10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

I have followed the breeding activity of the Pied Oystercatchers in Broome along Cable Beach since July 2000 when I found the first nest site and the birds have continued to use the same territories, though there have been some partner changes. I can also monitor any movement along the coast during the year when they are no longer breeding.

2007 173

2007 Eggs 2014 2002 173

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.) Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. We regularly subject rodents to pain, starvation, solitary confinement, and grotesque disfigurement.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. However they will not and cannot breed, and once these individual’s natural lifespans are over, these bird populations will be lost forever.

Ghana 204

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 204