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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. Though hunting still plays a role and led to a bilateral treaty with Russia, ratified last September, climate change is the major threat to polar bears today.

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The Eurasian Woodcock

10,000 Birds

” Incidentally, the large number of woodcocks hunted also established the basis for a study analyzing the importance of millipedes in the autumn-winter diet of the species. I am not sure I understand the logic of this, but I guess evolution does. A bird serves one person.” Eurasian Woodcock with unhappy earthworms.

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