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Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

January 2, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Russian law protects Moscow State Circus monopoly             MOSCOW,  NEW DELHI––New legislation in Russia,  whose circuses have for almost a century been the most attended worldwide,  and in India,  where the circus tradition started,  appear to be among the final acts in several thousand years of traveling exhibitions of performing animals. The new Russian “Law […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Elephants, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Organizations, Russia, Show, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jacob Croninshield, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Chipperfield, Varda Mehotra, Vladimir Putin

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

November 9, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Cats, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Israel, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian D. Wallach, Billie Lazenby, Dove Sax, Erick Lundgren, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar

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

“We can still save them”: wild cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz, 65

August 18, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Central America, Central Asia, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Organizations, Poaching & trafficking, Politics, South America, Southeast Asia, Thailand, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Ashley Yeager, George Schaller, Lily Huang, Peter Popham, Salisa Rabinowitz, Tibor Krausz

Thin ice & few buyers for pelts, but Canadian sealers kill 60,000 seal pups anyway

April 29, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

2018 seal hunt close to the end ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Perhaps the surest sign that the annual Atlantic Canada seal hunt is fading into history is the lack of prominence it has had this spring in the St. Johns Telegram,  the leading media voice serving Newfoundland since 1879,  which through April 2018 had barely mentioned it […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & politics, Marine life, Politics, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ian Robichaud, Julia Page, Justin Trudeau, Merritt Clifton, Rejean Vigneau, Tristin Hopper

Train speeding in the wee hours kills four elephants

April 17, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

“India ain’t big enough for both of us.”          KOLKATA, India––The Howrah-Mumbai Mail train in the wee hours of April 16,  2018 killed four elephants on the same stretch of track in Jharsuguda district,  Odissa state,  where two others died after falling into trackside ditches in separate incidents in September and October 2017. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Azam Siddique, Bholu, Indian Railways, K.A. Sahki, Manoj Sinha, Merritt Clifton

Daphne Sheldrick, 83, showed Kenya that wildlife is worth most when alive

April 15, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Known for elephant & rhino rescue,  but contributions were much bigger than that             NAIROBI,  Kenya––The facts of the life of the late Daphne Sheldrick,  who died at age 83 on April 12,  2018 after a long battle with breast cancer,  are much more easily summarized than her legacy to wildlife,  elephants in particular,  and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Kenya, Laws, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Angela Sheldrick, Azam Siddiqui, Bill Jordan, Bill Woodley, Chris Jordan, Daniel arap Moi, Daphne Sheldrick, David Sheldrick, Esmond Bradley Martin, Gillian Woodley, Jomo Kenyatta, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, Paula Kahumbu, Steve Itela

“Bollywood” star Salman Khan sleeps on jail floor after 2nd poaching rap

April 6, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

World’s 9th best-paid actor dodged conviction since 1998             JODHPUR,  Rajasthan,  India–– “Bollywood” macho-man movie star Salman Khan,  52,  dodging poaching charges for nearly 20 years,  was on April 5,  2018 convicted for at least the second time of allegedly poaching two endangered chinkara gazelles,  on September 26 and 27, 1998. Four other “Bollywood” stars accused […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Poaching & trafficking, Screen industry, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Dev Kumar Khatri, Dominique Mosbergen, Merritt Clifton, Neelam, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu, Vikram Singh

Yellow fever mosquitoes now killing at 10 times the rate of pit bulls

March 25, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

Monkey killings contribute to disease outbreak death tolls in Brazil & India             RIO DE JANEIRO,  Brazil;  SINGHUDURG,  India––Panic-driven monkey massacres are contributing to human illness and death,  with yellow fever deaths up 60% since the end of fiscal 2017,  and could help to spark global epidemics,  warn Brazilian health officials. More than 718 Brazilians […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, South America, The Americas, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Fabiana Lucena, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Tom Youill

Will videotaped beatings kill the last elephant polo tournament?

March 12, 2018 by Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Other entertainment topics, Southeast Asia, Spectacles, Sports, Thailand, USA, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Golden Triangle Elephant Foundation, Jason Baker, King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament, Merritt Clifton

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