Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

<p>Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/canada-ostrich-cull-depopulation-bird-flu">Continue reading...</a>