Eighteen of those locations are in commercial turkey productions. At least 800,000 turkeys have been impacted as of March 30.
About 124,000 chickens were impacted at an egg laying production site. The flu was also confirmed at a commercial mixed-species site with 47,330 birds in the flock. The flu was also confirmed in a backyard flock of 150 birds.
“As for South Dakota we are well beyond the (number of sites) in 2015,” said state assistant veterinarian Dr. Mendel Miller. “I would imagine we over the number of birds too.”
Talks ahead of the key Cop15 summit on halting mass extinction of life were slow – and much has been asked of the developing world
Forest elephants in Gabon’s Pongara national park. The country, which is the last bastion of the sub-species, called for developed countries to provide $100bn a year of biodiversity finance in Geneva.Photograph: Jérôme Delay/AP
For talks that are meant to be about halting the mass extinction of life on Earth, the slow pace of negotiations in Geneva ahead of Cop15, the major biodiversity summit in Kunming,China, later this year, was not a hopeful sign that meaningful action would follow. As discussions drew to a close this week, little progress was made on the targets and goals that are meant to herald nature’s “Paris moment”.
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DMYTRIVKA, Ukraine, April 1 (Reuters) – Ukraine recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks on Friday.
In the hamlet of Dmytrivka to the west of the capital, smoke was still rising from the wrecks of tanks and the bodies of at least eight Russian soldiers lay in the streets, Reuters correspondents saw.read…
PAYNE COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – State officials say they are investigating the first case of avian influenza in Oklahoma’s wild bird population.
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“While Oklahoma has not seen HPAI in a backyard or commercial poultry flock this year, the finding of this single duck adds Oklahoma to a long list of states with confirmed cases of HPAI,” said Dr. Rod Hall, State Veterinarian for Oklahoma. “I encourage poultry owners of all kinds to continue to remain vigilant, practice good biosecurity and report sick or dying…
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PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) – France is facing its worst bird flu crisis in history as a rare rebound in outbreaks of the highly contagious virus reached the country’s largest poultry producing regions with cullings topping more than 12 million birds.
The spread of bird flu has raised concern among governments and the poultry industry due to the ravages it can cause to flocks, potential trade restrictions and a risk of human transmission.
The virus, brought by wild birds migrating in the autumn, hit all countries in the 27-member European Union except Malta and Cyprus, with Italy suffering the most severe damage. Outbreaks had nearly ended in virtually all of them by the end of March, data from the Word Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) showed, as they usually do in spring.
Apart from France.
After a first wave led to the culling of around 4 million birds in the southwestern part of the country, France has been facing outbreaks believed to have been brought by wild birds on their way back, the first time this has happened in a significant way.
The H5N1 virus has spread rapidly in the Pays de la Loire region since last month and hit Brittany mid-March, further up the Atlantic coast. The two regions are France’s largest poultry producers.
By March 31, 12.1 million birds had been culled in France since the first outbreak on Nov. 26, the farm ministry told Reuters, making it the most severe bird flu crisis ever in the country. Some 1,112 outbreaks had been recorded in the country.
The United States is also facing its worst bird flu crisis since 2015 when nearly 50 million birds were killed. read more
The crisis comes as farmers are already facing soaring feed prices linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a key grain exporter, and supply-chain problems. Grains are the main ingredient used in poultry diets.
“This situation is dramatic for farmers and will lead to a reduction in slaughtering activity or even the temporary shutdown of certain sites,” France’s LDC (LOUP.PA), the EU’s largest poultry producer, said.
The company will virtually halt four slaughterhouses, producing 1.1 million poultry per week, for up to eight weeks, Gilles Huttepain, former LDC chairman and vice-chairman of French poultry lobby Anvol, said.
However, companies will compensate part of the volume by increasing output at other sites, he said.
Shoppers might find some poultry in short supply, like turkey due to the time it takes to rear, but supplies won’t be entirely wiped out, Huttepain said.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Wisconsin officials confirm Thursday that a strain of avian flu has been identified in wild birds, including in the south central region of the state.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources revealed samples were collected from various birds, including a Cooper’s hawk and a bald eagle in Dane County. Officials also sampled a lesser scaup from Columbia County, a red-tailed hawk from Grant County, a Canada goose from Milwaukee County and a trumpeter swan from Polk County.
The DNR explained that the virus strain, EA H5N1, is highly pathogenic for poultry. Highly pathogenic means that the virus has a high potential to kill domestic birds such as chickens, turkeys and ducks.
The virus strain has caused disease in both domestic and wild birds in multiple states since…
More than 80% of Texas is now suffering from moderate or worsedrought, and that could have an impact on the spring turkey hunting season.
“We do have some pretty dry conditions out across a lot of the Rio Grande range, and those dry conditions, not seeing those weeds starting to grow up and not seeing those bluebonnet rosettes on the ground, tends to suggest that we’re going to have a later start to our reproductive activity,” Jason Hardin, wild turkey program leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said in aninterviewwith theTexas Farm Bureau Radio Network.
Plenty of gobblers are out chasing, but Hardin notes there is going to be a lot of hens that are not sitting on nests during the first part of the season because they’re not in the physical condition they need…
For the first time, researchers have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) around the globe due to emissions from human activities.
Using a combination of NASA satellites and atmospheric modeling, the scientists performed a first-of-its-kind detection of human CO2emissions changes. The new study uses data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) to measure drops in CO2emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic from space. With daily and monthly data products now available to the public, this opens new possibilities for tracking the collective effects of human activities on CO2concentrations in near real-time.
Previous studies investigated the effects of lockdowns early in the pandemic and found that global CO2levels dropped slightly in 2020. However, by combining OCO-2’s high-resolution data with modeling and data analysis tools from…
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