Site-Wide Activity

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/12/app-allows-city-dwellers-to-turn-citizen-scientists-and-track-australias-urban-birds?utm_term=e5e1258f7019820eb714cbf50e220c82&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTAU_email

App allows city-dwellers to turn citizen scientists and track Australia's urban birdsBig City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkey

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/nyregion/swan-jamaica-bay-rescue.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

A Sick Swan Is Saved After a 23-Mile Odyssey by Foot, Car and SubwayA woman with the right training noticed a bird’s odd behavior and made it her mission to undertake a very urban rescue.

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://theconversation.com/how-coyotes-and-humans-can-learn-to-coexist-in-cities-147738?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2010%202020%20-%201782017287&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20November%2010%202020%20-%201782017287+CID_1a3b8293e15c7ac6efd7ae7e9e0eb610&utm_source=campaign_…[Read more]

How coyotes and humans can learn to coexist in citiesLethal methods and relocation aren't effective, sustainable or humane approaches to human-wildlife conflicts.

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/04/uk-health-professions-call-for-climate-tax-on-meat?fbclid=IwAR3-Q2RD_ZPRzPrD2gWEe5iIUrStfpjWoSMmR79dnh0SKN2T4ShD5vx4J-U

UK health professions call for climate tax on meatFood with heavy environmental impact should be taxed by 2025 unless food industry acts voluntarily, says alliance

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/leadership/of-mice-and-men-could-covid-spell-the-end-of-animal-testing-%E2%80%AF-16045839/?fbclid=IwAR2vCPyYCNVJGZuOSvjuIY1kycy4oKT3LX_b9nli90x_ASoUDuSHN0I65WY

Of mice and men: Could COVID spell the end of animal testing?   | Corporate KnightsThe vaccine race is accelerating the emergence of a new frontier in science looking at alternatives to animal modelling

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/28/lawsuit-planned-over-hunting-fishing-at-us-wildlif/?fbclid=IwAR37PpZg2S0wwOoV5IvyBLb_n_Qw-OyozLhtjLiIaMp9a8hUwIo0jmsqqFs

Lawsuit planned over hunting, fishing at U.S. wildlife refugesAn environmental group says the Trump administration is violating the Endangered Species Act by expanding hunting and fishing by 3,600 square miles on the national wildlife refuge system and national fish hatchery system

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/10/the-covid-carrying-danish-mink-are-a-warning-sign-but-is-anyone-heeding-it?utm_term=7365356d81ad5219369ff6bfa880b517&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

The Covid-carrying Danish mink are a warning sign – but is anyone heeding it? | Matthew BaylisSars, Mers, now this: we must think hard about how we farm animals that are known hosts of human coronaviruses, says Matthew Baylis, the Oxenhale chair of veterinary epidemiology at the University of Liverpool

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/11/09/scott-beckstead-time-put/?fbclid=IwAR0nOLvR9Bm5jsuSp5ZoGk28qu7mLcncZoWxLlu2Y4WCDkIT5Fdygw_ZmPc

Scott Beckstead: Time to put an end to mink farming in UtahMany of my fondest childhood memories are of time spent with my grandfather, a mink farmer in the tiny town of Franklin, Idaho, located just a few miles north of the Utah border. A soft-spoken, kind and generous man, my grandfather doted on his children, including my mother, and on me and his other grandkids.

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/climate/climate-change-food-production.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=600553365&algo=identity&imp_id=471535221&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

Cutting Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Is Urgent, Scientists SayEfforts to limit global warming often focus on emissions from fossil fuels, but food is crucial, too, according to new research.

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/books/review/a-traitor-to-his-species-henry-bergh-ernest-freeberg.html

The Man Who Made Us Feel for the AnimalsIn “A Traitor to His Species,” Ernest Freeberg tells the story of Henry Bergh, the 19th-century eccentric who founded the A.S.P.C.A.

Animal People, Inc. posted an update 4 years, 9 months ago

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/02/eu-plant-based-burgers-meat-dairy-words-vegetarian-food-diet

The EU has put plant-based burgers back on the menu | Alicia KennedyThe decision to allow meat and dairy words to be used on vegetarian food suggests diets are changing for the better, says the writer Alicia Kennedy