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Floods: Yellowstone animals don’t need Noah, but animals might in Assam, India

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High water raises hell in both the Rocky Mountains & below the Himalayas             YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,  U.S.A.;  GUWAHATI, Assam, India––While unprecedentedly catastrophic flooding closed Yellowstone National Park for a week in mid-June 2022,  also unprecedentedly severe monsoon flooding closed Manas National Park in Assam state,  India,  earlier and for longer. Both Yellowstone National Park,  […]

Animal losses low after Hurricane Laura––but worst may be ahead

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Little animal agriculture where storm made landfall CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana––From the animal safety perspective,  Hurricane Laura could scarcely have hit in a less vulnerable location.             Reportedly the most powerful hurricane to hit coastal Louisiana since the Last Island hurricane of 1856,  Hurricane Laura whirled into the coastal bayous of sparsely populated Cameron Parish in […]

Feds kill 2,400 cormorants but claim why colony fled nests is a mystery

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Sea lions are meanwhile killed upstream          PORTLAND,  Oregon––Hiring USDA Wildlife Services to kill double-crested cormorants near the mouth of the Columbia River,  while other agencies killed sea lions beneath the Bonneville Dam,   nominally to protect chinook salmon runs on behalf of sport fishers,  the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on May 19,  2016 admitted […]

India drops animal welfare rep from lab oversight board

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Animal Welfare Board of India chief ousted for opposing bullfighting          CHENNAI,  India––Crippling the ability of the Animal Welfare Board of India to monitor animal use in biomedical research and product safety testing,  Indian minister of environment and forests Prakash Javadekar has removed AWBI chair R.M. Kharb from his position on the 13-member Committee for […]

NFL warns players–22 years after Humane Farming Association

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Eating Mexican or Chinese meat said to bring risk of ingesting banned drug          NEW YORK CITY––A National Football League warning to players against eating meat from Mexico and China that may contain the synthetic steroid clenbuterol in early May 2016 at last caught up to Humane Farming Association warnings to the American public––22 years […]

“Animal control: what’s it all about?” asked Mike Burgwin

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Cofounded National Animal Control Association Mike Burgwin,  87,  founding president of the National Animal Control Association,  died on March 23,  2016 at his home in Hoodsport,  Washington,   “after complications from surgery several weeks earlier,”  former NACA president Eric Blow told ANIMALS 24-7. Elaborated Burgwin’s granddaughters Kahlen and Chelsea on a GoFundMe memorial page,  “On February […]

Can Tox21 robot take the gamble on animals out of toxicity testing?

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Testing device uses cells instead of animals          WASHINGTON D.C.––Can a robot detect substance toxicity toward humans faster and more accurately than a traditional test on rats,  mice,  fish,  or other animals? The developers of the Tox21 robot,  whose name is short for “Toxicology in the 21st Century,” are betting that the robot can outperform traditional […]

WHO to recommend against global restrictions on ketamine

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Regulators consider request from China (See also Loss of access to ketamine threatens progress in humane euthanasia,  by Ruth Steinberger.)          GENEVA,  Switzerland––The World Health Organization Expert Committee on Drug Dependence is to recommend at the March 2016 meeting of the United Nations Single Commission on Narcotic Drugs that the drug ketamine not be internationally regulated. […]

American Pit Bull Examiner flunks examination

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While “Sudden Random Unprovoked Violent” blogger retires with distinction AUSTIN,  BOSTON,  SEATTLE––Two of the most widely read blogs about pit bulls came almost simultaneously to an end in February 2016,  under strikingly different circumstances. On or about February 6,  2016,  the online news-and-commentary host Examiner.com,  claiming 20 million readers worldwide,  delisted American Pit Bull Examiner […]