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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Not in words, of course, but they can answer in ways that we can understand if we are paying attention. They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. But we can ask, and they can answer.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

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Afforestation

10,000 Birds

That would, of course, be better than nothing. The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) But one tree isn’t going to reverse the damage occuring in Latin America.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

10,000 Birds

A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 About 15 million birds are killed annually by hunters, and of course this is distributed among a very small number of species.

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Red-crowned Cranes on Hokkaido

10,000 Birds

What methods are effective to protect an endangered crane species? An interesting paper compares two different strategies, habitat management (as done in the US for the Whooping Crane) and artificial feeding in the leanest periods (as done in Japan for the Red-crowned Crane ). Is this relevant?

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