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

10,000 Birds

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further. Smith and Donald A.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing? Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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Then there are the other uses and a question of ethics: Let’s say you know where Kirtland’s Warblers or Whooping Cranes are nesting and you want to document it with a drone…is that harassment? Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide–A Book Review

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The Trumpeter Swans above, for example, winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley, where Hashimoto “attempted to capture the low light and soft grays of winter,” while also rejoicing in this conservation success story–in the early 1960’s the swan numbers in the Valley were down to 15 due to hunting, they now number 11,000.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.