National People’s Congress has been asked to consider banning sales of pangolin scales BEIJING, China––Pangolins, perhaps the cutest and most harmless animal jeopardized by poaching and wildlife trafficking whom hardly anyone has heard of, remain in as much trouble today as yesterday, two years ago, and five years ago, despite news items, activist alerts, […]
Fire, horses, & Santa Anita: ashes, ashes, they all fall down?
A global warming connection to record racehorse deaths? ARCADIA, California––All eyes concerned about horses and horse racing have had the Santa Anita Park turf and track surfaces under microscopic examination since Ash Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Yet hardly anyone so far seems to be looking at the possible track-hardening effects of soot and ash deposition […]
Trial of David Wills on child sex abuse charges again delayed
Case may hang on pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas––The multi-time postponed trial of former humane society executive David Keith Wills on a federal charge of allegedly trafficking a minor for sexual purposes has yet again been rescheduled. Wills is now set for trial in September 2019, ANIMALS 24-7 has been informed. […]
“Ivory queen” sentence helps to sell “real estate” deal in Tanzania
366 settlements on “protected land” to become incorporated villages––and “dam the Rufigi River” goes full speed ahead DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––Resolving a case pending since September 2015, and ruling at a politically opportune time for Tanzanian president John Magufuli, Kisutu Court magistrate Huruma Shaidi on February 19, 2019 sentenced reputed “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng […]
Nine dolphin deaths in two years? Dolphinaris pulls plug on Arizona
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 […]
Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird
The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters, little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs, widely distributed via social media, of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]
A Grim tale of suspected dumb rabies & a dumber response
Who named the pit bull Faust, and why? ST. LOUIS, Missouri––Faust in German legend was an alchemist, sorcerer, and perhaps even a necromancer, meaning one who consorts with the dead, who sold his soul to the devil for the secret of transforming “base” metals into gold. The much more complex Faust of many literary renditions––who […]
Study: killing cormorants tripled losses of salmon & steelhead
“This goes down as one of the really significant failures in wildlife management in recent decades.” PORTLAND, Oregon––Cormorant massacres at East Sand Island, near the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, not only did not save any salmon and steelhead from predation in 2015 through 2017, but may have tripled predation losses, […]
Diane Whipple died for the sins of dangerous dog advocacy
Murder-by-dog convict Marjorie Knoller is denied parole SACRAMENTO––The California Board of Parole Hearings on February 7, 2019 denied parole to Marjorie Knoller, 64, convicted of murder-by-dog for the January 26, 2001 death of St. Mary’s College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, at the door to her San Francisco apartment. Knoller will be allowed to seek parole […]
Dolphinaris Arizona deaths: it’s not about the desert
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 […]
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