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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

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

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

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

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