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Deaths in Tahiti: pit bull mayhem hits “tropical paradise”

May 18, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Victim survived nuclear bomb tests, but not four Staffordshires and a bull terrier PAPEETE,  Tahiti––Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint,  87,  was on May 12,  2020 torn apart by four American Staffordshire pit bulls and a bull terrier pit bull variant. She had survived World War II,  the 1946 annexation of Polynesia by France,  and 193 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Mediterranean, Pacific islands & other, Street dogs Tagged With: Brigitte Bardot, George Calderon, James Cook, Joseph Banks, Maria Liu Sing ép. Layoussaint, Merritt Clifton, Ramon Taihotua

“Invasive” grey squirrels, feral pigs, & rats: leave ’em alone, say scientists

February 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Studies suggest grey squirrel, feral pig,  & rat control are barking up the wrong tree BELFAST;  GUAM;  VANCOUVER––“Invasive” grey squirrels are allegedly extirpating red squirrels in the British Isles by transmitting squirrel pox. Feral pigs allegedly run amok to the detriment of rare native plants on Guam,  a remote Pacific island. Rats present a perennial […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Fur trapping, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Pacific islands & other, Scotland, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Marie Gawel, Becca Cudmore, Brandon Keim, Chelsea Himsworth, David Tosh, Joshua P Twining, Merritt Clifton, Robbin Lindsay

How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power

May 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species             CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18,  2019 Australian federal election ballot,  and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants,  either.  Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Daniel Ramp, Greg Hunt, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Merritt Clifton, Scott Morrison, Shel Williamson

An Easter bunny, cat, & mongoose story from a Japanese island

April 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Predators wrongly blamed for losses,  ancient Amami rabbits make a comeback AMAMI,  Amami-Oshima,  Japan––The Easter 2019 bunny story of the year,  and island ecology story,  too,  with even an angle involving egg hunts by ornithologists,  is underway on Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima islands,  between Japan and Okinawa.  Much to the evident embarrassment of the Japanese Environment […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Population control, Sheep & goats, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Doubutukikin, Masahiko Ohta, Merritt Clifton, Mitsushi Ikeshima

Mercury Toxicity as a Cause for Stranded Marine Mammals is not a Mystery

April 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw (Ph.D. in aquaculture, Boquete, Panama;  www.newaquatechpanama.com) Approximately 37% of marine mammal species are in danger of extinction,  according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.  Among the most often reported concerns regarding deaths of whales and dolphins are the phenomena of these animals beaching or “stranding” themselves en masse. Episodic […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Isles, Japan, Marine life, Mediterranean, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Science, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill McGraw

Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity

April 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

And why killing dogs, rats,  pigs,  goats,  mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators             SANTA CRUZ,  California––Appealing for funding to kill cats,  dogs,  rats,  pigs,  goats,  and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations,  in the name of promoting biodiversity,  the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, Edward Howe Forbush, Helen Briggs, John R. Platt, Merritt Clifton, Sally Esposito

Why is Hawaii “moving at a hurried pace” to kill cats at boat harbors?

September 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

New policy allows waterfront cats to be killed “by any means deemed necessary”             MILILANI, Hawaii––Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources chair Suzanne Case “is moving at a hurried pace to kill cats with a lead pellet fired from a high powered pellet rifle to the head or heart,”  alleges Carroll Cox––who is not […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Pacific islands & other, Population control, Population control, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Brigitte Nameta, Bryan Kortis, Carroll Cox, Edward Howe Forbush, Merritt Clifton, Richard Pough, Suzanne Case

Which are more deadly, balloons or alligators?

March 9, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Jogging with the alligators Readers who troll my wife Beth’s personal Facebook page have probably seen a collage image she posted last summer showing me jogging along an embankment littered with alligators,  stepping over their heads as I go,  trailing a leaky helium balloon behind me. Obviously I didn’t really go hopping past alligators:  the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Conservation, Crocodilians, Culture & Animals, Editorials, Endangered species, Fish, Food, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Meat issues, Opinions & Letters, Other species, Pacific islands & other, Reptiles, Sea turtles, Seals, Turtles, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Matthew Savoca, Merritt Clifton, Sean Greene, Vesela Todorova

Street dogs in the U.S.?  Nathan Winograd has gone barking mad.

February 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Merritt Clifton Among the most vociferous critics of ANIMALS 24-7 guest columnist Jeff Young’s essay We cannot adopt, warehouse or rescue our way out of dog & cat overpopulation! was No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd. Winograd’s own recommendations in response to the homeless dog and cat problem have long been a hodgepodge of wishful […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Beliefs, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Dogs & cats, Editorials, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Opinions & Letters, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Blue Cross of India, F.X. Meslin, Friends of Fethye Animals, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Winograd

What if an island has no cats?

December 8, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Birds on remote islands are sometimes better off with cats than without them Part II of a two-part series.  See also When the cats are away, the mice will play––and the rats & rabbits. Gough Island,  also in the South Atlantic,  never had any cats. “Today, the British-owned island,  described as the home of the most […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Babs McHugh, Clive Cookson, Dirk Hartog, Gregory Andrews, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf

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