How Domination Underpins Slavery, Genocide, the Exploitation of Women, & the Maltreatment of Animals Lantern Publishing & Media, 128 Second Place, Brooklyn, NY 11231; www.lanternpm.org. Available in both Kindle and paperback editions. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Many ANIMALS 24-7 readers will remember Supremacist Syndrome author and New Hampshire attorney Peter Marsh as an occasional presenter […]
Passed on: a Kenyan hero, others who served, & a questionable Canadian
Mwachofi Ngonyo, among the last of the Tsavo Watha “The curtain has fallen for a great man in conservation!” emailed Africa Network for Animal Welfare founder Josphat Ngonyo on September 5, 2021. “Please join me,” Josphat Ngonyo asked, “in celebrating the life of my uncle and father figure Mwachofi Ngonyo. “He was among the last of […]
Eight ex-Wildlife Waystation chimps can’t sleep on cardboard in an alley
North American Primate Sanctuary Association still working to keep homeless chimps off the streets of Los Angeles LOS ANGELES––Eighteen of the 26 chimpanzees left at the former Wildlife Waystation animal sanctuary are spoken for by other sanctuaries, but eight chimps still have nowhere to go. The chimps are not really at risk of sharing […]
NRA loses deal to promote hunting via the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Biggest trophy the NRA bagged from the Trump administration WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Rifle Association spent $16.3 million during the 2020 U.S. national election campaign to try to secure pro-gun and pro-hunting concessions granted by ex-president Donald Trump. After Trump lost, the National Rifle Association spent $3.3 million more on federal lobbying. Despite all that, the […]
What did the Prophet Mohammed really say about dogs?
Kindness toward dogs could bring forgiveness for sin Amid great anxiety among animal lovers about what the Taliban recapture of Afghanistan might mean for dogs, ANIMALS 24-7 notes that the most intensive persecution of dogs on record in Afghanistan came in 2013, during the U.S. occupation, when Edouard Guihaire of Agence France-Presse reported that “about […]
Behind the veil: live animal shipping & the Islamic New Year
Why what goes on quietly matters more than public slaughter after Ramadan JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia; GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa––Tonight, August 9, 2021, nearly two billion Muslims worldwide will quietly celebrate Hijri 1443, the Islamic New Year, marking 1,443 years since Muhammed led his disciples from Mecca to Medina in 622 Anno Domini on the Christian calendar. […]
Project Chimps paints walls in lieu of giving chimps daily outdoor time
Paint job was not “whitewashing” because Project Chimps used bright colors BLUE RIDGE, Georgia–– Humane Society of the U.S. representatives once upon a time derisively denounced as eyewash meant to impress human visitors, not the imprisoned animals, the common zoo practice of painting scenic backdrops on bare concrete walls. Staff and volunteers at the Project […]
Sheriffs ignored chimp in their own back yard until they shot him
Two sheriffs and many deputies helped to found and run the former Buck Brogoitti Animal Rescue, named for the chimp PENDLETON, Oregon––Tamara Brogoitti, 68, closed the 800-acre Buck Brogoitti Animal Rescue on the outskirts of Pendleton in January 2019. Knowing she was no longer either physically or financially capable of running the sanctuary, looking after large […]
Factory farming scheme in Zambia threatens wildlife over half of Africa
Straw-colored fruit bats, giving birth in just one place, pollinate trees throughout central Africa LUSAKA, Zambia––Public comment on what appears to be one of the most ecologically destructive development projects in all Africa, menacing Kasanka National Park, Zambia, and especially threatening to straw-colored fruit bats, closes on June 16, 2021. Who cares about African […]
Former child star chimp Cobby, 63, had troubling hidden past
“Golden age of television” survivor had caregivers influential in the rise of animal rights opposition to zoos and circuses SAN FRANCISCO––The San Francisco Zoo chimpanzee Cobby, 63, who died on June 5, 2021, was remembered by mass media as “the oldest male chimp living in an accredited North American zoo.” But that may have been the […]
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