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Shortage of Donkeys in Africa

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But slaughtering donkeys robs rural African families of animals they rely on for farming and transportation, and their numbers have fallen by half in some countries compared to a decade ago.

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

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. SWAT teams would have to be organized privately, town by town, county by county. You call the SWAT team. What can she do?

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

10,000 Birds

The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. The Pankhursts and their organization were not interested in saving birds; they saw the SPB mission as a distraction. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. is through the personal and the specific.

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. The interview is scheduled for 10-15 minutes of Monday's one-hour show. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.