Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. NASA had planned to irradiate 30 live squirrel monkeys in a misguided attempt to learn the effects of deep-space radiation. Because of your hard work, these monkeys will not be irradiated or otherwise abused.

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Experience Experiments Monkeys Squirrels 100

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JULY 21, 2011

A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. I was looking out a car window the other day and noticed that of all the wildlife most of it was bird.

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Mammals Rodents Birds Reptiles 175

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APRIL 15, 2015

Ghana has the dubious distinction of being the first country to have lost a major primate species since the Convention on Biological Diversity came into force: Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus was declared extinct in 2000 due to forest destruction. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7%

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 193