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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

Critter News

For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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Bicknell’s Thrush in Trouble on Wintering Grounds

10,000 Birds

But, to paraphrase Monty Python, every species is sacred. That’s why Hugh Powell’s newest report on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology blog that Bicknell’s Thrush surveys in the Dominican Republic have revealed illegal clearing is so chilling. Conservation of migratory species must be an international affair.