But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft” WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office, on November 30, 2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]
The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals
by Bill McGraw, Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020, Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later, during early October 2020, the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]
Trixie the whale shark dies young at the Georgia Aquarium
Three whale sharks left of six brought from Taiwan in 2006-2007 ATLANTA, Georgia––Trixie the whale shark, who could have lived up to 130 years in the wild, died on November 27, 2020 after just 14 years at the Georgia Aquarium. Trixie, believed to have been about 32 feet long, still about eight feet short […]
Kaavan flies to sanctuary with “elephant singers” Cher and Amir Khalil
World of friends help “world’s loneliest elephant” ISLAMABAD, Pakistan; PHNOM PENH, Cambodia––Kaavan, long billed “the world’s loneliest elephant,” was a flying elephant this morning, November 30, 2020, en route from the defunct Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, to share a 25,000-acre habitat with three female Asian elephants inside the the one-million acre Kulen-Promtep Wildlife […]
Law protects birds from poaching but not oil spills, says Trump administration
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service makes “permanent” abdication of Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement against “accidental” bird kills WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on November 27, 2020 published a Final Environmental Impact Statement on amendments to the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement rules which will allow businesses, in the mineral extraction industries […]
Will Rogers never met the pit bulls & “dog men” now terrorizing Oklahoma
Three-year-old suffered 15 skull fractures & broken nose and jaw in Rogers’ tiny home town OOLOGAH, Oklahoma––“No man can be condemned for owning a dog,” alleged humorist Will Rogers, who also famously professed to have never met a man he didn’t like. “As long as he has a dog, he has a friend,” Rogers claimed, “and […]
Making a Thanksgiving place for Tofurky
Eventually live turkeys joined the feast. But not at first. Chloe Sorvino, food and drink editor for the business magazine Forbes, marked Thanksgiving 2020 by looking back 40 years to the invention of Tofurky in 1980, by then-nature educator Seth Tibbott. Described as a “turkey alternative,” blending tofu and wheat with a wild rice and […]
“My Octopus Teacher” meets the Kraken
Or, “The Call of the Wild” underwater My Octopus Teacher, a 2020 Netflix Original documentary, directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, might already be the most watched and talked about cephalopod drama since Kirk Douglas fought the giant squid in the 1954 Walt Disney epic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, based on the 1870 […]
This is the house––a fortified compound––that the PetSmart founder built
Community fears a cult will follow GREENBANK, Washington––Residents of Greenbank, Washington, the Whidbey Island convenience-store-and-post-office hamlet where ANIMALS 24-7 gets mail, awakened on November 21, 2020 to a 36-year-old recurring nightmare. Again a fortified house owned by a survivalist of far-right beliefs from Phoenix, Arizona, with Idaho connections, had been found in the woods nearby. […]
End to Irish & Greek mink farming expected after Danish & Dutch culls
Irish chief medical officer calls for mink cull as “a matter of urgency” LIMERICK, COPENHAGEN––Not even Guinness bottle caps are flipping, let alone champagne corks popping, in celebration of the anticipated imminent end of mink breeding in Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France, and perhaps even Greece and Spain. Mink massacres underway in […]
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