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World Bank’s Safeguard Policies to Give More Protection to Farm Animals
2016-07-26 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The Humane Society International has welcomed the reference to meaningful animal protection standards in the final draft of the World Bank Group’s Safeguard Policies.
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China defends use of wild animals in traditional medicine
2016-07-02 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A police officer carries a stuffed lynx specimen as he arranges confiscated rare wild animal products displayed at the courtyard of a police station in Kunming, Yunnan province, China January 22, 2014. Reuters/Wong Campion/File Photo left1 of 2right Three-month-old baby bears play at a wild animal park in Kunming, Yunnan province, China, April 27, 2015. Reuters/Wong Campion/File Photo Traditional Chinese medicine risks extinction if there is a push by the government to completely replace the wild...
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Impact of climate change on animals in Himalayas
2016-06-30 11:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: While the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has launched a long-term monitoring studies in five Himalayan states including Himachal Pradesh to document the impact of climate change on animal biodiversity, a study conducted by State Centre on Climate Change, Himachal Pradesh, has already found that in Himachal Pradesh a number of diseases occurred in the past ten years. Some diseases among these are worsened by climate change including influenza, cholera, babesiosis, verminous pneumonia, tuberculosis,...
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Secret Federal Program Admits Killing 3.2 Million Wild Animals Last Year Alone
2016-06-27 19:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnviroNews: The United States Department of Agriculture`s (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) admitted in its annual Program Data Report to having killed at least 3.2 million wild animals in 2015 alone - many of which were large predators. 1,681,283 of that total were animals native to the United States. Environmental groups are already sounding the alarm, pointing out most of the exterminations were "at the behest of the agriculture and livestock industries." Former employees have also blown the whistle, claiming...
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Which animals will cope with climate change droughts?
2016-06-21 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: JCU's Dr Tasmin Rymer led a study that produced a template measuring several crucial factors, including an animal's physiology and environment, to determine how it would handle a severe drought. Dr Rymer said scientists believe the current rate of climate change is unprecedented in Earth's history and will lead to more and worse droughts in many areas. "So we developed a theoretical framework that allows researchers to estimate the likelihood that a species will be able to cope," she said. Dr...
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