The parakeets caged on the Île de la Cité on Sunday will soon be a thing of the past: the Paris Council ratified the closing of the bird market on Wednesday February 3 Parisian, invoking “Malfunctions” and responding to requests from animal rights activists who denounced a “Vestige of another time”. “It has been observed … Read more
That music crosses borders is something that the human being already knew. It’s harder to imagine a band playing ‘Lau Teilatu’, ‘Euskal Herrian Euskaraz’ or ‘Txoriak Txori’ in a remote area of Africa. It all started when David Orduña, a Navarrese music teacher, volunteered a few years ago to Iganga, a Ugandan town of about … Read more
King Kong hanging from a skyscraper with a blonde? An asteroid that inevitably hurtles towards the center of the city? Or an elderly gentleman with an orange face and flowing hair, who from his own tower proclaims himself ruler of the whole country? Hardly anything crazy would have really surprised New York in 2020. So … Read more
Private Colingwood Ingram landed at the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer in November 1916, his first contact with France. Passionate about birds, like many other of his English fellow citizens, his gaze falls on a hooded crow, the Danish cousin of our black crow. It was still found thirty years ago in our estuaries but it has … Read more
One person in the Arnhem region was infected with the West Nile virus last month, the RIVM reported on Wednesday. It was previously known that six people had contracted the virus in the Utrecht region. According to the institute, patients in the Utrecht region contracted the infection in the month of July or August. The … Read more
All commercial poultry farmers in the Netherlands are obliged to house them from midnight. Minister Carola Schouten of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality has this decision taken after six dead swans were found near Kockengen in Utrecht. Two of the six birds were found to have bird flu. Experts fear that there is a good … Read more
Chris Skaife has a heavy responsibility. As the “lord of the ravens” in the Tower of London, he is watching over the eight birds on which Britain’s survival depends, and the covidu-19 pandemic has made his task more difficult, writes the AFP agency. According to widespread prophecy, the kingdom will collapse and the earth will … Read more
For more than four years he was in the sights of the Office of Hunting and Wildlife. Bernard F., 68 years old, was judged this Thursday, September 17 in Dax for having captured no less than 10 000 volatiles protected, all within ten years. A former electrician, this small-time poacher explained at the helm that … Read more
“It seems to be an unprecedented number, a very large number,” Martha Desmond, a professor at New Mexico State University’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, told NBC News. We are not talking about individual cases but thousands of birds that have been confirmed dead. The number is probably significantly higher. The birds have … Read more