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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

10,000 Birds

The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland birds. Snow Geese over Kulm WMD in North Dakota (USFWS). Mallards at Rainwater WMD in Nebraska (USFWS).

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A Great Day Out West – Bobcats, Birds and Boardwalks

10,000 Birds

And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two. But to us locals from the El Dub (Lake Worth, FL) it refers to anywhere east of the Everglades and west of Congress Avenue. And this is where magic happens from time to time.

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Changing the world for ducks and geese used for foie gras

Animal Equality

For over a decade, Animal Equality has been on a global mission to end the force-feeding of ducks and geese for foie gras. From the bustling streets of Brazil to the historic halls of the UK Parliament, Animal Equality is driving change for animals in Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, India, the US, and the UK.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico.

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Advocates urge Olympic chefs to drop foie gras at the 2024 Games

AnimalEquality.net

Foie gras production involves force-feeding ducks and geese multiple times daily until their livers swell up to ten times their natural size. Over a month ago, Animal Equality’s global team launched a campaign to remove foie gras from the 2024 Olympic hospitality menu. Many animals bleed, pant, shake, and vomit during this process.

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Animal Equality delivers 60,000 signatures to Olympic organizers

AnimalEquality.net

On July 22, just days before the Olympics, Animal Equality intensified its global campaign against foie gras by traveling to Paris. Advocates carried over 60,000 petition signatures, urging the Olympic organizers to remove foie gras from the VIP hospitality menu.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. I have visited many of the grotesque factory farms that now corrupt our rural landscapes.