Wildlife Crisis! CWD is Out of Control
Scientists, Organizations Demand Emergency Public Inquiry
Alliance for Public Wildlife • David Suzuki Foundation
News Release: January 10, 2006
Canada is facing the greatest wildlife crisis of our time. Among the many symptoms of this crisis, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD — the deer version of mad cow disease) has been repeatedly confirmed outside game farm fences in Alberta as well as Saskatchewan. The Expert Scientific Panel on Chronic Wasting Disease, confirmed that the source of Canada’s CWD was "spillover from infected game farms,” and “there are no known barriers to stop the disease." Read More