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Birding Shanghai in March 2024

10,000 Birds

He was a strong promoter of technical education and one of the founders of a women’s university. ” Aren’t we all at least a little bit fascinated by psychology? .” I kind of like birds named after nasty guys (makes for better stories), but Tegima (also named Tejima, see here ) was not one of them.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

Mars Petcare is collaborating with the YMCA in 5 cities to start, to bring pet-friendly health and physical activity education and programming to communities. It’s a great new new initiative to help people live a healthier life! For it’s first year the program will premiere in YMCA locations in Washington, D.C.;

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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Earth Day Lecture

Animal Ethics

She specializes in Environmental Ethics, Human-Animal Ethics, and Moral Psychology. Professor Jenni’s Earth Day Lecture is co-sponsored by NIU’s Department of Philosophy and NIU’s Vegetarian Education Group [VEG].

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Indeed, Lappé, in the next section of her book, recommends a list of organizations that one can join in order to change government policy toward hungry people of the world and to educate Americans about the food problem. How well does W educate people to the value of G? None of these organizations requires a vegetarian commitment.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. In addition to its educational component, Raptors covers sitting hawks, making it one of the two major hawk guides t0 depict and describe raptors not in flight. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.