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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

10,000 Birds

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And A few years ago, the world’s entire supply of Millerbirds numbered between 400 and 600 individuals exclusively on the island of Nihoa.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

10,000 Birds

Add 315 bird species, 42 species of mammals – including Vulnerable Irrawaddy and Endangered Ganges River Dolphins , 61 amphibians and reptiles – including Estuarine Crocodile , at least 150 species of commercially important fish and 334 plant species to the picture. Irrawaddi Dolphin photographed in Cambodia (Dan Koehl/Wikimedia Commons). *

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa. Indeed, it might even be encouraged in order to utilize all food sources as effectively as possible.