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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center

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In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

Chicago; and Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore. The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition provides the science behind our leading petcare brands. Mars Petcare is collaborating with the YMCA in 5 cities to start, to bring pet-friendly health and physical activity education and programming to communities. New York City; Nashville, Tenn.;

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New Birding For A New Year

10,000 Birds

The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Flycatcher Jen of I Used To Hate Birds has amassed close to 160 species in the last two years just walking and biking around Portland, Oregon, which is a number that deserves a toast if you ask me.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

10,000 Birds

Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities. Jason’s first contribution to 10,000 Birds tackled the importance of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

10,000 Birds

Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Avian science and conservation are well covered by large and well-financed national non-profits. Secondly, the ABA should increase and formalize its advocacy for birders.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. James Siegel Portland, Me., Regardless of what we choose to eat, doing so will reduce our dietary carbon footprint by half because “about half of the food produced in the United States is thrown away.” Toney Union, N.J.,

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 145 Jetport Blvd, Portland US-ME (43.6493,-70.3159). Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Eastern Egg Rock. 27 May 2017. Black Guillemot – Cepphus grylle. Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park. 27 May 2017. Pigeon Guillemot – Cepphus columba.

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