Health Canada to drop required pesticide safety test using beagles
CBC
It’s a decision that could stop hundreds of beagles from being killed every year, say animal activists.
In the coming weeks, Health Canada is planning to end mandatory one-year pesticide safety tests using dogs, CBC News has learned.
Currently, the agency requires that manufacturers conduct the toxicity test for any food-related pesticides — such as crop sprays.
The dogs used in the experiments, typically beagles, are fed the pesticides and then killed and dissected for scientific study, say animal activists.
Health Canada told CBC News that pesticide safety studies using non-rodent animals such as dogs have been required internationally since the 1980s. But after conducting a scientific analysis, the agency concluded the yearlong test with canines isn’t necessary …
Yahoo News Canada (blog) – March 06, 2016
ca.news.yahoo.com/health-canad…
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Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF
Lewis Evans
WWF’s support for ‘fortress conservation’ has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, writes Lewis Evans, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF’s behaviour is now in process …
The Ecologist (blog) – March 06, 2016
www.theecologist.org/blogs_and…
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Government May Take Grizzlies Off Threatened-Species List
By Matthew Brown, Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — The federal government is proposing to lift threatened-species protections for hundreds of Yellowstone-area grizzlies, opening the door to future hunts for the fearsome bears across parts of three states for the first time since the 1970s.
The proposal caps a four-decade, government-sponsored effort to rebuild the grizzly population and follows the lifting of protections in recent years for more than a dozen other species, including the gray wolf, brown pelican and flying squirrel.
Hunting within Yellowstone National Park ( www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm ) would still be prohibited. But the proposal could allow animals to be taken in surrounding parts of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming …
AllGov – March 06, 2016
www.allgov.com/news/unusual-ne…
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