Worldwide: 13 Of Many Hazards For Migrating Birds

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Tuesday November 01, 2011 05:08

by Bird Rights - animal Rights Coalition

make the world more welcoming for traveling birds

Worldwide:
13 Of Many Hazards For Migrating Birds

1. sucking jet engines,
2 electroshocking utility lines,
3. acid rain from coalfired utilities
4 war zone bombs,
5 shotguns (senators bought by the hunter lobby who introduce bills to remove protection..)
6 bulldozers removing their homes, drying up their marshes,
7 oil spills weighting down their feathers
8 barbed wire
9 traps from nonhunter birdeaters
10 USDA and EU avicidal sprays,
11. water poisoned by insecticides, oil, arsenic, chromium, pcb's, pbb's ad infinitum
12. barbed wire
13. choking on plastic\

and for those who never get off the ground
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery

(Irish poet SanExpeditus has a moving poem on Arctic terns' migration at
http://www.writers-network.com/members/SanExpeditus&nbs... ; )

Comments (1 of 1)

Values

by Des - None

Tue Nov 01, 2011 21:18

So many of our leaders have little respect for their fellow human beings, so it is not surprising that little value is placed on the protection of bird life, or indeed any living beings. The so called sport of killing hares is just one example of the local 'leaderships' contribution.

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