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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

Hours after Uvalde school killings, Iowa lawmakers authorize AR-15 deer hunt

May 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

New doe-and-fawn season DES MOINES,  Iowa––Hours after Salvador Ramos used an AR-15 automatic rifle he gave himself as an 18th birthday present to massacre 19 fourth graders and two teachers in Uvalde,  Texas,  the Iowa state house of representatives ratified a bill to create a special January antlerless deer hunting season for AR-15 users. The […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Deer & other horned species, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Joe Biden, Ken Rozenboom, Kim Reynolds, Merritt Clifton, Newtown, Parkland, Salvador Ramos, Todd Prichard, Uvalde

Russians kill Ukrainian animal rescue volunteers, bomb & starve shelters

March 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Anastasiia Yalanskaya & two others shot after delivering food to dog shelter near battle front             KYIV,  Ukraine––Anastasiia Yalanskaya,  26,  on March 4,  2022 became the second animal advocate known to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yalanskaya,  26,  “was delivering food to a dog shelter in Bucha,”  18 miles northwest of Kyiv,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Russia, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Ukraine, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Aleksandra Polischuk, Anastasiia Yalanskaya, Kostiantyn Khudov, Merritt Clifton, Natasha Derkach, Siobhán O'Grady, Tamara Tarnawska, Victor Fingal

Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette, 79, goes to “walk with tigers”

January 25, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Rescued,  sheltered,  & rehabilitated wildlife for 43 years LAKE HAVASU,  Arizona––Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette,  79,  died on January 23,  2022. Reported CBS-Los Angeles,  “Colette, who had been suffering from lung cancer,  died at her Lake Havasu home, according to her publicist.” Wrote Mike Barnes for Hollywood Reporter,  “She died surrounded by friends,  and one […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Kenya, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bob Lorsch, Daphne Sheldrick, Gini Barrett, James Mahoney, Merritt Clifton, Robert Wenners

Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé

January 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Horse farm fire is horrific;  fire toll on poultry & pigs is thousands of times worse             MARTINSVILLE, Indiana––A pre-dawn fire ripped through the Springcliff Farm foaling operation in Martinsville, Indiana on January 6,  2022,  killing an as yet unknown number of horses. “The call came in around 4:50 a.m. from a neighbor,”  White River Township […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Brandon Shireman, Christine Cagle, Dena Jones, Marjorie Fishman, Merritt Clifton, Vince Cagle

The Quad State Tornado: 80,000 chickens took the biggest hit

December 13, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Help was mostly just a few miles––or blocks––from the tornado path             LITTLE ROCK,  LOUISVILLE,  MEMPHIS,  NASHVILLE,  ST. LOUIS––Major national charities are putting in their inevitable fundraising photo-ops,  but major animal rescue deployments are not expected––or wanted by most local humane societies and animal control agencies––in response to tornadoes that ripped through parts of Mississippi,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, USA Tagged With: Animal Rescue Corps, Ark R.A.I.N. Wildlife Sanctuary, ASPCA, Daniel Boone, HSUS, Mayfield-Graves County Animal Shelter, Merritt Clifton

The Beirut explosion one year later, by Jason Mier, Animals Lebanon

August 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

[Contact Jason Mier & Animals Lebanon c/o [email protected]] On the afternoon of 4 August 2020,  our lives exploded. 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate [a byproduct of manure from factory-farmed chickens],  had been stored at the Beirut port,  in the heart of the city,  for six years.  At 6:08 p.m. on August 4,  2020 this caught […]

Filed Under: Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Lebanon, Mediterranean Tagged With: Animals Lebanon, Jason Mier, Maggie Shaarawi

Barn fires begin to be noticed by animal advocates but not yet agribiz

May 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal Welfare Institute & Humane Society International make recommendations             WASEKA, Minnesota––Twelve thousand pigs,  including 9,000 piglets and 3,000 sows,  died in a May 16, 2021 fire that razed two barns at the Woodville Pork Farm in Waseca,  Minnesota. Nine different rural fire departments sent water tankers,  but as the first barn was already fully […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Canada, Cattle & dairy, Chickens, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Pigs, Poultry, The Americas Tagged With: Alice Prygoski, Animal Welfare Institute, Hickman's Family Farm, Humane Society International, Merritt Clifton

An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason

April 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages,  paperback.  $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media,  www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order:  The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature,  published 28 years after the first edition,  is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction,  in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Judaism, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Gavin Ehringer, Jim Mason, Merritt Clifton, misothery, Niles Eldridge, Peter Singer, Stephen Jay Gould

Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan

March 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

22,000 sheep culled in secret KARACHI,  Pakistan––The Livestock Department of the state government of Sindh, Pakistan on October 20,  2012 killed the last of 22,000 sheep who were shipped from Fremantle, Australia to Bahrain on August 4,  2012 aboard the Wellard Rural Exports transporter Ocean Drover,  Malir district deputy commissioner Kazi Jan Muhammad told Ghulam […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Food, Hooved stock, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, Welfare Tagged With: Cormo Express, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ocean Drover, P.K. Livestock

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