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Ethiopian woman who saved rare Italian goat breed is raped, killed

December 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Happy Goat” farmer/sanctuarian Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  was reportedly killed by Ghanian she gave a job VALLE dei MOCHENI,  Trentino,  Italy––Goat herder Adams Suleimani,  32,  an immigrant to Italy from Ghana,  has reportedly confessed to raping Happy Goat [La Capra Felice] farmer/sanctuarian and cheesemaker Agitu Ideo Gudeta,  42,  and bludgeoning her to death with a hammer,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Ghana, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sheep & goats, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Adams Suleimani, Agitu Ideo Gudeta, Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, Frassilongo, Merritt Clifton, Mòcheni, Plankerhof

Spay/neuter resumes in Italy despite COVID-19, Camorra & Nigerian mobsters

May 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Quarantine keeps crime in check––for now             ROME,  CASTEL VOLTURNO,  Italy––The deadly global COVID-19 pandemic,  killing nearly 32,500 Italians to date,  might if anything have made Castel Volturno,  the unlikely spay/neuter hub of the nation,  just a little bit safer. Certainly stay-at-home orders seem to have at least temporarily reduced the mob violence for which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Bats, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Italy, Mediterranean, Nigeria, Population control, Population control, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Winter, Benito Mussolini, Carla Rocchi, Dorothea Fritz, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Merritt Clifton

Ravaging Asia & Africa: a much deadlier plague than COVID-19

February 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World fiddles while grasshoppers munch             NINGBO,  China;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––A much deadlier plague than the COVID-19 coronavirus is sweeping westward from China through Pakistan,  across Central Asia,  and throughout the Horn of Africa,  flying 100 miles a day,  devouring crops enough to feed as many as 34 million people,  according to the United Nations Food […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Egypt, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Kenya, North Africa, Pakistan, Poultry, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Cara Anna, Dominique Bourgeon, Donald Trump, Imran Khan, Kate Ng, Mark Lowcock, Merritt Clifton, Michael D’Estries, Rory Sullivan, Zhang Long

Two inches of rain means life or death to animals in Kenya

March 19, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Flash floods broke devastating drought, but not drought cycle menacing wildlife & livestock             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Just two inches of rain over two days,  about what Seattle gets on average in just two weeks, in mid-March 2018 triggered flash floods killing at least 15 Kenyans,  marooning six tented camps for wildlife tourists in the Maasai Mara […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Cattle & dairy, China, Conservation, Crocodilians, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Kenya, Meat issues, Reptiles, Sheep & goats, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: George Murage, George Sayagie, Karen Blixen, Merritt Clifton, Rex Tillerson, Somini Sangupta

Kenya crisis shows need to transition out of animal agriculture

March 17, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

The issue is not just grazers vs. wildlife U.S. and European concern over the drought-driven conflict besetting central Kenya in early 2017 tends to focus on the impacts afflicting wildlife,  wildlife habitat,  and eco-tourism. This is understandable because these are the aspects of Kenya most often seen by outsiders,  as viewers of wildlife documentaries,  films […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Food security, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Opinions & Letters, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Gitau Mbaria, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, Rasna Warah, Sebastian Mwanza

Keeping the Horn of Africa impaled on dilemma

December 21, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

How rebuilding drought-stricken herds perpetuates starvation & poverty PARIS,  NAIROBI––The 2014 film documentary Cowspiracy was rarely mentioned among the many conspiracy theories pertaining to global warming and climate change that were bandied about in connection with the recent COP 21 Paris Climate Conference. Most of the COPs,  “COP” in this context being short for United […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Kenya, Meat issues, North Africa, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Africa Network for Animal Welfare, Akisha Townsend Eaton, COP 21, Donkey Sanctuary, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, World Animal Net, World Animal Protection

Fallen crane & stampede take spotlight from haj animal victims

September 29, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

At least 900,000 animals killed among 24 nations          RIYADH,  Saudi Arabia––After decades of global controversy over animal transport and slaughter in connection with Eid al Adha sacrificial rites,  the animal victims of the 2015 Islamic pilgrimage season went almost unnoticed amid furor over human victims. The start of the pilgrimage season,   called the haj […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Algeria, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bangladesh, Cattle & dairy, Christianity, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Islam, Judaism, Kenya, Laws & standards, Live markets, Live transport, Malaysia, Meat issues, Mediterranean, North Africa, Organizations, Other, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Turkey, Welfare Tagged With: Akif Kichloo, Eid al Adha, haj, Lyn White, Mecca, Merritt Clifton, Mohammed, Qurbani, Riyadh

Factory farming & food security in China, Brazil, & Ethiopia

April 11, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Climate, Food Security, & Growth: Ethiopia’s Complex Relationship With Livestock (22 pages)  by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer Cattle, Soyanization, & Climate Change: Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (42 pages) Skillful Means: The Challenge of China’s Encounter With Factory Farming (28 pages) both by Mia MacDonald & Justine Simon,  from Brighter Green, 2011. Free downloads from:   http://brightergreen.org/brightergreen.php?id=24 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, China, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, South America, Sub-Saharan, The Americas Tagged With: Brighter Green, Merritt Clifton, Mia MacDonald

Evictions to clear a park in Ethiopia

June 11, 2005 By Merritt Clifton

  While land invasions and their aftermath destroy the remnants of wildlife protection in Zimbabwe,  the African Parks Foundation has reportedly introduced to Ethiopia the heavy-handed relocation of longtime land occupants in the name of conservation that helped to create the pressures leading to the Zimbabwean debacle. “Ethiopia wants a Kenyan-style network of wildlife parks […]

Filed Under: Africa, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: African Parks

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