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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun. Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates.

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What if the Public Truly Probed Animal Research Funding?

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No wonder the research community wraps a "saves lives" cloak around its work whether falsified journal articles or Larson's "speech" studies. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. At a tax payer cost of $472,370? It keeps the public from saying YOU'RE FUNDING WHAT? For how many years?

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction.

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