10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, Pygmy leaf-folding frogs, Afrixalus brachycnemis, from Tanzania, tiny climbing frogs who lay their eggs in leaves and then fold the leaves over them for protection, sealing the nest with secretions. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. They are great photographs, particularly the close-ups of frog irises and eyelids.

Reptiles 216

Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 216

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

Houston 260

Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 260

Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.

Gorillas 100

Gorillas Congo illegal Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Even though a 2013 petition by the Royal Society of Protection of Birds failed to convince the Scottish parliament to make it official, the campaign to make the Golden Eagle Scotland’s national bird continues.

Eagles 189

Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

Fish 154

Fish Wildlife Hunting Louisiana 154

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!

Meat Industry 100

Meat Industry Meat Industry Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported. Beacon Press, 2012. —————-. by Elizabeth Gehrman. Hardcover, 256 pages.

Rats 197

Rats Breeding Birds 2012 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways. The Passenger Pigeon.

2014 168

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law.

Ohio 123

Ohio Endangered Species Bald Eagle 2016 123

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). Karlson Princeton University Press, June 2024; UK August 2024 Hardcover; 8.25 0691220956; ISBN-13 ?

North America 264

North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. Is this a book for American birders?

Virginia 134

Virginia Portland Industry New York City 134

Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125) This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals.

Research 40

Research Medical Research Animal Morals 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.

Meat 40

Meat Meat Industry Farm Animal Farmed Animals 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Then one day they are gone.

Humane 250

Humane Eagles Investigation North America 250

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals.

Animal Legal Defense Fund 100

Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

The story of the flightless Dodo, discovered on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and killed off by 1700, is sad and familiar. by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), Number 57, Great Northern?

Mauritius 174

Mauritius Egypt Cyprus Collecting 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2022

The company, ESI Energy LLC, built facilities in high-risk locations, failed to obtain permits, and its wind turbines killed approximately 150 eagles. Broadly summarizing, the information alleges that ESI violated the MBTA and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act by failing to secure permits for several of its facilities in Wyoming.

Wyoming 213

Wyoming Eagles Wounded Killing 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. 978-1939125996

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147