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| − | + | Occupational hazard, I suppose, but I often get accused of anthropomorphism. That being said, Martha was of a species whose nesting grounds were so massive that one colony covered an expanse of land almost 40 times the size of Manhattan. I do not think it unreasonable to suggest that the last of such a kind, alone in a cage, felt loneliness to a degree impossible to imagine. | |
| − | + | It occurs to <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes Sale</a> me, admittedly a few days late, that the 100 year anniversary of the death of this lone, last survivor should not go unnoticed. | |
| − | + | Passenger pigeons went from a population of billions to <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php>gucci outlet</a> zero in a matter of decades. They were hunted out of existence for their meat, their feathers, and just for the sheer joy of shooting lead into the sky to produce a corpse. (For more about passenger pigeons鈥?natural life and most unnatural death, I highly recommend Joel Greenberg鈥檚 excellent book A Feathered River Across the Sky, the source of the statistics mentioned above.) | |
| − | + | The annual State of the Birds Report will be released in just a few days. According to one of its authors (John Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, writing in this past Sunday鈥檚 New York Times, 鈥淪aving Our Birds鈥? this year the Report will list 230 species of birds 鈥渃urrently in danger of extinction or at risk of becoming so without significant conservation <a href=http://www.symbiose.ca/images/christianlouboutin.gwij.php>Christian Louboutin Sale</a> action.鈥? | |
| − | + | It doesn鈥檛 seem like Martha鈥檚 death has taught us enough. | |
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@@@ Occupational hazard, I suppose, but I often get accused of anthropomorphism. That being said, Martha was of a species whose nesting grounds were so massive that one colony covered an expanse of land almost 40 times the size of Manhattan. I do not think it unreasonable to suggest that the last of such a kind, alone in a cage, felt loneliness to a degree impossible to imagine. It occurs to <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/wdluk.php>Louboutin Shoes Sale</a> me, admittedly a few days late, that the 100 year anniversary of the death of this lone, last survivor should not go unnoticed. Passenger pigeons went from a population of billions to <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php>gucci outlet</a> zero in a matter of decades. They were hunted out of existence for their meat, their feathers, and just for the sheer joy of shooting lead into the sky to produce a corpse. (For more about passenger pigeons鈥?natural life and most unnatural death, I highly recommend Joel Greenberg鈥檚 excellent book A Feathered River Across the Sky, the source of the statistics mentioned above.) The annual State of the Birds Report will be released in just a few days. According to one of its authors (John Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, writing in this past Sunday鈥檚 New York Times, 鈥淪aving Our Birds鈥? this year the Report will list 230 species of birds 鈥渃urrently in danger of extinction or at risk of becoming so without significant conservation <a href=http://www.symbiose.ca/images/christianlouboutin.gwij.php>Christian Louboutin Sale</a> action.鈥? It doesn鈥檛 seem like Martha鈥檚 death has taught us enough.
