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Ravaging Asia & Africa: a much deadlier plague than COVID-19

February 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World fiddles while grasshoppers munch             NINGBO,  China;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––A much deadlier plague than the COVID-19 coronavirus is sweeping westward from China through Pakistan,  across Central Asia,  and throughout the Horn of Africa,  flying 100 miles a day,  devouring crops enough to feed as many as 34 million people,  according to the United Nations Food […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Chickens, China, Ducks & geese, Egypt, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Kenya, North Africa, Pakistan, Poultry, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Cara Anna, Dominique Bourgeon, Donald Trump, Imran Khan, Kate Ng, Mark Lowcock, Merritt Clifton, Michael D’Estries, Rory Sullivan, Zhang Long

Iran to keep six cheetah conservationists in prison. Two more await fate.

November 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Sentences of six to 10 years come amid violent repression of anti-government protests & five-day Internet shutdown TEHRAN, Iran––The Iranian theocracy headed by Hassan Rouhani on November 20,  2019 celebrated “victory” over six days of public protest over fuel prices soaring by as much as 300%––and sent a warning to the protesters––by sentencing six of eight […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Islam, Laws, Religion & philosophy, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, Amir Hossein Khaleghi, Hadi Ghaemi, Houman Jowkar, Kavous Seyed-Emami, Maryam Mombeini, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, Morad Tahbaz, Niloufar Bayani, Pouria Sepahvand, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Taher Ghadirian

Finches found in hair curlers: trafficked to sing, or to fight?

June 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Singing said to be behind smuggling busts,  but the money may be in fights among caged finches NEW YORK, N.Y.––Circumstantial evidence hints that some or perhaps all of a parade of men caught in the act of allegedly bootlegging Guyanese seed finches into the U.S.,  purportedly to sell for use in high-stakes singing contests,  might […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Indonesia, Other animal fighting, South America, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Gurahoo, Gabriel Harper, Jurames Goulart, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Musumeci, Nonato Raimundo, Sebastian Andrade

Panda people put in a word for cheetah people facing death in Iran

February 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

World Wildlife Fund “stands in solidarity” with researchers charged with alleged espionage GLAND, Switzerland––The World Wildlife Fund “stands in solidarity with eight Iranian men and women on trial in Tehran this month on charges linked to their conservation work,”  WWF announced from headquarters in Gland,  Switzerland on February 22,  2019. The World Wildlife Fund declaration comes four […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Central Asia, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Indian subcontinent, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, Amir Hossein Khaleghi, Houman Jowkar, Merritt Clifton, Morad Tahbaz, Niloufar Bayani, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Taher Ghadirian

Russia bans “dogs of dangerous breeds” under new humane law

December 31, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Vladimir Putin signs “Law on Responsible Treatment of Animals” into effect MOSCOW,  Russia––Possession and handling of pit bulls and other dogs of dangerous breeds is to be strictly regulated throughout Russia,  under a new national “Law on Responsible Treatment of Animals” signed into effect by Russian president Vladimir Putin on December 26,  2018. The new “Law […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Population control, Rabies, Russia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexei Nikolsky, Alexei Pushkov, Evgeny Biyatov, Irina Smirnova, Merritt Clifton, Pavel Astakhov, V.A. Gmyrya, Vladimir Putin

Iranian cheetah defenders face the death penalty

November 4, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Accused of “sowing corruption on earth”             TEHRAN,  Iran––Because fair trials in Iran are historically scarcer than the highly endangered Asiatic cheetah,  who survives only in remote habitat in the eastern part of the country,  the global conservation,  scientific,  and human rights communities are anxious as a cat on a hot tin roof about “espionage” […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Laws, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Amirhossein Khaleghi, and Kavous Seyed Emami, Houman Jowkar, Kaveh Madani, Mahmoud Sadeghi, Mahtab Vahidi Rad, Maryam Mombeini, Merritt Clifton, Morad Tahbaz, Niloufar Bayani, Payam Derafshan, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Taher Ghadirian

“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

The many faces of Nasim Aghdam, vegan turned YouTube shooter

April 5, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Social media performer more engaged in self-promotion than in message-focused statement             SAN DIEGO,  California––Claiming more than 300,000 people had viewed her 60-odd (and sometimes very odd) YouTube videos on vegan and animal rights themes,  Nasim Aghdam on April 3,  2018,  two days before what would have been her 38th birthday,  abruptly multiplied her audience and […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Barbara Dunsmore, Ching Hai, Foruzan Ghodrattolah, Ismael Aghdam, Merritt Clifton, Nasime Sabz, Shahran Aghdam

Leaving The Wild:  The Unnatural History of Dogs, Cats, Cows & Horses

December 5, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Gavin Ehringer Pegasus Books,  distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. 364 pages.  $27.95 hardcover.  In stores December 5,  2017. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Remember the most gripping and informative few books you ever read about dogs,  cats,  cows,  and/or horses,  by authors as thorough as the multi-time best sellers Desmond Morris,  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Breeding, Cats, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Show, Training, USA, Uses of dogs, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Working horses Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Desmond Morris, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Gavin Ehringer, Herodotus, Merritt Clifton, Sonia Faruqi, Stanley Coren, Walt Disney

Did the bastards kill any bustards? Oil sheik hunters evicted from Pakistan

February 21, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Officially,  the oil sheiks didn’t use their falcons          THARPARKAR,  Pakistan––Birding enthusiasts,  conservationists,  and inquiring minds throughout Pakistan are wondering how endangered houbara bustards really fared this past winter,  after––according to the Urdu newspaper Daily Dunya––an alleged falconing camp set up in Tharparkar,  Sindh district,  by Qatari prince Fahad Abdul Rahman Al Thani was removed […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Birds, Captive animals, Central Asia, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Indian subcontinent, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Wildlife Tagged With: Fahad Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, Syed Rizvi

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