Suspect Nathan Mann held on 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal BOSSIER CITY, Louisiana––Nathan T. Mann, 35, of Bossier, Louisiana, was on March 23, 2023 charged with 106 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles and 3,248 counts of sexual abuse of an animal, the Bossier County Sheriff’s Office announced. Mann was […]
Soi Dog Foundation shuts down a Vietnamese cat slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse operated in open defiance of 1998 cat meat ban HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam––“In a ground-breaking victory against the dog and cat meat trade in Vietnam, a cat slaughterhouse has been forced to cease operations,” announced Soi Dog Foundation director of international advocacy Rahul Sehgal in a March 23, 2022 appeal to potential donors. […]
Why didn’t Jasper County, Texas sheriff bust a big alleged cockfight?
Alleged host of cockfight previously characterized by law enforcement as a “career criminal” BUNA, Texas––“On March 12, 2023,” disclosed Showing Animals Respect & Kindness in a video posted to Facebook ten days later, “a SHARK drone located an active cockfight in Buna, Texas, in Jasper County. “The cockfight pit,” Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder […]
Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?
1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]
One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon
by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon, a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years; developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation; and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, the first chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.) John James […]
Audubon: brand recognition trumps what J.J. Audubon actually did
National Audubon Society squirms against truth that J.J. Audubon bought & sold slaves, robbed graves, shot birds with no thought of conservation, & was a scientific fraud NEW YORK CITY––The National Audubon Society board of directors on March 15, 2023 voted to retain the Audubon name, but the vote scarcely ends nearly two years of […]
Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans, they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If […]
Kangaroo leather soccer shoes get the boot from Puma & Nike
Pumas do not hunt kangaroos anyhow BEAVERTON, Oregon––Pumas, native to almost all of the Americas, do not hunt kangaroos, native only to Australia. Neither will kangaroos be hunted any longer to supply the German sportswear manufacturer Puma with their hides, the Puma company has announced. Nor will kangaroo hides be impaled on Nike spikes, the […]
“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76
Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the “Big Lickers” OXFORD, Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay, 76, remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,” died on March 6, 2023 in Oxford, Mississippi. […]
Beagler fined $10,000––for wildlife trafficking, not for torturing hares
Allegedly hired Maine trappers to supply Massachusetts field trials PORTLAND, Maine––Jon Thomas Rioux, 36, a landscaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, entertained himself and friends for years by setting beagles on snowshoe hares, until, apparently running out of rabbits locally, he ventured more than 150 miles north into Maine to find more. Jon Thomas Rioux might […]
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