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Dead fisher played “chicken” with Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat

January 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Would have passed safely if he had not cut to the right SAN FELIPE, Baja California, Mexico––What fisher Mario García Toledo,  56,  had in mind when he swerved his small but speedy panga across the bow of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat on the morning of December 31,  2020 in the northern […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Fish, Marine life, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Cornelissen, Farley Mowat, Mario García Toledo, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd

Ice age rock art find exposes nearly 200 years of horse manure

December 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

The discovery does not improve  the case for horses having survived the Ice Ages in the Americas CHIRIBIQUETTE NATIONAL PARK, Colombia––Images of ice age horses,  among thousands of other animals painted along an eight-mile mural of rock art recently found in southern Colombia,  have revived hopes among wild horse advocates––and Mormon literalists––that horses somehow remained […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Beliefs, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, The Americas, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife

COVID-19 hot tip for coffee growers:  don’t go [email protected]#$% nuts!

March 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 shows “Eat @#$% & die!” is a warning,  not a metaphor KUNMING,  China;  LONDON, U.K.;  SEATTLE––One might imagine that the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19,  a disease apparently originating in bats, would not be the best time for selling bat-processed coffee. At this writing,  COVID-19 has infected nearly 175,000 people,  worldwide,  killing […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Central America, China, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Mexico, Science, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jane Qiu, Lin-Fa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Shi Zhengli

Are conservationists becoming an endangered species?

February 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three alleged murders among five recent deaths of note The butterfly guys             OCAMPO,  Mexico––Monarch butterfly conservationists Homero Gómez González, 50,  and Raúl Hernández Romero,  44,  were found dead on January 29,  2020 and February 1,  2020,  respectively,  at the El Rosario butterfly preserve that they helped to found and develop […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Indonesia, Latin America, Marine life, Mexico, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Southeast Asia, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David Bellamy, Golfrid Siregar, Hans Nicholas Jong, Homero Gómez González, Michael Krützen, Norm Rosen, Raúl Hernández Romero

Do you eat dolphins? Does your cat?

May 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Don’t believe everything you read on can labels, say class action lawsuits Do you eat dolphins?  Does your cat? Not likely,  and certainly not knowingly––but three class action lawsuits filed on May 13,  2019 by nationally noted legal firms specializing in consumer affairs contend that if either you or your cat eats tuna,  the tuna […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Chad Sarno, Derek Sarno, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Sam LaBudde, Tom Turner

Vaquita, totoaba:  Gunfire on the Sea of Cortez

March 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Alleged poacher tried to recover net confiscated by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society             SAN FELIPE,  Baja California, Mexico––An alleged poacher and two apparently uninvolved passers-by were reportedly hit by gunfire in a March 28,  2019 confrontation with Mexican marines in San Felipe,  Baja California,  Mexico. The shooting incident was among the most violent yet in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Latin America, Marine life, Meat issues, Mexico, Poaching & trafficking, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Enrique García Sandez, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ramón Franco Díaz, Ricardo Zúñiga, Rosa María Zaragoza González

Nine dolphin deaths in two years? Dolphinaris pulls plug on Arizona

February 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Four surviving Arizona dolphins are flown to new facility in the U.S. Virgin Islands SCOTTSDALE, Arizona––“We’re excited to welcome four Atlantic bottlenose dolphins,”  the Coral World Ocean Park in St. Thomas,  U.S. Virgin Islands,  posted to Facebook on February 20,  2019. “The dolphins arrived safely,”  Coral World said,  without saying where the four Atlantic bottlenose […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Top, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alejandra Doyle, Jay Sweeney, Lilly Charlton, Lorraine Longhi, Merritt Clifton, Rae Stone, Thomas Cook

Dolphinaris Arizona deaths: it’s not about the desert

February 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Four dead dolphins bring “temporary” closure of barely two-year-old swim-with-dolphins attraction             SCOTTSDALE,  Arizona––Already a target of protest before opening in October 2016,  Dolphinaris Arizona,  the newest U.S. marine mammal exhibition facility,  is to be scene of yet another of many demonstrations on February 9,  2019. This demonstration,  though,  will have a bite to it […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Jay Sweeney, Laurice Dee, Merritt Clifton, Naomi Rose, Rae Stone, Ric O'Barry

Alleged pit bull starver Lueders & “rescue” horse thief Blackwood both busted

January 17, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Bully Breed Rescue president to be arraigned on February 13, 2019             BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut;  TUSKEGEE,  Alabama––Bully Breed Rescue president and alleged pit bull starver Heidi E. Lueders,  31,  can expect to face a howling mob of former donors,  volunteers,  sympathizers,  and miscellaneous other pit bull advocates when she appears for arraignment on February 13,  2019 […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Mexico, Rodeo, Slaughter, Spectacles, The Americas, USA Tagged With: Benedicta "Bannie" McGrath, Fallon Danielle Blackwood, Heidi Lueders, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Anderson Lueders

Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

January 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Russian law protects Moscow State Circus monopoly             MOSCOW,  NEW DELHI––New legislation in Russia,  whose circuses have for almost a century been the most attended worldwide,  and in India,  where the circus tradition started,  appear to be among the final acts in several thousand years of traveling exhibitions of performing animals. The new Russian “Law […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Circuses, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Elephants, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Mexico, Organizations, Russia, Show, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, Tigers, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jacob Croninshield, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Chipperfield, Varda Mehotra, Vladimir Putin

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