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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

Mice/rats in your house or business? ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. Support and follow Raptors Are The Solution ( RATS ), a Berkely, CA group whose goal is to get all poisonous rodenticides off the shelves. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying. What to do?

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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

Reddit Animals

I am posting this here because they had an exhibit of skinny pigs billed as “African naked mole rats.” I already emailed Woodbridge and the NJ Department of Environmental Protection with my disappointment, but if you would like to join me here is their contact information: Mayor John E. The skinny pigs had no enclosures.

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

10,000 Birds

This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. Banner photo by Dave Harper; second by Suzie Gilbert; third by RATS.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. Take a project to remove rats from the Californian island of Anacapa (in the Channel Islands). Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.