A growing health challenge in the region The workshop is being held in a context marked by the global spread of the Avian Influenza A(H5N1) virus, a highly contagious disease that mainly affects wild and domestic birds, but can also…
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Two geese that spent months roaming Creek Meadows are now living on a rural property after their removal this month by College Station Animal Control drew an emotional plea from a child. Mark Gorzycki contacted KBTX’s…
A letter in Conservation Biology warns that the H5N1 avian influenza panzootic is killing vultures across the Americas and Europe and sets out five courses of action to protect the threatened scavengers.
Lunch at LEE High School turned chaotic on Monday when a fox dropped straight through the cafeteria ceiling, surprising students and staff. The cafeteria was immediately evacuated, and nobody was hurt in the encounter, but the bizarre scene left the…
An invasive species often blamed for spreading disease to native wildlife may be less of a microbial threat than its reputation suggests. A new study of monk parakeets in Madrid finds that, despite years of intimate cohabitation with native birds,…
The state government has made health and fitness certificates mandatory for consignments of live poultry birds entering the state. It has directed that every consignment comply with animal transportation rules to ensure the safe and humane movement of birds. Director…
By Emily Anthes, New York Times In the United States, rabies can seem like a disease of the past, a remote risk caused by a mostly vanquished virus. But in recent months, this ancient foe has returned to the spotlight.
An outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been spreading uncontrolled for more than two months across a commercial mink fur farm south of Salt Lake City, triggering severe criticism from infectious disease specialists who warn that governmental inaction is…
ALMOST all of Scotland’s puffin population could die out by 2050, scientists have warned amid extreme weather events, overfishing, and climate change. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has forecast that 89% of puffins in the UK and Ireland could die out…
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon Julie Collins MP Minister for Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the Hon Murray Watt The Albanese Labor Government is delivering further funding to continue safeguarding the country against the impacts…
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