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Vultures: canaries in the pharmaceutical waste coal mine?

April 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Diclofenac-related vulture death in Spain may point toward a much bigger problem Should the end times be near,  whether through global warming,  loss of fish from the oceans,  nuclear war,  or any of myriad other calamities,  vanishing vultures might  be among the early harbingers of the apocalypse. Vultures might be expected to descend on the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Birds, Birds, Disease, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mediterranean, Pakistan, Spain, Wildlife, Wildlife, Working animals, Working horses Tagged With: Diana Aga, Diclofenac, Ibuprofen, John Mallord, Motrin, Rachel Carson, Rebecca Klaper, Robin McKie

Jan Salter, 82, mastered the arts of animal & human aid in Kathmandu

October 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Founded leading Nepal humane organization past age when most people retire             KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Jan Salter,  82, artist,  humanitarian, and founder of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre in Nepal in 2004,  died in Lyme Regis,  United Kingdom,  on April 29,  2018. Word of her death did not reach ANIMALS 24-7 until nearly 90 days later. Born Janette […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Buddhism, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feral animals, Hooved stock, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Street dogs, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Affandi, Christine Townend, Harka Gurung, Jaynee Moon, Merritt Clifton, Prerna Rai

Mark Twain’s Book of Animals

July 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Edited with Introduction,  Afterword,  & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of California Press https://www.ucpress.edu/ 325 pages,  hardcover.  $27.50. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wrote Ed Duvin,  whose 1989 Animalines newsletter essay “In The Name of Mercy” prophesying  “no kill” animal sheltering is widely considered a classic of humane literature,  to ANIMALS 24-7 a few days […]

Filed Under: Africa, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Egypt, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Morocco, North Africa, Religion & philosophy, Street dogs Tagged With: Charles Dickens, Chuck Jones, Ed Duvin, Henry Bergh, Mark Twain, Merritt Clifton, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Walt Disney

California Equine Retirement Foundation runs into deep muck

December 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Current leadership allegedly squandered assets & 27-year positive track record under ousted founder SAN JACINTO,  California––Among the 80-odd animal shelters,  sanctuaries,  and nonprofit rescue organizations foundering in 2019,  the California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF) has probably run through the most money over the past five years. Along the way,  CERF blew the the best reputation […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Donkeys, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Sanctuaries, Sports, USA Tagged With: Carrie L. Ard, Grace Belcoure, Helen Meredith, Josephine Italiano, Margaret Ransom, Merritt Clifton, Paul Young

Diane Chontos of Wild Burro Rescue charged with felony neglect

March 18, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Sanctuary endured 35 years,  but failed to thrive OLANCHA,  California––At least 67 U.S. animal shelters,  nonprofit animal rescues,  and animal sanctuaries failed in 2018. Twenty have failed in the first 75 days of 2019,  a record pace,  obliging other shelters,  rescues,  and sanctuaries to take in thousands of often severely neglected animals,  especially dogs,  cats,  […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Donkeys, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, USA, Wild horses Tagged With: Amy Meyers, Cleveland Amory, Gene Chontos, Karen Gilligan, Mark Meyers, Merritt Clifton

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

November 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Cats, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Israel, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian D. Wallach, Billie Lazenby, Dove Sax, Erick Lundgren, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar

Bleak future for Kenya donkeys, sold to slaughter or left to go feral

September 25, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Beasts of burden for 5,000 years, but now out of work             NAIROBI,  NAIVASHA,  Kenya––Donkeys in Kenya,  as in much of the rest of the developing world,  are rapidly disappearing,  but not all in the same direction.  Some are trucked to slaughter;  others gallop into the bush. Tens of thousands of Kenyan donkeys have already […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Donkeys, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Kenya, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda Tagged With: Alastair Leithead, Gilbert Koech, John Kariuki, Merritt Clifton, Nijiraini Muchira, Rachel Nuwer

Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them

May 26, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River             SYDNEY,  Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival,  the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws, Politics, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Banjo Patterson, Calla Wahlquist, Don Driscoll, Erick Lundgren, John Barilaro, Madison Young, Merritt Clifton, Sandy Radke, Tom Lowrey

Shoot wild horses, sell them to slaughter, or just let them die?

May 11, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Navajo Nation & BLM look at grim options  CAMERON,  ARIZONA––Why did 111 wild horses die stuck in the mud at a Navajo Nation stock pond near Cameron,  Arizona,  during the last week of April 2018? Photos distributed by Navajo Nation spokesperson Mihio Manus “showed clusters of horses with dried mud on their bodies, some overlapping one […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Donkeys, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats, Slaughter, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Anthony Marr, Brian Maffly, Gloria Tom, Hannah Grover, Merritt Clifton, Mihio Manus, Neda DeMayo

Hurricane Maria: St. Croix Animal Welfare Center welds the door shut

October 1, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Whatever didn’t blow away was stolen ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands––“It is with a very heavy heart that we were forced to weld the door to our clinic closed today,”  the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center posted to Facebook on September 28,  2017. Even before Hurricane Maria crushed the U.S.,  Dutch,  and British Virgin Islands, […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Caribbean, Cats, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Pigs, Sanctuaries, Sheep & goats, Shelters, Street dogs, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aleida Tolentino, Dave Pauli, Jenny Teed, Karen Corbin, Katie Block, Merritt Clifton, Ryan Moore, Sali Gear, Wayne Pacelle, Zifforah Tyrell

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