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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Live markets torture animals & perhaps poison people in your city too
by Eric Mills, coordinator, Action for Animals, Oakland, California. The San Francisco Commission of Animal Care & Control met on February 13, 2025. On the agenda: animal cruelty in the city’s many live markets, presented by the Washington, D.C.-based organization, Animal Outlook, replete with videos of the abuses and violations. The involvement of Animal Outlook, […]
Chinese bear bile industry is doomed by new products, science suggests
“Bio-transformed bear bile powder,” of non-bear origin, shows promise of overtaking the bear bile industry SHANGHAI, China––The good news for bears in China appears to be that the bad news reported recently by hunting writer Ted Williams via Animal Wellness Action is not quite as bad as it looks, based on scientific journal reports, […]
San Diego Rodeo, SF live markets, & the last refuge of scoundrels in California
Cultural defenses of abuse prevail over cultural mandate to “Be kind to animals” SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO––Samuel Johnson, author of the first dictionary of the English language, never saw and most likely never even heard of either San Diego or San Francisco, let alone saw or heard about either the San Diego Petco Park rodeo […]
The Fourth of July, Diwali, the Big Bang, & entropic dissolution of the universe
Fourth of July fireworks are not the end of the world, but animals do not know that ANIMALS 24-7 has a version of the Big Bang Theory, which holds, quite apart from theories about the origin and eventual end of the universe, that few human activities, involving animals or anything else, are more pointless, useless, […]
Life of Pei: the battle for compassion; my story and journey so far
by Pei Feng Su Lantern Publishing & Media P.O. Box 1350 Woodstock, NY 12498 www.lanternpm.org Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The animal advocacy world knows Pei Feng Su as the intensely hard-working, politely amiable, fluently multi-lingual, supremely capable and outwardly poised founder of ACTAsia for Animals, a humane education society with offices in London, Taipei, and […]
Peepers are out for spring, but where are the voices for frogs & turtles?
California Department of Fish & Wildlife continues to ignore the advice of California Wildlife Commission to stop the import & sale of frogs & turtles at live markets OAKLAND, California––Why is Eric Mills of Action for Animals apparently the only California animal advocate mobilizing to put pressure on the California Wildlife Commission and Department of […]