How far north will torrential rains and flooding be felt? HOUSTON, TEXAS––Having scourged the length of the Texas coast, inundating more than a third of Houston, soaking western Louisiana as well, Hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Harvey is expected to drench Tennessee next, from Memphis to Nashville, before blowing out over Washington D.C. over the Labor Day weekend. […]
Tropical Storm Harvey: helping animals caught in harm’s way
Harvey the Wallbanger busts some animals out of confinement, traps others in need of rescue (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is doing what for animals?, Brian Davies puts $49,562 toward Harvey animal rescue, challenges others to match it and Which Hurricane Harvey animal relief charity took the Labor Day weekend off? More updates will follow as quickly as possible.) […]
Hurricane Harvey: who is doing what for animals?
Forty days & 40 nights of high water expected (See also Tropical Storm Harvey: helping animals caught in harm’s way; Brian Davies puts $49,562 toward Harvey animal rescue, challenges others to match it; and Which Hurricane Harvey animal relief charity took the Labor Day weekend off?) HOUSTON, Texas––Will torrential rains from Hurricane-turned-tropical –storm Harvey continue to batter […]
Monsoon floods threaten animals below the Himalayas
Devastation along one of the world’s longest yet most remote rivers GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA––Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains pelting the southeast side of the Himalayas, believed to be symptomatic of global warming, have for the fifth year in a row triggered deadly landslides and caused the Brahmaputra river and tributaries to overflow their banks. More than […]
Time Is Short And The Water Rises
by John Walsh with Robert Gannon (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1967. 224 pages, hardcover.) Reviewed by Merritt Clifton One can still find battered copies of Time Is Short And The Water Rises through online book search services, often selling for less than the orignal cover price of $6.95, plus postage. My copy was discarded years […]
Soi Dog Foundation & Indian Ocean tsunami heroine Gill Dalley, 58
Lost legs rescuing a dog in 2004 PHUKET, Thailand––“It is with profound regret and unfathomable sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Dalley,” the Soi Dog Foundation announced on February 13, 2017. “The inaugural winner of the Canine Hero of the Year award at the 2011 Animals for Asia conference in Chengdu, China, […]
Hellfire hits the Great Smokies, but 10,000 fish escape
Drought-driven fires traumatize a region that rejects global warming GATLINBURG, PIGEON FORGE, Tennessee––Animal victims of the firestorm that swept the resort towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in Sevier County, Tennessee on November 28-29, 2016 appear to have been few, but it would be difficult to overstate the trauma felt by residents of a […]
Blue Cross of India jumps in to save animals from 99-year record flood
Report from Chinny Krishna: After a few hours of actual sunshine today, we had extremely heavy showers this evening. Bangalore had the highest rain in a day for 99 years. Chennai (Madras) has received three months rainfall in just 22 days. ––S. Chinny Krishna, Secretary (retired) Blue Cross of India 1-A Eldams Rd., Chennai, Tamil […]
Animal Nepal’s post-earthquake report
by Lucia de Vries, director, Animal Nepal Re “No karmic bridge links the Nepal earthquake to Gadhi Mai” and “Nepal earthquake update from Jan Salter, founder, KAT Centre,” Animal Nepal, as well as Himalayan Animal Rescue Trust, really did an amazing job in the wake of the “twin quakes” that hit Nepal on April 25 […]
Nepal earthquake update from Jan Salter, founder, KAT Centre
Editor’s note: Jan Salter, a legend in Himalayan humane work, below offers a second perspective on the Nepal earthquake relief effort; see also “No karmic bridge links the Nepal earthquake to Gadhi Mai” and Animal Nepal’s post-earthquake report. Many have commented and noticed that I have not been as publicly visible in KAT’s many activities and […]