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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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Basically, this species is so dimwitted, it doesn’t know how to survive. Because, Pink Pigeons are not capable of doing the tasks required to create and bring up children of the species. Pink pigeon near Le Pétrin, Mauritius by Michael Hanselmann, used under Creative Commons license. He is the Harvey Weinstein of Pink Pigeons).

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

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They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Mauritius Night-Heron. What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Mauritius Owl.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. A more problematic conflict is that fought over what to do with damaging introduced species. It’s only natural.