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“Conserving” rhinos to the brink of extinction

March 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Zoo births one rhino,  scientists make five rhino embryos,  trophy hunters buy rights to shoot dozens,  & poachers kill 1,000-plus per year DUBBO, Australia;  BERLIN, Germany––The Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo,  Australia,  on March 1,  2021 informed media that it “is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered black rhino calf.” Born to a four-time […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Central Europe, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Charlotte Peyerk, Christopher Peyerk, Leibniz Institute, Mark Peyerk, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hinks, Thomas Hildebrandt

How ancient bison survived in the land & times of Good King Wenceslaus

December 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Wenceslaus,  911-935,  left bison alone.  Successors alternately hunted & protected them. BIALOWIEZA FOREST, Poland––European wood bison,  also called wisent,  at risk of extinction for far longer than their North American cousins,  are no longer “vulnerable,”  and have accordingly been removed from the “Red List” maintained by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Mediterranean, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Zoos Tagged With: Białowieża Forest, Kaukasas, Madison Grant, Merritt Clifton, Tsar Alexander II, Wenceslaus, William Temple Hornday, Wladyslaw II Jagietto

Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments,  below. Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]

Filed Under: Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Judaism, Lab animals, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Geoffrey Deckers, Marion Bienes, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Shirley McGreal

Trump administration obliges airlines to carry “service” pit bulls

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

But only pit bulls who “fit within handler’s foot space on the aircraft”          WASHINGTON D.C.––Elaine Lan Chao,  U.S. Secretary of Transportation throughout the Donald Trump presidential administration and almost certain to soon leave office,  on November 30,  2020 introduced a revised Air Carrier Access Act regulation on the transportation of service animals by air […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Central Europe, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, France, Germany, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Service dogs, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Airlines for America, Donald Trump, Elaine Chao, Lara Trump, Lufthansa, Marlin Tremaine Jackson, Merritt Clifton, Victoria Knight

Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war

November 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Jiggs, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin, Stubby

Why Europe will not eat U.S. & Australian wild horses

May 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dutch & Danish seizures of illegally trafficked German horse meat do not mean revived demand             WASHINGTON D.C.,  BRUSSELS––Yes,  the Bureau of Land Management under Donald Trump appointee William Perry Pendley is desperately eager to dispose of as many as 45,000 wild horses in holding pens,  plus about 68,000 of the estimated 95,000 wild horses […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scandinavia, Slaughter, Slaughter, United Kingdom, Wild horses Tagged With: Jan Fasen, Manuel Coto, Merritt Clifton, Toby Sterling, William Perry Pendley, Willy Selten

Animals for ransom: zoos & the COVID-19 cash flow crunch

May 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Is COVID-19 really Armaggedon for zoos,  or just another funding pitch?              HONG KONG,  LONDON––Seven thousand animals at Ocean Park in Hong Kong and as many as 20,000 animals at the London Zoo and subsidiary Whipsnade Zoo are only the most politically conspicuous of thousands of menageries now at risk––and perhaps being held for ransom […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Isles, United Kingdom, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Andrew Rosindell, Edwin Wiek, Joy Marie Somers, Lawrence Anthony, Merritt Clifton, Verena Kaspari

Science races law to end culling seven billion male chicks a year

February 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No more fingers up chicks’ anal vents          PARIS,  France;  BERLIN,  Germany––Racing to appear to be ahead of egg industry science,  French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume on January 28,  2020 announced that his administration would ban mass culling of male chicks and castration of piglets without anesthetic. “From the end of 2021,  nothing will be […]

Filed Under: Chickens, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, France, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Mediterranean, Poultry Tagged With: Chad Gregory, Didier Guillaume, Gretchen Vogel, Merritt Clifton, Oliver Morrison, Timothy Kurt

Heart failure fells Vier Pfoten (Four Paws) founder Helmut Dungler, 56

January 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Dungler died at the Lionsrock sanctuary he founded             BETHLEHEM,  South Africa––Helmut Dungler,  56,  founder of the international animal charity Vier Pfoten (Four Paws),  died on January 5,  2020 from a sudden massive heart attack suffered on one of his frequent visits to the Lionsrock sanctuary,  among the biggest and most ambitious of the many […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Austria, Bulgaria, Central Europe, Chickens, Croatia, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws & standards, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Other entertainment topics, Population control, Population control, Poultry, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Street dogs, Street performers, Sub-Saharan, Ukraine, Welfare, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Amir Khalil, Chinny Krishna, Helmut Dungler, Ioana Dungler, Josef Pfabigan, Merritt Clifton, Signe Preuschoft

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

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