• News home
  • About us
  • Our bios
  • Contact us
  • Cats
  • Disasters
  • Pit bull data
  • How to help us
  • Get alerts!

Animals 24-7

News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & nature

  • USA
  • Asia/Pacific
  • Africa
  • The Americas
  • Europe
  • Obituaries
  • Please donate!
  • Coming Events

Will African swine fever make China vegan?

November 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Whatever happens, most of the world will eat less pork SYDNEY,  Australia;  HONG KONG––Will African swine fever,  a viral disease now projected to kill at least half the pigs in China and a quarter of all the pigs in the world,  accelerate the trend toward vegan eating? Or speed the transition toward factory farming? Or […]

Filed Under: Africa, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Eastern Europe, Eating dogs, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Philippines, Pigs, South Korea, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Andriy Rozstalnyy, He Huifeng, Jason Gale, Mark Schipp, Merritt Clifton, Oma Seddiq, Orange Wong, Park Won-soon, Yu Kangzhen

Feds probe alleged rapes & murders by WWF-funded anti-poaching militias

September 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

U.K., Germany,  & Switzerland also concerned about World Wildlife Fund-backed paramilitary operations             WASHINGTON D.C.–– The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and other federal agencies are investigating allegations repeatedly raised for more than a dozen years by media––chiefly by the online periodical BuzzFeed News,  but also including ANIMALS 24-7––that funds granted by the U.S. government […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Botswana, Cameroun, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, Laws & politics, Mozambique, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Carter Roberts, Josphat Ngonyo, Katie J.M. Baker, Marcus Engert, Merritt Clifton, Raul Grijalva, Rosalie Osborn, Susan Combs, Tom Warren

Wildlife Waystation closed & to be dismantled, after 43 years

August 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

If a cat has nine lives,  Wildlife Waystation had dozens             SYLMAR, California––Wildlife Waystation,  the often embattled prototype for dozens of other sanctuaries for former exotic pets and animals used in laboratories and entertainment,  has closed,  after 43 years. The closure came nearly four months after the reportedly forced retirement of founder Martine Colette. Colette […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Belgium, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Humane history, Kenya, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Screen industry, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bob Lorsch, Bob Wenners, Daphne Sheldrick, James Mahoney, Martine Colette, Matthew Simmons, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Summers

Noted in passing: Tresz, Muliro, Ndou, Hanson, Broecker, Lagerfeld

April 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Six people with little in common except influencing how humans see animals Hilda Tresz,  Freddy Mahamba Muliro,  and Joel Celestine Mambou Ndou,  none of them ever famous,  in various ways devoted their lives to great apes. Wade Hanson spent the last 24 years of his life as a humane officer. Wallace Broecker for more than 50 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Central Europe, DRC, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, France, Fur & leather, Gabon, Horses & Farmed Animals, Indian subcontinent, Kenya, Mediterranean, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sub-Saharan, USA, Zoos Tagged With: Frank Romaine, Freddy Mahamba Muliro, Hilda Tresz, Joel Celestine Mambou Ndou, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Wade Hanson, Wallace Broecker

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

Walls, boar purges, & no-man’s-land fail to stop African swine fever

January 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Wild boar to blame for only 1% of outbreaks, Chinese learn             PARIS,  France––Donald Trump is not the only world leader who has yet to learn that walls don’t work––not if the goal is really to keep a foreign threat out,  as opposed to presenting the appearance to a political base of doing something drastic […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Central Europe, China, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Germany, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lithuania, Meat issues, Netherlands, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Ukraine Tagged With: Donald Trump, Frank Fang, Merritt Clifton

Nazi zombies from hell: VW monkey tests & New Zealand use of 1080

September 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pledging to quit animal tests, VW tries again to shake Nazi origin             WOLFSBURG,  Germany––Monkeys are no longer breathing diesel fumes. Volkswagen publicists are likely breathing sighs of relief. Nazi tactics and ideology live on elsewhere. Examples include the use of the Nazi-developed pesticide Compound 1080 to kill a targeted goal of two million feral […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Austria, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Dogs & cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Lab animals, Politics, Research & testing, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ferdinand Karl Piech, Ferdinand Porsche, Herbert Diess, Jorian Jenks, Kate Connolly, Merritt Clifton, Tasgola Brune

Hitler:  Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover,  by Rynn Berry

June 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Pythagorean Publishers (P.O. Box 8174, JAF Station,  New York,  NY 10116),  2004. 81 pages,  paperback.  $10.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Rynn Berry,  the late historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society,  who died on January 9,  2014 after collapsing during a New Year’s Eve jog in New York’s Central Park,  established his reputation as […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Austria, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Europe, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Boria Sax, Charlie Chaplin, Ian Kershaw, Joseph Goebbels, Merritt Clifton, Ronald Reagan

Four lionesses: women who made a difference for animals

February 17, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Remembering Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth Lynette Shanley,  Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick,  Coby Siegenthaler,  and Lorraine Blake Roth,  widely separated in geography,  ages,  life experience,  and focus in activism,  likely never met,  nor even heard of each other,  yet––like tens of thousands of other relatively anonymous women––lent strength to the ever-growing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cats, Central Europe, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats lab animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Mice & rats, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Science, Shelters, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Coby Siegenthaler, Hans Siegenthaler, Lorraine Blake Roth, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Tammy Sue Kirkpatrick

Stink over conditions at skunk & ferret “fur farm”

October 23, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

SAEN seeks Animal Welfare Act charges against “fur farm” that appears to breed animals mostly for laboratories & the pet trade             NEW SHARON,  Iowa––If the 85-year-old Ruby Fur Farm was just a fur farm,  producing mink or fox pelts for the garment industry,  it would not be subject to unannounced visits from the USDA […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Austria, China, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Germany, Lab animals, Netherlands, Other species, Regulation, Scandinavia, Science, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Ruby Fur Farm, SAEN

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Next Page »

Quick links to coverage of dangerous dogs

CATS

Compassionate conservation

FREE SUBSCRIPTION!!!

©

Copyright 2014-2021

Animals 24-7 · All Rights Reserved · Admin