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Investigations expose abuse on salmon farms

AnimalEquality.net

Over a four-month period in 2024, whistleblowers captured drone footage at three UK salmon farms. These salmon farms are operated by three of the UK’s largest salmon producers. Two of the farms are certified by RSPCA Assured, and the third is accredited by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.

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Birding Around the Farm

10,000 Birds

As mentioned in my previous post , we were hosted for an afternoon session at Jonathan ‘s farm. Coming off a high from our morning boat ride, excitement was high as we pulled into the farm compound. On the slow crawl into the farm, the first sighting was a small group of Green Ibis – a new species for me.

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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Starling Brett Farmhouse Ale

10,000 Birds

European Starlings are fond of farms and human activity in general, so it came as no surprise that I was able to find evidence of them breeding so easily at Normanskill Farm, a working farm in Albany, New York that’s become my favorite local patch. A starling with nesting material at Normanskill Farm in Albany, New York, in May.

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Urban Birding in Costa Rica- Benefits of Brushy Fields and Coffee Farms

10,000 Birds

We might have a few small farms nearby and the gift of a narrow riparian zone out back but in general, the main habitat is that of the modern human kind; housing and streets (lamposts included). Two habitats especially fun to bird are brushy fields and coffee farms.

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Advocates to challenge approval of UK salmon mega-farm

AnimalEquality.net

On September 5, 2024, the UK’s High Court granted Animal Equality permission to challenge the approval of the country’s first on-land salmon mega-farm. The farm–which aims to produce 5,000 tons of fish each year–would become one of the largest of its kind in the world.

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Arrowood Farm Brewery: Bramble Farmhouse on Raspberries

10,000 Birds

Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. Considering all that, it’s no small miracle that Arrowood Farm Brewery was able to spare enough local raspberries from the insatiable appetites of birds to make Bramble.

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Goat in Minnesota tests positive for HPAI

AVMA News

A juvenile goat on a Minnesota farm is the first U.S. case of a U.S. case of a domestic ruminant succumbing to highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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