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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

I am not sure if this is totally true in the widest sense, especially when it comes to the question of WHY birds migrate (I’m asked this question constantly by beginning birders and would love an answer that doesn’t involve a garble of words about magnetic fields, genetics, and scarcity of resources).

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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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A valuable new resource has recently entered the information superhighway. This rapidly growing site is to be a global resource on alternative methods, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement), animal ethics, and animal care, with hyperlinks to related Web sites and databases.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. Happy Mother's Day!

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

And I know that, for instance, I simply don't have the skill set to be an undercover person who documents abuse. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. I know myself and I know how sensitive I am, regardless of how I might appear. So I take care of myself.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

10,000 Birds

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata. Rist has de-feathered them as part of a black market enterprise.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 8 of 13

Animal Ethics

Not only are they killed in cruel ways, but it is well documented that they are raised in ways that cause them great discomfort and agony. It’s a matter of expending one’s resources in accordance with one’s values. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. In fact, animals used for food do suffer a great deal.