Animal Equality
JULY 18, 2025
Ag-gag laws make it illegal to: Critics say these laws strip away one of the only tools available to expose abuse. Windowless, unmarked, and often tucked into farmland, factory farms and slaughterhouses are built to keep their operations hidden. In several states, it’s now a crime to reveal what happens inside.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. You might also want to see how the World Parrot Trust works to protect parrots in the wild. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Malta, you might recall, has the dubious distinction of being a hotspot for illegal hunting of protected birds. After all, protection statutes are toothless if they’re not enforced throughout a bird’s migratory path.) News Birdlife Malta european union illegal hunting Malta short-toed eagle'
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2021
Eight years later, in the introduction to his landmark Birds of the West Indies, Bond wrote of the threat posed by the illegal parrot trade: “A few years ago, in spite of government protection, the Lesser Antillean parrots were sold to tourists at prodigious figures. It would seem, therefore, that A.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2013
No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Protecting even the most range-limited species sometimes requires that we look well beyond our respective borders.
Critter News
JANUARY 4, 2010
India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. I'm too, too cynical.
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