Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto from Science | The Guardian on (#719NR)
Country's top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak
Canada's food inspection agency says it plans to begin a complete depopulation" of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country's top court declined to block the controversial cull.
On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce protest by the farm owners and protesters - as well as senior figures in the Trump administration, who have decried the public health effort as government overreach.
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