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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

The birds had evolved without a predator like this, and with the new snake having no predators, it had no problem decimating the island’s birdlife. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.