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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. Habitat destruction and degradation is far and away the number one reason why wildlife populations are extirpated or go extinct. This makes perfect sense. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise. For example, when the U.S.

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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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The impact that pythons are having on native wildlife is not well understood. It is obvious that pythons are eating native wildlife as its population continues to grow. Some of these snakes had evidence of birds in their stomachs and some were gravid with up 55 eggs nearly ready to be laid. Reptiles' Rock Python.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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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.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many.

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The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

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But, as I have already shown in one of my two posts about visiting Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, that is exactly what the boat load of birders I was with got the chance to see way back at the beginning of March. The female of the species lays ten to thirty eggs in a burrow she digs about 65 days after mating.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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.” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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

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And for rodents and reptiles as well. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. Let me tell you this: They are. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7