Critter News

MARCH 16, 2012

The Federal government has approved the killing of California Sea Lions in the Columbia River, blaming them for killing and eating endangered salmon. Never mind the main reasons for the problems with the salmon: hatcheries, human harvest, hydropower and the destruction of habitat.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky. The latest edition of Science News delves into the work of scientists studying this problem. News bird collisions glass skyscraper' Not so nifty for birds, though.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Only human hands are possible to do such things! Tola confirmed the human abuse but everyone else tried to make her to look wrong! LATEST NEWS ! And that's not the worst part since there are various witness and no one is talking! Various protests happened with people demanding justice! The veterinarian K.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

All driven by humans. But we can't get rid of humans, of course, and we need to punish someone who can't fight back. Portland judge said Wednesday the Northwest states can kill hungry sea lions on the Columbia River. Mosman denied an attempt by the Humane Society of the United States to stop the killings.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. Read the full story at CNN.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

This is good news, and especially so for birders. But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research is the UK’s largest charity funder of non-animal replacement research. Research dollars are what keep animal research alive in the US.and control of those research dollars may be the only way to eventually kill it too. It has just received a record number of applications for grants.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

True, few hardy human souls are dedicated/crazy enough to go birding in these conditions (did I mention a windchill of –35?); Scientists speculate that these conditions may threaten the larvae of the Emerald Ash Borer , an invasive beetle killing ash trees around the Great Lakes region and beyond. News cold weather'

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. It is also used to prevent the animal from feeling pain before it dies.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. From the BBC News. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire.

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. No person shall use a club or a hakapik to strike a seal older than one year unless the seal has been shot with a firearm," states one of the new rules, posted Saturday in a government publication but not on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans website. "No Here they go again.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. From Latino Fox News. Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place. Mexican border town has a big dog problem, and it’s not sure what to do about it.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.

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Critter News

APRIL 4, 2010

It's just easier to kill sea lions that to break down dams. She highlights dams, but that is only one of the four H's (hydro, harvest, habitat and hatcheries) that are obliterating this beautiful creature. I think this opinion is pretty wide-spread.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

There are few animal rights stories in the news. We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Lipka introduced me to the idea of killing "respectfully." That one left me speechless. "My Respectfully?

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.” Color, contrast and shiny surfaces.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. But as Cohen experiences, humans don't live "in theory." The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. This is a good news/bad news story.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news. And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. The big human and bird concern for H5N2 is, of course, that the virus will “mutate” into a novel highly virulent killer pandemic flu.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. From Science Daily : Crows have the brain power to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously, according to new research. One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I can’t even imagine being in a position where my government was telling me to kill my dog, or have it beaten to death. Dog owners in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, are even being told to kill their own dogs, or else their dogs will be beaten to death by the police and the owners will be charged a fine. Thank you, Fred.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. over the last 30 years.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia. Excerpted from the International Business Times.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

On April 20th 2010, the world received news that eleven men working on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig died in an explosion on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Susan e-mailed after receiving RPA's news release on the organization's recent mailing to the governors of all 50 states about our land-grant universities' (LGUs') meat-industry problem. We humans, herbivores like ruminants, are fine with one stomach -- we don't eat the really tough stuff like grass. Let me know if you hear the show!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

The good news is that Kirtland’s Warbler numbers are up, 1,828 singing males counted in the 2011 census. I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s.

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Sea lions are killed here for eating salmon. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat. It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." Dick Gregory ("The Shadow That Scares Me").

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

Humane treatment runs counter to the entire industry when the point is to make money by processing these animals as fast as possible. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Unfortunately, this goal tends to run counter to humane goals.”

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

These are the results of a study commissioned by Bont voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for Animals (RFA) and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and produced by the Australia-based independent economics consultancy Economists at Large. Excerpted from PR Newswire.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

The Humane Society is offering a 2500.00 The Humane Society of the United States and The HSUS Wildlife Land Trust are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the illegal killing of a grizzly bear found dead in Ashton Reservoir near Ashton, Idaho.

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos.

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Critter News

MAY 20, 2009

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans." -- Leo Tolstoy.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. Well, there's always some unexpected nonsense to discover. From USA Today.

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