Protests held against Air France
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
MONKEY BUSINESS: Activists said that Air France had transported thousands of monkeys to the US and Europe for use in experiments, keeping them in cramped cages.
Activists against animal cruelty protested at the office of Air France in Taipei yesterday morning, asking the airline to stop transporting primates to laboratories in the US for use in experiments …
Taipei Times – Fri, Oct 03, 2014
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwa…
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35,000 walruses mass on Alaska beach ‘due to climate change’
AFP
LOS ANGELES–At least 35,000 walruses have beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline in a phenomenon blamed on the melting of arctic ice due to climate change, experts said Wednesday.
Initially there had been only 1,500 of the tusked pinnipeds counted on one beach, but in recent days that number has exploded …
China Post – October 3, 2014, 12:22 am TWN
www.chinapost.com.tw/life/envi…
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Back to the whale hunt for Japan
By John Boyd | Al Jazeera
Tokyo, Japan – Six months after acceding to an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to stop catching and killing Antarctic whales, Japan said it plans to resume hunting the creatures for scientific research in 2015 …
Yahoo News UK – Oct 02, 2014
uk.news.yahoo.com/back-whale-h…
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