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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". There's a donate button on the homepage of AnimalEquality right at the bottom of the "Pig Farms" panel. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Abolition Animal Rights Pig slaughter Spain Veganism. Thanks a lot.

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The ABA Area and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

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In a section entitled “Adding Puerto Rico is Consistent with the ABA’s Commitment to Diversity,” I wrote: Birding has a well-known diversity problem, namely that it is overwhelmingly a pastime of affluent, educated, middle-aged whites. Expanding the ABA Area would be a step in the right direction. But progress is slow.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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The ABA’s education programs promote birding skills, ornithological knowledge, and the development of a conservation ethic. Nevertheless, I believe there ought to be a group that represents birders, so I renew my membership every year.). Nevertheless, some criteria will obviously be important.

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Looking for Lost Warblers at Parque Rio Loro, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

The stars of the bird world take many forms and fame is often related to location but some species, some cool groups of birds are accorded priority no matter when or where they are seen. No, not a warbler but big enough to be one and a star in its own right. Yes, you read that right. Violet Sabrewing. Chestnut-capped Warbler.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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Scientist Advocacy Group Oppose Some Animal Testing

Critter News

Here's a group I've never heard of. I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. But that's me.