Freedom or Euthanasia? Florida's Pelican Man Sanctuary near closing
This is a thought-provoking article: is it kinder to keep alive birds (and other creatures) who can not be free, who must live their lives in cages — or, to be unoriginal, to take arms against a sea of troubles and end those damaged (by us humans, usually) lives, kindly, lovingly?
Everyone who has helped with wildlife faces that question sooner or later and we all come down with differing responses. Here's a piece about the Saratoga, Florida sanctuary that was once viewed as a model... until more was known about how its founder sometimes operated.
Pelican Man left questionable legacy
by Tom Lyons, HeraldTribune.com, November 19
Wild birds? I like them as much as the next guy, and more than most.
I'm a fan of sea and shore birds. I have many times gone to pains to extract someone's fishing line out of mangrove branches to prevent harm to pelicans and cormorants and herons and other critters.
But I can't help but see a big, bright silver lining in the supposedly dire news from the Pelican Man's bird sanctuary on Sarasota's City Island.
According to its own press releases, the sanctuary could close, very soon, if it doesn't get a lot of donations, fast.
I'm not urging anyone to donate. I'm even tempted to hope the usual donors, and any others who would consider giving, will come to their senses this time and put their checkbooks away.
There, I've said it. Let the hate mail begin. ...
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posted by BirdAficionada @ 11/19/2006 03:37:00 PM
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