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Hawaii wildfires: who is helping animals on smoldering Maui?

August 11, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal organizations, Bats, Birds, Cats, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Sanctuaries, Shelters, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Bryan Kortis, Cathy Goegel, Catopia Hawaii, Dawn Pfendler, Laurelee Blanchard, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Rockett

Tigers menaced by Nepal bureaucrat as well as by poaching, et al

July 30, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Predators, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Abhaya Raj Joshi, Birendra Prasad Mahato, Chitwan National Park, Jim Corbett, Mark Elbroch, Merritt Clifton

Jail break for Colombian owl monkeys; hippos remain on the lam

July 12, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Latin America, Poaching & trafficking, South America, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: IPPL, Merritt Clifton, Myriam Arévalo-Herrera, Pablo Escobar, PETA, Sócrates Herrera

Joe Biden signs the Big Cat Public Safety Act

December 22, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fifteen-year campaign nears climax for Howard & Carole Baskin             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Joe Biden on December 20,  2022 endorsed the Big Cat Public Safety Act into law. The Big Cat Public Safety Act on December 6,  2022 was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate on a voice vote,  after clearing the House of Representatives […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Howard Baskin, Joseph Schreibvogel Maldonado, Kevin Antle, Merritt Clifton, Tim Stark

What happened to the Shalom Zoo baby tigers, why?

November 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Why did the Shalom Zoo strive for a year to obtain baby tigers at apparently any cost?             WEST BEND,  Wisconsin––Two tiger cubs born on August 6,  2022 at the Shalom Wildlife Sanctuary in West Bend,  Wisconsin,  formerly known as the Shalom Wildlife Zoo,  in the early morning of November 19,  2022 drowned in an […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Sanctuaries, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bethany Gengler, David Fechter, Lana Fechter, Merritt Clifton, Roadside Zoo News

Elephant release marks 75th anniversary of Indian independence

August 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

(Adapted,  with some explanatory text added and legal details deleted specific only to India,  from a much longer version by Norma Alvares,  president,  People for Animals,  Goa,  and Alok Hiswarwala Gupta,  Centre for Research on Animal Rights,  published by Herald Goa on August 14,  2022.)   While the people of India prepared to celebrate 75 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Religion & philosophy, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Alok Hiswarwala Gupta, Elephant Reintroduction Foundation, Janumani, Norma Alvares, Patricia Sims, Queen Sirikit, Santosh Kumar

Big Cat Public Safety Act clears House again, heads toward passage

July 31, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Odds for Senate approval look good this time WASHINGTON D.C.––Clearing the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 278-138,  the Big Cat Public Safety Act pushed since 2007 by Carole and Howard Baskin of Big Cat Rescue appears likely to win U.S. Senate approval as well,  and be signed into law by President Joe […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting practices, India, Laws, Laws & politics, Mexico, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sanctuaries, The Americas, Tigers, U.S., USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Fitzpatrick, Carole Baskin, Eduardo Serio, Ernesto Zazueta, Howard Baskin, Kevin Antle, Lacey Act, Merritt Clifton, Mike Quigley

Amit Deol saved camels, Anton Mzimba saved rhinos, & both died young

July 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Deol & Mzimba became legendary in India & South Africa,  respectively SIROHI, Rajasthan,  India;  ACORNHOEK,  Mpumalanga,  South Africa––Amit Deol,  46,  spent most of his short life helping camels in the Thar desert of Rajasthan state,  India. Anton Mzimba,  either 42 or 49 according to various sources,  spent his life protecting rhinos from poachers on the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Carina Crayton, Christine Townend, Eugene Moll, Help In Suffering, Merritt Clifton, People for Animals, Sirohi

Floods: Yellowstone animals don’t need Noah, but animals might in Assam, India

June 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

High water raises hell in both the Rocky Mountains & below the Himalayas             YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK,  U.S.A.;  GUWAHATI, Assam, India––While unprecedentedly catastrophic flooding closed Yellowstone National Park for a week in mid-June 2022,  also unprecedentedly severe monsoon flooding closed Manas National Park in Assam state,  India,  earlier and for longer. Both Yellowstone National Park,  […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bangladesh, Disasters, Elephants, Endangered species, Feature Home Middle Left, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Brahmaputra, Just Be Friendly, Manas National Park, Merritt Clifton, Smriti R. Dutta, Yellowstone National Park

Busted again: the secret life of “Tiger King” Kevin “Doc” Antle on the lam from Iowa

June 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Does Antle fear identification with the ordinary more than felony charges? Charged with money laundering mucho bigtime MYRTLE BEACH,  South Carolina––Kevin Antle,  62,   self-styled as “Bhagavan” and “Doc” Antle,  was late on June 3,  2022 reportedly apprehended by agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Antle and alleged accomplice Andrew Jon Sawyer,  52,  also known […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Sanctuaries, Spectacles, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Barbara Fisher, Carole Baskin, Christian Dall’Acqua, Don Elroy, Ellen Dahnke, Jack Hanna, Joe Exotic, John Weinhart, Keith Wilson, Mahamayavia Bhagavan Antle, Merritt Clifton, Sue Pressman, Tawny Antle, Tilakum Antle

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