10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe. We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2009

I've been reading a lot about threatened elephants and primate populations in Africa and wondered about lions. This article talks about the specific situation in Kenya. One rarely hears about how they are doing. But, unfortunately, they are in trouble too. The storyline is all too familiar.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

And the link below takes you to an article with the cutest orangutan baby enjoying himself. Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well. Tags: animal behavior primates. From Cosmiclog at MSNBC.

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Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

Here are the results of the EU flirtation with restricting research on primates. It's from a Reuters article from last May.I They also called for a feasibility study before agreeing to a ban on capturing wild primates to use in laboratories. will try not to smash my computer screen in frustration.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Have op-ed article writers Peter Singer and Karen Dawn not seen the beautiful natural habitat at the L.A. It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century. Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't believe they are working for human welfare. I posted on this blog about quitting because of the New Iberia scandal in Louisiana in which the Humane Society found primates being abused. The title of this article is "Researchers to animal-rights activists: We are not afraid." I'm sorry, but I am not moved.

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