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New Iberia Inspection Documents Available

Critter News

What the documents show # A USDA inspection on Feb. 18 focusing on allegations by Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) found the center in compliance. # A routine USDA inspection in September 2008 found the center in compliance. # I found them here. A 2006 inspection found no problems. 7, 2004, found numerous problems. . #

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

This is all in a day’s work and a typical morning here at the Tambopata Research Center in the Madre de Dios district of Peru where, on behalf of the conservation agency Earthwatch Institute , I have come to volunteer for two weeks for the Tambopata Macaw Project. That’s right – birds eating clay. And that’s just in the lowlands!

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