Meanwhile visit the website of an environmental education project Vetwork did in one part of Edinburgh:
Visit the Craigmillar Wildlife Information Site
Report Summary and
Recommendations
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Year of publication: 1998; 198 pp, 216 x 138 mm, paperback, 32 B/W photographs, ISBN 0 333 66856 1, GBP7.
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Livestock keepers and their farming systems
3. Livestock and forage: some basic biology
4. Management of livestock and forage resources
5. Manging natural forage
6. Forage as auxiliary product from cultivated land
7. Cultivated forages
8. Forage conservation and supplementation
9. Research and development in forage husbandry
The book is a co-publication of Macmillan, CTA and GTZ.
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from a correspondent in Nigeria - posted June 1999
There was a workshop on 8th March 1999 titled "WOMEN IN POULTRY FARMING".
About 20 women attended. The venue was the Faculty of Vet Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. It was sponsored by the British-Leventis Foundation in Commemoration of the International Women's Day.
An association called CEPAN (Commercial Egg Producers Association of Nigeria) in their April/May 1999 14th edition of their Bulletin named "Egg Update" is the Source of the Information.
The poultry industry witnessed an increase of total number of birds in 1998 from an estimated 4.2 million to about 5 million laying birds. This is still a far cry from the 40 million we had in 1986.
Maize is $294 per tonne in Nigeria market compared to the $105 per tonne in the International market. An appeal has thus gone to the Federal government to remove the ban placed on Maize, Sorghum and Millet.
(web-site editors note: Vetwork UK welcomes correspondence, particularly
detailing field experience. This site has been established particularly
to stimulate discussion of small holder or community initiatives from which
there are useful lessons in balancing livestock keeping, human benefit, animal
welfare, and considerations of environmental impact.
Vetwork: stephen@vetwork.org.uk)
from a correspondent in Sudan - posted May 1999
A lesson in the dangers of keeping animals in captivity for whatever reason; and of smoking:
HUNDREDS OF ANIMALS PERISH IN BURNED FARM
News Article from Khartoum, Sudan by PANA on April 19, 1999 at 16:39:23:
Hundreds of animals and birds were recently killed when a privately-owned
wildlife farm was burned down in Khor Omar Area, 20 km north of Khartoum.
According to a police source, the animals killed in the fire were 158 spurred
(wild) tortoises, six antelopes, 350 desert (wild) lizards, 33 cranes, nine
rock hyrax birds, 19 san foxes (wild) and seven sand grouse birds.
The farm is owned by a group of retired wildlife officers. A Wildlife Conservation
Department official has put the value of the animals and birds burned in
the fire at 15,000 US dollars. The owners put their losses at 222,000 dollars.
Meanwhile, the deputy director of the Wildlife Conservation Department,
Brig. Haju Mohammed el Hassan, said the police is holding farm guards for
interrogation. He, however, ruled out any malice in the incident. "The farm
is positioned near a residential area and possibly a passer-by might have
dropped a cigarette near the grass hedge of the farm and started the fire,"
he told PANA.
A recent study of public attitudes to genetically modified organisms in food found feelings of fatalism, concern and unease not only at the technology, which was considered to be opaque and in the interests primarily of industry and profit, but also at official regulatory mechanisms, which were thought to be untrustworthy and acting on the side of industry, not for any greater good. The report shed light on the apparent ambivalence in attitudes between 'the individual as consumer' and 'the individual as citizen'. Animal welfare was one of the factors taken into consideration during the discussions. In addition to this, the findings shed light on similar ambivalence in public attitudes to other, wider issues of animal welfare.
If you would like further information, or full copies of the report, please contact Sue Mayer at sue.mayer@genewatch.org.
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