Sentences with phrase «animal communities as»

We are passionate pet people who have served the animal community as shelter and rescue volunteers.

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As one of the few remaining, functioning businesses, Smith could supply desperately needed services to his community, including care to the dozens of cats, dogs, goats, horses and other animals in the community that suffered from burns and smoke inhalation.

The code of laws provides the regulations which create the proper relations between man and God, such as saying prayers, fasting, and other religious duties; they guide man in his relations with his brother in Islam or the non-Muslim community, in organizing the structure of the family and encouraging reciprocal affection; they lead man to an understanding of his place in the universe, encouraging research into the nature of man and animals and guiding man in the use of the benefits of the natural world.

The ancient claim that man is by nature a political animal and must in and through the exercise and practice of virtue learned in communities achieve a form of local and communal self - limitation — a condition properly understood as liberty — can not be denied forever without cost.

Darwin's theory of evolution, as understood by most of the modern scientific community, has nothing to say about the «gap» between humans and «lower» animals, because no such gap is recognized.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.

While this system has broken down, it has decayed not simply because the animal spirits of Wall Street did not temper their zeal with a respect for greater community, but because American citizens embraced the pact that was offered them: an endless supply of baubles from citizens in chains so long as they refused to speak out in the pulpit against the notion that greed is good, that profit maximization is the chief end of man.

In sum, we can speak of (a) a relation to nature — the animal kingdom, the calming of a storm, rain and fruitfulness of the land; (b) the social and political community — the overcoming of economic injustice, oppression, cheating or bribing, conflict and lack of compassion; (c) the wellbeing of persons in the community — an aspect assumed in the critique of things that hinder it (covetousness, anger, jealousy) and depicted as family and communal harmony.

A mature rainforest community of plants and animals recycles virtually all materials used as resources.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

There are many voices in the autistic community — as in any community — and some animal liberation rights people within that community too.

As a member of the Sustainable Food Trade Association (SFTA), we've signed a pledge committing to reporting annually the company's performance in the 11 - action categories that include organic & land use, distribution & sourcing, energy, climate change & emissions, water use & quality, solid waste reduction, packaging & marketing materials, labor, animal care, sustainability education, and governance & community engagement.

When Léa and Mathieu first cross paths, it is under false pretenses - Mathieu is posing as a vegetarian, infiltrating the local animal rights community for information that will force Léa's restaurant toward a swifter demise.

As proposed in point 3, the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» must exclude small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, and any buffers should be developed in collaboration with the local community on a case - by - case basis.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

The voice of animals is becoming louder and louder as the community grows more aware of their plight and need for protection.

Our teacher naturalists work with students to help them develop an appreciation for native plants and animals and their habitats as well as the relationships of these ecological communities to our agricultural practices.

With dedication to the fertility of the land; health of the livestock animals; conservation and sustainability; as well as community integration and welfare, the Holle company strives to meet the needs of the whole person through anthroposophical dietary principals.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Through its Core Values, Tyson Foods strives to operate with integrity, create value for its shareholders, customers, communities and team members and serve as a steward of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

Wild animals are not owed citizenship rights but should be regarded as members of sovereign communities and granted the animal equivalent of universal human rights.

But — just as our human rights underdetermine our rights as citizens of a particular country — the «human rights» of animals (grounded in intrinsic moral status) under - determine rights (and duties) owed to (and by) individual animals on the basis of their relations with other human and animal community members.

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, the husband and wife authors of the new book Zoopolis: the political theory of animal rights, believe that not only should animals have basic rights but that they (or at least some of them) should be accepted as full citizens in our political communities.

Her 32 - year - old daughter, Sasha, has Down syndrome and receives Medicaid, which provides her with services, including transportation to sites, such as an animal shelter where she volunteers in her St. Lawrence County community.

The hard work of this facility has served as the last resort of help for animals that deserve good homes, and our community must come together to ensure that they can continue connecting pets with loving homes for years to come,»

She has a fraught relationship with NYCLASS and the organized animal rights community, as shown in these excerpts.

As soon as he was elected County Leader he appointed me Vice Chair of the Bronx Democratic County Committee and its liaison to the LGBT, animal rights and disabled communitieAs soon as he was elected County Leader he appointed me Vice Chair of the Bronx Democratic County Committee and its liaison to the LGBT, animal rights and disabled communitieas he was elected County Leader he appointed me Vice Chair of the Bronx Democratic County Committee and its liaison to the LGBT, animal rights and disabled communities.

Within the wildlife conservation community, both in the field -LRB-» in situ») as well as in captive settings -LRB-» ex situ»), there is a great deal of folk knowledge about the best methods for animal care as well as species protection and restoration.

The scientific community previously thought that this extinct animal from North America was exclusively carnivorous, but, as pointed out by Mr Figueirido, «we dethroned the largest hypercarnivorous mammal ever to roam the Earth.»

«But really, there is an opportunity with appropriate animal models to make a huge difference for the human community as well.»

The animals» underground burrows protect them from temperature swings and serve the same purpose as clothing and shelter in human communities.

One thing that all of these communities have in common is that the dominant tubeworms and clams host specialized intracellular bacteria (symbionts) that allow these animals to exploit potentially toxic chemicals in the vent fluids as sources of nutrition.

Andi Rusandi, Director of Marine Conservation and Biodiversity at MMAF, shared the importance of this study, «As we strive to develop whale shark ecotourism in Indonesia to benefit our local communities and these majestic animals themselves, it is important to highlight conservation.

«When an ecologist says, «There goes a badger,»» Elton wrote, «he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, «There goes the vicar.»»

The medical community sees you as the social - phobic classmate who prefers lab animals to human patients.

«When you start to add more and more of the nutrients that the animal would normally be providing, the plant is no longer as dependent on that animal for those nutrients and so it starts to return less of the sugars back to the animal,» explained lead author Shantz, a doctoral candidate in the Burkepile Community Ecology Laboratory.

These plant communities cover large areas of the globe and function as animal habitats, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earth's biosphere.

Paleontologists often find fossils in a jumble containing many species» remains, and then struggle with the question of whether the mixed bones represent the community as it existed when the animals lived.

Changes in that signature can indicate how an environmental threat — such as the gradual effects of climate change or increasing levels of human noise pollution — disrupt animal communities.

These features reflect the breadth of the animals» diets and the niche they occupied in the community of carnivores — an approach known as community ecology analysis.

The deer that is killed has not had its individual right to life upheld by either us or the wolf, but in the case of natural communities, we should adopt a strategy of cultural relativity and allow animals and plants to do as they do to each other even if we would not like it to be done to us.

Send us your photos and videos of animals, shorelines or communities that are indeed coming back — as well as those that are not.

Instead, Hedin said, he and his colleagues have found for the first time that root diameter and reliance on fungi — or the lack thereof — are the traits that most consistently characterize the plant community across entire biomes, which are large distinct communities of animals and plants such as a desert, temperate forest or savanna.

«The animal species themselves on the other hand can certainly tell the difference, as it is crucial for their reproductive success,» says Sylvia Ritter, PhD student from the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ.

«The research provides the first evidence that, as early as 15,000 years ago, humans were living in one place long enough to impact local animal communities — resulting in the dominant presence of house mice,» said Fiona Marshall, study co-author and a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.

«What we've done since then is develop a reference library of the microbial communities that occur in different types of poop — we have cows, horses, raccoons, humans, different types of birds, pigs, sea lions, and other animals, as well as sewage and septage.

Although the scientific community widely sees nonhuman primates as essential for advances in biomedicine (they have facilitated major gains in the fights against AIDS and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, for example), researchers agree more can be done to treat the animals more humanely and conduct research less wastefully.

Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as «plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers» preference for using animal systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a plant publicity crisis.