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Four chimps shot dead at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden––why?

December 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Shootings,  as info emerges,  look more like panic than a safety precaution             GAVLE,  Sweden––The more information emerges about the December 14,  2022 fatal shooting of four chimpanzees and wounding of another at the Furuvik Zoo,  about 100 miles north of Stockholm,  the Swedish capital city,  the more the shootings look like an ill-informed panic […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Annika Troselius, Frans de Waal, Ing-Marie Persson, Jane Goodall, Mathias Osvath, Merritt Clifton, Santino, Torsten

Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas

December 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it:  you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer,  you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Norway, Russia, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Dropkin, Bob Berwyn, Johan Olofsson, Jon Georg Dale, Mariska Te Beest, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garlan

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