10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

Which animals could be on a slippery slope to becoming endangered? Knowing this information is vital for coming up with timely solutions, perhaps most of all for animals and plants truly on the brink of being lost forever. In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific.

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Costa Rica Parrots Albatross Birds 256

Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created.

Vegan 100

Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. The fact that we care about--and fight for--animals based on how cute we have deemed them to be is disgraceful.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100