“Managing” wildlife to prevent nuisance prevents benefits, as well SACRAMENTO, California––Though many individual California Department of Fish & Wildlife personnel have distinguished themselves on the frontlines of the wildfires razing Paradise, ravaging Malibu, and menacing several other communities around the state, ill-informed policy decisions made decades ago and never changed mean the 2018 fire season […]
Animal rescue amid wildfires at either end of California
Record 2018 fire season isn’t over yet PARADISE, MALIBU, California––Some good news for animals, habitat, and ultimately humans may yet emerge from the firestorms simultaneously razing the Sierra Nevada foothills city of Paradise and parts of the far distant coastal city of Malibu––if the already record-setting 2018 California wildfire season gives an anticipated boost […]
Marking territory: photographers vs. Alley Cat Allies
Pissing match hits the Chronicle of Philanthropy ARLINGTON, Virginia––Founded almost literally in a Washington D.C. alley to advocate on behalf for one of the most contentious of species, Alley Cat Allies has for 28 years been embroiled in controversy on a daily basis, but without––until mid-November 2018––itself becoming controversial over management issues. That was […]
Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf
Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies. It explores how archaic beliefs about animals, wildlife, and nature, has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature. It […]
More Election 2018 results––& where the pit bulls lurked
Michigan attorney general Nessel & California governor Newsom kept their pit bull history behind closed doors LANSING, SACRAMENTO––Pit bull attacks, as ANIMALS 24-7 pointed out on November 6, 2018, were the “divisive” issue that was omitted from the Election Day 2018 political discussion, but not because pit bull advocates had not hoped to reinforce […]
Iranian cheetah defenders face the death penalty
Accused of “sowing corruption on earth” TEHRAN, Iran––Because fair trials in Iran are historically scarcer than the highly endangered Asiatic cheetah, who survives only in remote habitat in the eastern part of the country, the global conservation, scientific, and human rights communities are anxious as a cat on a hot tin roof about “espionage” […]
Over-counting jaguars, over-estimating poaching
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 […]
HSUS election picks are too few to stop the Trump juggernaut
Humane Society Legislative Fund fails to endorse enough Democratic challengers to slow anti-animal Republican momentum in the U.S. House & Senate WASHINGTON D.C.––If voters who care about animals follow the recommendations of the Humane Society Legislative Fund arm of the Humane Society of the U.S. at the polls on election day, November 6, 2018, […]
Johnny Rodrigues, 69, fought to save wildlife in Zimbabwe
Felled by cancer after surviving two wars, poachers’ gunfire, & the Mugabe regime QUARTEIERA, Portugal––Johnny Rodrigues, 69, founder of the the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force and an enthusiastic contributor of information and occasional guest columns to ANIMALS 24-7, died on September 17, 2018 at his daughter Lorraine and son-in-law Gavin Randall’s home in Portugal, after […]
Fight over feces-flinging gorilla Ndume goes to federal court
Having lost Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo wants him back. Having lost Koko, the Gorilla Foundation signs “No.” CINCINNATI, SAN FRANCISCO––Fighting to maintain a mission and identity since the June 2018 death of Koko the signing gorilla, Gorilla Foundation founder Francine “Penny” Patterson, 71, is now fighting in federal court as well to retain Ndume, […]
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