South African High Court rules against the live transport industry, in favor of the National Council of SPCAs MAKHANDA, South Africa––The South African National Council of SPCAs on November 18, 2025 rejoiced over a verdict from Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Makhanda restoring the ability of the NSPCA to investigate cruelty to […]
What ostrich-killing Canadian authorities have in common with the Janjaweed
There are also differences between massacring healthy Canadian ostriches and massacring the starving residents of a besieged African city. But the comparison bears a look. EDGEWOOD, British Columbia–– The massacre of about 330 ostriches on the night of November 6-7, 2025 by Canadian Food Inspection Agency sharpshooters at Universal Ostrich Farms of British Columbia may […]
How Sharon Pincott survived Zimbabwe with the Presidential Elephants
All The President’s Elephants 52 minutes. Free view at: https://stirr.com/movies/5831/all-the-president-s-elephants Reviewed by Beth Clifton Upset by alleged land grabs and poaching involving people well-connected within the Robert Mugabe government, Australian elephant researcher Sharon Pincott on April 16, 2014 e-mailed to ANIMALS 24-7 that she was reluctantly leaving Zimbabwe, giving up a 13-year effort to protect the herd […]
Jane Goodall, 91, defied scientific & ecological convention all her life
Beloved by the public, Goodall often left dogmatic authorities to rage like frustrated chimps PASADENA, California––Jane Goodall, 91, a British citizen originally best known for chimpanzee research done at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, during the first half of her 65-year professional career, and later as an international humane ambassador, died in California on October 1, 2025 […]
Chickens, rats, & my battle with leptospirosis, by Beth Clifton
Zoonotic disease can hit you anywhere GREENBANK, Washington––Sometimes ANIMALS 24-7 finds article topics right in our own backyard. Like World Zoonoses Day, commemorated annually on July 6. Today is the 140th anniversary of the first administration of the human post-exposure rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur on July 6, 1885. “Zoonoses is the collective term for […]
Trump administration moves to protect pangolins, but not giraffes or hippos
Giraffes, hippos, & polar bears are in trophy hunting demand. Pangolin demand is believed to come chiefly from China. WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on June 17, 2025 formally proposed in the Federal Register to protect pangolins under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are the first vertebrate species to be proposed for an […]
Elephants starve in South African park to make case for trophy hunting
Elephant overpopulation was preventable & manufactured at the Madikwe Game Reserve PRETORIA, South Africa––Starving elephants at the Madikwe Game Reserve in northern South Africa appear to be hostages to management demand to reintroduce trophy hunting, more than a decade after hunting there was stopped. Only 132 road miles from Pretoria, the South African national capitol, […]
New wildlife trafficking studies miss the point, says legendary investigator
Old ivory is not killing elephants, points out Daniel Stiles, & AI theories are not evidence sufficient to bring seizures & convictions WASHINGTON D.C.––Seven years after the still officially unsolved murder of ivory traffic investigator Esmond Martin in Nairobi, Kenya, Humane World for Animals continues to use the methods he pioneered to pursue the ghosts […]
Risk-taking roadside zoo operator busted for drugs, firearms; zoo closed
West Coast Game Park Safari owner Brian Tenney apparently at last took a few chances too many BANDON, Oregon––Brian Tenney, 52, owner/operator of the West Coast Game Park Safari just south of Bandon, Oregon, was on May 27, 2025 arrested in alleged possession of 80 grams of methamphetamine, 44 firearms, about eight grams of cocaine, […]
Texas House approves shooting feral aoudad sheep from helicopters
Texan cultural insecurity strikes again AUSTIN, Texas––The Texas House of Representatives on May 7, 2025 overwhelmingly approved a bill to allow hunters to shoot feral aoudad sheep from helicopters. “If the bill becomes law,” explained Austin American Statesman chief political reporter John C. Moritz, “aoudad sheep would join feral hogs among game animals who can […]