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Last acts for animal circuses in Russia, India, New Jersey, & Hawaii

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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 […]

Thoughts on “Killing the Female” & Pennsylvania hunting memories by Karen Davis

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Founder,  United Poultry Concerns http://www.upc-online.org After reading the ANIMALS 24-7 article Killing the Female:  The Psychology of the Hunt this morning, I forwarded it to Bill Crain.  Bill teaches psychology at City College of New York.  He and his wife Ellen Crain cofounded and direct Safe Haven Farm Animal Sanctuary in upstate New York. Bill,  […]

Killing the Female:  The Psychology of the Hunt

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Why hunters hunt––and why far more men quit hunting now than take it up Seán McCormack,  managing trustee of the Animal Care Trust in Taiwan,  recently brought to our attention “Hunting Linked To Psychosexual Inadequacy & The 5 Phases Of A Hunter’s Life Of Sexual Frustration,”  by Brent Lambert,  published in November 2016 under the subject […]

Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal

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Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal,  Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25,  2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission,  which has maintained a global moratorium on […]

The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas

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Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it:  you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer,  you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]

Arun Rangsi, 39, “heart gibbon” of IPPL founder Shirley McGreal

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Arun Rangsi was living link to IPPL origins             SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“The International Primate Protection League is devastated to report the loss of our first lab gibbon, Arun Rangsi,  who was also my ‘heart gibbon,’”  IPPL founder Shirley McGreal posted to social media. Arun Rangsi was a living link to IPPL cofounder Ardith Eudey,  Ph.D.,  a […]

Frustrated fishers push to kill West Coast sea lions & seals

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Newly formed Pacific Balance Pinnipeds Society gives voice to anger             VANCOUVER,  B.C.;  PORTLAND,  Oregon––Removing a longtime irritant to the British Columbia wild salmon fishing industry––and a major economic competitor––the British Columbia government and First Nations have agreed to phase out 17 commercial salmon farms operated since 1987 by a company called Marine Harvest off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island.             The […]

Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you

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Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice             CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14,  2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.”              Lauding […]

Four people who changed how humans see animals

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Charlie Russell,  Mary T. Hoffman, Aubrey Manning, & Dorothy Cheney  Russell made “Spirit Bears” famous            Canadian bear researcher and author Charlie Russell,  76,  died on May 7,  2018 in Calgary, Alberta,  from complications after surgery.             Born in Pincher Creek,  Alberta,  where his parents Andy and Kay Russell were hunting outfitters and guides,  Charlie Russell […]

Ontario allows hunters to kill 50 cormorants a day

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“The worst wild game management decision in Canadian history” by Barry Kent MacKay Artist & naturalist:  www.barrykentmackay.ca Director of Canadian & Special ProgramsBorn Free             Doug Ford,  the recently elected prime minister of Ontario,  who at one time claimed to be an ethical vegetarian,  has just proposed what I believe is the single worst wild […]