10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. It’s bad PR.

Tennessee 236

Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 236

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The collapse of the UK rabbit population during the myxomatosis outbreak in the 1950’s allowed the previously well-cropped vetches to grow long and lush, lowering the ground temperature and the butterflies were wiped out from much of southern England within two years.

Rabbits 155

Rabbits Ireland 2002 Sheep 155

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

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. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

Animal Rights 266

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

2011 193

2011 Birds Woodpeckers Blackbirds 193