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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience?

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. The court also rejected the notion that Dr. Zink, would have standing to bring a claim in his own right. But its U.S.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

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In issuing its condemnation of established cultural practices, the rights view is not antibusiness, not antifreedom of the individual, not antiscience, not antihuman. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Might does not make right; might does make law.

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Tom Regan on Endangered Species

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The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. This is not what the rights view implies. Tom Regan , The Case for Animal Rights , updated with a new preface [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004], 360 [italics in original] [first edition published in 1983])

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They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Birds in Brazil.

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We (we being my friend Ian and Steve from Los Angeles) were a little frantic, thinking we’d never, ever see them again. I was practically right next to the two in this photo (and, note the Rufescent Tiger-heron photobomb). Let’s go!”

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Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2011?

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We, along the coast in Los Angeles County, have a FY Harris’s Sparrow here now for about a week. Wicked, right? We took a trip a couple of weeks ago to Montana – Pablo Reservoir just south of Flathead Lake had 2 Snowies for awhile, but (of course) they left about a week before we got there. The proposal from U.S.

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Tom Regan on Rights

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Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. First, moral rights, if there are any, are universal.

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