Is variety the spice of life, or the death of the plant-based protein sector? by Brooke Stein The impact of investor-driven invention versus mission-driven invention may well be keeping animals on the plate while at least a billion people remain hungry. The movement to support a global shift towards plant-based protein may be missing big […]
The Wild Truth about wildlife videos & our efforts to tell it, by Amy Dickens
Editors’ note: “Amy Dickens,” the pseudonym used by the author of the following guest column, will be quickly recognized as such by anyone aware that British author Charles Dickens’ most memorable female character was arguably Amy Dorrit, heroine of his novel Little Dorrit, published serially in 1855-1857. ANIMALS 24-7 does not know who “Amy Dickens” is. […]
Biggest alleged rhino horn poachers yet: game farmers serving trophy trade
Convictions in one case & indictment in another challenge the hunter / conservationist narrative POLOKWANE, South Africa––Decades of hunter/conservationist pretense that poor and/or corrupt Africans are poaching rhinos toward extinction to satiate demand for rhino horn from greedy rich Asians, despite the alleged efforts of game farmers to save the species for trophy hunters to […]
Sloths & the 70 (?) deadly sins of wildlife exhibitor Larry Wallach
Cougars, bears, sloths, & a kangaroo, oh my, & a rap sheet as long as a python MARGATE, Florida; BROOKHAVEN, New York––Sloth, a harmless herbivorous “species of least concern,” according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, frequently exhibited but rarely surviving long in captivity, also happens to be the name of one […]
Haj 2026 ends with livestock slaughter down, killing dogs judicially decried
Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz stopped livestock shipments to seven nations. Islamabad High Court rules that indiscriminately killing street dogs contradicts Islamic law. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan––The 2026 Haj season, meaning the pilgrimage-to-Mecca season observed by the Islamic faithful, ended on May 30-31 with both good and bad news for animals. The bad news, as ever, […]
How “tiger porn” & kitten handling Trump the Big Cat Public Safety Act
The Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary, Knoxville Zoo, and Sharkarosa Zoo defy the intent of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, if not the actual letter of it WEST BEND, Wisconsin; KNOXVILLE, Tennessee; PILOT POINT, Texas––One might call it “tiger porn.” Mingling fantasy with delusion, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and profitable showmanship, the grotesquely misnamed roadside zoo calling […]
Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, helped to shape AR movement
Desmond Morris’ ideas helped to form “animal rights” arguments, but Morris stood apart from the cause LONDON, U.K.––Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, an influence upon and fellow traveler with the animal rights movement for much of his life, but at odds with vegans and vegetarians, died on April 19, 2026, in Naas, County Kildare, […]
Elephants stomp wine grape-growing millionaire trophy hunter
Why did the death of trophy hunter Ernie Dosio attract more online notice than all 158 comparable cases over the past 20 years? LODI, California––Ernie Dosio, 75, described by Metro correspondent Jamie Pyatt, of Cape Town, South Africa, as “A millionaire U.S. big game hunter,” a longtime wine grape grower from Lodi, California, and “a […]
When others looked away, ANIMALS 24-7 looked at the evidence
ANIMALS 24-7 does not usually blow our own horns like this when someone says something nice about us, but this public response from Amy Dickens of The Wild Truth, below, is so nice that we felt it should be shared with our readers & donors, who make our work possible: When Others Looked Away, ANIMALS […]
The Wild Truth about wildlife videos & lack of humane jurisdiction
The wild truth seems to be that either no one in authority cares about alleged cruelty in wildlife filmmaking, or no one actually has the authority even to investigate serious allegations JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––Substack browsers with an interest in animals may in recent weeks have discovered a site titled The Wild Truth: Exposing animal cruelty […]