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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Choosing the right pet for your child is key. By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM. Children can learn so many valuable lessons by caring for a pet. Having pets at a young age instills kids with a sense of confidence that they can take care of an animal and help it to live a thriving life.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

10,000 Birds

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it.

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5 Puzzling Toys That Will Keep Your Pup Entertained for Hours

4 The Love Of Animals

What can your pup do to exercise their mind, if they aren’t involved in the pack’s hunt? Sebastian Paulin is Director of Operations at Love That Pet. dogs guest post pet care' Of course, the fact of the matter is that you provide the food in your household, or one of the other humans does. Puzzle toys help to fill that need.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

10,000 Birds

If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter. A worrying trend. I am only joking! Birds should be free. The photos of Sultan Tit that I got at Hongbenghe in 2017 were much better than the ones I got on Hainan in 2022. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Each account gives population estimate, population trend, estimated area, endemism level, reasons why the species is threatened, and conservation measures adopted and proposed. In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. Habitat destruction, hunting and disturbance are further factors affecting the population.