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sea otterEnvironmental News Network, Oct 8, 2009 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wednesday designated 5,855 square miles of nearshore waters along the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, and Alaska Peninsula as critical habitat for threatened sea otters in southwest Alaska.

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blueheronDeutsche Presse-Agentur - Oct 12, 2009 - The world will miss its target to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 as plant and animal species continue to disappear, experts said ahead of a conference on biodiversity taking place in South Africa on Tuesday.

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whale tailEnvironmental News Service - October 5, 2009 - Twenty-six countries Friday issued a joint statement putting diplomatic pressure on Iceland to abandon whaling.

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commerical fishing boatOverfishing by Canadian and other countries' vessels has resulted has according to experts, resulted in the commerical depletion of some two thirds of the world’s 200 major fisheries. If the intensity and speed of overfishing continues at the current rate the balance are heading for eventual commercial collapse.

leapingbunnyThe Humane Society of Canada is pleased to announce that it has partnered with The Leaping Bunny Program of the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC).

horsesPurina Mills, LLC, is voluntarily recalling two specific lots of 50-pound bags of Strategy® Professional Formula GX horse feed and one lot of Layena® SunFresh® Recipe Pellet poultry feed. The recall is being implemented due to the discovery of metal fragments in a limited number of bags from one of the Strategy® product lots.

The products being recalled were manufactured in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 24-25, 2010. They were shipped to retailers and dealers in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri and Virginia.

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cowA study by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang of the World Bank looked at the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses from oil, natural gas, and coal compared to the life cycle and supply chain emissions of domesticated animals raised for food.

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chickenLike most people, I'd given some thought to what meat actually is, but until I became a father and faced the prospect of having to make food choices on someone else's behalf, there was no urgency to get to the bottom of things.

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As part of The Humane Society of Canada's Disaster Relief, Rescue and Recovery Program, we monitor the Canadian Hurricane Centre, NASA and the US National Weather Service for up to date information on now Post-tropical storm Harvey and developing Hurricane Irma.

hurricaneireneAs part of The Humane Society of Canada's Disaster Relief, Rescue and Recovery Program, we monitor both the Canadian Hurricane Centre, NASA and the US National Weather Service for up to date information on now Post-tropical storm Irene.

As of 2.47 pm on Monday,  August 29th, Irene has now been downgraded to a post-tropical storm, however rainfall warnings are still in effect for portions of Southern Quebec and wind warnings are still in effect for parts of the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence.  Click to see a storm trajectory for Irene.

We have contacted shelters in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in order to offer our help and assistance, however, we are happy to report that none of them reported to us any animal injuries due to Irene.

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