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L.A. city council approves TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”

December 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to new Los Angeles neuter/return cat control program             LOS ANGELES, California––The long-awaited Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program on December 10,  2020 won unanimous approval from the Los Angeles City Council. “The Council vote clears the way for the city to use municipal funds to operate the Citywide Cat […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Judge Thomas McKnew., Kate Hurley, Merritt Clifton, Paul Koretz, Phyllis Daugherty

Cat studies shortchange disabled U.S. veterans & vanishing Aussie wildlife

December 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

White Coat Waste Project challenges Veterans’ Administration studies, while Aussie scientists question value of their own cat-killing experiment          WASHINGTON D.C.,  PERTH, Australia––Cat experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Cleveland,  Louisville,  and Los Angeles,  and by Australian researchers at the Charles Darwin Reserve,  225 miles north of Perth,  might be said […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Population control, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anthony Bellotti, Brian Mast, Charles Darwin, Dina Titus, Eradicat, Felixer, Merritt Clifton, Tim S. Doherty, White Coat Waste Project

Cats, tahrs & feathers on Table Mountain, South Africa

September 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Goats gotten,  South African National Park Service scopes in on feral cats             CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Have feral cats succeeded feral Himalayan mountain goats,  called tahrs,  as the purported greatest threat to native South African wildlife at Table Mountain National Park? The few remaining Table Mountain tahrs, a cause celebré from 2001 to 2004,  are descended […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anneke Malan, Colleen Seymour, Edward Howe Forbush, Kyle Mijlof, Merritt Clifton, Nicoli Nattrass, Niki Moore, Peter Wolf, Tiara Walters

Three recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways

June 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84;  activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76;  Bill Jenkins, 53             Michael E. Soulé,  84,  widely identified as the “father of conservation biology,”  but an enthusiastic advocate of “compassionate conservation” by the end of his life and career,  died on June 17,  2020. “Conservation is engaged in the protection of the integrity […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Sea turtles, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Bill Jenkins, Camilla Fox, Linda Ann DeStefano, Merritt Clifton, Michael Soule, Paul Paquet, Project Coyote, Regan Russell

Who killed 2.9 billion birds since 1970? Not cats, says a look through the glass!

September 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Who killed cock robin?  Clues are transparent.             CORNELL, N.Y.––The Southern Tier city of Corning,  New York,  noted for glassmaking since 1868,  may hold one of the key clues to the loss of 2.9 billion birds from U.S. and Canadian habitat in just under 50 years. Corning lies at one end of the Finger Lakes,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunted species, Insects, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Jillian Mock, Kenneth Rosenberg, Merritt Clifton, Rachel Carson, Scott Loss

Feral cats poop where someone feeds them––& that’s the big problem

September 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two studies confirm skepticism of waiting for studies to confirm the obvious             LOS ANGELES––The unacknowledged takeaway lesson from two new studies of neuter/return feral cat control,  published respectively by the City of Los Angeles and the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science,  may be that by the time academia,  the courts,  and public policymakers […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: A Long-Term Lens, Edward Howe Forbush, Lewis Robert Plumb, Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program, Merritt Clifton, Thomas McKnew

Neuter/return requires impact study, says Los Angeles judge

September 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

City support of feral cat population control program stopped by lawsuit brought by American Bird Conservancy LOS ANGELES––California municipal governments may not assist or promote neuter/return of feral cats without first  completing an environmental impact report,  ruled Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas McKnew on December 4,  2009. McKnew ruled on behalf of five organizations […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Ed Boks, Mark S. dodge, Martin Byhower, Melissa Pamer, Merritt Clifton, Teri Harrington, Thomas McKnew, Travis Longcore

How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power

May 12, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species             CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18,  2019 Australian federal election ballot,  and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants,  either.  Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Daniel Ramp, Greg Hunt, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Merritt Clifton, Scott Morrison, Shel Williamson

An Easter bunny, cat, & mongoose story from a Japanese island

April 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Predators wrongly blamed for losses,  ancient Amami rabbits make a comeback AMAMI,  Amami-Oshima,  Japan––The Easter 2019 bunny story of the year,  and island ecology story,  too,  with even an angle involving egg hunts by ornithologists,  is underway on Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima islands,  between Japan and Okinawa.  Much to the evident embarrassment of the Japanese Environment […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Pacific islands & other, Pacific rim, Population control, Sheep & goats, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Doubutukikin, Masahiko Ohta, Merritt Clifton, Mitsushi Ikeshima

Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity

April 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

And why killing dogs, rats,  pigs,  goats,  mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators             SANTA CRUZ,  California––Appealing for funding to kill cats,  dogs,  rats,  pigs,  goats,  and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations,  in the name of promoting biodiversity,  the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, Edward Howe Forbush, Helen Briggs, John R. Platt, Merritt Clifton, Sally Esposito

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