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January 2019 saw the most dog-related deaths in 13 months

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Three killed by pit bulls, three in human conflict involving dogs, one possibly by German shepherd,  one killed by dogs unidentified by breed HOUSTON, Texas––A January 28,  2019 shoot-out in Houston,  Texas that left five police officers injured and two drug suspects dead raised the apparent dog-related death toll for the month,  worldwide,  to eight,  […]

Trial of Iranian cheetah defenders facing death penalty begins

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“Evidence” is reportedly “confession” extracted from female defendant under torture––who then retracted it              TEHRAN, Iran––The closed-door trial of eight Iranian cheetah researchers and conservationists for alleged “corruption on earth,”  espionage,  and “conspiracy against national security” is to resume on Saturday,  February 2,  2019,  and is expected to continue on Sunday,  February 3,  2019. All […]

Four people who changed how humans see animals

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Charlie Russell,  Mary T. Hoffman, Aubrey Manning, & Dorothy Cheney  Russell made “Spirit Bears” famous            Canadian bear researcher and author Charlie Russell,  76,  died on May 7,  2018 in Calgary, Alberta,  from complications after surgery.             Born in Pincher Creek,  Alberta,  where his parents Andy and Kay Russell were hunting outfitters and guides,  Charlie Russell […]

Did Koko sign “mauler”? Gorilla Foundation pit bulls ran amok

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Former senior staff member & plaintiff in 2005 lawsuit detail similar incidents, involving different pit bulls,  years apart             WOODSIDE,  California––We never expected to find alleged pit bull attacks involved in the long,  often sordid saga of the Gorilla Foundation,  home of Koko the signing gorilla from her infancy until her death on June 19,  […]

Mountain gorillas downlisted from “critically endangered”?!!

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World Health Organization Ebola virus emergency response team bugged out two days later             BENI,  DRC––The World Health Organization on November 17,  2018 temporarily evacuated 16 Ebola virus emergency response vaccination staff from the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,  after a dud mortar shell hit the WHO staff residence near […]

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

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Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Iranian cheetah defenders face the death penalty

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Accused of “sowing corruption on earth”             TEHRAN,  Iran––Because fair trials in Iran are historically scarcer than the highly endangered Asiatic cheetah,  who survives only in remote habitat in the eastern part of the country,  the global conservation,  scientific,  and human rights communities are anxious as a cat on a hot tin roof about “espionage” […]

Fight over feces-flinging gorilla Ndume goes to federal court

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Having lost Harambe,  the Cincinnati Zoo wants him back. Having lost Koko,  the Gorilla Foundation signs “No.”             CINCINNATI,  SAN FRANCISCO––Fighting to maintain a mission and identity since the June 2018 death of Koko the signing gorilla,  Gorilla Foundation founder Francine “Penny” Patterson,  71,  is now fighting in federal court as well to retain Ndume,  […]

Could Zambia contracept wild hippos instead of culling?

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Or is hippo overpopulation even really the issue? LUSAKA,  Zambia––Why has Zambian tourism minister Charles Banda revived a five-year-old plan to cull up to 250 hippopotamuses per year from South Luangwa National Park,  only two years after scrapping it? “The South Luangwa National Park has a population of more than 13,000 hippos but the area […]

TNR protects African wildcats from “genetic pollution” & ferals from cruelty

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Alley Cat Rescue begins project at Kruger National Park             KRUGER NATIONAL PARK,  South Africa––Alley Cat Rescue,  of Mount Ranier,  Maryland,   is now “working to implement trap-neuter-return programs for stray/feral cats around Kruger National Park,”  according to founder Louise Holton,  to keep African wildcats from hybridizing with their domestic descendants. Having “advocated for the humane […]