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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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Which animals could be on a slippery slope to becoming endangered? Knowing this information is vital for coming up with timely solutions, perhaps most of all for animals and plants truly on the brink of being lost forever. Which species are endangered? In Costa Rica, the bird is rarely seen in pelagic waters of the Pacific.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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Steven M. Wise on Legal Rights for Animals

Animal Ethics

These favor common law personhood, as a matter of liberty, at least for those nonhuman animals, such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, dolphins, and whales, who possess such highly advanced cognitive abilities as consciousness, perhaps even self-consciousness; a sense of self; and the abilities to desire and act intentionally.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

It is a merit of utilitarianism, with its stress on happiness and unhappiness, that lower animals must be considered along with human beings, so that they are not debarred from full or direct consideration because they are not "rational."

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