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The Queen

10,000 Birds

The naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo. A group of us gathered to release her near the spot where she was found. She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun. to find out her actual age.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years.