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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” The definition of the word CONSERVATION is “the act or an instance of conserving or keeping from change, loss, or injury.” It is obvious that hunting is NOT conservation.

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Tales of Remarkable Birds by Dominic Couzens

10,000 Birds

If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author. I suspect this is a result of the author’s commitment to his conversational, often humorous, Durrell-esque tone, but leaving the moralizing out would only have improved the storytelling. Reviews Bird Behavior book review cassowary'

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. Moral philosophers began to regard it as an obvious truth that it is wrong to treat animals cruelly.