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More animals have fallen victim to inhumane and indiscriminate wildlife poisons in recent weeks, including a golden eagle in Grand Forks and an entire family of owls on Vancouver Island. While the golden eagle was found in time by rescuers and has since recovered and been released back into the wild, the family of owls tragically did […]
Image by Markus Spiske from Pixabay Note: this article from the UK contains links to excellent documents regarding human relevant scientific approaches. …We are very pleased to be working with so many excellent partners on a number of initiatives, which are beginning to bear fruit: Our parliamentary Early Day Motion, EDM 256: Accelerating human relevant life sciences in […]
Image by David Mark from Pixabay For the city of Abbotsford: It has come to our attention that, conservation officers are trying to locate and possibly euthanize two black bear cubs and their mother. Black bears are only found in North America. They live in the forests, feeding on predominantly nuts and berries. These particular black bears are […]
Image by Lubos Houska from Pixabay Johns Hopkins University experimenter Shreesh Mysore’s project titled “Multisensory Competition and Spatial Selection: Neural Circuit and Computational Mechanisms” MUST BE STOPPED. For this project, Mysore imprisons barn owls in a laboratory, inserts electrodes into their brains, restrains some of them while fully conscious for up to 12 hours at a time, and records their […]
Image by Dorota Kudyba from Pixabay Article by Peter Fricker, Vancouver Humane Society, April 29, 2021 Please support the call to the federal government to ban the live export of horses for human consumption. This inhumane trade involves draft horses, known as “gentle giants”, being shipped live in wooden crates to Japan and for slaughter for human consumption. […]
Above: image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Below: Primate Campaign Film. Commissioned by Cruelty Free International / BUAV This video contains sad footage of the trade in infant primates, being torn way from their mothers and then shipped off to research labs. To help take action, please write to ADAV at: adavsociety@gmail.com
Image by Tnmyp bax from Pixabay. Note: this is not an image from the lab. Images from the actual lab taken by Cruelty Free International may be quite upsetting to some viewers. This month Cruelty Free International released findings from an investigation at Vivotecnia testing facility, exposing extreme cruelty and horrific suffering inflicted on animals. […]
This week’s Science First highlights the work of Aline Zbinden, recipient of the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) Graduate Fellowship for Alternatives to the Use of Animals in Science, which NAVS helps fund. We recently had the opportunity to touch base with Aline, whose project involves creating an in vitro diabetes model, using organ-on-a-chip technology, to overcome the scientific […]