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The Horrors of Shark Finning

4 The Love Of Animals

The shark is thrown back because shark fins are often more valuable than the meat itself. For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China. While there are laws in place protecting endangered species of shark from shark finning, international waters are rarely regulated when it comes to the practice.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. A more problematic conflict is that fought over what to do with damaging introduced species. ” one.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

10,000 Birds

The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered. This can be a very good thing, for example bring my late ass up to date on the EU’s idiotic attitude to diclofenac.

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