“This is a week we will never forget” HONG KONG, HANOI, HARARE––The Animals Asia Foundation on January 16, 2013 won a six-month battle against the ordered eviction of the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre from the edge of Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam––and just three days later won the cancellation of a controversial sale of baby […]
German zoo staff convicted of cruelty for killing hybrid tigers
Director and three employees fined MAGDEBURG, Germany––Magdeburg Zoo director Kai Parret and three members of the zoo staff were on June 17, 2010 convicted of cruelty for killing three tiger cubs at birth in May 2008 because their father was found to be a hybrid of the Siberian and Sumatran tiger subspecies. A fine of […]
Off-exhibit secrets of troubled zoos
by Merritt Clifton UBUD, GIANYAR–The Bali Zoo, featuring exhibits from which animals often “go walkabout,” might be described as emphasizing form over substance. Occupying a six-acre forested ravine in a residential neighborhood in Singapadu, a suburb of Ubud, the Bali Zoo has been described by tourism media as a “hidden jewel”–and it is, at a […]
Petting zoos can make children sick
PLANT CITY, Florida–At least six lawsuits filed against Ag-Venture Farms and the Florida Strawberry Festival, both of Plant City, may hasten the demise of petting zoos. Two sheep, two cows, and a goat exhibited by Ag-Venture Farms at the Florida Strawberry Festival, the Florida State Fair near Tampa, and the Central Florida fair in Orlando allegedly infected 30 to […]
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the SeaWorld Experience
by Susan G. Davis University of California Press (Berkeley, CA 94720), 1997. 313 pages, paperback; $18.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Spectacular Nature author Susan G. Davis spent eight years studying SeaWorld San Diego, 1987-1995. I spent under eight hours at SeaWorld San Diego, on May 7, 1999 but it was time enough to confirm her […]
Moral relativism & Marine World
by Merritt Clifton March 1995 VALLEJO, California––Any day now the fishing crews of Iki, Japan, may string nets between their boats and, banging metal objects together to make a noise that carries underwater, herd scores of Dall’s porpoises and pseudorcas into an inlet to be harpooned and hacked apart with machetes. Spring […]
Dirty Pool, part 3: Keiko
by Merritt Clifton January/February 1995 I had not planned to write a third part of my “Dirty Pool” series on propaganda interfering with marine mammal protection, but as the second part went to press on November 22, 1994, Warner Brothers and New Regency Productions donated $2 million to a new Free Willy/Keiko Foundation formed by Earth […]
Dirty Pool, part 2
by Merritt Clifton December 1994 VANCOUVER, KANSAS CITY, CHICAGO––Propaganda wins converts to causes by reducing issues to good against evil, forcing observers to take sides. Propaganda is among the most effective tools of warfare; but like warfare itself, it exacts a high price from those who use it. Much as the dead from either side […]
Dirty Pool, part 1
by Merritt Clifton November 1994 ORLANDO, NEW YORK CITY, MYSTIC––Activists don’t believe anything they hear from the “aquaprison industry.” Oceanarium people don’t trust activists to know truth when they see it. And small wonder on either side, given the pitch of the propaganda for and against keeping marine mammals in captivity. This debate differs from […]
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