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Mob destroys the Nigeria SPCA amid national crisis

October 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Similar attack trashed & looted renowned drill conservation project LAGOS,  Nigeria––Amid the chaos and violence engulfing Lagos,  the economic capital of Nigeria,  the October 14,  2020 mob destruction of the Nigeria SPCA has so far not even won local media coverage. But the attack crippled the oldest institution in Nigeria that offers humane education and  […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Nigeria, Sanctuaries, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ayodele Williams, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Bada Olamilekan, Emmanuel Eyoh, Lisa Gadsby, Merritt Clifton, Peter Jenkins, Trevor Scott

Feds quit funding guns & ammo for “anti-poaching” militias

October 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

MacGregor throws the World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society & others out of the lettuce patch             WASHINGTON D.C.––Deputy Interior Secretary Katharine MacGregor on September 18,  2020 quietly ordered major reforms of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] programs which have for decades routed millions of dollars in funding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Cameroun, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Katharine MacGregor, Merritt Clifton, Stephen Corry

Cats, tahrs & feathers on Table Mountain, South Africa

September 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Goats gotten,  South African National Park Service scopes in on feral cats             CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Have feral cats succeeded feral Himalayan mountain goats,  called tahrs,  as the purported greatest threat to native South African wildlife at Table Mountain National Park? The few remaining Table Mountain tahrs, a cause celebré from 2001 to 2004,  are descended […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anneke Malan, Colleen Seymour, Edward Howe Forbush, Kyle Mijlof, Merritt Clifton, Nicoli Nattrass, Niki Moore, Peter Wolf, Tiara Walters

HSUS-backed Project Chimps drops lawsuit vs. whistleblowers

September 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Defamation case settled,  defendants vow to press on for sanctuary improvements             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––In fewer than 20 terse words,  the Project Chimps sanctuary defamation lawsuit against former chimpanzee caregivers and whistleblowers Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhooght ended on August 14,  2020: “Plaintiff Project Chimps Inc.,”  said the legal paperwork,  filed in the U.S. District […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Brad Jakeman, Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, Lindsay Vanderhoogt, Merritt Clifton, Robert Ingersoll, Susan Atherton

Pit bull moonshine claims another life in the “Sunshine State”

September 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Similar “rescuer” rhetoric takes toll in South Africa, too             MARGATE, Florida;  EDENVALE, South Africa––Joseph Varanese, 57,  of Margate,  Florida,  just plain Joe to friends and family,  believed the pit bull moonshine. On August 7,  2020,  Joe Varanese adopted a pit bull reportedly picked up by Miami Dade Animal Services as an injured stray on […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Carlos Aviles, Carolyn Varanese, Charl Baartman, Jan van Aswegen, Joe Varanese, Jovani Aviles, Julian Aviles, Kathleen Labrada, Merritt Clifton

Why has Project Chimps gone ape$#!T over ex-staff complaints?

June 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Humane Society of the U.S. affiliate moves to enforce “ag-gag” against whistleblowers             BLUE RIDGE, Georgia––Former Project Chimps staff members Crystal Alba and Lindsay Vanderhoogt,  as well as their criticisms of the north Georgia sanctuary for chimpanzees formerly used in laboratories,  might still be almost unknown to the world,  except that Project Chimps recently sued […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & standards, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Bruce Wagman, Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, Jenny Desmond, Jim Desmond, Kathy Guillermo, Lindsay Vanderhoogt, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Kissel

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

Guerrillas gun down 12 gorilla guards & five others in Virunga, DRC

April 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Resurgent Ebola and COVID-19 escalate threats to already high-risk habitat VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK,  Democratic Republic of the Congo––At least 17 people,  including 12 Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation rangers whose primary duty is protecting critically endangered mountain gorillas,  were killed in an April 24,  2020 ambush attack. No gorillas are known to have been caught […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Carl Akeley, Cosma Wilungula, Emmanuel de Merode, Fred Kockott, Innocent Ngudjolo, Jason Burke, Jules Ngondo, Mobutu Sese Seko, Philip Kleinfeld, Robert Flummerfelt, Yav Avuli

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

From gorillas to shelter dogs: animals caught in the COVID-19 crunch

March 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No animals other than bats & humans are known to get COVID-19,  but millions are affected by the human response             WASHINGTON D.C.––Animals and animal-related projects from Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo to National Institutes of Health-funded laboratories are feeling the impact of the international COVID-19 scare underway throughout early 2020,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Humphrey, David Grimm, Eric Hutchinson, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Jenny G. Zhang, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Rodney Muhumuza, Shirley McGreal

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