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New Aussie cat-killing method may hint retreat from trying to kill all ferals

December 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Scheme targets only specific cats who eat endangered marsupials             ADELAIDE, Australia––Australian cat-haters rejoiced and cat advocates threw up their hands in horror after Adelaide Advertiser reporter Michelle Etheridge on November 30,  2021  revealed the latest of generations of government schemes to poison feral cats and foxes who allegedly prey upon endangered small marsupials. Overlooked […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Politics, Population control, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: bilbies, Greg Hunt, Kyle Brewer, Lisa Roberts Daintree, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Etheridge, Ned Ryan-Scholefield

Will Australia learn that “When the cat is away, the mice will play?”

April 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Be careful what you wish for” also pertains to mouse plague,  floods,  & infestations of snakes & spiders MELBOURNE,  SYDNEY––What stops a mouse plague? Driving 40,000 Australians from their homes in Victoria and New South Wales states,  while filling many of those homes with spiders and snakes seeking high ground,  the worst flooding in decades […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Invertebrates, Population control, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Leonie Thorne, Lucy Thackray, Matilda Boseley, Merritt Clifton, Sophie Riley, Steve Henry

Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife

December 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

White Coat Waste Project challenges Veterans’ Administration studies, while Aussie scientists question value of their own cat-killing experiment          WASHINGTON D.C.,  PERTH, Australia––Cat experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Cleveland,  Louisville,  and Los Angeles,  and by Australian researchers at the Charles Darwin Reserve,  225 miles north of Perth,  might be said […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Brian Mast, Charles Darwin, Dina Titus, Eradicat, Felixer, Merritt Clifton, Tim S. Doherty, White Coat Waste Project

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

Trixie the whale shark dies young at the Georgia Aquarium

December 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three whale sharks left of six brought from Taiwan in 2006-2007             ATLANTA, Georgia––Trixie the whale shark,  who could have lived up to 130 years in the wild,  died on November 27,  2020 after just 14 years at the Georgia Aquarium. Trixie,  believed to have been about 32 feet long,  still about eight feet short […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Taiwan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: David Malakoff, Elson Aca, Eric Hoffmayer, Janet McConaughey, Merritt Clifton, Morari Bapu

Rare Aussie animals save themselves, no thanks to Compound 1080

July 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Brush-tailed rock wallabies & long-nosed potoroos need habitat,  poison drops CANBERRA,  ADELAIDE,  MELBOURNE,  Australia––Investigators are finding,  in the wake of bushfires that ravaged protected habitat right around the forested coastal perimeter of Australia,  that many rare Australian animals apparently know how to save themselves,  with or without human help. More than a billion animals are […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Reptiles, Turtles, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Brooke Jarvis, Dana Mitchell, Emma Siossan, Jill Pickering, Jim Flannagan, Konrad Marshall, Merritt Clifton, Mhairi Roberts, Miki Perkins, Sarah Marshall, Susan Fowler

Poisoning Australia in the name of wildlife recovery after bushfire losses

February 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

And kangaroos shot,  koala trees bulldozed             MELBOURNE,  CANBERRA, SYDNEY,  BRISBANE––Six months of bushfires ravaging Australian coastal forests and grasslands stretching into parts of the Outback are reportedly almost at an end. The last two dozen fires in New South Wales and a comparable number left in Victoria state are smoldering on at the lowest […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Invertebrates, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Vince, George Martin, Irena Ceranic, Lisa Chalk, Lisa Diggins, Manfred Zabinskas, Merritt Clifton, Michael Dahlstrom

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

Fire & ice puts Australian koalas and Icelandic horses at urgent risk

December 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1982 recommended “50/50 fire and ice” as the best response to a crisis.  That isn’t working for either Icelandic horses or koalas.              REYKJAVIK, Iceland;  SYDNEY, Australia––Eco-disasters afflicting Icelandic horses and Australian koalas starkly illustrate extreme and contrasting effects of global warming as 2019 comes to an end. Hundreds of Icelandic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Iceland, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Wild horses, Wildlife, Working horses Tagged With: Ingunn Reynisdótttir, Magnús Ásgeir Elíasson, Merritt Clifton, Ragnar Tómas, Sigríður Björnsdóttir

Is Down Under biological warfare killing bunnies across the Pacific?

December 13, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Spreading disease by air is much easier than containing it by any method             LANGLEY, Washington––About sixty feral Belgian hares, long beloved village pets in Langley,  Washington,  may be the latest casualties of deliberate releases of the rabbit hemorrhagic disease RHD-1 in Australia and New Zealand,  8,000 and 7,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean,  respectively. […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Dave Parent, Merritt Clifton, Steve Layman

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