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Potential Efficiency Improvements

10,000 Birds

Today, I invite you to join me, Kai Pflug, on an extraordinary avian expedition as we explore the vibrant cityscape of Shanghai, a hidden gem for birdwatchers in the heart of China. Birding Beyond the City: For the more adventurous birder, Shanghai serves as a gateway to explore the diverse landscapes of eastern China.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There, a conservation campaign led by Naga conservation activist Bano Haralu, based on community education and the promise of economic retooling, has successfully halted the massive slaughter of the hundreds of thousands of Amur Falcons who gather at the Doyang Reservoir. It is often hard to be positive.

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On Google, HSUS and Fur

Animal Person

link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog. The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it. The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

The horrific practice in China of skinning cats and dogs alive for their fur must go down as one of the worst cases of sustained mass cruelty to animals in human history. Every year, more than 2,000,000 cats and dogs are skinned alive in China for their fur. Please help. Visit [link] and decide for yourself.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp.

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Growing Meat vs. Going Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

," Andrew Revkin explores the brave new world of growing meat cultures in vitro as a more humane and possibly more environmentally friendly way of producing meat. In his post, Revkin cites Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University.