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Europe Votes to Ban Seal Products

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From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".

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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the sources are credited, as they are.) It opens with the ritual, rote denunciation of the forty-fifth American president and all his evil works, thus signaling Moss’s woke virtue. Fine and dandy.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with). They have been found nesting in two of these boxes, producing five chicks in three years ( source ).

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Contrarian Nonsense About the Seal Slaughter

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WHO could defend the slaughter of 300,000 harp, hooded and grey seals by hook-wielding hunters out to make a quick buck from the seals' pelts? The increasingly shrill condemnation of Canada's seal cull is based on a view of humans as bloodthirsty destroyers of nature. Tags: seal hunters idiocy. And so it goes.

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