Wed.Jan 07, 2015

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Finca Luna Nueva Lodge: Biodynamic, Bird-rich Ecolodge

10,000 Birds

'Costa Rica led the charge long ago to define what ecotourism could really look like. As a result, some of the most popular and exciting birding destinations in the world run on Tico time. What then does it take for an ecolodge to bring something fresh and new to the current array of Costa Rican destinations? The answer at Finca Luna Nueva Lodge is to create a pure and vital ecosystem within which birders, botanists, and naturalists of every stripe can follow their bliss without sacrificing comf

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It’s our blogiversary!

4 The Love Of Animals

'It’s hard to believe, but we started this blog 8 years ago this month! 8 years!! Thank you dear readers, without you we wouldn’t have lasted so long. The post It’s our blogiversary! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

'To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1). The tiny cages and crates that confine about 90 percent of laying hens and more than 80 percent of gestating sows are both physically and mentally tormenting for the animals involved.