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Tom Regan on Endangered Species

Animal Ethics

The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Tom Regan on Wild Animals

Animal Ethics

With regard to wild animals, the general policy recommended by the rights view is: let them be! Since this will require increased human intervention in human practices that threaten rare or endangered species (e.g., Too little is not enough. (

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S. And grow they did.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror! What a disaster!

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