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Gary Tiscornia, 75, headed Michigan Humane & Monterey County SPCA

November 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Led Michigan Humane recovery post-David Wills             TUCSON,  Arizona––Gary Tiscornia,  75,  died on October 14,  2021 in Tucson,  Arizona,  his home for much of his childhood,  his university and early professional years,  and in retirement after 41 years of leading or helping to lead the Humane Society of Tucson,  the Michigan Humane Society,  the Society […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Circuses, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Rodeo, Shelters, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: David Wills, Eileen Liska-Stronczer, Eric Mills, Gary Francione, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Waldo Tiscornia, Warren Cox

Winter, star of Dolphin’s Tale, showed aquariums can thrive as rescue centers

November 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Winter’s 16 summers helped to bring a new dawn for captive wildlife             CLEARWATER, Florida––Winter,  16,  an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin who spent almost her entire life at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium after losing her tail to a blue crab trap at just two months of age,  died on November 11,  2021 from a twisted intestine. […]

Filed Under: Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Dana Zucker, James "Buddy" Powell, Kevin Carroll, Mary Mosely, Merritt Clifton, Shelly Marquardt, Stephen McCullough, Sunset Sam

Animal friends Kim Crumbo, David Amess, & Ali Laoual Abagana remembered

November 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Rewilding Earth board member,  Member of Parliament,  & giraffe advocate at CITES Crumbo presumed dead in Shoshone Lake,  Yellowstone National Park Conservationist Kim Crumbo,  74,  remembered by Project Coyote founder Camilla Fox as “a true environmental hero for wildlife and wildlands,”  has been missing and presumed dead since September 20,  2021,  when the remains of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Isles, Laws, Niger, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ali Harbi Ali, Camilla Fox, Mark O’Neill, Merritt Clifton, Roger Gale, Rosie Awori

Joe Keller gave Jim Mason the pictures that started the war on factory farming

October 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Editors’ note: “You give me the pictures and I’ll give you the war!” newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst reputedly instructed a staff artist who failed to find fighting in Cuba at the outset of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Joe Adreon Keller (November 21,  1947––October 13,  2021) gave Animal Factories co-author and Animals’ Agenda magazine […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pigs, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alice Herrington, Julie Christie, Myriam Alaux, Peter Singer, Victor Schonfeld

Marine mammal activist Ben White,  53,  dies of abdominal cancer

July 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Long problematic career Ben White,  53,  died on July 30,  2005,  in Friday Harbor, Washington,  after a six-month struggle against abdominal cancer. White “cut open dolphin-holding nets in Japan,  scaled buildings to hang anti-fur banners, jumped in front of naval ships in Hawaii to stop sonar tests,  and slept atop old-growth trees to protest logging,” […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Faroe Islands, Humane history, Iceland, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Wewer, Clair George, David Howitt, Feld Entertainment, Kathleen Marquardt, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Rick Spill, Rod Coronado

Bush vet Eric Jayne, 61, who survived wilds of Alaska, killed by truck

July 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Jayne spent career providing vet care to remote & indigenous communities             GRAND FORKS, North Dakota–– “Eric Jayne,  DVM,  lost his life this morning in a multi-vehicle accident near Grand Forks,  North Dakota,”  Humane Society of the U.S. senior state director Lisa Kauffman informed friends and colleagues at mid-day on July 2,  2021. “The North […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dog racing, Dog sledding, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Spay/neuter, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Craig Medred, Dave Pauli, Eric Davis, Freddy Jordan, Julie Clements, Kathleen WoodenKnife, Lisa Kauffman, Lori Gossard, Merritt Clifton, Ruth Steinberger, Sally Cooper Smith

Five humane workers noted in passage

June 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Melvyn Driver,  Stephen Paysse,  Michelle Rose,  Marge Wright,  & Eleonora Worth mostly helped animals behind the scenes Driver “designed & built humane animal handling equipment for over 50 years” Melvyn Driver,  80,  of Luton,  United Kingdom,  whose “innovation, knowledge of cats, and passion for problem-solving helped to shape the success of trap/neuter/return feral cat control […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Humane history, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Eleanora Worth, Marge Wright, Melvyn Driver, Michelle Rose, Miranda Luck, Shari Bibich, Stephen Paysse

Former child star chimp Cobby, 63, had troubling hidden past

June 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

“Golden age of television” survivor had caregivers influential in the rise of animal rights opposition to zoos and circuses SAN FRANCISCO––The San Francisco Zoo chimpanzee Cobby,  63,  who died on June 5,  2021,  was remembered by mass media as “the oldest male chimp living in an accredited North American zoo.” But that may have been the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Obituaries (human), Sanctuaries, Spectacles, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Arlan Seidon, Carroll Soo-Hoo, Donna McRae, Merritt Clifton, Murray Hill, Violet Soo-Hoo

Remembering Rory Young, Glenn Summerlin, & Helen Marston

May 12, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Soldier,  fundraiser,  & campaigner:  three animal advocates whose work & approaches could scarcely have differed more Rory Young,  49,  founder of the anti-poaching organization Chengeta Wildlife,  was killed on April 26, 2021,  along with Spanish journalist David Beriáin,  44,  and photographer Roberto Fraile,  47,  in an ambush in Burkina Faso attributed to the jihadist militia […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Alternatives, Animal control, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Science, Spay/neuter, USA, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil Rhodes, Chengeta Wildlife, Dennis Orsey, Ken Nixon, Mariet Young, Merritt Clifton, Susan Dragich, Warren Cox, Yakov Alekseyev

Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing

April 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Two zookeepers,  two activists,  & a publisher Sharon Matola,  Jeremy Mallinson,  Brian Gunn,  Brian Gunn-King,  and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species,  an anti-vivisection activist,  a vegetarian activist of similar name,  and a book publisher,  of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson,  for instance,  were both friends of […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, United Kingdom, Vegetarians & vegans, Zoos Tagged With: Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, Jeremy Mallinson, Jon Wynne-Tyson, Lee Durrell, Merritt Clifton, Sharon Matola, Shubrohoto Ghosh

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