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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. law against causing the deaths of protected birds without a permit (and no wind-energy farms seem to have such permits). In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. These fatalities violate U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Justice Department is investigating seven of the deaths, since they violate federal law. (And that’s not even mentioning the many other non-eagle birds which meet an unfortunate end due to wind turbines.). . Apparently, the U.S.

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JUNE 9, 2021

And, in a nice irony, an example par excellence of the law of unintended consequences: the Redhead, a diving duck, has an aversion to wind turbines, and will change its feeding areas to avoid them. “Scientists fear that this may cause them to lose condition over winter and thus damage their breeding prospects.”

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Look no further than Reckitt Benckiser’s website: “The Company strives to act in accordance with the laws … of the countries in which it operates, (and it) operates with integrity.”. Need an example of “hypocrisy?” What to do? They pass around the website of Safe Rodent Control , which gives alternatives to poisons.

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JUNE 23, 2018

Then the EIS (environmental impact statement – a document required by federal law) hit the press. A decade or so earlier, a corporation purchased Little Tybee and Cabbage Island for phosphorite mining. Then, once the resource was depleted, the plan was to refill the area and ‘develop’ it.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary. Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It’s about putting the Federal Government back into the confines of the law.”. It’s imperative that local, state, and federal law enforcement ensure the safety of our land managers. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy. This March 23rd interview with the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

If only I was a minority, I’m sure that law enforcement would treat me way better.&# One of the biggest and more recent face palm incidents with law enforcement and the outdoors happened in Colorado in 2009 when a large marijuana farm was found growing in Pike National Forest.

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Critter News

MARCH 18, 2010

From the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Law enforcement there has a long-running investigation into animal releases at a University of Iowa laboratory. The FBI served a search warrant Monday on a Salt Lake City home occupied by a supporter of the Animal Liberation Front. Young, 32, said at least eight FBI agents arrived about 11:30 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law.

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Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. Labour Euro MP Arlene McCarthy, who helped steer the ban through the European Parliament, said: "This law is a victory for people power and a credit to the campaigners involved.". That's good news.

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Critter News

MAY 24, 2009

From the press release: “To characterize protest and speech as terrorist activities is ludicrous,” said Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) cooperating attorney Matthew Strugar. The AETA is so broad and unclear it could be used to suppress lawful protests and boycotts by any activists across the spectrum, no matter what the issue.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. ” Based on the press release date, I assumed it was just big talk and way to drive people to Amazon to shop on Cyber Monday.

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

From the Associated Press. Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Give up on the idea of holding your binoculars with both hands and chose a lighter model that you can hold steady in just one arm because you need the other arm to perform a sort of a low brace, pressing one end of the paddle against the front deck and holding the other 90 degrees from it, pressing the blade horizontally against the water.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

And, John Laws widely praised The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012) is mysteriously missing. Lederer (U of Chicago Press, Sept. A selected list of books for “further reading,” covers both bird and art technique books. They are good basic lists, though I think selected web sites could also have been included.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

From the Press Association. India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. But is it enough? Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh said that speeding up justice as well as hefty fines are needed to strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. Hallé, ‘Atlas Poetic Botanic’, edition MIT Press, 2018). Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014. Where are my binos?” I asked myself while I was in the taxi on my way to the airport.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Here is the full press release: During its first-ever National Justice for Animals Week, February 22 – 28, 2009, the national non-profit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) is recognizing some of the top law enforcement professionals in the nation for getting real justice for animals who are victims of abuse.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2002 the German Parliament amended Article 26 of the Basic Law to give nonhuman animals the right to be “respected as fellow creatures” and to be protected from “avoidable pain.” But a change in the common law (which Germany does not have) may be the most likely of all. What is the common law? Salem and Andrew N.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Charles Pease shot the bird in northeastern Ohio, and gave it to his father-in-law, Jared Kirtland, one of those 19th century men who was a master multitasker–physician, horticulturist, legislator, zoologist. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. Photograph Credits: Book cover courtesy of University of Michigan Press.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. Might does not make right; might does make law. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press ! at Princeton University in 1990.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press. 560pages, 6.3

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 267-8 [ellipsis added] [first edition published in 1983]) the constitution) of the society in which they live.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

Addendum 3: When I was a law student at Wayne State University in the early 1980s, I took a graduate philosophy course in ethics with Bruce Russell. Taylor in Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). He allowed me to write a term paper entitled "Do Plants Have Rights?"

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." According to HSUS's investigation (detailed in their press release ), the Sean John Hooded Snorkel Jacket on sale at macys.com for $237.99

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