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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

10,000 Birds

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. Money and effort are being invested in that protection. Then comes summer and the birds start migrating.

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral. The illegal bird trade kills thousands of birds each year just in the manner they are smuggled.

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

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After witnessing hours if not days of senseless killing, someone finally musters the courage to take on the killer and delivers what has to be a devastating blow. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S.,

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Hornbills of Sabah

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The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S.