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A Consequence of human killing of large animals. Rats to inherit the Earth.

On February 4, 2014 By

Future evolution to make Earth home to variety of rat-like creatures?

What will be the end result of the human tendency to shoot, club, poison, or destroy the habitat of the large mammals, and as they disappear the medium sized mammals as well? Dr Jan Zalasiewicz  at the Geology Department at the University of Leicester (UK) [...]

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Sportsmen’s Heritage Act fails in the U.S. Senate (Updated)

On November 27, 2012 By

Conservatives kill controversial bill-

The Sportsmen’s Heritage Act passed the House last April, and the Senate version sponsored by Democratic Senator Jon Tester of Montana seemed poised to win Senate approval after beating back a number of filibuster attempts, a success that has become increasingly rare.

Nevertheless, the bill would have still had to survive [...]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey