10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2017

According to the article , “As one of the top birding destinations in the United States, the refuge attracts more than 165,000 visitors each year and generates an estimated $462 million to the local economy. Home to over 400 species of birds, 450 types of native plants, half of the U.S. I recommend INDIVISIBLE !

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada. If you love your ducks and peeps enough to contribute to conservation organizations, why not check first whether these organizations are working to protect wetlands south of the United States borders?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Tags: horse animal cruelty legislation Slaughterhouse us. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In 1952, the continental United States was looking pretty good actually on the extinction front. If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer. We could do it! Then the 80s happened.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Arkansas becomes the 46th state to make cruelty to animals a felony, according to the Humane Society of the United States. In exchange for the stiffer penalties, animal welfare groups made several concessions, including a change in state law so only certified law enforcement officers can arrest someone for animal cruelty.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Says DeGeneres: “Did you know that every year between 250 and 300 million turkeys are bred for slaughter in the United States? Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, promotes legislative, policy, and individual lifestyle changes to help farm animals.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

In United States v. These videos, the subject of House legislation and of a bill that we plan to introduce, are beyond “disgusting”—and go beyond conventional conceptions of animal cruelty. We believe our new legislation will pass constitutional muster. 5, 2010 The writers are United States senators.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. The Nature of the Meadowlands is a celebration of an environmental success story.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

This is certainly a landmark victory and we hope that other countries around the world, including the United States, will take notice and follow suit.”. ADI gathered evidence has led to campaigns and legislative action all over the world to protect them. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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Critter News

MAY 23, 2011

An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. That sucks. From the Montreal Gazette.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It's the first fur ban in the United States. Here's hoping there are many more to come!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* ©2012 Donna L.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., In the United States, for example, citizens once had to be twenty-one years of age to vote in federal elections; now they must be eighteen. a legislative assembly).

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

Half of the sixteen German states already have some sort of animal rights provisions in their constitutions. In the United States, most believe that gaining personhood is much more probable through legislative enactment than through a constitutional change. Why the common law over legislation?

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic catechism affirm that compassion for animals is a matter of human dignity. The Central Conference of American Rabbis “advocates the strengthening of humane legislation,” and the list goes on. The Catholic Church is not alone among major religions on this issue.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2007

The horse slaughter industry in the United States has nothing to do with feeding hungry people and everything to do with animal cruelty. Every year, 100,000 horses are slaughtered at foreign-owned slaughterhouses in the United States to satisfy the palates of wealthy diners in Europe and Asia.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 31, 2007

In an incredible juxtaposition to the fanfare of Barbaro, more than 100,000 horses were slaughtered last year in the United States and shipped to Europe and Japan for human consumption. Just days before Barbaro was humanely put down, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act was reintroduced in Congress.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Nelson, a Professor of environmental philosophy and ethics at Oregon State University, points out that recreational hunting was only one of several important factors that led to improved conservation in North America. Democracy of Hunting – The right to hunt in the United States and Canada by all citizens of good standing.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

Woodard goes on to note: MRSA is so common in the United States that it accounts for more than half of all soft-tissue and skin infections in ERs. Write to your state and federal representatives and urge them to pass legislation banning the routine, non-therapeutic use of antibiotics on factory farms.

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Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

The maintenance of members of a group or community in a state of (esp. as provided for and organized by legislation or social effort. a list of those entitled to welfare benefits from the State. 125 Through disorder the poor have increased welfare benefits in the United States. See also sense 5. TAYLOR Eng.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

As the World's leading contributor of greenhouse gases, the United States should be taking the lead in the charge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, we don't have to wait for our elected officials to implement federal legislation curbing greenhouse gas emissions to start reducing our own contributions to global warming.

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