THE Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP) has announced the launch of the Art and Wildlife Conservation Project in Qatar. The project reflects a collaboration between AWWP and ‘The Art of BAS’, a collection of paintings by world renowned British ...

6 Jan 2009

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- Sure, you've heard about the staggering number of dogs and cats desperately needing homes. Almost daily, Tina Usher receives a phone call or an e-mail from someone who wants to give up a pet bird. "You know, there are a ...

5 Jan 2009

Jeff LaFlamme, a Pontiac resident, shares his life and home with a witty and sometimes foulmouthed 50-year-old bird named Skipper – and he wouldn’t have it any other way. “I loved him when I first saw him but I was afraid of him,” La-Flamme ...

4 Jan 2009

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Jeff LaFlamme, a Pontiac resident, shares his life and home with a witty and sometimes foul-mouthed 50-year-old bird named Skipper — and he wouldn't have it any other way. "I loved him when I first saw him but I was afraid ...

2 Jan 2009

Kent Gilbert/Associated Press Endangered great green macaws are seen in a captive breeding center in Rio Segundo de Alajuela, near San Jose, Costa Rica. The breeding center ( www.hatchedtoflyfree.org ) is not far from the country's new Costa Rican ...

2 Jan 2009

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police called to the unattended death of a morbidly obese woman found her disabled mother living in their squalid mobile home with more than 60 caged birds, a few of them dead. The mother sought help from a family friend on ...

2 Jan 2009