2018 seal hunt close to the end ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Perhaps the surest sign that the annual Atlantic Canada seal hunt is fading into history is the lack of prominence it has had this spring in the St. Johns Telegram, the leading media voice serving Newfoundland since 1879, which through April 2018 had barely mentioned it […]
Yellow fever mosquitoes now killing at 10 times the rate of pit bulls
Monkey killings contribute to disease outbreak death tolls in Brazil & India RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil; SINGHUDURG, India––Panic-driven monkey massacres are contributing to human illness and death, with yellow fever deaths up 60% since the end of fiscal 2017, and could help to spark global epidemics, warn Brazilian health officials. More than 718 Brazilians […]
Florida: Bashing the brains out of iguanas as alleged illegal aliens
Iguanas were in Florida first––by 16 million years FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida––Bashing or shooting the brains out of iguanas essentially for the hell of it would be illegal almost anywhere if done to pets. Braining iguanas in the name of research, however, brought University of Florida wildlife biologist and research coordinator Jenny Ketterlin and 14 […]
Judges hit “mindboggling arrogance” in pit bull attack cases
Quebec judge promises “severe, maybe even exemplary” sentence MONTREAL, MEMPHIS, RALEIGH-DURHAM, SAN ANTONIO––Convicting former pit bull and bull mastiff owner Karim Jean Gilles of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, for an unprovoked dog attack in 2015 that left then-seven-year-old Vanessa Biron facially disfigured and suffering from brain injuries, Judge Pierre Belisle of Quebec province, Canada on […]
Death of Florida 6-year-old reminds that bat rabies can strike anywhere
Humans & bats evolved to live in frequent proximity, yet rarely meet. That keeps us both safe. ORLANDO, Florida––The January 14, 2018 death of Ryker Roque, 6, at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, just 20 minutes from Disney World and half an hour from Walt Disney’s Wild Animal Kingdom, came as […]
Russ Rector, “the feared activist feared even among activists,” dead at 69
Said of marine mammal parks, “We’re all showing our age, but I don’t have to pass building inspections.” FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida––Russ Rector, 69, a former Ocean World dolphin trainer whose campaigns on behalf of marine mammals later closed Ocean World, unexpectedly died from natural causes at about 10:00 p.m. on January 7, 2018. Though […]
A whale for the saving in Nova Scotia––and what the rescue means
More than 100 Atlantic Canadians turn out to help in sub-zero cold HALIFAX, Nova Scotia––Farley Mowat, whose 1972 book A Whale for the Killing helped to transform human attitudes toward whales worldwide, would have been gratified by the scene on January 1, 2018 at Rainbow Haven Beach, just east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. On […]
All cats want for Christmas are their two front paws (and hind paws too, intact)
Nova Scotia and Denver ban declawing FREDERICTON, Nova Scotia; DENVER, Colorado––Christmas came early in 2017 for cats in Nova Scotia province, Canada, and in Denver, Colorado. Both jurisdictions recently banned elective and non-therapeutic declawing surgery, but through starkly different legal approaches. Nova Scotia vets make declawing “unethical” The Nova Scotia declawing ban was adopted, […]
Why has Paul Watson asked 58 groups to drop a boycott of Mexican shrimp?
Alleges boycott jeopardizes anti-poaching work to save the vaquita SAN FELIPE, Mexico––Leading an international boycott of Mexican shrimp called on behalf of the endangered vaquita porpoise, the Animal Welfare Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity have yet to publish a promised response to a December 3, 2017 appeal […]
Leptospirosis: when a rescue goes to rat piss
Five of 10 puppies transported from Puerto Rico to Vermont fell ill NORWICH, Vermont––Posted Surfin’ Sato founder Aimee Porcaro Goodwin to Facebook two days before Thanksgiving 2017, “We just got the lepto PCR test results for Ollie. NEGATIVE!!! I’m so thankful!!” The “all clear” for Ollie, a puppy from Puerto Rico whom Surfin’ Sato […]
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