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

June 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton Leave a Comment

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

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

Siegfried Fischbacher, 81, follows tiger act partner Roy Horn, 75, in death

January 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Illusionist Fischbacher, of Siegfried & Roy, created image of partner Horn as “positive reinforcement” trainer & conservationist Both were role models for “Joe Exotic” et al             LAS VEGAS––Entertainer Siegfried Fischbacher,  81,  died of pancreatic cancer on January 14,  2021,  at the Las Vegas home he had shared with Roy Horn,  his partner in life […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Chris Lawrence, Doc Antle, Joe Exotic, Merritt Clifton, Robert McFadden, Roy Horn, Siegfried Fischbacher

Big Cat Public Safety Act clears House after Big Cat Rescue mauling

December 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Accident to volunteer emphasized need for the bill          TAMPA, Florida;  WASHINGTON D.C.–– December 3,  2020 began as a very bad day for Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin. But it was an even worse day for five-year volunteer Candy Couser,  69,  of Land O’Lakes,  Florida,  mauled by Kimba the tiger at the Big Cat […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Sanctuaries, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Fitzpatrick, Candy Couser, Carole Baskin, Dan Bishop, Earl Blumenauer, Ed Case, Joe Exotic, Kevin Antle, Mike Quigley, Tim Stark

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

Tony, the truck stop tiger since 2001, dies at 17––will he be the last?

October 19, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Had at least 13 predecessors in 30 years             IBERVILLE PARISH,  Louisiana––Tony,  17,  the latest and perhaps the last of a succession of at least 13 tigers exhibited for 30 years at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete,  Iberville Parish,  Louisiana,  was euthanized due to advanced kidney failure on the evening of October 16,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Sanctuaries, Sports, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Carole Baskin, Jamie Hargett, Jeremy Hargett, Lea Skene, Mary Sue Pearce, Merritt Clifton, Michael Sandlin, Natalie Lima

Payments for predation losses spark alleged attempts to get away with murder

July 10, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Schemes meant to save lives may be “gamed” for profit          PILIBHIT, India;  MADISON,  Wisconsin;  KALAMAZOO,  Michigan––As many as seven alleged murders in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve of northern India,  near the border of Nepal,  may help to spotlight a fatal flaw in schemes to pay compensation for wildlife depredation,  already evident in the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Cultural, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Predators, Sheep & goats, Tigers, Uses of dogs, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: John Barnes, John Koski, Kalim Athar, Keshav Agarwal, Merritt Clifton

“Ban white tigers & lion/tiger hybrids,” sanctuarians beg feds

May 22, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Petition seeks rulemaking under Animal Health Protection Act & Animal Welfare Act             WASHINGTON D.C.––Nearly 200 years of entrepreneurs speculatively breeding white tigers and lion/tiger hybrids are enough,  say a coalition of animal advocacy organizations and several leading sanctuaries where “tigons,”  “ligers,”  and “liligers” have lived out their days after proving no longer profitable for […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Sanctuaries, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Bhagavan Antle, Big Cat Rescue, Edward Maruska, Joe Schreibvogel, Lions Tigers & Bears, Merritt Clifton, Siegfried & Roy, William Conway

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