Doesn’t Like Calling it “War”
Doesn’t Like Calling it “War” A Wildlife agent criticized our last issue for calling this “war.” As we were going to print, I got a call from Marilyn Leybra, a wildlife rehabilitator, saying that she…
Computer Technology and Animal Rights
Computer Technology and Animal Rights By James M. Corrigan My purpose in writing this article is to convince each of you that we must use computer technology in our fight for the rights of those…
Wildlife Rehabilitators Unite!
Wildlife Rehabilitators Unite! Game Agencies “permit” wildlife rehabilitators, those noble souls, to give aid and comfort to distressed animals at their own expense. Rehabbers must use a veterinarian, although they themselves may have more expertise…
The First Step Toward Resolving Conflict
The First Step Toward Resolving Conflict CAN WE AT LEAST ALL AGREE THAT THEY ARE “CANADA GEESE” AND NOT “CANADIAN GEESE”? PART ONE By Ann Muller Okay, I concede that one point to the wildlife…
Reformation is Possible: A License to Kill
Little did I know that my first hunting trip would change me forever. At the beginning of hunting season, my friends brought their trophies to school: chipmunk and squirrel tails, and rabbit feet. A sense…
Trapping for Disease Control?
Excerpted from Jaws of Steel BY THOMAS EVELAND, PH.D. [DR. EVELAND IS A FORMER TRAPPER WHO WRITES IN HIS FOREWORD: “IF I HAD CONTINUED DOWN THAT PATH, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT TODAY I WOULD…
WAR ON WILDLIFE WAGED IN PARK IN UPSTATE NEW YORK
WAR ON WILDLIFE WAGED IN PARK IN UPSTATE NEW YORK By Sandy Baker Under the cover of darkness, bullets rip into the dreams of children, the peace of homeowners, and the bodies of fawns and…
NATIONAL WILDLIFE ECOLOGY DAY
NATIONAL WILDLIFE ECOLOGY DAY Luke Dommer, founder of The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting, wrote and presented the following on the grounds of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, New Paltz, September 28, 1991. National…
Hope
“Hope” Hope was a Canada goose illegally rescued during a legal special hunt at New Jersey’s Ringwood State Park. She had been shot in both wings and near a vital organ. Our side took “possession”…
THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH
Managing for the enhancement of yields or the survival of one species invariably affects others; benefiting some, harming some. In contrast, the ecosystem approach intentionally preserves diversity rather than doing so incidental to maximizing one…