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Animal deaths at Primarily Primates were not “acts of God”

February 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 4 Comments

Why was Primarily Primates less ready for the Texas freeze than a pizza parlor?             SAN ANTONIO,  Texas––“After 4 days without power, we finally have electricity back at the sanctuary!” Primarily Primates posted on the morning of February 19,  2021. “Due to the tenuous situation here in Texas,”  the posting added,  “we will be using […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Kent MacKay, Brooke Chavez, Carroll Soo-Hoo, Lynn Cuny, Merritt Clifton, Nicole Rivard, Priscilla Feral, Vernon Weir, Violet Soo-Hoo, Wally Swett

The incredible, recent, global rise in the stranding of marine mammals

December 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

by Bill McGraw,  Ph.D. Boquete, Panama During late September, 2020,  Australia experienced the largest mass stranding of whales in the history of that country. Two weeks later,  during early October 2020,  the stranding of 7,000 cape fur seals on the coast of Namibia was identified as a major marine mammal stranding event. Disturbingly, this was […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Central Europe, Disasters, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Gabon, Marine life, Namibia, Netherlands, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Other animals & science topics, Science, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Michalska., Bill McGraw, David Krabbenhoft, Paul Schuster, Tomas Antoszczyszyn

This is the house––a fortified compound––that the PetSmart founder built

November 23, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Community fears a cult will follow   GREENBANK, Washington––Residents of Greenbank,  Washington,  the Whidbey Island convenience-store-and-post-office hamlet where ANIMALS 24-7 gets mail,  awakened on November 21,  2020 to a 36-year-old recurring nightmare. Again a fortified house owned by a survivalist of far-right beliefs from Phoenix,  Arizona,  with Idaho connections,  had been found in the woods nearby. […]

Filed Under: Disasters, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Katherine Khashimova Long, Merritt Clifton, PetSmart, Robert Jay Mathews, W.R. "Ford" Smith II

Mob destroys the Nigeria SPCA amid national crisis

October 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Similar attack trashed & looted renowned drill conservation project LAGOS,  Nigeria––Amid the chaos and violence engulfing Lagos,  the economic capital of Nigeria,  the October 14,  2020 mob destruction of the Nigeria SPCA has so far not even won local media coverage. But the attack crippled the oldest institution in Nigeria that offers humane education and  […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Nigeria, Sanctuaries, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ayodele Williams, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Bada Olamilekan, Emmanuel Eyoh, Lisa Gadsby, Merritt Clifton, Peter Jenkins, Trevor Scott

Expanded hunting access goes up in smoke, burning Trumpists

September 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Trump administration opened 2.3 million acres of protected habitat to hunting,  but wildfires have forced closure of more than 10 times as much             WASHINGTON D.C.––Staunch support for U.S. President Donald Trump among gun-owning households might be said to have backfired on hunters in the wildfire-stricken West Coast and Rocky Mountain states.             Courting hunter […]

Filed Under: Deer & other horned species, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Wildlife Tagged With: David Bernhardt, David Bess, Donald Trump, Jason Surface, Merritt Clifton

Ship down with 5,867 cows & 42 crew renews protest against live export

September 4, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Had history of engine failure AMAMI OSHIMA ISLAND, Japan––The Gulf Livestock 1,  a Panamanian-flagged converted container ship carrying 5,867 two-year-old heifers and 43 human crew,  capsized and sank on September 2,  2020 in the East China Sea,  about 100 nautical miles west of Amami Oshima Island,  Japan,  the first survivor to be rescued told the Japanese […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Live transport, Meat issues, Organizations, Pacific rim Tagged With: Damien O’Connor, Lukas Orda, Marianne Macdonald, Merritt Clifton, Michael Lowcock, Sareno Edvarodo

Hurricane Laura: mouse takes the spotlight while 10 dogs die on truck

August 31, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Marine life are major wildlife casualties             COOKEVILLE,  Tennessee––Pipsqueak the three-legged mouse,  a cow dead for perhaps 160 years,  ten dogs succumbing to heat exhaustion aboard a rescue transport,  and acres of decomposing marine life scattered across beaches more than 300 miles from where Hurricane Laura made landfall at Cameron Parish,  Louisiana,  appear to be […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Chickens, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Poultry, Shelters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Alexandria Zoo, Angels of Assisi, Humane Society of North Texas, Merritt Clifton, Michigan Humane Society, P.E.T.S.LLC, PAWS-Chicago, Pipsqueak, SPCA of Texas, Wings of Rescue

Animal losses low after Hurricane Laura––but worst may be ahead

August 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Little animal agriculture where storm made landfall CAMERON PARISH, Louisiana––From the animal safety perspective,  Hurricane Laura could scarcely have hit in a less vulnerable location.             Reportedly the most powerful hurricane to hit coastal Louisiana since the Last Island hurricane of 1856,  Hurricane Laura whirled into the coastal bayous of sparsely populated Cameron Parish in […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Middle Left, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Shelters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Asheville Humane Society, Austin Humane Society, Brandywine Valley SPCA, Brother Wolf, Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA, Houston SPCA, Louisiana SPCA, Montgomery County Animal Shelter, Wings of Rescue

Chickens were the most numerous casualties of the Beirut explosion

August 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Animals Lebanon & Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals scramble to aid animal survivors             BEIRUT,  Lebanon––How many chickens lived and died to blow up Beirut? Probably millions,  but that toll––like all others pertaining to animals––eludes estimation from the available data about the August 4,  2020 ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 158 […]

Filed Under: Cats, Disasters, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Lebanon, Mediterranean Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Animals Lebanon, Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Jason Mier, Vier Pfoten

Kathi Travers, 69, vehemently non-“animal rights” animal advocate

April 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Legendary for deeds with ASPCA & WSPA,  but worked nearly twice as long for the British Columbia SPCA in St. George             PRINCE GEORGE,  British Columbia,  Canada––If Kathi Travers,  69,  could still shout aloud,  she might be shouting yet,  more than six months later,  about the first sentence of her Prince George Citizen obituary. Belatedly […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Caribbean, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Andrew Dickson, Gene Reitnauer, George Travers, Jo Graber, Kathleen Waldrop, Mary Tyler Moore, Merritt Clifton, Roger Caras, Sarah Schweitzer

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