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Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

August 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Madison Grant was the missing link             EL PASO,  Texas;  NEW YORK CITY––Much more than misanthropy links mass shootings by white supremacists to the obsession of mainstream conservation societies with extirpating “invasive species” and “cleansing” wildlife habitat of any trace of human presence. But don’t expect the Boone & Crockett Club,  the Sierra Club,  and […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Arthur Desmond, George Bird Grinnell, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Jonathan Spiro, Madison Grant, Merritt Clifton, Ota Benga, Patrick Crusius, Ragnar Redbeard, Robert Bower, Santino William Legan, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Hornaday

Squee’s Great Escape

July 20, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

by Helene Hesselager O’Barry Illustrated by Cheryl de los Reyes Cruz Hardcover, 40 pages,  $19.78, from https://www.amazon.com/Squees-Escape-Helene-Hesselager-OBarry/dp/0998646008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522071083&sr=8-1&keywords=Helene+Hesselager+O’Barry Reviewed by Beth Clifton Through a young dolphin’s eyes in the vast ocean world,   Helene Hesselager O’Barry,  wife of Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry and partner with him in freeing dolphins from captivity for more than 20 years,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Marine life, Marine mammals, USA, Whales & dolphins Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Helene Hesselager O'Barry, Ric O'Barry

Man-eaters of Kenya: The Ghost & The Darkness

June 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Maneless lions legendary for more than a century The Ghosts of Tsavo by Philip Caputo Adventure Press (c/o National Geographic Society,  1145 17th St. NW,  Washington,  DC   20036),  2002.  275 pages,  hardcover.  $27.00. The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa’s Notorious Man-eaters by Bruce D. Patterson McGraw-Hill Co. (Two Penn Plaza,  New York, […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Bruce D. Patterson, John Henry Patterson, Merritt Clifton, Philip Caputo, The Ghost & The Darkness

Secrets of Doris Day’s life & work for animals

May 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Publicity added much spin & gloss to what was already a positive record             CARMEL,  California––Doris Day,  97,  died from pneumonia on May 13,  2019. Day was remembered worldwide as a singer who recorded more than 650 songs between 1939 and 1967;  an actress who starred in more than 40 films between 1947 and 1968,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Morocco, North Africa, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Screen industry, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, Bill Wewer, Charles Manson, Cleveland Amory, Doris Kappelhoff, Earl Holliman, Holly Hazard, Kitty Block, Lindsay Pollard, Merritt Clifton, Nick Thomas, Richard Bonner, Rick Spill, Shirley Temple, Terry Melcher

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

Timothy J. Walker, 73, exposed slaughterhouse cruelty

January 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

by Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator, Humane Farming Association Timothy J. Walker,  73,  died on September 10,  2018 in Naples,  Florida,  a little known hero for animals sent to slaughter. After graduating from St. Mary’s High School in St. Louis,  Walker at age 17 joined his two first cousins in the U.S. Navy. Disaster relief Initially stationed […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pigs, Slaughter, Slaughter, USA Tagged With: Gail Eisnitz, Henry Spira

Four people who changed how humans see animals

December 13, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Charlie Russell,  Mary T. Hoffman, Aubrey Manning, & Dorothy Cheney  Russell made “Spirit Bears” famous            Canadian bear researcher and author Charlie Russell,  76,  died on May 7,  2018 in Calgary, Alberta,  from complications after surgery.             Born in Pincher Creek, Alberta,  where his parents Andy and Kay Russell were hunting outfitters and guides,  Charlie Russell […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Botswana, Culture & Animals, Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Isles, Kenya, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

November 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Cats, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Israel, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian D. Wallach, Billie Lazenby, Dove Sax, Erick Lundgren, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar

“Meat-eating is never neutral”: Mary Midgely, 99

October 19, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Author of Animals & Why They Matter             NEWCASTLE ON TYNE,  United Kingdom––“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral,”  wrote Mary Midgely on page 27 of her 1983 opus Animals & Why They Matter. “To himself,”  Midgely observed,  “the meat-eater seems to be eating life.  To the vegetarian,  he seems to be eating death.  There […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: David Midgely, Iris Murdoch, James Lovelock, Kate Rawles, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Peter Singer, Tom Midgely, Tom Regan

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life 

September 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by David Quammen Simon & Schuster 461 pages,  $30.00 hardcover. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton At a glance,  The Tangled Tree:  A Radical New History of Life,  by veteran science writer and historian David Quammen,  might seem to most ANIMALS 24-7 readers far removed from our usual topics of animal use,  abuse,  and consumption;  dog attacks;  […]

Filed Under: Animal sentience & intelligence, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Science

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