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The death this month of a Philippine Eagle named “Hope” was not how conservationists wanted 2021 to begin. Born in…
More than 4,600 people have been attacked by magpies in Australia this year to date. Nearly 70 percent of those…
Leaving your lights on at night might be disrupting birds’ sleeping patterns and affecting their ability to function throughout the…
Tweet Nononono, not Roger Pielke Jr, Bjorn Lomborg, Willard Anthony Watts, or Matt King Coal Ridley. Recently as steam has run out on "Coal for Africa" with the falling prices of renewables making them the power source of choice in the third world, especially the rural third world, we have, courtesy of the Breakthrough Institute, Ecomodernism , which, according to the manifestoso In this, we affirm one long-standing environmental ideal, that humanity must shrink its impacts on the environment to make more room for nature, while we reject another, that human societies must harmonize with nature to avoid economic and ecological collapse
This one was new to me : Fresh off a wave of success in the state Capitol last year, animal welfare groups are taking aim at a new target this year: hunting with lead ammunition. The Humane Society, Audubon California and Defenders of Wildlife are behind a major push to make California the first state to ban lead ammunition for all types of hunting…. ….environmentalists say a statewide ban is needed because overwhelming scientific evidence shows condors, bald eagles and other birds are still dying from lead poisoning when they eat dead deer and other animals shot by hunters…. “These people want to ban hunting
"Pigeon" Tax Protest Goes Viral in France I received an interesting email today from Andrea, who is from Italy but now lives in France. The email is about "pigeons", a movement started by French entrepreneurs in protest of president Francois Hollande’s tax policies. The "pigeon" movement has gone viral on Twitter
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