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 […]
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 […]
Jane Goodall, 91, defied scientific & ecological convention all her life
Beloved by the public, Goodall often left dogmatic authorities to rage like frustrated chimps PASADENA, California––Jane Goodall, 91, a British citizen originally best known for chimpanzee research done at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, during the first half of her 65-year professional career, and later as an international humane ambassador, died in California on October 1, 2025 […]
Will drones help cage-free egg farmers win big in price wars?
Animal Outlook drone video catches “free roaming” producer with egg on its corporate face RIDGELAND, Mississippi; ROGERS, Arkansas; TELFORD, Pennsylvania––Soaring parallel to egg prices projected by the Donald Trump administration to rise 58% in 2025 are, not surprisingly, agribusiness opposition to the cage-free mandates in effect in 10 states––and, paradoxically, industry interest in switching to […]
Africa Network for Animal Welfare founder Josphat Ngonyo steps down
But Josphat Ngonyo remains active in multiple other organizations NAIROBI, Kenya––Josphat Ngonyo, 52, long a leading figure in the transition of African animal advocacy from direction by expatriates and non-African funders to stand-alone independence, on November 1, 2024 retired after 18 years heading the Africa Network for Animal Welfare [ANAW]. “The time has come for […]
Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, 48, saved Kenya wildlife with a water truck
Fought global warming, drought, & poachers; raised peas, bees, & sunflowers VOI, Kenya––Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, 48, died on June 18, 2024, after a 10-year battle with acute kidney failure that had him on dialysis since 2014, and a 20-year battle against frequent severe drought conditions in Tsavo West National Park, southeastern Kenya. Family spokesperson Jones […]
Pro-animal teachings in Islam made available free to the world
Animals In Islam, 2nd edition From Al-Ma’arri (973-1057) to ABA Masri (1914-1992) by Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri with foreword by Syed Rizvi 165 pages, paperback. “This book is published for non-commercial and free distribution in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society, and Engineers & Scientists for Animal Rights to create […]
Last zebra back behind bars; owner Kristine Keltgen bales on barista biz
Weird Washington wildlife story of the week gets weirder (See also How one zebra won more concern than vanishing mountain goats.) NORTH BEND, Washington––No more zebras zooming through the Cascade mountains thirty miles east of Seattle. At large for six days, the last of four zebras lost from a trailer at the North Bend exit […]
The ghost of ivory traffic investigator Esmond Martin stalks Connecticut
Six years after Esmond Martin’s unsolved murder, the Humane Society of the U.S. took a page from his books HARTFORD, Connecticut––The ghost of ivory and rhino horn traffic investigator Esmond Martin still stalks ivory merchants six years after Martin, 76, was stabbed to death in his own bed on February 5, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya, […]
Bill Jordan, 97, wildlife vet, author, & founder of animal aid charities
Jordan had a key role in forming at least nine organizations in 48 years, most of which still exist William Johnston Jordan, 97, known to the world as Bill Jordan, wildlife veterinarian, author, and founder or cofounder of a constellation of wildlife care projects spanning the globe, died on July 5, 2022, at the SSM Health/St. […]