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The Story of Russell A. Crow

10,000 Birds

This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. Sometimes the human capacity for both cruelty and compassion can balance out in the life of a single bird.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years.