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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

10,000 Birds

range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Thus, its listing has been contested by groups advocating more development. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Jane Goodall Live

4 The Love Of Animals

Oh how I wish that I could be there myself, but for those of you in the Los Angeles area, take note! In 1977, Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. Animal lovers, this is a very special event!

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

10,000 Birds

Our group saw over 400 birds on our 15-day tour of the Pantanal, Cerrado and the Amazon (Cristalino Lodge). We (we being my friend Ian and Steve from Los Angeles) were a little frantic, thinking we’d never, ever see them again. 1,712 species, 12% of which are endemics. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Let’s go!”

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Tom Regan on Rights

Animal Ethics

a despot) or any group (e.g., Theoretically, one could, it is true, create legal rights that accord with or protect moral rights, but that is not the same as creating these moral rights in the first place. Third, moral rights, unlike legal rights, do not arise as a result of the creative acts of any one individual (e.g.,

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

The Los Angeles Times went to the heart of this matter when it concluded: What happened in Honduras is a classic Latin American coup in another sense: Gen. by Mark Weisbrot, Los Angeles Times, July 23, 2009 [link] (July 23, 2009). 3) George W.

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