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MAY 7, 2012
An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
There was a bounty on them in Alaska from 1917 until 1952—up to $2 a head! People who protest our proposed hunt are trying to strip rights from the hunting public. Bald Eagles were nearly exterminated from the Lower 48 by the mid 1970’s. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT. Eleven million gallons of oil suffocated 1,300 miles of shoreline in my beloved Alaska. 360 miles of National Park land at the border! Fast forward to the next decade and humans were at it again.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
Dunn starts in Alaska with the goal of seeing Rufous Hummingbird at the northern extreme of its migration (which he does with some effort and a few bear sightings) and ends in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, “the end of the world,” with the sighting of a Green-backed Firecrown feeding at a firetree in cold drizzly rain.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Kentucky Dept.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2023
In Alaska, they were found to mimic 30 different species ( source ). Maybe they have decided to boycott species with Russian-sounding names as a way to protest against Putin’s policies. Anyway, the male is quite stunning with its black head, while it is often said of the female that it has a beautiful soul.
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