Bird-flu outbreak brought under ‘effective control’
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- Bird-flu outbreak brought under ‘effective control’
- New litter campaign introduced
- Spare Times: For Children
Bird-flu outbreak brought under ‘effective control’
china.org.cn – Sep 21, 2007
Xiang Qizhao a duck farmer from Panyu said: “The price of live ducks has dipped a little bit in the past couple of days but I’m confident it will soon get back to normal thanks to the local government’s immediate and effective measures to deal with the epidemic outbreak. fficials in Guangzhou said both the supply of poultry – about 480000 birds per day – and the price were about normal. Guangzhou is home to about 21. 5 million chickens 7. 6 million pigeons and various other kinds of poultry.
New litter campaign introduced
expressandstar.com – Sep 21, 2007
But I’m not sure where this other information is from. ”The move on bird feeding comes after the Express & Star revealed on Tuesday how Sandwell Council decided to launch an inquiry over removing CD collections from libraries over fears it would upset the black and ethnic minorities baffling users. The council says the evidence about bird feeding practices has been provided by the Pigeon Control Advisory Service. This states the beliefs of Muslim Sikh and Hindu religions all support the daily feeding of pigeons and the council says it is carrying out “careful and sensitive negotiations” to stop this. The main problem areas are large parks public seating areas town centres and grassy areas officers say. fficers are handing out leaflets warning that over-feeding will soon be classed as a littering offence and offenders will be fined £75. In August Sandwell Council introduced special areas for bird feeding.
Spare Times: For Children
New York Times – Sep 21, 2007
And those meetings usually don’t turn out happily at least not for the smaller parties involved. But tomorrow and Sunday the Audubon Center at Prospect Park in Brooklyn will hold a face-to-face interspecies event for the benefit of all participants. The center’s young human visitors will have the thrill of a close view of hawks and other birds of prey and the creatures will play an important role in teaching wildlife conservation… Sharp-eyed participants will most likely spy species like the red-tail hawk (above) the cooper’s hawk the sharp-shinned hawk and the osprey and they will be asked to help record the numbers they see. Children can also enjoy flights of fancy like trying on giant pairs of fabric wings and making raptor puppets out of paper bags and feathers. They will even be invited to make a play pizza for a bird of prey a tougher order in every respect than putting together an ordinary pie. They will be given a felt-covered pan and then choose ingredients from a basket. “Instead of pepperoni” Ms. Cobo said “you have squirrels and chipmunks. ” And hold the tomato sauce and cheese.
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