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Tweet by Gregory McNamee Let’s begin on a strange note. (Would that everything strange came with such a warning.) In the old desert town in which I live, it’s said that the ghost of a dancing bear...
View ArticleBritish Badgers Being Shot for the Sake of Cattle
Tweet by Lorraine Murray In the last week of August, the British government began a controversial six-week “pilot cull” of badgers in several areas of the countryside, employing marksmen to shoot and...
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Tweet by Gregory McNamee How many Florida panthers are there in the wild? Almost certainly more than the two dozen or so panthers that were known to exist in the early 1980s, but vastly fewer than in...
View ArticleBadgers of Britain: An Update on the 2013 Badger Cull
Tweet by Lorraine Murray —See second update below: December 2013 —Update: November 2013 Two months ago, Advocacy for Animals published the following report on a controversial badger “cull” that the UK...
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Reports the National Trust, the UK conservancy for history, natural history, and culture, the summer of 2013 was a hot one. It was so hot, in fact, that a recently arrived, warm-weather-loving species...
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Tweet by Gregory McNamee We have two new puppies in our household, sisters rescued from a shelter out in the countryside. They’re wonderful. They’re rambunctious. Each is also, quite plainly, covetous...
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Tweet by Gregory McNamee There’ll always be an England. But if England is eternal, it is also a place that poses certain challenges to its inhabitants, and for that we can look to the cow. The cow, you...
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