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Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads

February 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act brought law to save seals in Scottish waters             EDINBURGH,  Scotland––Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads,  posted by Animal Concern Scotland on February 1,  2021. The reward is specifically for information leading to the first successful prosecution under a new Scottish seal protection law,  adopted on […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bakkafrost, Bernadette Jordan, Edward Kolodziej, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Tavish Scott, Zhenyu Tian

Barry Lopez, 75, “literary naturalist,” inspired animal advocates

January 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Death came four months after Lopez lost home of 50 years to wildfire Barry Lopez,  75,  died on Christmas Day 2020 in Eugene,  Oregon,  after a years-long battle with prostate cancer. Sometimes described as a “literary naturalist,”  Lopez wrote often about animals,  but hardly exclusively,  and as often about the animals of Native American myth and […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Canada, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting practices, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Predators, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Holstun, Dave Blanchard, Debra Gwartney, Mary Holstun, Merritt Clifton, Sandra Landers

Strychnine for Christmas: Alberta gift to wolves, caribou & other wildlife

December 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming             EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season,  Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine. The strychnine will be not for Santa,  nor for the reindeer,  the North American variety of whom are called caribou,  but rather for the Big […]

Filed Under: Canada, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Predators, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Weber, Carolyn Campbell, Cathy Ellis, Cliff Wallis, Dave Hervieux, Merritt Clifton, Patty Hajdu

Pig transport truck kills animal advocate Regan Russell outside slaughterhouse

September 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Accident reprises 1995 death of British protester Jill Phipps             BURLINGTON, Ontario––Regan Russell, 65,  of Hamilton,  Ontario,  was on June 19,  2020 crushed to death by an 18-wheel livestock transport truck delivering pigs to slaughter at Fearman’s Pork Inc.,  the largest and oldest slaughterhouse in Ontario. A local landmark since 1852,  and the scene of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Religion & philosophy, Slaughter, The Americas, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Alka Chandna, Anita Krajnc, Barry Kent MacKay, Marc Bekoff, Mark Powell, Merritt Clifton, Regan Russell, Tita Zed

Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks

July 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7,  2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Paal Haldorsen, Prince Charles, Rob Edwards, Yonathan Zohar

Wrestler Megan Milner is first Canadian pit bull fatality of 2020

June 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Milner is fifth of six dog attack deaths in two weeks, four by pit bulls             HALIFAX, Nova Scotia––Wrestler,  martial arts expert,  and experienced pit bull owner Megan Milner,  38,  of Middle Musquodoboit,  Nova Scotia,  on the morning of June 9,  2020 became the twentieth known pit bull fatality of the year in the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Breeding, Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Shelters, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Brittany Duncan, Joan Sinden, Megan Milner, Meghan MacAdams, Merritt Clifton, Paul Hollingsworth

Fatal truck crash spotlights lack of attention to safety in dog transport

May 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Pit bull rescue was hauling 48 dogs to Canada             SHELLEY, Idaho;  PHOENIX, Arizona––Dog rescue-and-rehomers elsewhere around the U.S. on May 20,  2020 celebrated “National Rescue Dog Day.” Many from Phoenix,  Arizona,  and southern Idaho,  however,  searched the hills and woods around U.S. Interstate 15 milepost 105,  just south of Shelley,  Idaho,  for nine dogs––mostly […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Canada, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, The Americas, USA Tagged With: "English" John Murray, Amanda Cevering, Ann Watson, Christopher Kracht, Merritt Clifton

Pandas follow the Calgary Stampede out of town––and back to China

May 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 red ink left the Calgary Zoo with a black-and-white choice  CALGARY,  Alberta,  Canada––Giving up hope that a rare giant panda exhibit will continue to pay for itself––and of managing to keep the pandas fed through the COVID-19 pandemic––the Calgary Zoological Society on May 12,  2020 disclosed to media that it has asked the Canadian […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Canada, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Anugrah Andriansyah, Clement Lanthier, Da Mao, Er Shun, Jia Panpan, Jia Yueyue, Merritt Clifton, Stephen Harper

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

“Invasive” grey squirrels, feral pigs, & rats: leave ’em alone, say scientists

February 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Studies suggest grey squirrel, feral pig,  & rat control are barking up the wrong tree BELFAST;  GUAM;  VANCOUVER––“Invasive” grey squirrels are allegedly extirpating red squirrels in the British Isles by transmitting squirrel pox. Feral pigs allegedly run amok to the detriment of rare native plants on Guam,  a remote Pacific island. Rats present a perennial […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Fur trapping, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Pacific islands & other, Scotland, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Marie Gawel, Becca Cudmore, Brandon Keim, Chelsea Himsworth, David Tosh, Joshua P Twining, Merritt Clifton, Robbin Lindsay

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