Exit of animal use critics from the Trump administration, opposition from major research funder, & Trump policy-driven surge in Chinese lab demand stimulate “monkey hoarding” HILLSBORO, Oregon––Hopes that the Oregon National Primate Research Center might become a sanctuary for the almost 5,000 resident monkeys and baboons appear to have been dashed by Oregon Health & […]
Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, helped to shape AR movement
Desmond Morris’ ideas helped to form “animal rights” arguments, but Morris stood apart from the cause LONDON, U.K.––Naked Ape author Desmond Morris, 98, an influence upon and fellow traveler with the animal rights movement for much of his life, but at odds with vegans and vegetarians, died on April 19, 2026, in Naas, County Kildare, […]
Heads you lose: decapitation experiments in quest of a longer lifespan
Hong Kong tycoon Ricky Wong repeats a bloody gamble that has not paid off since the guillotine was invented HONG KONG––Centuries of myth, legend, and business reporting demonstrate that when an aging mad scientist has more money than brains, his thoughts often turn toward seeking immortality, typically through bizarre ritual sacrifice. Ricky Wong, founder and […]
Brigitte Bardot, 91, movie star for 20 years, animal advocate for 52 years
Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, felled by bees
Studied everything about elephants from their psyches to the tips of their tails & fought for elephant survival from the northern Kenyan desert to lecture halls in Beijing, China NAIROBI, Kenya––Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, died on December 8, 2025 at his home in Nairobi, Kenya. Excellence in all things was expected of […]
Big wins for elephants, rhinos, giraffes, sharks & falcons in Uzbekistan desert
The big loser at CITES Conference of the Parties 20 was the saiga antelope, native to host nation Uzbekistan SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan––Elephants, rhinos, giraffes, white-tipped sharks, peregrine falcons, and the Vantara captive wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat state, India, were among the big winners at the twentieth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the […]
“Murder hornets” murder two Americans, five years after panic, in Laos
Ordinary bees, wasps, & hornets meanwhile kill 72 Americans per year on average LUANG PRABANG, Laos––Flagged as a deadly invasive threat to Americans and especially American honey bees by the first Donald Trump administration in May 2020, so-called “murder hornets” have finally murdered two Americans. But in Laos, not the United States. And not in […]
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” animal welfare casualties apparently light
“Super Typhoon Ragasa” hit six nations in four days before blowing out HONG KONG, MANILA––Super Typhoon Ragasa, expected to be one of the deadliest and most damaging typhoons on record, instead seems to have proved chiefly that weather is still often unpredictable, and as regards animals, that animal welfare organizations in Southeast Asia are well […]
Chickens, rats, & my battle with leptospirosis, by Beth Clifton
Zoonotic disease can hit you anywhere GREENBANK, Washington––Sometimes ANIMALS 24-7 finds article topics right in our own backyard. Like World Zoonoses Day, commemorated annually on July 6. Today is the 140th anniversary of the first administration of the human post-exposure rabies vaccine by Louis Pasteur on July 6, 1885. “Zoonoses is the collective term for […]
Trump administration moves to protect pangolins, but not giraffes or hippos
Giraffes, hippos, & polar bears are in trophy hunting demand. Pangolin demand is believed to come chiefly from China. WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on June 17, 2025 formally proposed in the Federal Register to protect pangolins under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are the first vertebrate species to be proposed for an […]