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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido

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They are ridiculously unafraid of people there – so the cynic in me suspects that swan meat is not regarded as tasty by the Japanese (another explanation, that the Japanese just like animals too much, can presumably be discarded given the country’s very principled approach in insisting on the right to kill whales).

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. ©2012 Donna L. It’s not enough.

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

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Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The cooperatives got together and instituted what we'll call a killing program; they retired cows," he said. Berman said all milk products - everything from cheese to butter - got more expensive.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. to eliminate the most toxic of their ingredients and to repackage their products more safely. EPA began cancellation proceedings, and at the eleventh hour Liphatech and Spectrum Group pulled the most dangerous of their products from the shelves.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History. How it raised its chicks? And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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I’ve recently returned from a filming trip in Arizona where I have been working on a production for National Geographic on Harris’s (Harris) Hawks. During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose.