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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

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

Save Animals Initiative cofounder Anil Malhotra, 80

December 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Anil & Pamela Gale Malhotra created reputedly the largest non-governmentally managed wildlife sanctuary in India Anil Malhotra,  80,  died on November 22,  2021 at the SAI (Save Animals Initiative) Sanctuary he and his wife Pamela Gale Malhotra cofounded in 1991 at Theralu Village & Post,  South Kodagu,  Karnataka state,  India. Posted Pamela Gale Malhotra to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Elephants, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Reptiles, Snakes, Tigers, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pamela Gale Malhotra, SAI Sanctuary

Former child star chimp Cobby, 63, had troubling hidden past

June 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Golden age of television” survivor had caregivers influential in the rise of animal rights opposition to zoos and circuses SAN FRANCISCO––The San Francisco Zoo chimpanzee Cobby,  63,  who died on June 5,  2021,  was remembered by mass media as “the oldest male chimp living in an accredited North American zoo.” But that may have been the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Arlan Seidon, Carroll Soo-Hoo, Donna McRae, Merritt Clifton, Murray Hill, Violet Soo-Hoo

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

“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

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

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

Who killed ivory trade investigator Esmond Martin, why?

February 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Endangered species, Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Isles, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Laws, Laws & politics, Legislation, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, North Africa, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, U.S., Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Chrysee MacCasler Perry Martin, Daniel Stiles, Fred Mukinda, Iain Douglas Hamilton, John Muchangi, Josphat Ngonyo, Kamore Maina, Lucy Vigne, Merritt Clifton, Pak Choi-Jun, Robyn Dixon

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