“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” Belva Plain
“How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” Belva Plain
Two little ducklings were rescued from a storm drain after quick-thinking workers coaxed them to safety with an iPad recording of their mother’s quack. The birds, which were only a few days old, fell down a manhole in Burton Bradstock in West Dorset last week. They were discovered when holidaymakers heard the mother duck …
This morning I heard gunshots in the distance. The “hunters” were shooting defenceless pheasants. These sentient creatures are bred and reared for the purpose of being killed, for pleasure, by people who seem to regard themselves as sportsmen. I regard them with contempt.
“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.” Saskya Pandita
“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.” Jacques Deval
Save the SEA LIFE London Aquarium penguins Petition by Lex Croucher London, United Kingdom “The Gentoo penguins at the Sea Life London Aquarium are kept in a small underground room, with no natural light and completely unacceptable quality of life. I started this petition after I visited the Sea Life London Aquarium and saw the …
The Saint There is no suffering for the one who has completed the journey, who is freed from sorrow, who has freed oneself on all sides, who has thrown off all chains. The thoughtful exert themselves; they do not delight in a home; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house …
Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in gay confusion, And nights in rosy riot fly, While, lost in Fame’s or Wealth’s illusion, The memory of the Past may …
CAPS can today reveal that the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), an organisation which describes itself as “working globally to safeguard and improve wetlands for wildlife and people” has been shooting wild wetland birds dead; allegedly in order to prevent interference with its collection of captive exotic birds. This comes just months after CAPS revealed …
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