Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with animals www.salem-news.com 2013 A new study by federal and university scientists has provided the first direct videographic evidence of depredation of the endangered Hawaiian Petrel by feral cats. The study affirms large amounts of earlier anecdotal evidence that feral cats are an important factor in population declines of the species... http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/cats-petrel-hawaii.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april182013/cats-petrel-hawaii.php Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:07:00 PDT Stryder Doescher is an adorable 5-year-old boy. He has an outstanding resilience and amazing attitude that has pulled him through his heroic battle with epilepsy and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (a connective tissue disorder). http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/stryder-doescher_.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/stryder-doescher_.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:17:00 PST Federal conservation efforts haven’t come close to reversing or even halting the decline of the Marbled Murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. That’s the conclusion of a major new peer-reviewed study of the status of the Marbled Murrelet... http://salem-news.com/articles/december222012/marbled-murrlet.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december222012/marbled-murrlet.php Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:40:00 PST Forty-four (44) cows died Thursday night after most were struck by five different commercial trucks along Highway 97 about 14 miles north of Madras. Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers are completing the investigation and no drivers were injured. Most of the cattle were dead at the scene and any remaining injured cattle were put down by their owner. OSP and ODOT employees worked with R2 Ranch to remove the dead cattle from the highway. http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/cow-crash.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/cow-crash.php Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:07:00 PDT The International Rhino Foundation is pleased to announce the birth of a bouncing baby male rhino born to Ratu, a 12-year-old Sumatran rhino living at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Indonesia’s Way Kambas National Park. The calf was born on June 23 with no complications, attended by Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary veterinarians, Ratu’s keepers and advisors from the Cincinnati Zoo and Taronga Conservation Society Australia. http://salem-news.com/articles/june252012/rhino-birth.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june252012/rhino-birth.php Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:53:00 PDT Bird conservation groups are attacking a new political move as “one of the most regressive wildlife appropriations” ever. Crucial conservation programs were slashed by 50% of FY 2012 funding levels in a funding bill approved by the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:44:00 PDT While vaccines are perhaps medicine's most important success story, there is always room for improvement. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) appear to have done just that. http://salem-news.com/articles/may292012/ohsu-primates.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may292012/ohsu-primates.php Tue, 29 May 2012 19:08:00 PDT Vietnamese-American US Army Captain James Van Thach walked away from a career as an aspiring lawyer when he graduated from Touro Law Center in 2002, after the terrorist attack on our country on September 11, 2001. He became a U.S. Army Infantry officer and served two arduous years fighting for his nation in Iraq. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/james-van-thach.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/james-van-thach.php Tue, 22 May 2012 02:15:00 PDT When it comes to environmental contamination in Orange County, California, we typically cover the south county eyesore that was once a Marine fighter base, the old MCAS El Toro. Now, thanks to an article by Pat Brennan, published yesterday by the Orange County Register, we get the dirty details on another plume, this one in north Orange County. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/north-county-plume-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/north-county-plume-tk.php Tue, 15 May 2012 16:18:00 PDT Passionate divers may join a pilot "guest dive" program at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. They will dive with Aquarium sharks and other fishes under the supervision of Aquarium dive guides, and explore the simulated shipwreck in the Halibut Flats exhibit, swim through the kelp and become a part of the Aquarium dive show as visitors in the tunnel watch them and take photos. http://salem-news.com/articles/may112012/aquarium-divers.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may112012/aquarium-divers.php Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:00 PDT A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, published on Amazon's Kindle on May 4th, is the result of a three year investigation by Tim King and Robert O’Dowd of Salem-News.com. The subject explores the environmental contamination at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) El Toro, California, and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/few-good-men-ro-2.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/few-good-men-ro-2.php Mon, 07 May 2012 01:37:00 PDT The story from Survival International involves the devastating impact of corporate food on an indigenous community. It relates very directly to what is happening right now in the US as the corporate food industry is using government to destroy traditional sources of food... http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/diabetes-walk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april232012/diabetes-walk.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:52:00 PDT Raising chickens in the city is a means to support local organic food systems and to provide food security to any family. Increasing numbers of cities are changing laws to legalize raising chickens. http://salem-news.com/articles/april192012/bird-flu-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april192012/bird-flu-jf.php Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:24:00 PDT Peter Singer, world-renowned Australian philosopher and bio-ethicist; is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. Singer specializes in applied ethics and is known for his secular and preference utilitarian viewpoints. What follows is the complete text of our conversation. Peter's answers are rather brief as compared to my elaborate questions; however, I think it has become a readable debate. http://salem-news.com/articles/april062012/singer-pete-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april062012/singer-pete-kz.php Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:48:00 PDT Marine Corps MP Explosive Detection Dog and Military Working Dog Sgt Beyco, a K-9 Combat Veteran, has entered the 2012 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards Contest and needs your support and VOTES. MWD Beyco worked and gave her whole life to the MARINE CORPS and was honored to be a MWD MARINE. She retired November 10, 2011 at Cherry Point, North Carolina. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/sergeant-beyco-ca.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/sergeant-beyco-ca.php Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:48:00 PDT On the night of March 14th, we infiltrated the property Queener Ridge Pheasant Company, which breeds ringneck pheasants primarily to be murdered in commercial canned hunts. After jumping a barbed wire fence, we made our way to the main breeding facility where we dismantled a huge section of an aviary that held between 75-150 pheasants; liberating them into the night sky. http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/alf-oregon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march172012/alf-oregon.php Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:06:00 PDT Compassion has been informed of a horrific situation unfolding near Eritrea. Right now, thousands of cattle are dead or dying, stranded on a converted cargo ship in the Red Sea. The recently converted livestock vessel Gracia Del Mar is carrying cattle from Brazil to Egypt. Reports suggest that one of the ship’s engines has broken down and this has led to ventilation failure resulting in extreme suffering and the death of many animals. http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/dying-cattle.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march122012/dying-cattle.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:06:00 PDT Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced The American Jobs in American Forests Act to tighten restrictions on a visa program that was used to hire foreign workers at the expense of Oregon forest workers. A Dept. of Labor investigation last year found federal stimulus funds were awarded to contractors in Oregon who underbid competition by using foreign laborers under the H-2B visa program. http://salem-news.com/articles/march072012/forest-jobs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march072012/forest-jobs.php Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:51:00 PST Sanders Wood Products Company in Liberal, Oregon was found to have a series of PCB leaks and other violations of federal PCB laws at its lumber mill, according to a settlement reached with the EPA. The company will pay over $108,000 in penalties. http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/plant-fined.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/plant-fined.php Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:51:00 PST On September 11, 2011, American Bird Conservancy, issued a press release entitled: Oil Companies Prosecuted for Avian Deaths but Wind Companies Kill Birds With Impunity. ABC has taken numerous press calls over a letter Newt Gingrich sent to the Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary referencing this same issue, and would like to re-iterate its position on the issue of enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/gingrich-abc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/gingrich-abc.php Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:09:00 PST During a visit today to one of three ecological forestry pilot projects in Oregon, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the BLM will apply ecological forestry principles on a broader landscape. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/salazar-forests.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/salazar-forests.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:53:00 PST Ken Salazar, President Obama’s Secretary of the Interior, was in Medford, Oregon to tour the “Pilot Joe” demonstration project and hold a Town Hall meeting. Downplaying the impact of a new Northern Spotted Owl critical habitat designation, he announced yet another forest planning process for 2.5 million acres of western Oregon forests. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/salazar-oregon.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/salazar-oregon.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:17:00 PST As part of a national collaboration, Oregon Health & Science University researchers are studying specially bred mice that are more like humans than ever before when it comes to genetic variation. Through these mice, the researchers hope to better understand and treat an infectious disease that plagues us year in and year out: the flu. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/mouse-flu-ohsu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212012/mouse-flu-ohsu.php Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:13:00 PST AccuWeather.com reports a Pennsylvania couple trapped, of all things, a purple squirrel on Sunday. Percy and Connie Emert, of Jersey Shore, Pa. caught the unusual animal when trying to keep birds safe from the rodents. http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/purple-squirrel.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february122012/purple-squirrel.php Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:44:00 PST They pitch the battle as environment vs. jobs, it is a phony argument using economic recovery through ecological laxity as the key to our nation’s fiscal woes. This type of “Zero Sum Game,” is a winner-take-all scenario that will create more jobs---More jobs in the remediation and restoration career sectors after we’ve destroyed our country’s ecologies. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:10:00 PST Police say a callout to a Domestic Disturbance led to a police sergeant suffering injuries from a dog attack, and the subsequent fatal shooting of a pit bull. Officers reportedly knocked at the door of the residence, made contact, and issued instructions to the people inside the residence, to put the dog away. http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/pit-bull-tk-jf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january202012/pit-bull-tk-jf.php Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:25:00 PST The International Elephant Foundation (IEF) was founded largely to support elephant exhibitors and to perpetuate captive elephant breeding. It does very little to meaningfully improve the lives of elephants. The IEF was co-founded by Ringling Bros. Circus, which has a well-documented history of elephant abuse and exploitation. http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/peta-elephants-jo.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january112012/peta-elephants-jo.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:31:00 PST The Food Modernization and Safety Act empowers DoD and Department of Homeland Security to mass slaughter animals here in the event of an animal disease outbreak. No need for the disease to be dangerous, or even exist. A declaration by the CDC is enough for military to roll out and begin killing. http://salem-news.com/articles/december152011/animal-disease-bd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december152011/animal-disease-bd.php Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:35:00 PST At a time when nature is so threatened, the hope is that atheists and those of all religious backgrounds will recognize their shared feelings for the sacredness of nature and all of our inviolable rights to it. It might be helpful to atheists, as they read the quotes below from the Bible, to remember that Gandhi's religious belief was central to his courage... http://salem-news.com/articles/november202011/other-beginning-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november202011/other-beginning-ae.php Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:32:00 PST The Democratic Party of Georgia and Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials is having a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Freedom Rides. To this they have invited Congressman David Scott, the man who ran the infamous house committee that laughed at the very idea of justice and fair markets for the little guy. http://salem-news.com/articles/november102011/crushing-black-farmers-sj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november102011/crushing-black-farmers-sj.php Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:58:00 PST