Lumpy skin disease––yes, it’s ugly––also set Australia & Indonesia at odds for months. KATHMANDU, Nepal––Best known as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, circa 564 B.C., and as the land of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, Nepal during the summer of 2023 gained a more sinister distinction as ground zero for arguably the […]
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi calls out Alex Pacheco & “600 Million”
“600 Million” tried to tell the cofounder of the Indian national Animal Birth Control program that there are street dogs in India NEW DELHI, India; POMPANO BEACH, Florida––A brighter and less brazen huckster than Alex Pacheco, 65, founder in 1998 of 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, might have thought twice about putting the hustle […]
Hawaii wildfires: who is helping animals on smoldering Maui?
Communications down, info scarce, but rescuers are on the job WAILUKU, Maui, Hawaii––With 53 human dead and counting, 1,700 homes burned, 3,000 acres razed, cell phone and internet service down all over the island, and more than 13,000 people homeless, animal news from the Maui fire disaster area as of the evening of August 10, […]
Sri Lanka animal advocates fight to stop corrupted “animal welfare” bill
Exempts anything done in the names of food production, science, & culture 22-year-old fracas over Depo Provera injections in street dogs lurks in the background COLOMBO, Sri Lanka––Sri Lanka may be the only nation in the world, and perhaps the only nation ever, in which almost every indigenous animal advocacy organization appears to be frantically, […]
Rabies deaths up sixfold in India in 2022, but were still far below claims
Toll of 307 is magnitudes of order less than alleged by global organizations NEW DELHI, India––The bad news from Singh Baghel, Indian minister of state for health and family welfare, is that rabies killed 307 people in India in 2022, the highest confirmed death toll according to Central Bureau of Health Intelligence data since rabies […]
Tigers menaced by Nepal bureaucrat as well as by poaching, et al
New environment minister Birendra Prasad Mahato proposes to auction tiger hunting rights KATHMANDU, Nepal––“We could charge $25 million for every tiger killed,” Nepalese minister for forests and environment Birendra Prasad Mahato reportedly told a podcast audience in mid-July 2023, as International Tiger Day, July 29, 2023, approached. Mahato recommended that Nepal should begin auctioning tiger […]
Jail break for Colombian owl monkeys; hippos remain on the lam
Arbitrarily assigned conservation status protects owl monkeys, but designates hippos Public Enemy Numero Uno. CALI, Colombia––What a difference 15 million years makes! The most distant ancestors of Colombian owl monkeys, a subspecies of night monkey, are believed to have floated across the then much narrower South Atlantic ocean circa 30 million years ago on logs […]
Memorial Day remembrances of five recently fallen animal advocates
Betty Butler, William Linington better known as Randal Oulton, Ashley Morrison, Tom Reese, and Anil Sakhararam Khaire had little but nonstop work for animals in common Betty Butler stood up for mute swans & resident Canada geese Betty Butler, 83, died on April 29, 2023 in Fair Haven, New Jersey. Recalled the Asbury Park […]
Cats will now be fixed by India’s national Animal Birth Control program
Response to pack attacks: new rules also restrict where & when feeders may feed street dogs CHENNAI, India––Cats, as of March 10, 2023, are at last included in the Indian national Animal Birth Control program, operating since 2003. The inclusion of cats in effect officially recognizes neuter/return as the preferred method of cat population control […]
Dog pack killing of 4-year-old, caught on video, shows need for ABC
20 years of India’s national Animal Birth Control program helps to quell rabies, but not to reduce dog attacks, because feeders continue to concentrate dogs in problematic places HYDERABAD, India––Video security cameras set up above a car repair garage in Amberpet, a 250-year-old suburb of 425-year-old Hyderabad, India, on February 19, 2023 shocked the nation […]