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Fire and Rain

10,000 Birds

Fire is also more unpredictable than even floods, more sudden and acute than drought, falling close to the class of natural disasters that we dread the most, like earthquakes and avalanches, the sudden killers. They receive no protection, and are often destroyed by salvage logging as quickly as possible.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

I think he also doesn't know that not all of us think that chasing down Class B dealers is as important as working to shut down animal experimentation and create more alternatives. To this day, 95 percent of the animals used in research labs receive no federal protection whatsoever under the Animal Welfare Act."