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For the Birds: Midway Atoll Mouse Eradication and NEPA

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These islands and their surrounding waters are protected as part of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) wants to eradicate all of the mice on Midway.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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There is a small resident population in Polk County, Florida, in the middle of the peninsula, mostly on protected land, and once in a while they show up in a place where they can be easily observed. In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother. ” [[link]. Well, not really a bird.

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