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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

How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power

May 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species             CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18,  2019 Australian federal election ballot,  and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants,  either.  Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Daniel Ramp, Greg Hunt, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Merritt Clifton, Scott Morrison, Shel Williamson

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

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

Nazi zombies from hell: VW monkey tests & New Zealand use of 1080

September 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pledging to quit animal tests, VW tries again to shake Nazi origin             WOLFSBURG,  Germany––Monkeys are no longer breathing diesel fumes. Volkswagen publicists are likely breathing sighs of relief. Nazi tactics and ideology live on elsewhere. Examples include the use of the Nazi-developed pesticide Compound 1080 to kill a targeted goal of two million feral […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Austria, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Lab animals, Politics, Research & testing, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ferdinand Karl Piech, Ferdinand Porsche, Herbert Diess, Jorian Jenks, Kate Connolly, Merritt Clifton, Tasgola Brune

“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

Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them

May 26, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River             SYDNEY,  Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival,  the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws, Politics, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Banjo Patterson, Calla Wahlquist, Don Driscoll, Erick Lundgren, John Barilaro, Madison Young, Merritt Clifton, Sandy Radke, Tom Lowrey

The poop on live transport, whaling, & Ramadan 2018

May 2, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Old ships,  ancient customs             FREMANTLE,  Australia––Seventy thousand Australian sheep aboard the 38-year-old livestock carrier Al Messilah,  or anyhow those who survive the journey,  are due to reach Kuwait on May 14,  2018,  according to VesselFinder.com. The voyage continues a trade that Animals Australia likens to whaling in terms of cruelty and obsolescence,  but which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Laws & standards, Live transport, Meat issues, North Africa, Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Welfare Tagged With: David Littleproud, Glenys Oogjes, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Kotsios, Victoira Laurie

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