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Don’t Mess with the Great Texas Birding Classic

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Imagine then, if you dare, a series of Big Sits, Big Days, and Big Weeks set in some of the most specialized and biodiverse ecosystems in the birdiest of all the United States. Competitions like these can also be powerful drivers of habitat and species conservation, which raises the stakes for a Big Day or Big Sit even more.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. News flash: Slaughtering horses does not promote their welfare.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. In addition, the animals are subjected to excruciating mutilations – including branding, dehorning, debeaking, tooth pulling, tail docking, and castration – all performed without anesthesia. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

10,000 Birds

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food Co had severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage, claiming that the policy would cut into corporate profits. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy.

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