Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center is the largest all-species avian rehabilitation and education center of its kind in North Texas. At any given time, more than 1,000 protected birds, of various species, reside at the center. Over the last decade, RWRC has provided medical treatment and care for more than 40,000 birds. Routinely we treat infections, wounds, broken legs, broken wings, head and back injuries. Recovery time, depending on the injury, ranges from three days to nine months. After medical treatment, care and rehabilitation, we successfully return more than 76% of the various hawks, owls and other protected species back to their native habitat. Rogers Wildlife serves as a sanctuary for the remaining birds as they are deemed non-releasable due to the extent of their injuries. All of our permanent residents live in habitat specific settings and are cared for seven days a week, year-round by our dedicated staff and volunteers. In addition to our wildlife rehabilitation efforts, RWRC also serves as an environmental educational facility, where we offer a variety of educational programs from Pre-K through 12th grade.

Each year, hundreds of students and their families visit our Outdoor Learning Center to observe Texas wildlife, and learn about the importance of conservation and protection of our Texas environment. Wear your support for Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Animalia Collective is proud to support Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Animalia Collective has sold over $18,731.98 in support of wildlife conservation organizations around the world. Nearly 70% of the proceeds from this collection of exclusive apparel goes to support RWRC’s work to protect Texan wildlife.check out this related content: Eddie & Sofia Get Loud for Undocumented Youth "Bailando," performed by V-Sounds Voto Latino on East Los High My Abortion — by Camila Barrios I Am An Immigrant Season 3 Bloopers: La Travesura Hope for Undocumented YouthThe requested URL /?page_id=14 was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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2) Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Highly infectious strains cause many deaths in domestic poultry flocks but are very rare in wild birds (2). Once introduced to domestic poultry flocks, some low pathogenic forms (H5 and H7 strains) can mutate or change rapidly (within a few months) into highly pathogenic forms that are likely to cause disease (3). north face men's flyweight hoodieThis is how the current highly pathogenic virus, H5N1, originated (3). dallas cowboys hoodie 2xIn other words, a relatively harmless virus in wild birds infected farmed poultry and changed itself into a more deadly bug. rip hiatus hoodieThis bug – H5N1 – was then transmitted back to wild birds and is highly deadly in them too (2).   hoodie allen blink 182

Without farmed poultry, H5N1 would most likely not exist. Farmed birds have been selectively bred for increased meat and egg production. This vastly increased physical demand weakens their immune system and increases their susceptibility to disease. The dramatic growth of farmed poultry production in recent decades has also led to increased density of flocks and subsequent close contact with faeces, allowing viruses to spread and mutate rapidly (2, 4). The virus is both airborne and transmitted through infected faecal, nasal and eye discharges (4). The deadly (highly pathogenic) strains, such as H5N1, can survive for long periods in the environment, especially in low temperatures, eg over 30 days at 0°C (1). Disease can therefore spread locally from flock to flock through live poultry markets as well as contaminated farm equipment such as vehicles, cages, feed and clothing (4). Spread from region to region occurs through the international trade in live poultry and through infected migratory birds (2).

H5N1 has so far been found in wild or domestic birds in Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, China, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan, Burma, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Jordon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and the UK (6). Despite Defra and the poultry industry trying to blame the February 2007 outbreak of the deadliest H5N1 strain (at an intensive Bernard Matthews turkey unit in Suffolk) on migratory wild birds, the migratory season did not start for another couple of months. The likely cause of the outbreak is from elsewhere. Many of the SE Asian countries affected by H5N1 are major poultry exporters, with China and Thailand accounting for 15 per cent of global poultry shipments (4). In 2002 the EU imported 175,000 tonnes of poultry from these two countries (4).

The UK continues to import up to 200 million chickens a year from many ‘approved’ countries, despite the onward march of the H5N1 virus (13).Dr Perry Kendall, chief medical officer for British Columbia, Canada, said that the province's H7N3 bird flu outbreak in 2004 showed the chickens kept indoors were more vulnerable than those kept outside: “The intensely farmed birds tend to be very genetically similar. The methods of farming result in them being actually more frail and more vulnerable to diseases, particularly since there are so many of them in such a small volume of space (11).” He added, “Penning chickens indoors won't necessarily shelter them from avian flu viruses. Farm staff can tramp virus-laced bird droppings into a chicken house on their boots. Tractors can move viruses from farm to farm. Indoor poultry operations only keep birds safe from disease if stringent biosecurity standards are maintained (12).” Experience has shown that stringent biosecurity measures are in fact rarely taken on most UK poultry farms so the risk of indoor birds becoming infected is the same as outdoor birds, but once an intensive flock is infected the disease will spread more quickly and kill a much higher proportion.

The first documented infection of humans with bird flu occurred in Hong Kong in 1997, when H5N1 caused severe respiratory disease in 18 people, killing six of them. Studies showed that those infected had close contact with live infected poultry and that the virus had jumped directly from the birds to humans (1). Rapid destruction, within three days, of Hong Kong’s entire poultry population stemmed the spread of the outbreak (1). In January 2004 the second human outbreak of the disease occurred, with 11 people in Vietnam and Thailand infected – eight fatally. A total of 161 human cases have now been recorded, with 80 fatalities, in six countries: Cambodia; Vietnam and Turkey (6). It is believed that all of these cases were caused through contact with infected domestic poultry or contaminated farm equipment. There have been no recorded transmissions of the disease from infected wild birds to humans (2). The bird flu virus can survive for long periods in body tissue and can also be found inside and on the surface of eggs laid by infected birds (5).

Consumption of any raw poultry products, including meat, blood and eggs, from infected birds are therefore a potential risk (1). As the virus is heat sensitive, being inactivated by a temperature of 60°C in 30 minutes, well-cooked poultry meat and eggs should theoretically be free of the virus (1). However, millions of people in the UK fall ill every year from Salmonella and Campylobacter poisoning caused by undercooked poultry, demonstrating how often people do not ensure that meat is thoroughly cooked. Blood and body juices from raw infected poultry can also cross-contaminate other foods via chopping boards, knives and kitchen surfaces (1). While imports of poultry products from all countries known to be infected with the H5N1 virus are currently suspended, the EU may still be importing poultry products from countries where the disease is present in bird flocks but has not yet been detected because there have been no human infections so far. The safest option is simply to avoid all poultry products, including eggs.

Since 2003, over 150 million birds have been killed in the fight to contain bird flu outbreaks in domestic flocks (6). While all of these animals were destined to be killed for meat (as even chickens kept for eggs are eventually killed for ‘low grade’ meat), the panic sparked by human deaths from catching the disease meant that many of these birds endured a more painful and prolonged death than they would have met in the slaughterhouse. Indeed, disturbing images of birds being violently handled by untrained or inexperienced people and buried or bagged alive have been broadcast from every region where outbreaks of H5N1 have occurred. These practices contravene the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)’s guidelines on Humane Killing for Disease Control which require humane methods of killing to protect the animals from pain and distress. Animals should be killed instantly or stunned prior to being killed and remain unconscious until death. Professional veterinarians are required to oversee animal welfare aspects of the disease management plans and all staff must be trained and competent in humane slaughter, with appropriate equipment available (7).

is disgusted by the callous treatment of these sentient creatures and calls on all governments to provide sufficient resources and skilled personnel to ensure that avian influenza outbreaks are managed swiftly, efficiently and humanely. Another major animal welfare concern is the potential incarceration of free-range poultry flocks in Britain and other European countries. Britain’s Chief Vet, Debbie Reynolds, warned that if a case of H5N1 was found in Britain, all poultry keepers would be required to move their birds indoors (9). In the February 2007 outbreak, all free-range birds were ordered indoors within a 3km-10km restriction zone.  These birds, who are used to relatively pleasant and natural life outdoors, are forced to endure the overcrowded, stinking and unnatural conditions of a typical intensive poultry unit. There is even a chance that farmers will still be able to market these birds as free-range, a devious move intended to mislead compassionate consumers (9). Bird flu is just the latest in a long line of diseases caused by animal farming, including BSE, swine fever and foot and mouth disease.