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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Help is not just on the way, it’s here.

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High Noon Birding in the Mountains of Los Angeles

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I’m sure there is a law that White-headed Woodpeckers are always on the other side of the tree. A Spotted-Towhee and a Thick-billed Fox Sparrow lurked in the bushes (another Catherine spot). ” So much for sandwiches. Or, if they are on your side of the tree, so high up it is impossible to get a good photograph.

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

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Any material benefits derived from wildlife must be allocated by law – following consultation with the public, who collectively “own” the resource – and not by the marketplace, birthright, land ownership, or social position. Allocation of Wildlife by Law – Public participation is essential in development of wildlife management policies.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

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But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. Might does not make right; might does make law. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting. In all these cases, of course, a minority opinion would support laws which go further than the present laws in limiting the circumstances in which men are entitled to cause pain to animals.

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Greenland’s Arctic Tern

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Since Kitsissunnguit has been preserved by law since 1988, the birds live in perfect harmony with nature and birdwatchers get a unique peephole into the birds life in their natural settings. One of the best places to get a view of the Greenlandic birds is the archipelago Kitsissunnguit located in the south of Disko Bay.

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Collaborative List – January 2018

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A line plotted against the law of diminishing returns describes an increasingly downward curve and a lister’s life is destined to follow that decline. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. At this rate……… , but that’s the thing about lists. Orange-billed Sparrow – Arremon aurantiirostris.

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