10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2020

Shanghai is located on the coast of the East China Sea and lies right on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. Other areas in Lingang are starting to be covered with factories (Tesla) and residential buildings. After all, China`s President Xi Jinping recently stated that “We must protect this planet like our own eyes”.

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Wildlife Reserve Asia China Birds 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

The Reed Parrotbill is in some ways a much more interesting bird as it is near-endemic in China and Near Threatened. Ironically, Tesla currently builds a factory just a few miles from this important bird habitat, so much for electric vehicles and environmental protection. It is one of the 19 species of parrotbills.

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Birds Protection China Factory 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

The new Guide to the Birds of China (John MacKinnon) has been published. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. And it does not even live in reeds.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 208

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. But the net message is the same: factory farming=bad, small farms=good. Not Eating Animals. That has to be good, I tell myself.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Apparently, male birds may change their song depending on the vegetation: “The invasion of smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora in the coastal wetlands of eastern China has drastically altered the vegetation structure and some small passerines have begun to use invaded habitats to breed. ” ( source ).

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. We receive some beautiful photos from China of individually marked shorebirds on migration each year as they travel through the Flyway.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. At one point during my year living in China, I ate dog. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. To suggest that eating one and not the other represents a conflict of ethics is preposterous. We carnivores have to become more benevolent.

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Los Angeles San Francisco Factory Farm Factory Farming 40