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Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors

September 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Pigs can get Ebola,  but do they spread it? KAMPALA,  Uganda;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans,  though no one knows for sure yet,  warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Lab animals, Liberia, Lithuania, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poaching & trafficking, Russia, Science, Slaughter, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Arnon Shimshony, Christine Atherstone, International Livestock Research Institute, Merritt Clifton, PED, ProMED-mail

Pain in my heart: Why the lack of attention to animal welfare in international development?

April 11, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by Janice Cox The many ways in which the development of industrial animal agriculture harms humans, animals and the environment in developing nations have been subjects of concern to far-sighted thinkers for more than a century. The lineage of intellectual concern about such issues includes Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977), Barbara Ward (1914-1981), Lester Brown (1934-), Frances Moore Lappe […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Middle Right, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Meat issues, North Africa, Opinion, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Janice Cox, Livestock's Long Shadow, OIE

Shelter rabies cases remind of the risk in trying to “save them all”

December 21, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“He was a kitten. He came in at four weeks old.” PITTSBURGH, LONDON––Alerts to the risk that animal shelters, shelterless rescues, and adoption transport may spread rabies came simultaneously in December 2014 from no-kill organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. “He was a kitten. He came in at four weeks old,” Washington Area Humane […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Hungary, Isles, Lithuania, Rabies, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA

Lithuania advised against plan to kill 90% of wild boars to fight African swine fever

March 21, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

“Has little or no chance of success” VILNIUS,  Lithuania––The European Food Safety Authority on March 17,  2014 reported that a Lithuanian government plan to fight African swine fever by killing wild boars has little or no chance of success. “No evidence was found in scientific literature proving that wild boar populations can be drastically reduced by […]

Filed Under: Disease, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Other, Pigs, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Daylis Alfonsas Barakauskas, Lithuania, Maris Balodis, Mary-Louise Penrith, Merritt Clifton

Georgia Aquarium appeals NOAA ruling against proposed first beluga whale imports since 1992 

October 26, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

  ATLANTA––The Georgia Aquarium on September 30,  2013 appealed an August 6,  2013 ruling by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration that it had not satisfied the requirements to import 18 beluga whales from Russia. The appeal put the future of beluga whale exhibition before the U.S. District Court in Atlanta at the same time […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Marine mammals, Russia

Russia halts seal hunt

April 26, 2009 By Merritt Clifton

  MOSCOW,  OTTAWA––Russian minister of natural resources Yury Trutnyev on March 11,  2009 told the world that Russia has halted hunting seals under one year old on the frozen White Sea. “This bloody hunting is from now on banned in our country,  as in most developed countries,”  Trutnyev told media. Trutnyev described the ban as […]

Filed Under: Canada, Eastern Europe, Europe, Marine life, Russia, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, VITA, Vladimir Putin

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