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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 […]

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 […]

Johnny Rodrigues, 69, fought to save wildlife in Zimbabwe

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Felled by cancer after surviving two wars, poachers’ gunfire, & the Mugabe regime QUARTEIERA, Portugal––Johnny Rodrigues,  69,  founder of the the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force and an enthusiastic contributor of information and occasional guest columns to ANIMALS 24-7,  died on September 17,  2018 at his daughter Lorraine and son-in-law Gavin Randall’s home in Portugal,  after […]

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 […]

Helpful links for Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day

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Both animal & human victims to be remembered on October 27,  2018 With “Pit Bull Victim Awareness Day,”  October 27,  2018,  fast approaching,  including activities on behalf of both animal and human pit bull attack victims,  many readers may find the Pit Stop Archive useful––a special sub-menu offered by ANIMALS 24-7 to help access our […]

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

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Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine             BOISE,  Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15,  2018,  when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer,  40,  had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed,  the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]

$10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

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Effects parallel those of bringing rail travel to Yellowstone in 1902             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Looming over Kenya like the Standard Gauge Railway trestle at the northern edge of Nairobi National Park,  or the marabou storks overlooking the dense traffic on the highway into Nairobi from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,  is the question of how $10 billion […]

“What would you say your legacy has been?”

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Dear ANIMALS 24-7 readers: Beth and I, through the generosity of a donor who funded us specifically to attend, are just back from the 2018 Africa Animal Welfare Conference, held at the United Nations complex in Nairobi, Kenya. Though our daily online readership has never been greater, we have worked for half pay or less […]

Bleak future for Kenya donkeys, sold to slaughter or left to go feral

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Beasts of burden for 5,000 years, but now out of work             NAIROBI,  NAIVASHA,  Kenya––Donkeys in Kenya,  as in much of the rest of the developing world,  are rapidly disappearing,  but not all in the same direction.  Some are trucked to slaughter;  others gallop into the bush. Tens of thousands of Kenyan donkeys have already […]