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Questionable Practices at the Calgary Zoo

Critter News

In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. Tags: zoos welfare violations animal welfare. In November 2008, a virus killed a 15-month-old Asian elephant calf named Malti.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. And people that work in either conservation or animal welfare tend to like animals.