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Activist Releases 1500 Mink in Oregon

Critter News

According to Bite Back Magazine , an activist released 1500 mink from a farm in Astoria. About 1,500 mink were released from their cages with at least 200 of these being breeding stock. In the early morning hours of October 17th, a lone activist infiltrated the fur farm at 92659 Simonsen Road in Astoria Oregon.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings. There are 400 whooping cranes left in the wild, 100 of them in the eastern population.

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