Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May accused the Conservatives of breaking domestic law by withdrawing from the international climate-change accord — a move she says has made Canada a “pariah on the world stage.”. Vaughan said. “If If the act remains an act of Parliament, then we will abide by the law.”

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On the other hand, the Canada Geese have both safety in numbers and famously aggressive personalities. Only two cranes stood to take on the dozen or so Canada Geese, and from my vantage point it looked like the latter had the upper hand, hissing and wagging their tails if the larger birds got close.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

It also has been a traditional food for generations of hunters in Canada's east who serve it up roasted, or sometimes with a hearty Burgundy sauce. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants. For time immemorial seal has been eaten -- raw -- as a traditional food by indigenous people such as the Inuit.

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Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

Thank you Air Canada! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Airlines in Canada must obtain approval from the CTA to revise their shipping guidelines.

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Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

The Animal Defence League of Canada got Walmart to pull slippers containing real rabbit fur off its shelves. Tags: consumers canada fur walmart. Walmart (of all places) has a no-fur policy. The slippers are called Tender Tootsies. DON'T BUY THEM!

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Critter News

MAY 24, 2012

Four fur stories in the Vancouver, Canada, area were vandalized by animal rights activists who sprayed red paint on the windows and doors. The four stores were Capilano Furs, Speiser Furs, Snowflake Canada and Pappas Furs. Credit is being taken by ALF. Read the full story here at the Vancouver Sun.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The Canada Goose sits on its nest of pine cones. With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species. The Canada Geese (on the right side) show no fear. Where were the babies?

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2009

They are testifying with Canada against an EU ban on seal products. Canada has said a ban could violate trade rules and it threatened action if a ban was introduced. Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. Oh, yeah, I forgot about Greenland. Both claim that a ban would be devastating. I'm not sure it will pass though.

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Critter News

APRIL 5, 2009

If Europe bans seal products, Canada may go to the WTO (World Trade Organization) and appeal. Tags: canada europe trade seals.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2012

Really, Canada? This despite a dry market for seal products and a warming climate that is hurting the species? For the full article, go to The Globe and Mail here. The market for Canadian seal pelts has gone dry but the federal government will still allow sealers to kill 400,000 of the marine mammals when the annual hunt opens next Monday.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Canada's military is reverting to issuing real fur winter hats to soldiers, replacing synthetic tuques for winter use, the Department of Defense announced. I think this is just stubbornness. Excerpted from UPI.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2011

I don't think it's likely that Air Canada is going to budge on this. Animal-rights activists are urging Air Canada to stop shipping live monkeys and other animals destined for experimentation, saying the airline can change its tariff rules if it wants. Excerpted from the Montreal Gazette.

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Critter News

JULY 27, 2011

The second bear to meet its end this year on the Trans-Canada Highway has prompted an animal rights group to call for immediate repairs to a fence line intended to protect wildlife in Banff National Park. Apparently, there's room for improvement. From the Calgary Herald. The bear was struck last week and found dead two days later.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2011

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Critter News

MAY 10, 2010

They should fear oil spills because, I'm sorry, Canada is not the best in terms of environmental safeguards, laws or requirements. Tags: canada oil spill oil drilling pollution. They've had oil spills before, but nowhere near the scale of the one in the Gulf of Mexico. It would therefore benefit the Canadians to prepare.

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Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

"The EU was a small market for Canada. Tags: canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. Shea said by telephone from China today. That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China. We're trying to expand on the market that's here."

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

I like Canada. I'm an American, but I grew up seeing Noltan Nash, the Beachcombers and Hockey Night in Canada on the TV. You can go on and on about tradition, but just because something is old doesn't make it good. Slavery used to be a tradition in some societies. On environmental and animal issues, not so much.

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Critter News

JANUARY 16, 2011

In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. I'm not surprised. China as a whole still doesn't have a national conscience about these issues. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Canada needs to stop exploiting its natural resources and move into a more sophisticated type of economy. Tags: canada seal hunters Stupid seals. The second half of the article deals with their attempts at pushing that damn seal hunt. Is it THAT much a part of its economy?

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Tags: canada meat horse slaughter Slaughterhouse.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 31, 2023

The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) welcomed 52 new diplomates following the board certification examination it held June 26 at Prometric test sites in the United States, Canada, and Singapore.

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AVMA News

JUNE 12, 2023

Smoke from the worst wildfire season in Canada's history has been triggering air quality alerts throughout the United States, threatening human and animal health.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

and 80,000 in Canada ) as a rough proxy for active birders, only about 2.5% But even if we take a more plausible figure of approximately 1 million, only a small fraction (about 1.5%) of birders are ABA members. Indeed, even if you consider eBird users ( 525,000 in the U.S. have joined the ABA.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Bay-breasted Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Canada Warblers, and Red-eyed Vireos. Of the warblers that fly over Costa Rica, Bay-breasteds, Blackburnians, and Canadas all move through in huge numbers. Many of the Blackburnians and Canadas have already flown over, pretty soon, we hope to be inundated with Bay-breasteds.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Example two is from Canada, Ontario to be exact. The truth is that feral cat colonies normalize the idea of outdoor cats and actually encourage cat-dumping. After all, someone is taking care of all those cats, right?

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JULY 1, 2020

One of the reasons Mexico is such a great birding area is that, while it shares all sorts of bird groups with the United States and Canada, it also is home to some of the northernmost representatives of neotropical and genera that do not (or just barely) reach that far north, such as Woodcreepers, Tityras, and Trogons.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Although his back garden is Gibraltar and the Strait of Gibraltar, Clive has an intimate knowledge of Iberian birds but his work also takes him much further afield, from Canada to Japan to Australia. He started as a poor student with an old Zenit camera and a 400 mm lens; nowadays he works with a Nikon mirrorless system.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A half-century ago, this species might have been restricted to Iowa or New Jersey, but now it can be found throughout New England and even south-eastern Canada. The Tufted Titmouse ( B. bicolor ), like the Red-bellied Woodpecker and Turkey Vulture , has expanded its range dramatically to penetrate northern reaches.

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JULY 13, 2021

In mid-summer, the refuge is full of breeding birds, including Canada Goose, Mallard, Wood Duck, Blue-winged Teal, Pied-billed Grebe, Virginia Rail, Sandhill Crane, Black Tern, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, etc. There is an auto tour route with several trails along the route.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

west coast, Pacific Northwest, and western Canada. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and will not know until fall if their drought will also give way this year. So I also send my sympathy to 10,000 Birds’ readers along the U.S. The post A Lake Reborn… sort of appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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APRIL 10, 2021

The same can be said of Scarlet Tanagers, Canada Warblers and Eastern Wood-Pewees. The truth is, many of those familiar birds have traveled much further than us. Many Red-eyed Vireos have seen Harpy Eagles , have kept still upon hearing the haunting calls of forest-falcons.

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JULY 7, 2021

and Canada and winter in northeastern Mexico, while the sedentary wrens of central Mexico, Central America, and South America are now to be identified as Grass Wrens. The name Sedge Wren is to be used for the migratory wrens that summer in the U.S. So the wrens in my new friend Ignacio’s lot should be, in fact, Grass Wrens.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. It’s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. Is this a real thing? The rehabber connection, though, is very real.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

In south Florida, Black Vultures attack cars ; in Australia, it’s Black Crows ; in Canada, American Crows. The ravens rip apart their windshield wipers and destroy the rubber seals that keep their cars waterproof. Now, this is not an unknown problem. No one can figure out why, exactly, birds are attacking and dismantling cars.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Per usual, the Canada Geese proved to be the most prevalent species – and the loudest. Black and Turkey Vultures soared overhead, joined by the occasional Osprey. A trio of wading birds – Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret , and Little Blue Heron – stood silently on a raised hillock of plants. .

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MAY 5, 2021

26 (US), $34 (Canada). Other readers, less patient, less charitable, less willing to wear the environmental hairshirt that is so in-style these days, may find her writing in Earth’s Wild Music to be at once cloying and shrill – not a good combo. Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World.

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