Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
If they are members of an endangered species, why are there so many of them around? And, of course, if they are so severely endangered, why are so many carelessly exploited for medical experimentation? Tags: rant chimpanzees medical research endangered species. They must be cheap and plentiful right?
Critter News
MAY 15, 2009
The European Parliament approves of the ban on testing on large primates (chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans), which are threatened with extinction, except in experiments aimed at conservation of these endangered species. Tags: animal experimentation europe animal research medical research. I really hope this passes.
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4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. While there are laws in place protecting endangered species of shark from shark finning, international waters are rarely regulated when it comes to the practice. For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2008
7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Sarah Palin of Alaska—that the Fish and Wildlife Service should not list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because science doesn’t support doing so—doesn’t persuade. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
Dr Smith was later in charge of medical services in the Crimea but had a feud with Florence Nightingale and was severely criticized for mismanagement, yet despite this he was knighted in 1859. He was a Scottish army doctor and zoologist who came to the Cape in 1821 as surgeon to the Cape Mounted Rifle Corps.
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