10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2018

Then the EIS (environmental impact statement – a document required by federal law) hit the press. The students had a good laugh on the following Monday when their teacher came to class with a wicked, lobster-hued sunburn. A decade or so earlier, a corporation purchased Little Tybee and Cabbage Island for phosphorite mining.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I haven't heard the "it's legal" argument in a long time and find the law to be such a completely separate concept that I don't even know where to begin. The law, as I was told by one of my professors during my ten minutes of law school in 1991, isn't about justice (it's about society functioning smoothly).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold! Excerpted from the Seattle P-I.

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Cows Killing Seattle Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Both the US Environmental Protection Agency and California state law define fish remains as sewage, and it must be disposed of properly. Remembering a fourth-grade class where he learned that Massachusetts Native Americans planted fish heads along with their corn, he collected fish waste and composted it.

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Pelicans Fish California Massachusetts 205

Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

If you cannot videotape, how about a photo of your group/class/pets club holding up a sign asking for Nosey to be rescued from her daily torment ? This is an opportunity to be creative with getting your message across. Please, read the full story on the Action Alert below. That was a lot, I know.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

.” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom. All individuals share the costs of conserving wildlife.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.

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New York Times New York West Virginia Advocacy 40

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

If a legal right is an interest or expectation protected by law, then it follows that, under the Protection of Animals Act (1911), domestic and captive animals in England have rights, in that they are protected against being cruelly beaten, kicked, ill-treated, over-ridden, over-driven, over-loaded, tortured, infuriated, or terrified.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. So, what is Kölsch, exactly?

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 104

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2020

Rather, it turned on arcane issues of administrative law. Every law school has an Administrative Law class that focuses on the APA and related laws. The case did not turn on facts regarding threats that leases posed to sage-grouse or any other conservation facts or policies.

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Idaho Laws 2018 2020 207

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2023

One of the unwritten laws of bird tours is that the leader shouldn’t take photographs as his (or her) job is to show the clients birds. Arguably the high point of my digiscoping career was in 2012, when I won the digiscoping class in the British Birds Bird Photographer of the Year awards.

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Birds Cyprus Portugal Estonia 231

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For the German flag, the “Grundgesetz” (the German basic law) states that the color of the national flag is black-red-gold. I have to admit that I also tend to feel a bit itchy after a long flight in economy class. However, whenever you see a German flag, you will notice that the last color clearly is yellow, not gold.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 185

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to the AP story, nine of ten jackets tested by HSUS were found to have trim made of dog fur, but were mislabeled in violation of federal law. Each semester when I teach Contemporary Moral Issues, on the first day of class I begin with a survey. But is it really? Not according to my students.

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. Treaties trump state laws. ©2023, Donna L.

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