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 […]
Why not spay wild horses? Technique has barely been tested
Bureau of Land Management backs away from proposed trial of equine colpotomy PORTLAND, Oregon––Asked a lifelong horse advocate and high donor to wild horse, cat, and dog sterilization projects, by email to ANIMALS 24-7, “Do you have any ideas as to a competent equine vet with relevant experience who might be able to opine […]
Could beavers have saved Paradise?
“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 […]
TNR protects African wildcats from “genetic pollution” & ferals from cruelty
Alley Cat Rescue begins project at Kruger National Park KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa––Alley Cat Rescue, of Mount Ranier, Maryland, is now “working to implement trap-neuter-return programs for stray/feral cats around Kruger National Park,” according to founder Louise Holton, to keep African wildcats from hybridizing with their domestic descendants. Having “advocated for the humane […]
Wyoming trophy hunters blame mountain goats for lack of bighorn
Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat JACKSON, Wyoming––Mountain goats, already scapegoated for much else, are now blamed and are perhaps at risk of massacre in Wyoming for allegedly transmitting ovine pneumonia––a common disease of domestic sheep––to the isolated remnant bighorn sheep of the Grand Tetons. Along with the shaky identification […]
Witch hunts & wildlife
$53,000 reward offered in panic A $53,000 reward, believed to be the biggest ever in a case of this sort, is currently posted in Thurston County, Washington, for information leading to the apprehension of an alleged serial cat killer who has supposedly tortured and dismembered at least 13 cats since July 2018. We could certainly […]
Snail & mountain goat race toward extinction in New Zealand Alps
Endangered native snail & introduced Himalayan tahrs thrived together until the New Zealand government got involved WELLINGTON, New Zealand––Plans for a cull of 17,500 Himalayan mountain tahr across the Southern Alps of New Zealand are on hold, likely to be scaled down but not abandoned, after the New Zealand Tahr Foundation and allied organizations […]
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