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CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse

March 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare,  the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950             LYON, France––This is not just a fish story,  nor just a fish-and-elephant story,  nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sub-Saharan, USA, Welfare, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, World Tagged With: CITES, International Whaling Commission, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, totoaba, United Nations Environment Program

Why Namibia is losing wildlife despite claimed success of conservancies

December 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Investigation:  The Efficacy of Namibia’s Wildlife Conservation Model As It Relates to African Elephants https://africanelephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Investigation-in-Namibias-conservation-model-Full-Report-LR.pdf “Namibia was the first African country to incorporate protection of the natural environment into its constitution,”  open African Elephant Journal editor Adam Cruise and anthropologist Izzy Sasada in their newly published  53-page Investigation:  The Efficacy of Namibia’s Wildlife Conservation Model […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Namibia, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: ≠Khoadi //Hôas Conservancy, Adam Cruise, Caprivia, Izzy Sasada, Merritt Clifton, N≠a Jaqna Conservancy, Nyae-Nyae Conservancy, Uibasen-Twyfelfontein Conservancy

Namibia reports oral rabies vaccination breakthrough for street dogs

November 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Oral vaccine achieves up to 78% immunization of dogs who cannot otherwise be vaccinated             WINDHOEK, Namibia––The Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Land Reform on November 11,  2021 told the Chinese national news agency Xinhua that it had successfully completed a first field trial of an oral rabies vaccine for dogs. The Namibian field […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Namibia, Rabies, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Albertina Shilongo, Arnon Shimshony, Charles Rupprecht, Franklin Loew, Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Henry Wilde, Merritt Clifton, Oscar Larghi

Did Namibia sell 170 elephants to China to make way for oil drilling?

March 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Murky Namibian elephant deal might involve as much as $22 million paid to someone,  even if oil rights are not involved WINDHOEK,  Namibia––Two weeks after the Namibian government sold 170 elephants to five undisclosed buyers,  to be transported to parts unknown,  Namibian minister of environment and tourism Pohamba Shifeta has yet to reveal the details […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Karl Ammann, Luke Pato, Merritt Clifton, Nyasha Nyaungwaohamba Shifeta, Peter Kenny

Did Chinese zoos buy 170 Namibian elephants sold at secret auction?

March 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Namibian officials say disclosing purchasers might jeopardize the deal             WINDHOEK, Namibia––Who bought 170 elephants,  auctioned off by the Namibian government against international law,  despite months of protest? Suspicion is growing that Namibia will not disclose the elephants’ buyers until the elephants have already been flown to their destinations,  probably Chinese zoos,  the buyers of […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Namibia, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Arlana Shikongo, Beth Clifton, Colgar Sikopo, Ellanie Smit, Gail C. Thomson, John Grober, Mark Hiley, Melissa Reitz, Merritt Clifton, Pohamba Shifeta, Romeo Muyunda, Teofilus Nghitila

The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals

December 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw,  Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020,  Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later,  during early October 2020,  the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Central Europe, Disasters, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Gabon, Marine life, Namibia, Netherlands, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other animals & science topics, Science, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Michalska., Bill McGraw, David Krabbenhoft, Paul Schuster, Tomas Antoszczyszyn

COVID-19 brings no net gains for marine life––except in Iceland

April 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“There is no market,”  but fish,  shellfish,  seals,  & whales are all still hunted WESTERLY,  Rhode Island;  HONOLULU,  Hawaii;  REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Restaurant closures ordered because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have economically crippled the U.S. commercial fishing industry from Long Island Sound to Hawaii,  and have hit the fishing industry worldwide,  but––except in Iceland,  where a case […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Crustaceans, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Iceland, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Norway, Scandinavia, Seals, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Aristos Georgiou, Cynthia Drummond, Joe Roman, Kristján Loftsson, Merritt Clifton, Rick Daysog

Could Zambia contracept wild hippos instead of culling?

October 26, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Botswana, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Namibia, Science, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Charles Banda, Jay Kirkpatrick, Jeremy Hance, Kimberly Frank, Merritt Clifton, Peter Sinkamba, Ruth Steinberger

TNR protects African wildcats from “genetic pollution” & ferals from cruelty

October 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Botswana, Cats, China, Conservation, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Namibia, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Charles Darwin, Jaclyn Tennant, Llewellyn Foxcroft, Louise Holton, Marna Herbst, Merritt Clifton, Rita Brock

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

October 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Blake Fischer, Chad Cripe, Elizabeth Blom, Ernest Hemingway, John Henry Patterson, Larry Fischer, Merritt Clifton

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