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Legendary giant turtle, believed extinct, resurfaces in Hanoi lake

January 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Five years after the “last” giant softshell turtle died,  one and possibly three more turn up, plus one in zoo             HANOI, Vietnam––Five years after the January 2016 death of Cu Rua in Hoan Kiem Lake plunged Vietnam into national mourning for the legendary giant softshell turtle,  then believed to have been the last of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Soft-shelled turtles, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Vietnam Tagged With: Cu Rua, Dong Mo Lake, Ha Dinh Duc, Hoan Kiem Lake, Merritt Clifton, Robert Swinhoe

Kaavan flies to sanctuary with “elephant singers” Cher and Amir Khalil

November 30, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

World of friends help “world’s loneliest elephant”             ISLAMABAD, Pakistan;  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia––Kaavan,  long billed “the world’s loneliest elephant,”  was a flying elephant this morning,  November 30,  2020,  en route from the defunct Marghuzar Zoo in Islamabad,  Pakistan,  to share a 25,000-acre habitat with three female Asian elephants inside the the one-million acre Kulen-Promtep Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indian subcontinent, Libya, North Africa, Pakistan, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan, Thailand, Ukraine, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Cher, Helmut Dungler, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Whang, Yahya Sinwar

China prosecutes 10 times more wildlife scofflaws in 2020 than U.S.

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 triggers sustained crackdown on illegal fishers,  poachers, & traffickers BEIJING, China—Cracking down on wildlife-related crime in response to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  China prosecuted more than 15,000 alleged perpetrators in the first nine months of 2020. About 7,000 prosecutions were for illegal fishing,  4,000 for poaching land animals and birds,  and 3,000 for […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Birds, China, Crustaceans, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Reptiles, Snakes, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Grace Qi, Merritt Clifton, Shashank Bengali, Sister Hua, Vo Kieu Bao Uyen

Horsemeat, dog meat, & how “angel” Marc Ching fell from grace

October 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Donors ignored years of warnings about convict turned “rescue” celebrity LOS ANGELES––Marc Ching,  who in November 2018 offered to sell the city of Los Angeles vegan food for impounded dogs at a substantial discount,  is reportedly to be arraigned in December 2020 on one misdemeanor count each of practicing veterinary medicine without a license,  false advertising,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Buddhism, Cambodia, China, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses, Indonesia, Meat issues, Organizations, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Uses of dogs, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alene Tchekmedyian, George Knowles, Jeffrey Beri, John Dalley, Marc Ching, Martyn Stewart, Merritt Clifton, Paul Pringle, Phyllis Daugherty

Three-legged bears in the Great Smokies may be no accident

May 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. bear hunters & Asian gangsters cut paws & deals             ASHEVILLE,  North Carolina––Jody Williams and his Facebook group Help Asheville Bears want to catch the perp,  or multiple perps,  responsible for their recent discovery that at least 15 three-legged North American black bears are struggling for survival in the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, China, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laos, Legislation, Malaysia, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Russia, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, U.S., Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Bryant, Hwang Mei-hsiu, Jody Williams, Justin McVey, Merritt Clifton, Soeurn Simeth

Pandas follow the Calgary Stampede out of town––and back to China

May 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 red ink left the Calgary Zoo with a black-and-white choice  CALGARY,  Alberta,  Canada––Giving up hope that a rare giant panda exhibit will continue to pay for itself––and of managing to keep the pandas fed through the COVID-19 pandemic––the Calgary Zoological Society on May 12,  2020 disclosed to media that it has asked the Canadian […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Anugrah Andriansyah, Clement Lanthier, Da Mao, Er Shun, Jia Panpan, Jia Yueyue, Merritt Clifton, Stephen Harper

“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror

May 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders             BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet,  known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,”  generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests,  suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Bees, China, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Japan, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Sweeney, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Tam Garland

COVID-19: India feeds stray dogs; ASPCA says “don’t fix them”

April 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA advice to shelters could increase puppy & kitten litters by about half a million  While pet keepers in the developed world fret about the apparently infinitesimally small risk of pets and humans infecting and reinfecting each other,  following the discovery of COVID-19 infecting one cat in Liege,  Belgium,  and two dogs and a cat […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, China, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Isles, Laws & politics, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: David Semple, Emmanuel Andre, Janice Girardi, John Dalley, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Steven Van Gucht, Varda Mehrotra, William F. Harvey

From gorillas to shelter dogs: animals caught in the COVID-19 crunch

March 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No animals other than bats & humans are known to get COVID-19,  but millions are affected by the human response             WASHINGTON D.C.––Animals and animal-related projects from Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo to National Institutes of Health-funded laboratories are feeling the impact of the international COVID-19 scare underway throughout early 2020,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Shelters, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Humphrey, David Grimm, Eric Hutchinson, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Jenny G. Zhang, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Rodney Muhumuza, Shirley McGreal

Sex, COVID-19,  & the Thai monkey apocalypse

March 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Monkey menace” emerged first & will likely be around a lot longer             BANGKOK,  Thailand––Nightmares that a flying monkey army might ransack Thailand leaped across the Indian Ocean during the second week of March 2020,  out of Hindu mythology and the daily fears of Buddhist temple keepers,  and into the imagination of social media video-watchers […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Apilaporn Vechakij, Aylin Woodward, Lydia Luncz, Nathaniel Dominy, Noppawan Bunluesilp, Rebecca Radcliffe, Soe Zeya Tun, Theerapat Prayurasiddhi

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