Remove Campaign Remove Humane Remove Killing Remove New Zealand
article thumbnail

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

10,000 Birds

Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp. 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. And, they are fascinating. And remembered.

Animal 269
article thumbnail

When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice.