Critter News

JANUARY 20, 2012

The announcement below comes verbatim from the Pacific Free Press.they still need approval from the Canadian Transportation Agency though. 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.

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Primates Canada Animal Advocacy Advocacy 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2024

A couple bends along the trail and it seemed as if we were out of human contact by a thousand miles. Spider monkeys swung through the highest branches, occasionally letting themselves fall to only a few boughs below, to peer curiously at these poorly adapted bipeds. A Screaming Piha cemented the ambience as one of true wilderness.

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Guyana Parrots Trinidad Woodpeckers 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Below are a few suggestions of sites within the city that can easily be reached using public transport. The lower part of this loop often has much less human disturbance than the top half and thus can be more productive. There is no transport inside the park and all travel must be on foot. Look out for the Howler Monkeys too.

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Brazil Birds Transported Game 160