10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. As Moss shows, this “Great Sparrow Campaign” was based on nothing more than the “scientific illiteracy and unbridled power” of one man, Mao Zedong. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.

Bald Eagle 157

Bald Eagle Montenegro Campaign Turkey 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

Not only were her organs exposed, the entire area was alive with maggots. In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. If there is an entrance wound, there is an exit wound.

Eagles 238

Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 238

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. It seems that it came off rather well, and was co-organized by the Cyprus Game Fund and members of the Bern Convention. So it’s not a good week in Cyprus!

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Cyprus illegal Game Birds 175

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

How can it be, I asked someone from the Wetlands International, the IWC umbrella organization, only to learn that USA has its own scheme. The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. we will kill it!”, Oh, and what is that? The Christmas Bird Count was the answer. The startled bird was looking at us.

Geese 146

Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 146

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

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.”

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Pit Bulls Animal Cruelty Laws Animal 40