Future of logging, hunting, fishing & ranching region lies with nonlethal wildlife tourism TWISP, Washington––Vanishing salmon, Washington’s worst wildfire roaring through the Methow River Valley in July 2014, and flash floods that turned roads into rivers even before Finley Canyon stopped reeking of smoke and ash have brought beaver back to the Upper and […]
BLM to gather 575 Nevada wild horses, thanks to Friends of Animals’ “victory”
Friends of Animals blocked use of contraception while wild horse herd multiplied GARDNERVILLE, Nevada––One of the largest planned gathers of wild horses in recent memory, scheduled for Pine Nut Mountains Herd Management Area of western Nevada in fall 2018, results directly from Friends of Animals’ May 2016 claimed success in causing the Bureau of […]
Shoot wild horses, sell them to slaughter, or just let them die?
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 […]
The poop on live transport, whaling, & Ramadan 2018
Old ships, ancient customs FREMANTLE, Australia––Seventy thousand Australian sheep aboard the 38-year-old livestock carrier Al Messilah, or anyhow those who survive the journey, are due to reach Kuwait on May 14, 2018, according to VesselFinder.com. The voyage continues a trade that Animals Australia likens to whaling in terms of cruelty and obsolescence, but which […]
Two inches of rain means life or death to animals in Kenya
Flash floods broke devastating drought, but not drought cycle menacing wildlife & livestock NAIROBI, Kenya––Just two inches of rain over two days, about what Seattle gets on average in just two weeks, in mid-March 2018 triggered flash floods killing at least 15 Kenyans, marooning six tented camps for wildlife tourists in the Maasai Mara […]
These “Blazing Saddles” episodes were no comedy
Padilla Ranch and San Luis Rey Downs disasters may have been only part of the Southern California fire toll on horses LOS ANGELES––Of the estimated 700,000 horses living in California, nearly 60% live in the four-county Southern California region hit by early December wildfires, the largest of which, the Thomas fire raging in the wooded […]
Beyond sentience: will Brexit halt live animal exports from the U.K.?
Minister for Agriculture & Rural Affairs confirms her government is “considering options to control live animal exports” LONDON, U.K.––British cabinet ministers, after the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, called “Brexit” for short, “must have regard to the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings in formulating and implementing government policy,” according to draft […]
Hurricane Maria: St. Croix Animal Welfare Center welds the door shut
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, […]
What is “the dairy industry”?
by Meg Turville-Heitz Editor’s note: Even for abolitionist vegans, who believe the only “good” dairy industry involving real animals is a dead one, there is value in understanding that the dairy industry as it now exists is not a monolith, and that modes of activism that tend to strengthen the grip on the industry of […]
Brush possum killings build momentum for “boycott New Zealand” drive
Coercing children to kill possums oversteps international bounds WELLINGTON, New Zealand––If New Zealand conservation minister Maggie Barry held the portfolios for attracting tourism and economic development instead, she might be less notoriously dismissive of increasing international humane concern about the outcomes of the scheme she announced in 2015 to rid the nation of “invasive” […]
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