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Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

Jane Goodall joins voices against livestock gift charities

December 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Livestock gifts,  Goodall warns,  “can result in unintended consequences”             WASHINGTON D.C.––Primatologist,  anthropologist,  and philanthropist Jane Goodall,  87,  on December 20,  2021 added her globally influential voice to those of the growing number of critics of livestock gift charities. Livestock gift charities include,  most prominently,  Heifer International,  Oxfam, World Vision, and the Cargill’s “Hatching Hope” […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, North Africa, Poultry, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Dawn Moncrief, GiveWell, Heifer International, Lester Brown, Maneka Gandhi, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Mia MacDonald, Richard Oppenlander

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

November 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Religion & philosophy, Scotland Tagged With: Amanda Little, Christine Chemnitz, Durwood Zaelke, Frank O'Mara, Ian Scoones, John Carmody, Lester Brown, Lisa O'Carroll, Merritt Clifton, Morwenna Coniam, Peter Flanagan

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

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