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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.

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

10,000 Birds

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. ” Elizabeth Jackson of the Duck Stamp Program is not optimistic about birders or non-hunters embracing the Duck Stamp as hunters have. .”

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

10,000 Birds

It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

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A Great Big Messy Pile of Bird … News

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With no further ado, then, here’s what’s been happening during the last twentysomething days or so: Tiny delicacy or declining and suffering species? Australian researchers think studying birds may provide the key to helping airplanes avoid turbulence. Not cool, British raptor hunters. Want to build a better-running robot?

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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Scientific research and expertise are needed here. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. KBJ: I agree that this is a factual question. KBJ: Ditto.

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