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 […]
Will videotaped beatings kill the last elephant polo tournament?
PETA video shows mahout hit elephant on the head “approximately 15 times” BANGKOK, Thailand––The likelihood that the recently completed 16th annual King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand will mark the end of the sport increased on March 9, 2018, the second day of the four-day event, concluded on March 11, when PETA/Asia […]
Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?
Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
Elephant polo follows woolly mammoths toward extinction
Scheduled at only one place, for just four days, in 2018 BANGKOK, Thailand––Elephant polo might in theory stagger on for years or even decades after the four-day 2018 King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament––if the last tournament host, Anantara Hotels & Resorts, remains willing to pour promotional effort into it and mahouts have elephants to […]
Why is Asia for Animals excluding man who won case against Gadhi Mai?
Court victory upstaged host Jane Goodall Institute Nepal KATHMANDU, Nepal––Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center founder Gita Prasad “Uttam” Dahal, hospitalized in Delhi, India, for internal bleeding that has plagued him since a childhood spleen removal, on November 7, 2017 received an e-mail from Sangita Sapkota, program coordinator for the Jane Goodall Institute Nepal, which […]
No karmic justice for activist who did most to end Gadhi Mai sacrifices
Felled by internal bleeding, suffered since childhood KATHMANDU, Nepal––If karmic justice occurred in one lifetime, Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center founder Gita Prasad “Uttam” Dahal would walk onstage at the Asia for Animals conference, to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 3-5, 2017 to receive a standing ovation. Dahal would be recognized […]
Monsoon floods threaten animals below the Himalayas
Devastation along one of the world’s longest yet most remote rivers GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA––Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains pelting the southeast side of the Himalayas, believed to be symptomatic of global warming, have for the fifth year in a row triggered deadly landslides and caused the Brahmaputra river and tributaries to overflow their banks. More than […]
Payments for predation losses spark alleged attempts to get away with murder
Schemes meant to save lives may be “gamed” for profit PILIBHIT, India; MADISON, Wisconsin; KALAMAZOO, Michigan––As many as seven alleged murders in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve of northern India, near the border of Nepal, may help to spotlight a fatal flaw in schemes to pay compensation for wildlife depredation, already evident in the U.S. […]
Why the Oregon Zoo euthanized Packy the elephant
Antibiotic-resistant asymptomatic TB strain had epidemic potential PORTLAND, Oregon––Oregon Zoo veterinary staff on February 9, 2017 euthanized Packy, 54, the oldest male elephant in the U.S., after a multi-year losing battle against an antibiotic-resistant strain of the lung disease tuberculosis which had already killed two other Oregon Zoo elephants and infected seven zoo staff […]
The Big Five: Peter Jackson, 90, helped to save Indian tigers
Part I of a three-part series (See also John & Margaret Craighead led fight to save grizzly bears and Browder helped save the Everglades, Kellert found the current changing for animals.) Journalist Peter Jackson, instrumental in saving Indian tigers, died on December 9, 2016 in London, England at age 90. Biologists John and Margaret Craighead, instrumental in […]
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