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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

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They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go. Rather than eating dogs, we all ought to eat exclusively small-farmed, free-range meat. At one point during my year living in China, I ate dog. Howland Northport, N.Y.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Virus Spreading Alarm and Deadly Pig Disease in China ” (Business Day, Aug. Indeed, if public sympathy is changing in China regarding how we treat animals raised and killed for food, as it is here in the United States, then we can only expect future improvements in the welfare of farm animals.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

10,000 Birds

A paper starts as follows: “Dongtan (or East Tideland) on Chongming Island in China is an important wintering site of Grus monacha ( hooded crane )” This is exactly where these photos were taken. There actually is a study on the effect of wind farms on Chongming Dongtan (where these photos were taken) on Little Egrets.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

10,000 Birds

He raised his binoculars above his head and cried out with courage and clarity, “I am Sparticus!” They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. At that time, China was strictly applying the zero COVID-19 policy. Most of them were living on non-mechanized farming, which is limited to the few flat areas between the mountains.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished.