Matthew and Paul Berkovitz, 69 & 36; Seuk Kim, 49; Lee Krulisch, 80; Sheila Bolin, 65 Father and son volunteer animal rescue transport pilots Paul and Matthew Berkovitz, 69 and 36, of Westlake, California, and Thousand Oaks, California, respectively, volunteers for Pilots N Paws, were killed along with their dog Brody at about 2:10 p.m. […]
Las Vegas horse vet Shawn Frehner found. Social media victim? Suicide?
Video of Shawn Frehner kicking a fractious horse was aired on local TV stations days before he disappeared PAHRUMP, Nevada––U.S. National Park Service personnel on April 18, 2025 discovered the remains of large animal veterinarian Shawn Frehner, 56, near the Boulder Islands toward the southern end of Lake Mead. The Clark County Coroner Office & […]
Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83
Medical doctor John Wedderman quietly linked 759 Asian animal advocates into the beginnings of an international movement HONG KONG––Asian Animal Protection Network founder John Wedderburn, 83, among the most influential yet least well-known builders of the global animal rights and humane movements, died on November 25, 2024 at his retirement home in West Java, Indonesia. […]
Esther Klein, 96, was voice of the Animal Defence League of Canada
Esther Klein helped to start the chain of events leading to the existence of ANIMALS 24-7 OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada––“Sadly, Esther Klein passed away on June 11, 2024,” Animal Defence League of Canada spokesperson Judy Belair recently notified members and ANIMALS 24-7 via the Animal Defence League of Canada newsletter. Esther Klein, after raising her son […]
Richard Ellis, 86, & Wallace J. Nichols, 56, sought to save marine life
Surfers, divers, authors & scientists Marine biologist, author, and illustrator Richard Ellis, 86, an almost lifelong resident of New York City, died of cardiac arrest on May 21, 2024 at an assisted living facility in Norwood, New Jersey. Sea turtle researcher, Wildcoast conservation group cofounder, and author of the 2014 book Blue Mind Wallace […]
Sandy Rowland, 77, longtime Humane Society of the U.S. representative
Car crash ends 20-year career in Bowling Green civic affairs & politics BOWLING GREEN, Ohio––Sandy Rowland, 77, for more than 30 years a dynamic Great Lakes Region representative for first the Fund for Animals and later the Humane Society of the U.S., died on April 17, 2024 “from extensive injuries sustained in a car accident […]
Former U.S. Senate animal advocate Joseph Lieberman dead at 82
Had one of best U.S. Senate voting records on animal issues, 1990-2012 RIVERDALE, New York––Joseph Lieberman, 82, a strong animal advocate during his 24-year tenure as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, but best remembered for running for U.S. vice president in 2000 alongside Democratic presidential nominee Albert Gore, died on March 27, 2024 “due to […]
Marty Stephens, 68, chose footnotes over flamboyance in animal advocacy
Made anti-vivisection progress mostly quietly, behind the scenes Martin L. “Marty” Stephens, 68, who died at home in Clarksville, Maryland on February 17, 2024, after an 11-year battle with cancer, will be remembered as a footnote in animal advocacy history, or perhaps more precisely, as multiple footnotes in many reference works and research papers. […]
Nonhuman Rights Project founder & author Steven Wise dies at age 73
Hero to many animal advocates, and scoundrel to many, too Steven M. Wise, 73, an author and former attorney regarded by many animal advocates as an “innovative scholar and groundbreaking expert on animal law,” and by many others as an arch-scoundrel, died on February 15, 2024, in Coral Springs, Florida, his home for about a […]
Vegan advocate Dexter King, son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 62
Going vegan in 1987, advised by Dick Gregory, may have almost doubled Dexter King’s lifespan in long fight against cancer MALIBU, California––Dexter Scott King, 62, second son of Martin Luther King Jr., influential for more than 35 years in boosting vegetarianism and veganism among African-Americans, on the morning of January 22, 2024 “transitioned peacefully in […]