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Stop the Madness: More Whooping Cranes Shot

10,000 Birds

A reward of $1000 has been offered for information helping authorities track down the shooters; more info is here. Seriously, hunters. (Or, Or, rather, jerks who give the vast majority of ethical hunters a bad name.) Please get our endangered species out of your sights, and shoot something else. News Whooping Cranes'

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests.

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The Million Dollar Duck (2016) – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ? Hunters are not doing it as much any more. It did neither.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

In addition to heaps of information at www.RPAforAll.org about RPA's 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry, there is now a current list of all 50 governors with address and their state's LGU. Let me know -- any time! -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Thanks and best wishes!

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Kermie

Animal Person

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. So much for the predator instinct. And right before my eyes, I discovered that Muscovy ducks eat frogs.