Critter News
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. I don't see what they get out of it, unless they want to impress Europe, which has already banned seal products. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Instead of Special Weapons and Tactics, think: Sealed With A Trap. Sealed With A Trap. You call the SWAT team.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2022
I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully.
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products. restaurants by animal rights activists." Notwithstanding their local tactical victories, are animal rights protesters really as effective as they appear?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
It’s become regrettably political in the US right, which is the absolute worst response to a potential pandemic going. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. The bacteria that laid me low earlier this year is a zoonosis, causing problems for New Zealand’s endemic seals as well as visitors to Borneo.
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