Many still need help HOUSTON, Texas––How have horses, cattle, and animals kept in laboratories and zoos fared through Hurricane Harvey and aftermath? Soggy doggies and cats took the media spotlight during the first week of the Harvey crisis, but animals of every species shared the impact of the record deluge. (See also Hurricane Harvey: who is […]
Hope Ryden, 87, revealed the lives of wild horses, beaver, & coyotes
Known for film work before winning acclaim as author HYANNIS, Massachusetts––Hope Elaine Ryden, 87, author and/or photographer for 26 books mostly on wildlife subjects, and a frequent photo contributor to National Geographic, died on June 18, 2017 in Hyannis, Massachusetts from complications of hip surgery. Minister’s daughter Born on August 1, 1929, in St. […]
Trump triumph: zapping USDA web site zapped “puppy mill” law too
Maryland legislature & SAEN try to undo some of the damage BALTIMORE, CINCINNATI––Can a federal agency nullify state law just by taking down a web site? While proposing budget cuts that would hamper animal-related law enforcement under every federal agency with relevant jurisdiction, the Donald Trump administration on February 17, 2017 at least temporarily […]
Thumbing nose at lawsuits, USDA-APHIS hides more info
Deletes documents posted in response to Freedom of Information Act requests WASHINGTON D.C.––Hit with a second lawsuit, draft legislation, and letters from 119 members of Congress demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture restore web sites including Animal Welfare Act enforcement information, the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service has instead thumbed its collective […]
USDA-APHIS reposts less than 1% of deleted law enforcement info
More activists & animal charities sue WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on February 17, 2017 reposted some of the inspection reports on animal research facilities that it deleted from the USDA-APHIS web site two weeks earlier, on February 3, 2014, but not enough to quell protest or […]
Lawyers line up to sue USDA-APHIS over law enforcement info deletions
HSUS is first to file notice WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society of the U.S. appears to have been the first organization to file notice of a legal challenge to the February 3, 2017 purge of USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service law enforcement data from the USDA-APHIS web site. USDA-APHIS deleted without prior warning […]
Settlement of alleged neglect case at ISPMB could set up a repeat
International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros is allowed to keep & breed horses LANTRY, South Dakota––The fate of the remaining horses at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros ranch straddling the Dewey and Ziebach county lines in north-central South Dakota was on January 27, 2017 “settled” on […]
Did Trump kill rules to protect walking horses?
Horse advocates fear the worst WASHINGTON D.C.––Reports differ as to whether the Donald Trump administration has killed or just delayed new Horse Protection Act of 1970 enforcement regulations meant to protect walking horses from soring. The new regulations, introduced by the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on January 13, 2017, just a week before […]
Losing their asses: China trade deals deplete global donkey population
Is the demand real or a bubble? Either way, donkeys suffer BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan; NAIROBI, Kenya; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa––Developing nations from South Africa to Kyrgyzstan have become urgently concerned about losing their asses in trade deals with China. Literally. But whether Chinese donkey-brokers are buying donkeys for slaughter because of authentic market demand within China […]
Auction date set for survivors of ISPMB wild horse sanctuary meltdown
Victorious Dakota Access protesters unlikely to ride to the rescue LANTRY, South Dakota––If just one Dakota Access pipeline protester in 10 could stop at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros premises en route home from the multi-month vigil that kept the pipeline from crossing the Missouri River by passing under Lake […]
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