How did Wildlife SOS cofounder & experienced anti-poaching investigator Kartick Satyanarayan get caught in such a tangle? AGRA, India––Wildlife law enforcement agents worldwide, both with government agencies and with nonprofit organizations, might take a lesson from the present plight of Wildlife SOS cofounder Kartick Satyanarayan. In particular, Satyanarayan could probably teach quite a bit from […]
Cats & dogs: how tigers, leopards, jaguars, & coyotes survive in suburbs
Dog & cat feeders unwittingly bait wild predators Cats hunt, dogs scavenge. When either dog or cat numbers drop, the other changes behavior MUMBAI, India; MAHAHUAL, Mexico; KATHAMANDU, Nepal; SAN FRANCISCO, California––Recent reports of tiger, jaguar, leopard, and coyote predation in human-dominated habitat come as reminders that the cat/dog relationship, even in the presence of […]
How “tiger porn” & kitten handling Trump the Big Cat Public Safety Act
The Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary, Knoxville Zoo, and Sharkarosa Zoo defy the intent of the Big Cat Public Safety Act, if not the actual letter of it WEST BEND, Wisconsin; KNOXVILLE, Tennessee; PILOT POINT, Texas––One might call it “tiger porn.” Mingling fantasy with delusion, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and profitable showmanship, the grotesquely misnamed roadside zoo calling […]
He arose! Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise did not die on April 1!
Reports of his death, as Mark Twain said, were “Greatly exaggerated.” HELENA––“Heartbroken to share that our beloved Jonathan,” a Seychelles tortoise with an estimated age of 194 years, “the world’s oldest living land animal, has passed away today peacefully,” a scammer purporting to be St. Helena veterinarian Joe Hollins posted to social media on April […]
Elephant menace brings prayers in India, trophy hunting in Botswana
22 people killed by one rampaging elephant in Jharkand RANCHI, Jharkhand, India; GABORONE, Botswana––“Rogue elephant kills two more in Jharkhand, toll reaches 22 in nine days,” bannered Mukesh Ranjan for the New Indian Express on January 9, 2025. This came just 48 hours after Shashi Singh of The Statesman, an Indian national newspaper published since […]
Five little noted but accomplished animal advocates who died in 2025
Marshall R. Thompson, Jamie Massey, Sarah Fisher, Neil C. Wolff, DVM, and Vincent van der Merwe Among the many accomplished animal advocates whose passage in the last months of 2025 mostly escaped notice from all but family and friends were Marshall R. Thompson, Jamie Massey, Sarah Fisher, Neil C. Wolff, DVM, and Vincent van der […]
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 […]
Drones & robots deployed against rising wolf & bear attacks in India & Japan
Intensive bear hunting has not reduced bear attack deaths in Japan LUCKNOW, India; TOKYO, Japan––“Forest rangers in India have deployed drones to track wolves after nine people, mostly children, were killed by the animals in recent weeks, officials said Sunday,” reported both CBS and Agence France-Presse on December 1, 2025. The CBS and Agence France-Presse […]
Tiger kills Ryan Easley, associate of “Tiger Kings” Joe Exotic & Doc Antle
Growler Pines Tiger Preserve closed; former West Coast Game Park Safari owner Brian Tenney indicted on 371 counts HUGO, Oklahoma––Tiger trainer Ryan Easley, 37, was on September 20, 2025 killed by a tiger at his Growler Pines Tiger Preserve. Despite pretenses to being a sanctuary for former circus animals, “Growler Pines Tiger Preserve, also known […]
Christine Townend, 81, founded the animal rights movement in Australia
Animal Liberation was only the second explicitly “animal rights” organization in the world Christine Townend, 81, remembered by Animal Justice Party member of the New South Wales legislative council Emma Hurst, 44, as “essentially the founder of the entire animal rights movement in Australia,” died from Parkinson’s disease in Leura, New South Wales, on August […]