10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963. Suggestions to start a campaign to protect shorebirds from hunters as they migrate through the Caribbean would be appreciated in the comments.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. The novel works, mostly, and who better than Gaines to make it so? Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., March 10,2020.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
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. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. We have hunters among our core supporters who believe strongly in this idea of a new Wildlife Conservation Stamp, and they say they would purchase both stamps!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. 49-50) She is also adept at writing about conservation’s larger context in terms of its history, public policy struggles, and the science behind species re-introduction.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
But not, mind you, on any shelf of popular science or ornithological memoir. Contentious issues like parrot ownership, the role of hunters in conservation, and the romaniticization of bygone eras of egg and nest collecting are passed over with nary an acknowledgement that they are controversial.
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