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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.” ” Well, at least he was not involved in the slave trade.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals.

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Kermie

Animal Person

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. As I skulked around my own house, all I could picture was Emily tearing Kermie limb from limb, then suffering a grisly death from ingesting the poison that ran through Kermie’s froggy veins.