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Cause an Uproar

4 The Love Of Animals

They are disappearing quickly due to habitat loss as well as conflict with humans. You may have seen the advert on television about Cause an Uproar (the stars of the movie We Bought a Zoo are helping spread the word), and you may even remember our post about trick or treating for big cats too! Big cats in the world need our help.

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

10,000 Birds

Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. 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 remembered.

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On the Psychological Continuum

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And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures. And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. The campaign should not demand huge changes in society.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.

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Guinness Brewery: Guinness Draught

10,000 Birds

But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s. John Gilroy, the S.H.

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