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Profile of Peter Young, Animal Rights Activist

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From the San Jose Mercury News. Fascinating spotlight on an activist known for freeing imprisoned animals. Tags: activism animal rights. He was himself eventually imprisoned for two years as a result.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif., The last-of-its-kind bird that may have inspired the animated movie Rio is an ex-parrot. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Know what else kills grassland birds? Ill-timed mowing … which a petition aims to stop in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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Legal Efforts to Dismiss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

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On July 13th, defense attorneys for Joseph Buddenberg, Maryam Khajavi, Nathan Pope and Adriana Stumpo (the AETA 4) presented oral arguments on their motion to dismiss the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Here's a summary.

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SRI Denies Access to the Humane Society

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From the San Jose Mercury News. SRI International officials said the lab worker is OK and because their facility is under federal oversight, the Peninsula Humane Society doesn't have to be given access to its research animals. Tags: animal research humane society primates. The worker.

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Foreign Languages on a Birding Trip

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At some stage, almost standing still in a traffic jam on the highway towards San Jose, I was calling a fellow 10K beat writer Pat O’Donnell, enquiring about the chances to meet in my hotel. stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc.

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End of the Road Birding in Costa Rica at Luna Lodge

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This foot-shaped piece of land in southern Costa Rica is just about as far from San Jose as you can go without leaving the country. This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds.