Critter News
FEBRUARY 11, 2009
The American Bar Association has an animal law committee. Animal law is broader than laws pertaining to animals. It is the body of law reflecting the efforts of people to create a just world through the rule of law. Tags: animal law. Here's the link. From the webpage.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.
Critter News
APRIL 25, 2010
So, remember the incident in which an orca whale attacked and killed its trainer at Sea World? I sincerely hope this leads to a change in law regarding animals in captivity. Tags: Sea World captivity marine animals legislation Orcas congress. Now there's going to be a Congressional hearing this week about it.
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations. Tags: universities animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty.
Animal Person
MARCH 29, 2010
Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification.
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. The university stopped conducting the experiments last fall when it learned that it may have been violating state law, said Eric Sandgren, who oversees animal research at UW-Madison. Tags: animal research sheep PETA university of madison-wisconsin.
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