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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it raised its chicks? Or how gracefully it flew?

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The Duck Stamp and Lack of National Wildlife Refuge Funding

10,000 Birds

It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. Collectively, these MBCF funds have purchased about 2.7 2. Duck Stamp sales to non-hunters are not accurately calculated to reflect their contributions – which tends to short change the conservation goals of non-consumptive users. According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

10,000 Birds

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.