his section of Pennsylvania because “with no predators to speak of—the wolves were wiped out centuries ago and the last mountain lion in the state was killed more than 70 years ago—the responsibility for trying to restore a part of that balance fell to me.” BRINNING Boston, Dec.