Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 26, 2010: **Animal rescue efforts are underway in disaster-stricken Haiti; **A research study involving the burial of live pigs is halted; **The blood sport of dogfighting enjoys a revival in Afghanistan; **And a report by animal welfare organizations criticize pig farming in the European Union.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Denis Clavreul, artist, biologist, and Frenchman, got it into his head to follow the same paths blazed, in the first part of the nineteenth century, by John James Audubon, also an artist and also a Frenchman (born in Haiti) — though not much of a biologist or naturalist.

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Animal Person

JULY 29, 2009

Because she was very busy with finals, she left Izzy with her parents, who had never had a dog in their lives (she said it was a cultural thing--they're from Haiti and don't have the same relationship with dogs as we do in the United States, and having been to Haiti I know what she's talking about).

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

For decades, dogs have been first responders to crime scenes and terrorist attacks, and have even traveled to help in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. The New York Police Department’s K-9 squad is one of the nation’s most exclusive police units.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Haiti doesn't allow people from the Church of the Latter-Day Saints to adopt. There are oodles of variables regarding available children, as well. Some countries have infants (under one-year old) available for adoption. Others don't. China has more girls available and Russia has more boys. Then there are the travel requirements.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Over 6,000 books and workbooks have been distributed to families with sick children, military families, and children displaced by Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti. are in circulation. Like the Just Me Project, Henry’s girlfriend Tink has defied expectations.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

At page 335 the regional checklist begins, covering species’ statuses in each country/territory of the region: Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, (..)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2018

And the results are indicative, representative and nothing short of surprising: Brunei, The Gambia, Belize, Jamaica, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea, Panama and Haiti top the list. And now you finally know where to travel next.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

Haiti and Honduras have always set the bottom line for minimum wages. I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow.

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