Parsemus Foundation announces progress SAN FRANCISCO––An injectable calcium chloride chemosterilant costing only pennies per dose has been tested successfully in male cats, following years of positive results in dogs, the San Francisco-based Parsemus Foundation on April 29, 2015 announced via the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s “Eureka Alerts” media release distribution system. […]
Out the WA-Zoo for Japanese Association of Zoos & Aquariums
Suspends membership over Taiji dolphin slaughter GENEVA, Switzerland––The World Association of Zoos & Aquariums governing council on April 22, 2015 announced that it had voted unanimously to suspend the membership of the Japanese Association of Zoos & Aquariums. Calling itself WAZA for short, but “The WA-Zoo” to critics, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums […]
H5N2 avian flu goes pandemic in U.S. & Canada
3.8 million hens killed in Iowa HARRIS, Iowa––Workers at Sunrise Farms near Harris in Osceola County, northeastern Iowa, on April 22, 2015 scrambled to kill 3.8 million laying hens to try to quell a fast-spreading pandemic of the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza that started in British Columbia, Canada, in December 2014. The National Veterinary […]
Big Cat Rescue: remembering every large & exotic cat
Memorial Wall includes nearly every cat species TAMPA, Florida––Visitors to Big Cat Rescue will see almost every species of cat whom anyone has ever raised in captivity. The cats are without exception kept in exemplary conditions, displaying the relaxed ferocity in repose that most cats take as a birthright. But visitors will see no “Wall […]
Canine influenza, dog meat, & the rescue connection
No evidence links disease outbreak to Asian dog meat markets CHICAGO––An outbreak of an Asian strain of canine influenza, H3N2, not before seen in the U.S., has hit more than 1,300 dogs in the Chicago area, spreading from Illinois into Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. But contrary to widespread rumor, there is no hard data yet, […]
Culling cats increases the feral population, Australian study finds
Expecting to validate the use of lethal culling, researchers find just the opposite HOBART, Tasmania, Australia––Perhaps the strongest scientific support yet for one of the key presumptions behind neuter/return feral cat control has emerged from a 13-month study by Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries biologist Billie Lazenby and two colleagues. Expecting to validate the use […]
Thai “Tiger Temple” losing stripes
Thai government announces plan to transfer 146 tigers to government breeding centers BANGKOK, Thailand––The notorious “Tiger Temple” at Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, may be near permanent closure, with the planned transfer of all 146 resident tigers to government breeding centers, Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife & Plant Conservation director general […]
Misunderstood Nanny Dogs?
A Critical and Objective Analysis of the Facts and Myths Concerning Pit Bulls by J. Thomas Beasley $3.99, Kindle; $6.99 paperback. 140 pages. Order c/o http://www.amazon.com/Misunderstood-Nanny-Dogs-Objective-Concerning/dp/150872671X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427737549&sr=8-1&keywords=nanny+dogs Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Says the biographical statement on the PRWEB announcement of publication of Misunderstood Nanny Dogs?, “Jesse Thomas Beasley was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia but […]
United Nations arm CITES recommends trade boycott of Laos over wildlife trafficking
“Suspend commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic” GENEVA, VIENTIENE–– The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), a treaty organization formed by the United Nations, on March 19, 2015 issued a rare recommendation that all 170 CITES member nations […]
Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle woos anti-gay evangelist
by Lee Hall Barrett Duke, a founding fellow of the Research Institute at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, on March 17, 2015 received accolades from Humane Society of the United States president Wayne Pacelle in his personal blog “A Humane Nation.” Explained Pacelle, “It’s part of my commitment, and that of […]
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