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More dog attack deaths fuel alarm in South Africa, Australia, Ireland

December 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Why is death-by-dog accepted as punishment for even innocent & accidental trespass? MOGWASE,  South Africa;  GREENBANK, Australia;  DUBLIN,  Ireland––Two December 3,  2022 dog attack fatalities resulting from use of high-risk dogs as alleged crime deterrents,  and a new investigative report about pit bull breeding in Ireland,  have further fueled rising demands for stricter dog laws […]

Filed Under: Africa, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Ireland, Isles, South Africa, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: Brayden O'Hanlon, Floyd Metsileng, Jyedon Pollard, Kane Minion, Merritt Clifton, Takisha Pollard

Disfiguring pit bull attack on child spurs calls for stronger Irish dog law

December 4, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull owner allegedly threatened to kill attack witnesses DUBLIN, Ireland––The total population of the Republic of Ireland,  a little more than five million people,  is fewer than that of the tenth largest U.S. metropolitan area,  distributed across an area roughly equal to that of the state of Indiana. That tends to make whatever happens […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Ireland, Isles Tagged With: Alejandro Miszan, Glen Murphy, Merritt Clifton, Mia O’Connell, Micheál Martin, Niall Byrne, Raul Miszan, Taoiseach, Teresa McDonagh

Bill Jordan, 97, wildlife vet, author, & founder of animal aid charities

October 6, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Jordan had a key role in forming at least nine organizations in 48 years,  most of which still exist William Johnston Jordan,  97,  known to the world as Bill Jordan,  wildlife veterinarian,  author,  and founder or cofounder of a constellation of wildlife care projects spanning the globe,  died on July 5,  2022,  at the SSM Health/St. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Canada, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Latin America, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, South Africa, Spectacles, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Zimbabwe, Zoos Tagged With: Brenda Jordan, Care for the Wild, Daphne Sheldrick, Merritt Clifton, Stefan Ormrod, vicuna, Zoo Check

Irish farmers have a beef––and that’s our problem, too

November 8, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Pastoral nations object to cattle cutbacks recommended for greenhouse gas emissions based on factory farm data GLASGOW, Scotland––“Cutting methane,”  specifically methane emitted by cattle,  “is the biggest opportunity to slow [global] warming between now and 2040,”  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead reviewer Durwood Zaelke suggested in August 2021,  during the run-up to the 2021 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cattle & dairy, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Ethiopia, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Food security, Global, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Ireland, Isles, Kenya, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Religion & philosophy, Scotland Tagged With: Amanda Little, Christine Chemnitz, Durwood Zaelke, Frank O'Mara, Ian Scoones, John Carmody, Lester Brown, Lisa O'Carroll, Merritt Clifton, Morwenna Coniam, Peter Flanagan

COVID-19 skins fur trade: Ireland bans fur farming; Finland vaccinates mink

October 27, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Ireland becomes 15th European Union nation to ban or phase out the mink industry             DUBLIN, HELSINKI––Responding to continuing discoveries of the COVID-19 coronavirus in factory-farmed mink,  the government of the Republic of Ireland has elected to ban fur faming. The Finnish Food Authority,  by contrast,  is experimentally vaccinating farmed mink in hopes fur demand […]

Filed Under: Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: Charlie McConalogue, John Carmody, Merritt Clifton

Bad Hare Days,  by John Fitzgerald

May 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Ireland, Isles, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Jones, Irish Council Against Blood Sports, Merritt Clifton, Vito Torelli

End to Irish & Greek mink farming expected after Danish & Dutch culls

November 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Irish chief medical officer calls for mink cull as “a matter of urgency”             LIMERICK, COPENHAGEN––Not even Guinness bottle caps are flipping,  let alone champagne corks popping,  in celebration of the anticipated imminent end of mink breeding in Ireland,  Denmark,  the Netherlands,  Italy,  Poland, France,  and perhaps even Greece and Spain. Mink massacres underway in […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Scandinavia Tagged With: John Carmody, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen, Mogens Jensen, Redmond O’Hanlon, Tony Holohan

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

“Invasive” grey squirrels, feral pigs, & rats: leave ’em alone, say scientists

February 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Studies suggest grey squirrel, feral pig,  & rat control are barking up the wrong tree BELFAST;  GUAM;  VANCOUVER––“Invasive” grey squirrels are allegedly extirpating red squirrels in the British Isles by transmitting squirrel pox. Feral pigs allegedly run amok to the detriment of rare native plants on Guam,  a remote Pacific island. Rats present a perennial […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Fur trapping, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Pacific islands & other, Scotland, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Marie Gawel, Becca Cudmore, Brandon Keim, Chelsea Himsworth, David Tosh, Joshua P Twining, Merritt Clifton, Robbin Lindsay

Calf massacre looms in Ireland: dairy sales up, beef sales drop

January 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Every sperm is sacred,”  as are profits,  but calf welfare is not DUBLIN,  Ireland––Irish dairy farmers,  having bred an expected 800,000 more bull calves to be born in spring 2020 than they can profitably sell in a contracting global beef market,  may resort to shooting hundreds of thousands at birth,  Guardian newspapers reporters Sophie Kevany […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues Tagged With: Barry Roche, Conor Heneghan, Joe Burke, Mattha Busby, Merritt Clifton, Michael Creed, Michael Geary, Sophie Kevany

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