10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Turtle Doves have been declining in Europe since the 1970s, and in this century alone, the continent has lost 40% of its population of the species. Since this spring’s revision of the European Red List, the Turtle Dove is listed as a vulnerable species. More campaign photos at the FB page of the BPSSS/BirdLife Serbia).
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2013
Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. After a while, Condors will continue eating the now dead animal and this is what people witness and believe condor intentionally killed the animal and then ate it. Photo: Alexander More.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. Wind turbines have been proposed several times for areas close to the BSBO – one of the great bird flyways on the continent — and the Kaufmans ( and their colleagues ) have spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning against them.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds. Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2012
After a brutal colonization that included genocidal campaigns against the Herero (80% killed) and Nama (50% killed) tribes, the Germans lost control when South Africa invaded soon after the declaration of the First World War. This species is also known as Peach-faced Lovebird.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Ironically, only the women of one of these campaigns, the suffragette movement, have been recognized and honored.
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