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How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years

November 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters,  except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh,  who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866,  might have perfectly understood Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi’s frustration,  expressed on November 14,  2020 in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column “Talk […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bats, Birds, Birds, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ernest Freeberg, James Gordon Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Robert Roosevelt, Steve Hindi, Theodore Roosevelt

China prosecutes 10 times more wildlife scofflaws in 2020 than U.S.

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 triggers sustained crackdown on illegal fishers,  poachers, & traffickers BEIJING, China—Cracking down on wildlife-related crime in response to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  China prosecuted more than 15,000 alleged perpetrators in the first nine months of 2020. About 7,000 prosecutions were for illegal fishing,  4,000 for poaching land animals and birds,  and 3,000 for […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Birds, China, Crustaceans, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Reptiles, Snakes, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Grace Qi, Merritt Clifton, Shashank Bengali, Sister Hua, Vo Kieu Bao Uyen

Spay/neuter resumes in Italy despite COVID-19, Camorra & Nigerian mobsters

May 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Quarantine keeps crime in check––for now             ROME,  CASTEL VOLTURNO,  Italy––The deadly global COVID-19 pandemic,  killing nearly 32,500 Italians to date,  might if anything have made Castel Volturno,  the unlikely spay/neuter hub of the nation,  just a little bit safer. Certainly stay-at-home orders seem to have at least temporarily reduced the mob violence for which […]

Filed Under: Africa, Bats, Cats, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Ethiopia, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Italy, Mediterranean, Nigeria, Population control, Population control, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Anna Winter, Benito Mussolini, Carla Rocchi, Dorothea Fritz, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Merritt Clifton

“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror

May 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders             BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet,  known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,”  generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests,  suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Bees, China, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Japan, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Sweeney, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Tam Garland

Are Bronx Zoo tigers with COVID-19 sentinels for brown bats?

April 25, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Team researches whether humans can transmit COVID-19 back to bats             NEW YORK,  N.Y.––A four-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia,  kept at the Bronx Zoo in New York City,  and now four other times and three lions sharing the same facilities,  may be evidence of asymptomatic human-to-animal transmission of  COVID-19. Alternatively,  the tiger and lion illnesses […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Bats, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, European Union, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Scotland, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Aamna Mohdin, Derek Grove, Jeanna Bryner, Joerg Junhold, Mark Stone, Merritt Clifton, Paul P. Calle, William Karesh

People who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones

April 13, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

(Beth Clifton collage) “Wet markets” in China & U.S. slaughterhouses both kill people as well as animals SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota––Underscoring that people who buy meat from glass cases have little room to throw stones at the “wet markets” of China and the developing world,  which sell live animals,  the Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods pig slaughterhouse […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Slaughter, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Fernandez, Kendaliyn Granville, Kim Cardova, Kristi Noem, Merritt Clifton, Sarah Hammond, Wendell Young IV

COVID-19 hot tip for coffee growers:  don’t go [email protected]#$% nuts!

March 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 shows “Eat @#$% & die!” is a warning,  not a metaphor KUNMING,  China;  LONDON, U.K.;  SEATTLE––One might imagine that the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19,  a disease apparently originating in bats, would not be the best time for selling bat-processed coffee. At this writing,  COVID-19 has infected nearly 175,000 people,  worldwide,  killing […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Central America, China, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Mexico, Science, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Jane Qiu, Lin-Fa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Shi Zhengli

Helping animals through the Australian firestorm

January 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Reports from 25 of the hundreds of animal aid charities working in the hot zones CANBERRA,  Australian Capital Territories––More than 100 wildfires raging in Australian coastal forests and wooded parts of the Australian interior in September 2019 exploded beyond immediate hope of control and burst into global consciousness during the first days of 2020,  splitting […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bats, Birds, Conservation, Disasters, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Organizations, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arthur Queripel, Cheyne Flanagan, Chris Barton, Chris Dickman, Daemon Singer, Deborah Tabart, Elaine Ong, Glenys Oogies, Mark Graham, Merritt Clifton, Michael Dahlstrom, Rae Harvey

Death of Florida 6-year-old reminds that bat rabies can strike anywhere

January 21, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Humans & bats evolved to live in frequent proximity, yet rarely meet. That keeps us both safe.             ORLANDO,  Florida––The January 14,  2018 death of Ryker Roque,  6,  at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando,  just 20 minutes from Disney World and half an hour from Walt Disney’s Wild Animal Kingdom,  came as […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Bats, Caribbean, Central America, Dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Mexico, Rabies, South America, The Americas, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Henry Roque, Jeanna Giese, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Michelle Roque, Pablo Beldomenico, Rodney Willoughby, Ryker Roque

Naming Nature: The clash between instinct & science

December 6, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

by Carol Kaesuk Yoon W.W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2009.  344 pages, hardcover.  $27.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Though you may never have heard of either “taxonomy” or  “cladistics,”   the two central concepts in Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s 2009 opus Naming Nature,   it remains a fascinating read for […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Bats, Beliefs, Birds, Book & film reviews, Crustaceans, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Other species, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Snakes, Turtles, Wildlife Tagged With: Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Carolus Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Con Slobodchikoff, Merritt Clifton

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