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Thinking out-of-the-horse-box to save wild horses from slaughter

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by Anthony Marr When Charles Darwin first revealed his theory of evolution,  his friend Thomas Huxley exclaimed,  “It is so simple and obvious!  Why didn’t I think of it?!” It is because Huxley, like most people, thought inside the box,  meaning within the confines of an established concept,  while Darwin not only thought outside the box,  but […]

Biggest pigeon shoots in years follow Pennsylvania cruelty law exemption

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Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone shot down while videotaping the killing HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania––Live pigeon shoots held at The Berm,  near Dalmatia,  Pennsylvania,  on June 3,  2018,  and on June 4,  2018,  at the nearby Erdman Sportsmen’s Club,  appear to have been the biggest since Libre’s Law,  pushed by the Humane Society of the U.S. […]

Down Under drive to kill brumby wild horses brings bill to save them

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Man from Monaro stands in the bootprints of The Man From Snowy River             SYDNEY,  Australia––In a reversal of fortune as abrupt as a stallion wheeling on hind legs to strike at an aggressive rival,  the wild horses of Kosciuszko National Park in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales are suddenly slated for protected […]

Mike O’Connor & the Zen of saving the Olympic mountain goats

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Port Townsend author emerges as defender of mountain goats slated for extirpation “Attached is a copy of a flyer I have put together in defense of the mountain goats of the Olympic Peninsula,”  emailed Mike O’Connor of Port Townsend,  Washington,  on May 17,  2018,  in response to the May 8,  2018 ANIMALS 24-7 article Goat sacrifice to begin at Olympic National Park. “I […]

Aussie prof challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

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Contends “compassionate conservation” is most effective protection of biodiversity             SYDNEY,  Australia––The conservation establishments of both Australia and Israel might like to designate Arian D. Wallach an “invasive species” and slate her for extirpation. Indeed,  Wallach’s arguments could eventually put the entire global industry of exterminating “invasive species” out of business. Like any successful adaptive […]

Shoot wild horses, sell them to slaughter, or just let them die?

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Navajo Nation & BLM look at grim options  CAMERON,  ARIZONA––Why did 111 wild horses die stuck in the mud at a Navajo Nation stock pond near Cameron,  Arizona,  during the last week of April 2018? Photos distributed by Navajo Nation spokesperson Mihio Manus “showed clusters of horses with dried mud on their bodies, some overlapping one […]

Goat sacrifice to begin at Olympic National Park

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284-page “management plan” garbles history,  all but ignores climate change,  & says nothing about goats as puma prey             OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK,  Washington––An estimated 625 to 675 mountain goats whose ancestors have peaceably roamed the icy upper reaches of Olympic National Park,  Washington,  for 14 years longer than the 80-year-old park has existed are to […]

Ducks Unlimited pledge to end pigeon shoot is again a cruel hoax in Minnesota

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But Alabama Forestry Association pigeon shoot is ended, says Georgia-Pacific             MONTGOMERY,  Alabama;  PRIOR LAKE,  Minnesota––Having had four years of April Fools from Ducks Unlimited,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) hopes the Alabama Forestry Association was not just pranking when it announced on March 30, 2018––via Georgia-Pacific vice president for sustainability Deborah Baker––that it […]

Are Southern California coyotes eating 68% fewer cats than 20 years ago?

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Data indicates steep drop in the feral cat population             LOS ANGELES,  California––Southern California coyotes may be eating 68% fewer feral and free-roaming pet cats in 2018 than they did 20 years ago,  indicate comparisons of findings from five major studies of coyote diet. Since coyotes are opportunistic predators who tend to eat whatever they […]

Yellow fever mosquitoes now killing at 10 times the rate of pit bulls

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Monkey killings contribute to disease outbreak death tolls in Brazil & India             RIO DE JANEIRO,  Brazil;  SINGHUDURG,  India––Panic-driven monkey massacres are contributing to human illness and death,  with yellow fever deaths up 60% since the end of fiscal 2017,  and could help to spark global epidemics,  warn Brazilian health officials. More than 718 Brazilians […]