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Project Chimps paints walls in lieu of giving chimps daily outdoor time

July 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, HSUS, Kitty Block, Lindsay Vanderhooght, Merritt Clifton, Project Chimps

Sheriffs ignored chimp in their own back yard until they shot him

June 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: John Brogoitti, John Kitzhaber, John Trumbo, Merritt Clifton, Pendleton Rodeo, Steve Hindi, Tamara Brogoitti, Terry Rowan

Factory farming scheme in Zambia threatens wildlife over half of Africa

June 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Bats, Birds, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zambia Tagged With: Africa Geographic, Chief Chitambo, Edgar Lungu, Lake Agro, Makanday Media Centre, Merlin Tuttle, Merritt Clifton

Former child star chimp Cobby, 63, had troubling hidden past

June 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Arlan Seidon, Carroll Soo-Hoo, Donna McRae, Merritt Clifton, Murray Hill, Violet Soo-Hoo

South Africa debates end to “canned lion” industry & ivory sales

June 2, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“High-Level Panel Report on Lions, Rhinos, Elephants & Leopards” recommends turnabout in national wildlife policy             JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––A South African government wildlife policy study recommends an end to breeding captive lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots of captive-bred and raised lions,  and exports of lion bones for use in traditional Chinese medicine. The paper also […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Captive animals, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Barbara Creecy, Bill Jordan, Born Free Foundation, Care for the Wild, Don Pinnock, Fundisile Mketeni, Merritt Clifton, Pam Yako

Factory-farmed pigs get a break from vaccine breakthrough

May 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

For factory-farmed pigs,  avoiding African swine fever may be about as good as the grim news gets GREENPORT, New York––With all eyes on the progress of vaccination against the global COVID-19 pandemic,  which has to date killed nearly 3.5 million people,  the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service in early May quietly announced a breakthrough […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Kenya, Meat issues, Pigs, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Uncategorized, Vietnam, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Manuel Borca, Merritt Cifton, Plum Island

Remembering Rory Young, Glenn Summerlin, & Helen Marston

May 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Soldier,  fundraiser,  & campaigner:  three animal advocates whose work & approaches could scarcely have differed more Rory Young,  49,  founder of the anti-poaching organization Chengeta Wildlife,  was killed on April 26, 2021,  along with Spanish journalist David Beriáin,  44,  and photographer Roberto Fraile,  47,  in an ambush in Burkina Faso attributed to the jihadist militia […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Alternatives, Animal control, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Science, Spay/neuter, USA, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil Rhodes, Chengeta Wildlife, Dennis Orsey, Ken Nixon, Mariet Young, Merritt Clifton, Susan Dragich, Warren Cox, Yakov Alekseyev

Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing

April 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Two zookeepers,  two activists,  & a publisher Sharon Matola,  Jeremy Mallinson,  Brian Gunn,  Brian Gunn-King,  and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species,  an anti-vivisection activist,  a vegetarian activist of similar name,  and a book publisher,  of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson,  for instance,  were both friends of […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, Jeremy Mallinson, Jon Wynne-Tyson, Lee Durrell, Merritt Clifton, Sharon Matola, Shubrohoto Ghosh

Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?

April 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near,  whether through global warming,  loss of fish from the oceans,  nuclear war,  or any of myriad other calamities,  vanishing vultures might  be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Birds, Birds, Disease, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mediterranean, Pakistan, Spain, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals, Working horses Tagged With: Diana Aga, Diclofenac, Ibuprofen, John Mallord, Motrin, Rachel Carson, Rebecca Klaper, Robin McKie

Did Namibia sell 170 elephants to China to make way for oil drilling?

March 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Murky Namibian elephant deal might involve as much as $22 million paid to someone,  even if oil rights are not involved WINDHOEK,  Namibia––Two weeks after the Namibian government sold 170 elephants to five undisclosed buyers,  to be transported to parts unknown,  Namibian minister of environment and tourism Pohamba Shifeta has yet to reveal the details […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Karl Ammann, Luke Pato, Merritt Clifton, Nyasha Nyaungwaohamba Shifeta, Peter Kenny

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