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In contrast, the 2007 murders of 10 gorillas occurred under the Congolese government's control. The population—made famous by a series of murders in 2007—has grown by nearly 13 percent in the last 16 months, despite having no protection from civil war or poaching for 15 months, park rangers said Monday.
” But also: “Delisted,” “Growing Up,” “Second Chances,” “No Tags.” A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used).
Remember that Virunga National Park has been under Congolese rebel control since 2007 and the park rangers have only just been allowed back in. Tags: virunga gorilla congo. Pretty amazing that the 7 mountain gorilla deaths recorded thus far in Virunga have all been due to natural causes.
A Congolese minister says that "In 2007 alone, we recorded the slaughter of 15 mountain gorillas and more than 20,000 antelopes,".adding Tags: congo gorillas. The UN has got to wrap this up. adding that in the past decade the number of hippopotami had fallen from 30,000 to 1,000. 30,000 to 1,000?
At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Tags: spay and neuter latin america. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama.
I came across a September/October 2007 issue of Best Friends in which the editorial was about the Vick dogs. Tags: Michael Vick. Remember Michael Vick? That was the big story last summer. I slapped my forehead, "Oh yeah!" It's so easy to forget how BIG that was what with China and wolf-hatin' Palin.
says the 2007 decision by the U.S. Tags: Gray Wolf. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States. District Court in Washington, D.C., Fish and Wildlife Service was not supported by the federal Endangered Species Act.
A May 23, 2007, USDA inspection revealed several problems with drainage and waste disposal operations, and peeling paint in primate housing areas. # Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us. A 2006 inspection found no problems. 7, 2004, found numerous problems.
One lucky reader will get their choice of a personalized dog ID tag. The front of the tag has a colorful design, enamelled onto it. Contact information can be engraved onto the reverse of the tags. They offer free shipping on tags worldwide! Pretty Paws Accessories is an online boutique launched by Kelly in 2007.
He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009. Tags: UK animal research military pigs. The tests "saved many lives" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to improvements in post-traumatic techniques, junior defence minister Quentin Davies said.
In 2007, 394 dogs died during procedures for canine and human research. Tags: australia animal experimentation animal research. Animals for research purposes are coming from municipal shelters, breeders and the greyhound trade. Unwanted farm dogs are another source. From the Herald Sun. The fate of many others remains unclear.
Since September 2007, it has been occupied by rebels who had driven the rangers out. "It Tags: virunga africa gorilla congo endangered species. The Gorilla Sector of Virunga National Park is inhabited by 200 of the last remaining 700 critically endangered mountain gorillas in the world. Now it's time to assess the damage.
Investigators say Page admitted buying 35 gall bladders in 2007 and 2008, including 17 from undercover officers. Tags: wildlife trafficking State of Washington bears. Page, 63, was sentenced Dec. 18 and was also fined $3,000.
Here is a snapshot of their 2007 budget breakdown. Tags: oceans marine life donations charities nonprofits. We live in Seattle and I think it's very important to remember our oceans and the life that reside there. Anyway, they received three out of four stars. The key is how big their program expenses are.
During Sea Shepherd’s Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Migaloo in 2007/08, Animal Planet had a camera crew on board a campaign that saved the lives of nearly 500 whales, leaving the Japanese fleet with less then half of their quota and costing them tens of millions of dollars. Tags: sea shepherd.
The value of all egg production in 2007 was $6.68 Tags: battery hens eggs USDA farm animal welfare us agribusiness. Nearly 95 percent of the 90 billion table eggs produced in the United States come from high-density cage systems. In South Carolina egg sales tally about $90 million annually.
They eventually were (in 2007, I believe. Tags: Cookie and Coco. We are once again getting a lot of hits over the saga of Cookie and Coco. They are two dogs that once needed to be adopted. But, the story won't die. You can read about our coverage of it here. People keep forwarding this chain email around.
Chung was previously arrested twice for the same turtle poaching crime in less than six weeks during 2007. Tags: wildlife crime canada poaching turtles. He also reportedly has $27,000 in fines related to the 13 prior convictions.
In or about April 2007, PEACE, PHILLIPS and VICK executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in "testing" sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road by various methods including hanging, drowning, and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground. Tags: Vick. And then there's this: 83. I just don't think he should be in the NFL.
The university also purchased dogs from the shelter up until 2007, Carruth said. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research.
Yes, that's just what the NFL needs is a man who, according to his indictment : In or about April 2007 Peace, Phillips and Vick executed approximately 8 dogs that did not perform well in testing sessions at 1915 Moonlight Road by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground. That's just evil.
Between February and March 2007, 10 lions were killed by poachers in three different incidents at the Gir National Park (GNP) which houses 360 Asiatic lions, the only surviving population in the wild. Tags: wildlife crime India poaching lion. In India, f orensic tests helped establish guilt in the killing of 10 endangered lions.
The warning cited three errors in veterinary care, including a serious 2007 incident where a pregnant monkey died when a researcher failed to notice she was having a troubled labor. Tags: medical research PETA animal welfare us. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.
From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Tags: Dominican Republic , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!
And, as a bonus, your spouse/partner will probably want to go birding with you more often… Tags: Portugal , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! So if its wine, food, history and birds you’re after this is the place.
Scott Weidensaul is a prolific writer of articles and books; his titles include Return to Wild America (2005), Of A Feather (2007), Peterson Guide to Owls (2015), and his first book on migration, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds ( 1999). birding tour company. by Scott Weidensaul. Norton, Pan Macmilan (U.K.).
Pork farmers have been losing an average of $20 on each hog marketed since October 2007, according to the U.S. Tags: subsidies meat USDA pork agribusiness dairy. The food will go to federal food nutrition assistance programs, such as school lunches. Pork Producers.
Tags: animal shelter management seattle State of Washington King county. The vet setback is the latest for King County Animal Care and Control, which has come under fire in the past year for running understaffed, overcapacity shelters with high euthanasia rates. When is King County going to clean up its act?
In 2007, she was diagnosed with pyothorax and was hospitalized for almost a week. Tags: Charlotte. So, Charlotte the Cat Queen is an ongoing saga. Then in April 2008, we were told she had terminal cancer. So we waited for her to die for about 8 months. She is on Clavamox, Prednisolone, and Terbutaline. So, the saga continues.
"I am especially concerned that an unnecessary federal listing and designation of critical habitat would do serious long-term damage to the vibrant economy of the Cook Inlet area," Palin said in 2007. Tags: beluga whale Palin alaska endangered species.
From 2004-2007 James worked as the Managing Director of Africa Foundation, a non-profit organization that directs its efforts towards the uplifting of communities surrounding wildlife areas in Africa. Tags: features , florida , plovers , shorebirds , Worldwide Birding Adventures • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?
The last such facility in the US closed in 2007. Tags: horse slaughter. Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. This bill specifically makes for groups that might oppose it to use the court system to do so. From the bill, which you can read here : Section 2.
The imprisonment of the Rangers comes after a lengthy trial in the North Kivu province courts initiated after the July 2007 massacre of 5 mountain gorillas that was met with outrage around the globe. Tags: wildlife crime virunga congo gorillas endangered species.
The rebel forces in the Congo have controlled the gorilla sector of Virunga since 2007. Tags: virunga congo gorillas. I suppose I've come to this pretty late and gorilla people already knew that this trouble was brewing. Clearly, I haven't been following this as I should have been. Right now, I am frustrated with the EU and the UN.
The proposal was one of several drafted after a 2007 Supreme Court ruling found that greenhouse gases the animals emit through flatulence or belching amounts to air pollution. Tags: global warming methane cows us agribusiness. {There was} a proposal Thursday, Dec. per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
They have been out of contact since September 2007. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas. Now that the rangers have been allowed back into Virunga, they are going to conduct a census to determine what's happened to the mountain gorillas living there. He says: "We've not had reports of any gorilla killings.
In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.
Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. New York Times. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. New York City. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog). Click on Project Treadstone above and see what happens!You And that's true with several other issues.
Since 2007, Shinda had been observed on other occasions to be very weak and remained behind the group. Tags: obituary africa gorilla. Shinda had been observed to be unwell for about two weeks when, on Nov. 22, our trackers could not find him within his group, probably because he was too weak to catch up with them.
Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. Tags: zoos california san francisco tigers. Here's an article that explains the hard times the Zoo has faced since then. It's a long list. From the San Francisco Chronicle.
In March of 2007 I wrote, " in a horribly-depressing vote of 198-138, New Hampshire's House voted AGAINST a bill that would shut down live racing at its three greyhound race tracks." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Greyhound Matters. Not 80% better--80% lame. Wish me luck!
Arrested in June 2007, Michael J. Tags: animal shelter management animal cruelty california san joaquin valley. I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and am familiar with Tulare County. That's why this action alert from the Animal Legal Defense Fund strikes a cord with me. From the ALDF blog. Sargeant, William R. Harmon, and Ron C.
Perhaps one with a name tag on its breast would help. In 2007 Jory became the "least consistent birder" to see 300 birds in New York State in one year. Tags: ID Quiz , quiz • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Better yet, I want to invent a new generation of binoculars and scopes.
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