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, […]
Hours after Uvalde school killings, Iowa lawmakers authorize AR-15 deer hunt
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 […]
Russians kill Ukrainian animal rescue volunteers, bomb & starve shelters
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, […]
Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette, 79, goes to “walk with tigers”
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 […]
Springcliff Farm thoroughbred barn blaze adds shock to AWI exposé
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 […]
The Quad State Tornado: 80,000 chickens took the biggest hit
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, […]
The Beirut explosion one year later, by Jason Mier, Animals Lebanon
[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 […]
Barn fires begin to be noticed by animal advocates but not yet agribiz
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 […]
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
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 […]
Australian sheep export to Bahrain meets “bloody & miserable end” in Pakistan
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 […]
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