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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.

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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

10,000 Birds

It therefore comes as no surprise that it has been regarded as a subspecies of the Spanish Sparrow or the House Sparrow, or as a species in its own right. We currently are experiencing a rare time where all major taxonomic bodies tend to regard it as a species in its own right, the Italian Sparrow Passer italiae.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

The volume ā€žTierrechte ā€“ eine interdisziplinƤre Herausforderungā€œ (literally ā€žAnimal Rights ā€“ an interdisciplinary challengeā€œ has just been released from Harald Fischer Verlag (publisher), Germany. We would be pleased if you would support us by announcing the book in your Blog (Newsletters, Website etc.). We really appreciate it! Thanks a lot!

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Winging It In Tulsa

10,000 Birds

The group is called WING-IT (Wildlife In Need Group In Tulsa) and is now part of Tulsa Audubon , a mutually beneficial partnership which furthers the goals of both. I live in New York; Iā€™ve also lived in Maine and Switzerland. I packed 643 pounds of toffee – right, Kim? Snowstorm? ā€ Or was that how much I ate?

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