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PIRATES! Captain Paul Watson goes down with the sinking Sea Shepherds

September 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Under new brass,  it isn’t even the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society any more             SOUTH WOODSTOCK,  Vermont––Japanese and Russian whales,  Atlantic Canadian sealers,  and oceans of marine poachers in other parts of the world never succeeded in sinking Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,  but the organization he founded in 1977 on […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Humane history, Japan, Marine life, Mexico, Organizations, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Seals, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Cornelissen, Deborah Bassett, Haans Siver, Merritt Clifton, Peter Hammarstedt, Phil Wollen, Pritam Singh, Rob Stewart, Sharkwater

Jan Salter, 82, mastered the arts of animal & human aid in Kathmandu

October 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Founded leading Nepal humane organization past age when most people retire             KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Jan Salter,  82, artist,  humanitarian, and founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre in Nepal in 2004,  died in Lyme Regis,  United Kingdom,  on April 29,  2018. Word of her death did not reach ANIMALS 24-7 until nearly 90 days later. Born Janette […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Street dogs, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Affandi, Christine Townend, Harka Gurung, Jaynee Moon, Merritt Clifton, Prerna Rai

Helping animals through the Australian firestorm

January 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Reports from 25 of the hundreds of animal aid charities working in the hot zones CANBERRA,  Australian Capital Territories––More than 100 wildfires raging in Australian coastal forests and wooded parts of the Australian interior in September 2019 exploded beyond immediate hope of control and burst into global consciousness during the first days of 2020,  splitting […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bats, Birds, Conservation, Disasters, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Organizations, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arthur Queripel, Cheyne Flanagan, Chris Barton, Chris Dickman, Daemon Singer, Deborah Tabart, Elaine Ong, Glenys Oogies, Mark Graham, Merritt Clifton, Michael Dahlstrom, Rae Harvey

Cruelty charges filed against Aussie live sheep shippers––a first!

August 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Shipping company already lost live export license             PERTH,  Australia––Cruelty charges were on July 31,  2019 filed against two former directors of the live animal shipping company Emanuel Exports over the August 2017 deaths of more than 2,400 sheep from heat stress aboard the Awassi Express.             The sheep were in transit to slaughter in […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Calla Wahlquist, Graham Daws, Merritt Clifton, Mike Stanton, Nicholas Daws

Earth Day dilemma: enviro agencies addicted to deadly chemicals

April 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Catherine de Medici might have considered wildlife poisoning schemes medieval Let me tell you about the birds and bees,  and the cats and the rats,  and the possums and the pigs,  and the chemical-addicted descendants of Catherine de Medici at USDA Wildlife Services,  Threatened Species Strategy of Australia,  and Zero Invasive Predators of New Zealand, […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bees, Birds, Conservation, Dog use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Organizations, Politics, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Catherine de Medici, Jo Pollard, Maggie Barry, Merritt Clifton, Will Harvie

Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080

February 23, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Health Canada consultation to include public comments             OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18,  2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,”  when used to kill wolves,  coyotes,  and bears,  of the poisons strychnine,  sodium cyanide,  and sodium fluoroacetate,  better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Organizations, Politics, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Bob Kerridge, Bob Weber, Justine M. Philip, Merritt Clifton, Ryan Brook

Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal

December 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal,  Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25,  2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission,  which has maintained a global moratorium on […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Japan, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Norway, Organizations, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, South Korea, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Astrid Fuchs, Darren Kindleysides, Mari Yamaguchi, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ric O'Barry, Yoshide Suga

Snail & mountain goat race toward extinction in New Zealand Alps

October 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Endangered native snail & introduced Himalayan tahrs thrived together until the New Zealand government got involved             WELLINGTON, New Zealand––Plans for a cull of 17,500 Himalayan mountain tahr across the Southern Alps of New Zealand are on hold,  likely to be scaled down but not abandoned,  after the New Zealand Tahr Foundation and allied organizations […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Invertebrates, Organizations, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Charlie Mitchell, Eugenie Sage, Kyle Miljof, Merritt Clifton, Simon Hartley

“We can still save them”: wild cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz, 65

August 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

The “Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation” was an optimist in a field dominated by doom-and-gloom              NEW YORK CITY––Wild cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz died of cancer on August 5,  2018 in Manhattan, New York City,  after an 18-year struggle that began with a diagnosis of leukemia in 2001 and spanned most of the achievements for […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Central America, Central Asia, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Organizations, Poaching & trafficking, Politics, South America, Southeast Asia, Thailand, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Ashley Yeager, George Schaller, Lily Huang, Peter Popham, Salisa Rabinowitz, Tibor Krausz

Koalas, “world’s cutest critters,” under fire: logging, disease, cars & pit bulls

May 29, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Do koalas need better protected traditional habitat, or more new growth?             BRISBANE,  SYDNEY,  Australia––Can a newly made $34 million commitment by the Australian government save koalas? Or are koalas already doomed by the deadly combination of global warming and development? Jeopardized by bushfires,  dogs (especially pit bulls),  disease,  deforestation,  and drivers speeding through fragmented […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Feature Home Bottom, Organizations, Politics, Wildlife Tagged With: Ben Smee, David Tree, Jon Hanger, Kellie Leigh, Martin Taylor, Merritt Clifton, Michael Slezak, Mindy Weisberger, Oliver Milman, Peter McCutcheon, Sean FitzGibbon

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