Maltese Hunters Still Shooting Protected Birds
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Will the slaughter never end?
Do Fence Me In: Protecting the Hawaiian Petrel
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Specifically, the state’s Big Island, where a new fence was just completed in the hopes of protecting an endangered bird. While his poem was about the dubious nature of boundaries kept in check by surly New England yankees, the sentiment holds true in Hawaii, at least.
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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?
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Seal Slaughter Stopped by Russia. Canada? Not So Much.
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2009
Kudos for Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stopping the slaughter of seals. The ministry said: “This is a serious step forward to protect Russia’s biological diversity. Conservation groups have staged protests in 20 Russian cities this week, demanding an end to the slaughter.
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Montana Passes Horse Slaughterhouse Protection Measure
Critter News
MAY 3, 2009
Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1) Judicial review of equine slaughter or processing facilities -- surety bond -- attorney fees -- venue. (1)
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Autumn 2011 Report From Cyprus
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011.
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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes.
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No way out: The pregnant cow who was slaughtered anyway
Animal Equality
APRIL 16, 2025
She walked in pregnant. But she never walked out. The cow moved slowly—belly full, lungs straining. Workers shouted. Shoved her toward the kill floor. They stunned her. Slit her throat. Hoisted her by her hind legs. Her body swung, limp. Then—a twitch. A tiny calf, still curled in her womb, kicked. A worker sliced her open.
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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
Why choose enslavement, rape, domination and slaughter? Here's an interesting combination of great sentiment and horrible sentiment that involves two responses from the above list: "Online critics said it was hypocritical to protect only dogs and cats, and that the government should focus on human welfare before protecting animals."
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Innocence exploited: trained sheep lure lambs to slaughter
Animal Equality
DECEMBER 31, 2024
As an investigator, he’d walked blood-soaked slaughterhouses, seen animals crammed into metal boxes, and heard faint cries echoing down the slaughter line. Mike thought he’d seen it all. But nothing prepared him for that day. Newborn lambs huddled together, their tiny bodies trembling.
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Wild Chimpanzees Threatened in the Congo
Critter News
MARCH 29, 2009
Locals have told Hicks that up to a few years ago there was very little poaching (except for elephants) in the area, and that it is the mining of diamonds and gold that has lead to the current slaughter of wildlife.
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What is the SAFE Act?
Animal Equality
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
horses for slaughter, was reintroduced in Congress—just ahead of National Horse Protection Day on March 1. Contact your representatives and demand that they support the SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter once and for all: The SAFE Act promises to end the… Source Ready to take action for horses?
Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.
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Listen Today on WALO Radio
Animal Person
MARCH 30, 2009
The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. Some key words are in English at the website, which gives clear instructions for streaming. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening.
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A Win-Lose Proposition for Farmers and Consumers
Animal Person
DECEMBER 5, 2009
People whose careers involve creating, fattening, transporting and slaughtering sentient nonhumans whose parts and secretions will then be used as food are having some financial difficulties. Along with the rest of the country. And that's being done as a favor of sorts, a gift to them by the benevolent NASDA.
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On Different Results of Direct Action
Animal Person
APRIL 14, 2009
David Jentsch says to his colleagues "your silence will no longer protect you" and his community of vivisectionists has decided to have a pro-torture and slaughter (i.e., research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community).
On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. That depends largely on us, our priorities, and our allocation of resources.
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A Good Day for Horses
Animal Ethics
MARCH 30, 2007
Horses destined for inhumane slaughter in the U.S. Because animal flesh sold for human consumption abroad must be inspected by a USDA inspector, the court ruling may mean that the few remaining horse-slaughtering plants in the U.S. A previous post on the "Horse Slaughter Bill" (H.R. is available here. is available here.
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2024 in photos: 10 moments that shaped history for animals
Animal Equality
JANUARY 7, 2025
Thousands of animals were slaughtered, their final moments captured by Animal Equality’s… Source These images are here to tell the story: At Nepal’s 2024 Gadhimai Festival—the world’s largest animal sacrifice—investigators revealed what walls, smog, and police bans tried to hide.
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52 Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 11, 2008
You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter.
Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And the other is taking up vegetarianism. But what about the vegetarian alternative? Here what one needs to do is calculate the pleasure, interest, satisfaction, etc.,
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Jonathan Bennett on Revisable Morality
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2008
Have you looked at images or videotapes of slaughter? If you haven't, then you are suppressing your sympathies, thereby protecting your moral principles from revision. Have you taken the time to investigate this? Have you visited a factory farm or a slaughterhouse? This is bad faith.
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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected. Money and effort are being invested in that protection. The cargo consisted of huge number of protected passerines such as larks and pipits, beside huntable species like Common Quails and Turtle Doves.
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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo.
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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. They would be made up of people who are sick and tired of government-protected species being slaughtered by domestic cats.
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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2015
Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it? No product works as well as taking responsibility for the agonizing deaths for which you are personally responsible, and keeping your cat indoors has the added benefit of protecting it from cars, predators, disease, starvation, fights, traps, guns, poison, etc.
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Bill Introduced in Congress to Protect Wild Horses
Critter News
FEBRUARY 14, 2009
Nick Rahall and Raul Grijalva have introduced a bill that would protect healthy wild horses from being killed by the BLM. He says it's unacceptable for wild horses that embody the spirit of the American West to be slaughtered. They don't have the text of it on Thomas.gov, but here is a link to HR 1018 on the site.
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Guy Who Trained Flipper Protests Dolphin Slaughter
Critter News
JANUARY 23, 2009
Today, the man who trained Flipper for the popular 1960s TV series is crusading against the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, captured by hidden cameras in a chilling documentary called “The Cove” that’s being shown at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. That was 39 years ago. She believes dolphins have "fun" doing shows.
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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.
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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. What about others who work tirelessly to repopulate and protect wildlife, who live in fear this may happen to their colonies?
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review
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. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).
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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2024
I’m familiar with the slaughter of herons, egrets, and other pretty birds for their feathers, but I didn’t know that shorebirds were also targets and that the gunning trade greatly contributed to the demise of the Eskimo Curlew.
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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2018
Hence, vultures rely on a feeding station where they are provisioned with slaughter house offal and occasional carrion. We approach a low limestone cliff topped with separate rock formations, like a medieval city wall topped with parapets that offered protection to defenders. And the cliff was white with bird droppings.
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The Nonessential Whooping Crane
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?
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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. Or the absence of legal protection. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe.
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198 On Small Victories
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Changes in the manner of slaughter (i.e.,
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100 Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry
Animal Person
MARCH 17, 2009
Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.
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Reasons Consistently Applied
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. After two or three laying cycles when their egg production begins to wane, the layer hens are inhumanely loaded onto trucks and sent to slaughter, where they are processed into chicken soup and pet food.
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40 From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
APRIL 2, 2007
In the United States pork industry, the vast majority of the more than 100 million pigs raised each year are housed in climate-controlled buildings that protect them from the elements, illness and disease and that allow for individual care. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., That is never humane.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 20, 2007
The rooster watches over the flock protectively and often participates in a hen’s egg-laying ritual, an extremely important and private part of her life. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.
R. G. Frey on Feeling and Principle
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
In order to protect himself, therefore, he is not likely to rest his case upon (an appeal to) the state and intensities of our feelings. What the vegetarian wants, surely, is that we should stop eating meat even if our liking for it exceeds our revulsion at the suffering endured on factory farms.
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
How far do we go in protecting them? Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. If we are not justified in eating mackerel ourselves, are we not also morally obligated to stop the slaughter brought on by the tuna?
From Today's New York Times
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
And as the slaughtering of animals is not high tech, certainly no trade secrets would be at risk with the imposition of cameras. The federal government needs to recommit itself to putting boots on the ground in America and elsewhere to inspect and protect our food supply. I think most would, enthusiastically. 21, 2008
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