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300 cats found in apartment near the scene of multiple murders

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Neighbors reportedly complained of corpse-like odor for seven years             NORTH YORK, Ontario––Even before nearly 300 cats were found on May 3,  2019,  huddled in Apartment 1811 at 30 Falstaff Avenue,  North York,  Ontario,  the suburban Toronto building was well-known to police. Built in 1970,  Falstaff Towers,  a cluster of buildings including three 19-story public […]

Panda people put in a word for cheetah people facing death in Iran

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World Wildlife Fund “stands in solidarity” with researchers charged with alleged espionage GLAND, Switzerland––The World Wildlife Fund “stands in solidarity with eight Iranian men and women on trial in Tehran this month on charges linked to their conservation work,”  WWF announced from headquarters in Gland,  Switzerland on February 22,  2019. The World Wildlife Fund declaration comes four […]

Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080

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Health Canada consultation to include public comments             OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18,  2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,”  when used to kill wolves,  coyotes,  and bears,  of the poisons strychnine,  sodium cyanide,  and sodium fluoroacetate,  better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]

Why killing predators won’t bring back the salmon

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Gulls join sea lions,  seals,  & cormorants in the crosshairs             VICTORIA,  British Columbia;  PORTLAND, Oregon––Blaming seals and sea lions for declining salmon stocks,  Pacific Balance Pinniped Society founder Thomas Sewid is frustrated these days because,  Sewid posted to Facebook on January 23,  2019,  “My firearm possession and acquisition license is expired.  I cannot hunt […]

Trial of Iranian cheetah defenders facing death penalty begins

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“Evidence” is reportedly “confession” extracted from female defendant under torture––who then retracted it              TEHRAN, Iran––The closed-door trial of eight Iranian cheetah researchers and conservationists for alleged “corruption on earth,”  espionage,  and “conspiracy against national security” is to resume on Saturday,  February 2,  2019,  and is expected to continue on Sunday,  February 3,  2019. All […]

U.S. & Canadian courts favor farmed animals five times in a week

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Jurisdictional issues guided four of the five decisions             WASHINGTON D.C.,  DES MOINES, Iowa,  TORONTO,  Ontario––A January 2019 blizzard of court decisions,  rendered in both the U.S. and Canada,  appear to have come down heavily in favor of improved animal welfare law enforcement on behalf of farmed animals. The effect of the U.S. decisions will […]

43 Americans & Canadians killed by dogs in 2018, 34 by pit bulls

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Fatal & disfiguring attacks declined, but pit bulls––just 5.6% of the U.S. dog population––inflicted upward of 75% Far fewer dogs killed and disfigured people in the U.S. and Canada in 2018 than in 2016 and 2017,  which saw new records set in almost every dog attack category that ANIMALS 24-7 tracks from media reports––but pit […]

Frustrated fishers push to kill West Coast sea lions & seals

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Newly formed Pacific Balance Pinnipeds Society gives voice to anger             VANCOUVER,  B.C.;  PORTLAND,  Oregon––Removing a longtime irritant to the British Columbia wild salmon fishing industry––and a major economic competitor––the British Columbia government and First Nations have agreed to phase out 17 commercial salmon farms operated since 1987 by a company called Marine Harvest off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.             The […]

Ontario allows hunters to kill 50 cormorants a day

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“The worst wild game management decision in Canadian history” by Barry Kent MacKay Artist & naturalist:  www.barrykentmackay.ca Director of Canadian & Special ProgramsBorn Free             Doug Ford,  the recently elected prime minister of Ontario,  who at one time claimed to be an ethical vegetarian,  has just proposed what I believe is the single worst wild […]