Critter News

MAY 5, 2009

From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". Tags: seal hunters.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Meat Industry Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Still, I can’t help thinking that there is some parallel between the mass slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon in 19th-century North America and the mass slaughter of songbirds in southern European countries today. Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. The Passenger Pigeon. by Errol Fuller. Hardcover, 9.6

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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