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Dogo Argentinos running at large kill 80-year-old woman out for a walk

October 10, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Supersized pit bull variant bred to kill BALDY MESA,  California––Soon Han,  80,  picked wind-swept and barren Baldy Mesa as her hill to live on. Having lived through World War II and the Korean War,  Soon Han was out for her morning walk at about 11:00 a.m. on October 7,  2022 when two Dogo Argentinos running […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting, South America, The Americas, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Antonio Nores Martinez, Augustin Nores Martinez, Baldy Mesa, Jenna Sutphin, Merritt Clifton, Soon Han

Yes, the Colombian Supreme Court banned sport fishing. What does that mean?

May 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The verdict may be more symbolic than substantial BOGOTA,  Columbia––Did the Colombian Supreme Court really ban sport fishing on May 2,  2022,  or is that just the biggest fish story coming out of Colombia this fishing season? Word of the Colombian Supreme Court ruling percolated north three days later with the headline “Colombia bans sports […]

Filed Under: Caribbean, Central America, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Marine life, South America, The Americas Tagged With: Antonio José Lizarazo Ocampo, Camilo Prieto Valderrama, Cristina Pardo Schlesinger, Diana Fajardo Rivera, Gabriel Andrés Suárez Gómez, José Fernando Reyes, Merritt Clifton, Taylor Lennox

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

October 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Decisions may mean better days for animals,  but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.;  WASHINGTON D.C.;  MADISON, Wisconsin;  CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry,  cockfighting in Puerto Rico,  wolf hunting in Wisconsin,  and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Poultry, Predators, Religion & philosophy, South America, Sports, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Charles J. Siragusa, Farm Sanctuary, Gonacon, Jacob Frost, Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado, Meredith Turner-Smith, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, PZP

Parents try to raise children safely; pit bulls et al have other ideas

February 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Mourning on Valentine’s Day Having taken to heart the pit bull advocacy claim that “It’s all in how you raise them,”  young people in at least eight communities scattered among Argentina,  Britain,  and the U.S. spent Valentine’s Day 2021 in shock and mourning after eight pit bulls,  a Dogo Argentino mix,  and a Rottweiler unexpectedly […]

Filed Under: Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, South America, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Brenden Wininger, Cameron Hatfield, Keira Ladlow, Lara Rebecca Agüero, Micaela Rufina Mendoza Natalia Florencia Mendoza Peirano, Mohammed Zakriyya, Nighat Khatoon, Victoria Rose LaBar, Yaser Baig

Murder along the equator: seven die defending parrots & gorillas

January 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Colombian and Congolese wildlife guardians were ambushed RONCESVALLES,  Colombia;  VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK,  Democratic Republic of Congo––Simultaneous sad reminders of the human cost of wildlife conservation came on January 10,  2021 from the Reserva Loros Andinos in southwestern Colombia and Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Reserva Loros Andinos and Virunga […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Latin America, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, South America, Sub-Saharan, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Gonzalo Cardona Molina, Merritt Clifton, Reserva Loros Andinos, Virunga National Park

Dolphin death incidents illustrate why ANIMALS 24-7 exists

August 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Finding the truth amid emotive incidents “What Have We Done to the Whale?” headlined the August 17,  2020 online edition of The New Yorker. Added the subhead,  “The creatures once symbolized our efforts to save the planet;  now they demonstrate all the ways we have devastated it.” The hand-wringing essay by Amia Srinivasan that followed also appeared […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Isles, Marine life, South America, The Americas, United Kingdom, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Amia Srinivasan, Liu Xiaoli, Merritt Clifton, Santa Teresita, Sha Xiafeng

Lost in translation: “personhood” verdict reportedly won for elephant

October 31, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Transfer-of-goods tax ruling followed precedent for nonprofit transactions             CHAPADA DOS GUIMARÅES, Mato Grosso,  Brazil––The retired Asian elephant Ramba,  52,  arrived late on October 18,  2019 at the Santuário de Elefantes do Brasil,  or Elephant Sanctuary Brazil,  after a 73-hour journey from Chile.   The transaction was completed after the elephant […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, South America, Spectacles, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Carol Buckley, Jaqueline B. Ramos, Judge Elena Liberatori, Judge Leonísio Salles de Abreu Jr., Kat Blais, Scott Blais

Finches found in hair curlers: trafficked to sing, or to fight?

June 29, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Singing said to be behind smuggling busts,  but the money may be in fights among caged finches NEW YORK, N.Y.––Circumstantial evidence hints that some or perhaps all of a parade of men caught in the act of allegedly bootlegging Guyanese seed finches into the U.S.,  purportedly to sell for use in high-stakes singing contests,  might […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, China, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Indonesia, Other animal fighting, South America, Southeast Asia, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Gurahoo, Gabriel Harper, Jurames Goulart, Merritt Clifton, Natalie Musumeci, Nonato Raimundo, Sebastian Andrade

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

Over-counting jaguars, over-estimating poaching

November 2, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

1964-1966 flood rescue data suggests there were never as many jaguars in Suriname as World Animal Protection claims have been poached PARAMARIBO,  Suriname––Claims recently amplified on social media about the alleged extent of jaguar poaching in Suriname appear to have inflated at most a handful of rare,  scattered incidents occurring over many years into a […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Latin America, Laws, Poaching & trafficking, South America, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Alan Rabinowitz, Alex Muiruri, George Schaller, Jane Dalton, John Walsh, Merritt Clifton, Nicholas Bruschi

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