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Helping animals through the Australian firestorm

January 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Reports from 25 of the hundreds of animal aid charities working in the hot zones CANBERRA,  Australian Capital Territories––More than 100 wildfires raging in Australian coastal forests and wooded parts of the Australian interior in September 2019 exploded beyond immediate hope of control and burst into global consciousness during the first days of 2020,  splitting […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bats, Birds, Conservation, Disasters, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Organizations, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arthur Queripel, Cheyne Flanagan, Chris Barton, Chris Dickman, Daemon Singer, Deborah Tabart, Elaine Ong, Glenys Oogies, Mark Graham, Merritt Clifton, Michael Dahlstrom, Rae Harvey

Krefeld Zoo fire killed 30+ animals due to poor design & preparation

January 2, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Candle-powered flying paper lanterns allegedly caused the fire.  But inadequate attention to fire safety caused the deaths. KREFIELD,  Germany––A fire that killed more than 30 apes,  monkeys,  bats and birds at the Krefeld Zoo in the first minutes of 2020 apparently began when one or more flying cylindrical paper lanterns propelled by small votive candles […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Sanctuaries, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Chad Staples, Gerd Hoppmann, Merritt Clifton, Patrick Valentino, Wolfgang Dressen

Livestock shipment to Middle East goes sideways; to Hawaii, goes backward

December 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Drowned sheep & asphixiated cattle result from opposite approaches to maximizing profit MILILANI, Hawaii––Compared to the drowning deaths of more than 14,350 sheep on November 24,  2019 aboard the capsized Queen Hind in the port of Midia,  Romania,  the deaths of 21 Angus heifers aboard a Young Brothers barge en route from Honolulu to Kauai,  […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Romania, Sheep & goats, United Kingdom Tagged With: Bobby Farias, Carroll Cox, Jason Moniz, Jill Phipps, John Palmer Parker, Linda J. Cox, Wyatt Bechtel

Concern for rare birds of the Bahamas rises after Hurricane Dorian

September 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Little chance yet to assess the losses––but the Abaco parrot almost certainly survived              CAPE FEAR, North Carolina––Hurricane Dorian,  downgraded to Category 2,  with peak gust speed dropping by half to a still dangerous 110 miles per hour,  killed five people as it pushed north past the Carolinas,  but as of midnight on September 5,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Birds, Caribbean, Conservation, Disasters, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Shirley McGreal, Stephen Pruett-Jones

Hurricane Dorian helps to solve the mystery of the extinct Abaco wild horses

September 5, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

But Dorian destroys remnants of a 50-year effort to save the herd             TREASURE CAY, Little Abaco,  Bahamas––“This is like listening to a cosmic version of Ravel’s Bolero.  Feeling nervous about when the brass kicks in,”  wrote would-be wild horse savior and local dog rescuer Milanne “Mimi” Rehor,  in her last posting to Facebook before […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Working horses Tagged With: Edison Key, Merritt Clifton, Milanne "Mimi" Rehor, Robert Smalls, Sharon Cregier, Stacey McKenna

Cockfighters “win” from delay of hurricane aid to Puerto Rico

May 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Frustration at lack of help fuels defense of cockfighting against U.S. federal “meddling”              SAN JUAN,  Puerto Rico––Puerto Rican cockfighters and politicians who boast of standing beside them may have been the only winners when U.S. Representative Chip Roy on May 24,  2019 blocked more than $900 million in disaster relief funding for victims of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, Sports, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Chip Roy, Donald Trump, Jenniffer González-Colón, Merritt Clifton, Ricardo Llerandi, Ricardo Rosselló, Robert Hayes Gore, Roberto Clemente

Federal shutdown helps disease race from gamecocks to egg barns

January 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Deadly exotic Newcastle outbreaks were all but ignored even before U.S. President Donald Trump furloughed most of the government personnel who could have responded             RIVERSIDE,  California–– Pleading for urgent attention to the recent spread of exotic Newcastle disease from southern California cockfighting flocks to commercial egg barns,  Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) moderator […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry Tagged With: Donald Trump, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garland, Tim Lundeen

Could beavers have saved Paradise?

November 16, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“Managing” wildlife to prevent nuisance prevents benefits,  as well             SACRAMENTO,  California––Though many individual California Department of Fish & Wildlife personnel have distinguished themselves on the frontlines of the wildfires razing Paradise,  ravaging Malibu,  and menacing several other communities around the state,  ill-informed policy decisions made decades ago and never changed mean the 2018 fire season […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Fur trapping, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Alastair Bland, Alison Hawkes, Amber Jamieson, Brock Dolman, Donald Tappe, Heidi Perryman, Jake Olsen, Joseph Grinnell, Kevin Shaffer, Merritt Clifton, Michael Pollock, Peter Tira, Rick Lanman, Rob Thomas, Sarah Beesley, Steve Scauzillo

Animal rescue amid wildfires at either end of California

November 15, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Record 2018 fire season isn’t over yet             PARADISE,  MALIBU,  California––Some good news for animals,  habitat,  and ultimately humans may yet emerge from the firestorms simultaneously razing the Sierra Nevada foothills city of Paradise and parts of the far distant coastal city of Malibu––if the already record-setting 2018 California wildfire season gives an anticipated boost […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David K. Li, Evan Sernoffsky, Greg Woodcox, Jane Tyska, Jennifer Conrad, John Madigan DVM, Karen D'Souza, Marshall Tellem, Matt Rossell, Merritt Clifton, Susan Tellem

3.4 million “live inventory” – chickens & turkeys – drowned or starved in North Carolina storm 

September 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns with Afterword by ANIMALS 24-7 A caring person’s reaction to learning that millions of chickens and turkeys and pigs drowned in North Carolina this month is the gut-wrench of sorrow and pity for these helpless souls and outrage at the companies that didn’t see fit to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pigs, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Karen Davis

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