Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. The dog fur are used are inside lining for ugg boots.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2018
This week finds us flying from Melbourne, Australia, to Alice Springs, in the center of this incredibly large country. This is truly the center if Australia, no matter what method you use to decided the actual location of dead center. But the diversity, that I have found to be Australia, remains.
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Critter News
JULY 7, 2009
This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 21, 2013
I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2014
’s list because those birds have closer living relatives than some other birds do, despite their membership in the oldest extant group. The large, pied, knob-headed Magpie Goose of Australia and New Guinea is the sole living member of an early anseriform waterfowl lineage. ’s list. The story just keeps getting better.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. If you come across a group on the ground foraging for food, look around and you will find one bird sitting in a vantage point, ready to give the alarm call in case of any danger. This can lead to birds being poisoned. If that sounds stupid, that is because it is.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2013
It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Somehow – given our current weather – I can relate. .
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