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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

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Due to mass wolf poisonings in the 1960s and the 1970s, Griffon Vultures in Serbia suffered a dramatic population crash. There are very few sheep in the meadows and too few animals end up dead in the open, where scavengers can get them. No, they weren’t in raspberry fields.). And the cliff was white with bird droppings.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

How far do we go in protecting them? Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. Wolves eat sheep. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from.