10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. For the same reason that other invasive do better than the natives, feral Cats outhunt native predators, and native prey are not as protected against them. Photo Credit: Martin_Heigan via Compfight cc.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The Snow Leopards’ thick pelts have long been highly sought-after artifacts by the people who share its Central Asian range, providing amazing insulation in the cold, but another reason their pelts are so thick must be to protect the leopard when it takes rough tumbles across its rugged, rocky environment.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about gray wolves, who are no longer on the protected list in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. If you haven't read Barry Holstun Lopez 's 1978 book Of Wolves and Men , you should do so. It changed my life.

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Wolves Wyoming Idaho Montana 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2017

I saw Painted Wolves again, my favourite species ever. Singapore is a densely populated city-state which still manages to protect a number of species. Like a lot of people I know, the body blows of the news the world at large were tempered by a year that was personally rather good. I went to Ethiopia. I bought a house.

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United Arab Emirates Ethiopia 2016 Singapore 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. Who wiped out the wolves and mountain lions? But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Hunters like him.

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She’s described conservation successes in detail–the Bald Eagle, the Short-tailed Albatross, now protected in Japan. ” There are amazing stories here.

Fox 100

Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

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. Wolves eat sheep. It is hard to imagine where a line can be drawn. Second, our food animals have co-evolved with us.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In his piece on state agencies, The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Wolves , Mr. Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves.

Wildlife 254

Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 254

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2021

They have clearly work long and hard on this book, and the lengthy Acknowledgments contain long lists of people who helped in the field and in the research and writing. Bird nests are a visible and popular representation of the full and complex lives birds lead and have become a part of our culture in many ways.

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Eggs United States Sparrows Birds 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. Even more disconcerting to me than these “trophy hunters” killing wildlife for “sport” is the belief by some that carnivores such as bears and wolves should be eliminated.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 129