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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All the news, good & bad, about vaquitas, jaguars, & hippos, oh my!
Vaquita porpoises & a clouded jaguar seen alive, but Colombian environment minister wants to see feral hippos dead SAN FELIPE, Mexico; TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras; BOGOTA, Colombia––Recently reported good news about vaquita porpoises and jaguars, among the most endangered species in Latin America, was offset by the April 1, 2026 announcement by Colombian environment minister Irene Vélez […]
War is hell for cats in Lebanon, but brings reprieve for cattle & sheep at Eid
Threat of rockets deters livestock shippers but not Beirut cat rescuers STRAIT OF HORMUZ, BEIRUT––Crisis situations involving animals and war were just behind the headlines in New York City’s two most prestigious newspapers on the morning of Friday the 13th of March 2026, without animals ever being mentioned. Bombing in Lebanon brought disaster to both […]
Elephant menace brings prayers in India, trophy hunting in Botswana
22 people killed by one rampaging elephant in Jharkand RANCHI, Jharkhand, India; GABORONE, Botswana––“Rogue elephant kills two more in Jharkhand, toll reaches 22 in nine days,” bannered Mukesh Ranjan for the New Indian Express on January 9, 2025. This came just 48 hours after Shashi Singh of The Statesman, an Indian national newspaper published since […]
South African & Canadian dog attack deaths illustrate growing global crisis
Under-reporting also evident in South Africa STELLALANDER-VRYBURG, South Africa; WELSHTOWN, Nova Scotia––The January 2, 2026 pit bull attack death of an as yet unnamed 39-year-old Pakistani citizen in Vryburg, South Africa, and the January 3, 2026 death of 13-year-old Drew Nickerson in Welshtown, Nova Scotia, Canada, fatally mauled by two Cane Corsos and a […]
Five little noted but accomplished animal advocates who died in 2025
Marshall R. Thompson, Jamie Massey, Sarah Fisher, Neil C. Wolff, DVM, and Vincent van der Merwe Among the many accomplished animal advocates whose passage in the last months of 2025 mostly escaped notice from all but family and friends were Marshall R. Thompson, Jamie Massey, Sarah Fisher, Neil C. Wolff, DVM, and Vincent van der […]
Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, felled by bees
Studied everything about elephants from their psyches to the tips of their tails & fought for elephant survival from the northern Kenyan desert to lecture halls in Beijing, China NAIROBI, Kenya––Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, died on December 8, 2025 at his home in Nairobi, Kenya. Excellence in all things was expected of […]