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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

10,000 Birds

Rehabilitators also cooperate with law enforcement on illegal activity, and even monitor emerging diseases in avian species. There was a time when our domestic pets were treated like objects. Wild birds are biologic organisms just as we and our domestic pets are. Is that individual bird vital to the world as a whole?

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

10,000 Birds

If you live in Australia, do not even think of getting this bird as a pet, as “99.99% of these Galahs sold in Australian markets are trapped from the wild” (source). On the other hand, the Black Kite is a raptor not known for integrity – Black Kites are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge ( source ).

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S. This amount is considerably less than the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers annually.

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