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I have a concern about a wildlife sanctuary.

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Long story short, I know someone interning at a wildlife sanctuary. The conditions at the internship are honestly terrible and it has me digging into the morality of this place. Basically the locals started feeding dangerous wildlife causing them to come dependent on the food. For privacy I won’t say which one.

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

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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Portrait of a Redtail with Grey Hoodie String

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This is more of a cautionary tale about one of the perils lying in wait for wildlife rehabilitators who decide to take shortcuts. However, since young redtails don’t normally loiter by the side of the road (unless they’re having a meal), much less allow a random human to pick them up, I figured he had probably bounced off a car.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Trying to stop her is her furious husband and the authorities, and helping her is a smitten tech guy and an underground railroad of fellow wildlife rescuers. It’s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. And birders!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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Should is not a Solution

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I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. I, personally, deeply believe that wild places and wildlife have an existence value that should be respected. A hungry child should be fed. I hear you.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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The prinia will then claim that its current name – celebrating a morally very questionable person – is no longer acceptable in the modern world. In the same article, Henry Adams, wildlife management coordinator for Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute, describes the night heron as having “grumpy old geezer energy.”

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