Melvyn Driver, Stephen Paysse, Michelle Rose, Marge Wright, & Eleonora Worth mostly helped animals behind the scenes Driver “designed & built humane animal handling equipment for over 50 years” Melvyn Driver, 80, of Luton, United Kingdom, whose “innovation, knowledge of cats, and passion for problem-solving helped to shape the success of trap/neuter/return feral cat control […]
Israel “fur ban” is among last gasps of “lame duck” Netanyahu regime
Ban to take effect––if it ever does––six months after Netanyahu government leaves office JERUSALEM, Israel––Israeli environmental protection minister Gila Gamliel, appointed on May 17, 2020 by “lame duck” prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on June 9, 2021 capped her year in office by signing a regulatory amendment that bans the sale of fur by the […]
The Body Shop to go “100% vegan” by 2023––but wasn’t it already?
Expanding the gulf between image and reality is what the cosmetics industry is all about LONDON, U.K.––Cosmetics and personal care industry media are abuzz with the June 1, 2021 announcement by The Body Shop that every product it offers will be 100% vegan by the end of 2023. Many consumers, on the other hand, […]
Bad Hare Days, by John Fitzgerald
Olympia Publishers (60 Cannon St., London, U.K. EC4N 6NP), 2008. 397 pages, paperback. $14.45 U.S., £9.99, 12.99 euros. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Northern Ireland banned hare coursing on June 23, 2010, six years after the rest of the United Kingdom. Ireland banned hounding deer on June 29, 2010. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission banned […]
British feds to cull badgers, ignoring lessons of 1,000 years
Bio-xenophobia hits pine marten & grey squirrels, too LONDON, U.K.––Though culling predators has come to be recognized as one of the larger ecological mistakes of the Romans, the Normans, the Georgians in the 18th century, and 20th century British governments, British environment secretary Owen Paterson on February 27, 2013 announced that badgers will be culled […]
U.K. “animal sentience” law: “victory” claimed before the fight begins
Recognizing animal sentience is part of an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare” yet to be written into draft bills, let alone passed by Parliament LONDON, U.K.––A week-plus after the Conservative government of the United Kingdom introduced an “Action Plan for Animal Welfare,” much of the animal welfare sector worldwide has already declared “victory,” with the […]
Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression
But the Finn study does not discount the influence of genetics on aggression HELSINKI, Finland––The same Finn researchers who in March 2020 published a study strongly affirming the importance of breeding in dog behavior have in May 2020 published a second analysis of the same data which––at a glance––argues just the opposite. The second […]
Did North Carolina seven-year-old die trying to stop a dogfight?
New British study confirms frequency of injuries to intervenors in pit bull attacks on other dogs GARNER, North Carolina; GLOUCESTER, U.K.––Did Jayden Belle Henderson, age seven, die trying to stop a dogfight? Two pit bulls on April 27, 2021 killed Henderson and severely mauled her mother, WRAL television master controller Heather Travaskis, 39. Trevaskis, […]
Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing
Two zookeepers, two activists, & a publisher Sharon Matola, Jeremy Mallinson, Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species, an anti-vivisection activist, a vegetarian activist of similar name, and a book publisher, of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson, for instance, were both friends of […]
Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?
Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near, whether through global warming, loss of fish from the oceans, nuclear war, or any of myriad other calamities, vanishing vultures might be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]
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