Has taken heat from PETA COLORADO SPRINGS––If the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center, of Calhan, Colorado, had only nine lives, it might have been closed already. But if big cats really had nine lives, the Serenity Springs Wildlife Center might still have the 138 animals it claimed to house circa 2010, instead of the 113 […]
Judge marks “Dog Bite Prevention Week” with $100 million award to pit bull victim
But victim Steve Constantine is unlikely to ever see the money DETROIT––Wayne County Circuit Judge Daphne Means Curtis on May 19, 2015 awarded $100 million to pit bull attack victim and care volunteer Steven Constantine, 50, sending a “Dog Bite Prevention Week” warning to animal shelters and rescues nationwide. The $100 million award, against […]
Living the Farm Sanctuary Life
by Gene Baur & Gene Stone Rodale Press & Raincoast Books (33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, PA 18098), 2015. 320 pages, hardcover. $29.99. Reviewed by Beth Clifton “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” ––VICTOR HUGO (French novelist) Living the Farm Sanctuary Life […]
Update: Elephants, high mountains, and snow still don’t mix, Woodland Park Zoo learns––2,233 years after Hannibal
Bamboo & Chai to resume journey to Oklahoma City SEATTLE, SAN DIEGO, OKLAHOMA CITY––The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle on May 8, 2015 denied Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants’ application for an injunction to keep the former Woodland Park Zoo elephants Bamboo and Chai in temporary […]
Big Cat Rescue: remembering every large & exotic cat
Memorial Wall includes nearly every cat species TAMPA, Florida––Visitors to Big Cat Rescue will see almost every species of cat whom anyone has ever raised in captivity. The cats are without exception kept in exemplary conditions, displaying the relaxed ferocity in repose that most cats take as a birthright. But visitors will see no “Wall […]
Chicago pioneered urban wildlife habitat conservation
Forest Preserve District of Cook County was created in 1914 CHICAGO––Urban wildlife habitat conservation is often traced to the 1914 creation of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. Foresighted planning left Chicago and surrounding suburbs a protected greenbelt and wildlife migration corridors that today hosts an abundance of animals of most species common to the […]
Casualties of the “save rate”: 40,000 animals at failed no-kill shelters & rescues
25,000 dogs and 15,000 cats At least 25,000 dogs and 15,000 cats found at failed no-kill shelters and rescues from 2005 through 2014 might be politely described as casualties of the “save rate,” also known as the “live release rate.” The numbers of dogs and cats impounded by law enforcement from failed shelters and rescues dropped […]
South Carolina wildlife rehab center losing lease
Keeper of the Wild is a non-profit, all volunteer organization that rehabilitates South Carolina wildlife; we also provide wildlife education for students ages 6 and older. We rescue operate 100% from private donations, which provide the medical care and facilities needed to rehab thousands of animals each year. Often our volunteers also contribute financially to […]
Record low shelter killing raises both hopes & questions
Fewer dogs & cats are being killed––but are shelters simply relegating the killing to others? U.S. animal shelters are now killing fewer cats and dogs than at any time in the past 60 years––nearly 300,000 fewer in the most recent fiscal year than just one year earlier, and just 8.6 per 1,000 Americans, the lowest […]
Igor, 58, ex-laboratory gibbon
Igor, 58, a male gibbon who had resided at the International Primate Protection League sanctuary in Summerville, South Carolina since 1987, was euthanized on October 13, 2014, three days after suffering a stroke that left his right side paralyzed and not responding to treatment. “Igor could not swing or climb,” IPPL founder Shirley McGreal told […]