10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 15, 2013
You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney last year. This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! You can report your sightings easily online.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2012
You may even see a tagged ibis, like we did on our trip to Sydney earlier this year. This bird “040″ had been banded at about 5 weeks old in 2005 and given a tag as an adult in 2008 within Centennial Park. This survey started in 2003 and needs your help! You can report your sightings easily online.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2012
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Alex Hall released 650 mink from McMullin Fur farm in South Jordan, Utah in 2008. Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act mink fur ALF. He received a sentence of 21 months under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA.) Hall is expected to serve the rest of his sentence in Davis County Jail, rather than be shipped to a federal prison.
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increase on 2008, government inspectors said on Friday. Tags: animal research Netherlands. Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% The increase was largely due to new EU rules on chemical compounds, which have led to an increase in testing on rats, the inspectors said.
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