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Trumpeter Swans: Don’t Shoot Them

10,000 Birds

They were heavily hunted as food, and for the feathers. This morning’s news had this: During this year’s open of waterfowl season, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center admitted more trumpeter swans for bullet wounds than ever before. … It’s illegal to shoot trumpeter swans in Minnesota. Canada has more than the US.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. of deaths in the same study were from gunshot wounds (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). 1999, Holt et al. In one study, collisions with cars, buildings, airplanes and other objects resulted in 66.2%

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”