Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
“Jaws 13, Cecil 0” at Johannesburg endangered species meeting
Hunters prevail on African lion listing JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––The final score in the last contentious rounds at the 12-day CITES CoP 17 meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa might be posted as “Jaws 13, Cecil 0,” with a series of landmark decisions for sharks but nothing good done for African lions. Concluding on October 5, […]
Fatal dog attacks & dogfighting explode in South Africa
Pit Bull Union of South Africa executives convicted on related charges CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Faith Hendricks, 18 months old, was on September 1, 2016 killed in her parents’ yard by the family pit bull in Mount Pleasant, South Africa, a suburb of Port Elizabeth on the Eastern Cape. Marchen Hoffman, age 6, was killed […]
Zoos tried not to let anyone see an elephant fly
17 eles flown from Swaziland to Dallas, Wichita, & Omaha zoos DALLAS, Texas––Why were 17 elephants stuffed aboard a custom-built Boeing 747 on March 8, 2016 and flown secretly to Alliance Field in Dallas? It wasn’t just because trunks are not allowed as carry-on baggage on regularly scheduled commercial flights. The 17 elephants, equivalent in […]
Ringling elephant dies of herpes
Blow to breeding & research plans ELLENTON, Florida––The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation on January 25, 2016 lost a baby elephant named Mike to elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus––a blow to Ringling ambitions both in captive elephant breeding and in disease research. Birthed on June 27, 2013, Mike was among 26 […]