The movement to spare a flock of ostriches in the West Kootenay, gaining the support from a couple “unlikely’ new sources. The animals are facing a court-ordered cull, after an avian flu outbreak. But as Travis Prasad reports, one of the most powerful officials in the U.S. government and a B.C. girl who nearly died from the infectious disease, both say the birds should be saved.
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