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For auld lang syne: last ANIMALS 24-7 obituaries of 2022

January 1, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

John Neville Hare,  Mark Stanley-Price,  Faith Maloney, & Vivienne Westwood The camel man John Neville Hare,  88,   died on January 28,  2022,  but ANIMALS 24-7 did not learn of his death until almost a year later. Born in Bexhill, Kent,  Hare became acquainted with working camels as a British army officer assigned to the Royal […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Central Asia, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Isles, Nigeria, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, Wildlife, Wildlife, World Tagged With: & Vivienne Westwood, Faith Maloney, John Neville Hare, Mark Stanley-Price, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

Animal evacuations from Kabul & New Orleans echo Saigon & Katrina

August 31, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

No U.S. military dogs left behind this time KABUL, Afghanistan;  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana––The last U.S. military flight from Kabul,  Afghanistan lifted off on August 30,  2021 at 3:29 p.m. local time,  evoking memories of the 1975 last U.S. military flight from Saigon,  Vietnam. No animals were aboard either the final U.S. military flight from Kabul […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Boris Johnson, Charlotte Maxwell-Jones, Mayhew International, Meredith Ayan, Merritt Clifton, Nowzad, Pen Farthing, SPCA International

What does the Taliban mean for animals in Afghanistan?

August 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Sharia law may be much better for animals than for western-funded animal advocacy organizations             KABUL,  Afghanistan––Six days after the Taliban retook Kabul,  the national capital of Afghanistan,  the one certainty for the status of animals may be that dogfighting will be prohibited and firmly suppressed,  along with a violent regional sport called buzkashi in […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Central Asia, Cockfighting, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Other animal fighting, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdul Jalil Mohammadzai, Buzkashi, Mayhew International, Nowzad, Pamela Constable, Penny Farthing, Tahera Rezaei

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

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