10,000 Birds
JULY 31, 2020
And, whether I like it or not, the much-reviled starling turned out to be one of the very first species for which I could confirm breeding in this citizen-science endeavor — and for that, I had to give them a bit more attention than usual. A starling with nesting material at Normanskill Farm in Albany, New York, in May.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists. In the author's words.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms or transmission lines), I’ve been fascinated by the world that has been opened to me and differences from the bird feeding world. And the weapons don’t stop there.
Animal Person
AUGUST 3, 2009
We "traditionally" have applied our social mores in some places and not others, and we should go back to "tradition," which I bet has something to do with continuing to care about our dogs while continuing to feign care for "farm animals," as they're value is as food only. It isn't true that animals on farms would be in the wild otherwise.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2014
I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases.
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.
Critter News
AUGUST 27, 2009
Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc. If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure." This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!)
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