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Geoffrey Deckers & Marion Bienes brought animal rights to the Netherlands

December 3, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Holocaust survivor Bienes inspired organization builder Deckers Award founded in Deckers’ name––see Comments,  below. Geoffrey Deckers,  51,  co-founder of the Dutch animal advocacy organization Een Dier Een Vriend [An Animal, A Friend],   died suddenly on June 29,  2020. Deckers suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20,  2017,  but appeared to have made a full recovery. As […]

Filed Under: Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Judaism, Lab animals, Netherlands, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Switzerland, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Geoffrey Deckers, Marion Bienes, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Shirley McGreal

Trixie the whale shark dies young at the Georgia Aquarium

December 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three whale sharks left of six brought from Taiwan in 2006-2007             ATLANTA, Georgia––Trixie the whale shark,  who could have lived up to 130 years in the wild,  died on November 27,  2020 after just 14 years at the Georgia Aquarium. Trixie,  believed to have been about 32 feet long,  still about eight feet short […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Taiwan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: David Malakoff, Elson Aca, Eric Hoffmayer, Janet McConaughey, Merritt Clifton, Morari Bapu

Virunga ranger, Taiwanese doctor, & PETA staffer lived & died for animals

October 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Virunga National Park Ranger Bagurubumwe Chuhoze Deogene,  47,  Mira Fong,  74,  and Jennifer Woods,  58,  died on October 10,  September 6,  and August 22,  2020,  respectively,  having in common almost nothing in their life histories except their dedication to animals. Bagurubumwe Chuhoze Deogene Joining the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature in 1996,  at […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, DRC, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Pacific rim, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan, Taiwan, USA Tagged With: Bagurubumwe Chuhoze Deogene, David Cantor, Jennifer Woods, Lisa Lange, Merritt Clifton, Mira Fong, Pei Su, Wilbur Cerate

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

Shimon Shuchat, 22, & Dick Goddard, 89, had animal advocacy in common

August 8, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

New York City activist & Cleveland weather forecaster were each legends in their spheres             NEW YORK CITY,  CLEVELAND––One of the youngest prominent animal advocates in the Northeastern U.S.,  Shimon Shuchat,  22,  and one of the oldest,  Dick Goddard,  89,  died a week apart,  on July 28 and August 2,  2020,  in New York City […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Judaism, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Alex Hershaft, Bernard Unti, Donny Moss, Karen Davis, Matthew McGowen, Mei Zheng, Nadia Schilling, Rina Deych, Vincent Di Santo

Anna Briggs lived for animal rights & no-kill before the movements existed

August 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Quiet personality long set an example,  yet did not emerge as a leader of causes Anna Catherine Briggs,  101,  died on February 15,  2011 in Berryville,  Virginia,  21 years after publishing her autobiography,  For the Love of Animals. For the Love of Animals,  a 122-page paperback, was written essentially as a fundraising device,  distributed chiefly to […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Humane history, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Spay/neuter, USA Tagged With: Alice Morgan Wright, Ann Cottrell Free, Anna C. Briggs, Edith J. Goode, James P. Briggs, Merritt Clifton, Ruby Brown, Virginia W. Sargent

Mary Lou Simms, Lori Golden, & Linda Lord focused their lives on animals

July 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Geese, cats, dogs & potbellied pigs were beneficiaries of their work Mary Lou (Andrews) Simms,  a journalist for 60 years,  best known as author of more than 30 exposés of purges of non-migratory Canada geese,  died on July 19,  2020 in hospice in Tallahassee,  Florida,  from complications of a brain tumor. Simms died one day […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunting & trapping, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Shelters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Canada geese, Daniel Guss, Eros Salvatore, Merritt Clifton, Phyllis Daugherty, Sean Simms

Three recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways

June 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84;  activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76;  Bill Jenkins, 53             Michael E. Soulé,  84,  widely identified as the “father of conservation biology,”  but an enthusiastic advocate of “compassionate conservation” by the end of his life and career,  died on June 17,  2020. “Conservation is engaged in the protection of the integrity […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Sea turtles, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Bill Jenkins, Camilla Fox, Linda Ann DeStefano, Merritt Clifton, Michael Soule, Paul Paquet, Project Coyote, Regan Russell

Guerrillas gun down 12 gorilla guards & five others in Virunga, DRC

April 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Resurgent Ebola and COVID-19 escalate threats to already high-risk habitat VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK,  Democratic Republic of the Congo––At least 17 people,  including 12 Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation rangers whose primary duty is protecting critically endangered mountain gorillas,  were killed in an April 24,  2020 ambush attack. No gorillas are known to have been caught […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Rwanda, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Wildlife Tagged With: Carl Akeley, Cosma Wilungula, Emmanuel de Merode, Fred Kockott, Innocent Ngudjolo, Jason Burke, Jules Ngondo, Mobutu Sese Seko, Philip Kleinfeld, Robert Flummerfelt, Yav Avuli

Takaya the “sea wolf” headed for home, but hunter shot him

April 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Lived for eight years almost within sight of British Columbia provincial parliament             VICTORIA, B.C.,  Canada––Takaya,  10,  the “sea wolf” star of the 2019 CBC Nature of Things documentary “Takaya: Lone Wolf,”  was on March 24,  2020 shot by a hunter near Shawnigan Lake,  British Columbia,  possibly after being chased and/or mauled by the hunter’s […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Native American beliefs, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Predators, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Darimont, Chris Genovalli, Gosia Bryja, Leyland Chacco, Merritt Clifton, Paul Paquet

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