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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

And embattled minority should be protected. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’ĂȘtre is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction. A hungry child should be fed.

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