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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book! There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. I had hoped for more.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

10,000 Birds

Maybe they have decided to boycott species with Russian-sounding names as a way to protest against Putin’s policies. The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

It is chilling in its scope because it now expands the the definition of ‘animal enterprise terrorism’ to include acts that result in neither fear nor economic damages nor bodily injury. The rhetoric of terror has been used to “justify” human rights abuses in Guantanamo.