36 viruses unknown to science found in 461 samples of mostly fur-farmed animals SINGAPORE, SYDNEY, HONG KONG––Two years after fur farmers worldwide were compelled by law to kill more than 21 million mink to help stop the spread and possible mutation of COVID-19 into more dangerous forms, including 15 million mink in Norway alone, […]
Glue traps: the La Brea Tar Pits in your closet
Members of Congress Ted Lieu & Adam Schiff attempt a rescue, but for the moment, mineral oil might help more than legislation WASHINGTON D.C.––Children and even many adults who visit or even see the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, notoriously often awaken screaming from nightmares for weeks and even months afterward. […]
Upbeat reports from animal rescuers in the Israel/Gaza war zone
Street dogs find their own way to the one Gaza animal shelter; fruit bat rescuer leads multi-species rescue missions into devastated kibbutzes TEL AVIV, Israel; GAZA CITY, Gaza––“Something wonderful has happened,” Sulala Animal Rescue posted to Facebook from besieged Gaza City on October 11, 2023, a surprising message from a location likely to soon be […]
Hawaii wildfires: who is helping animals on smoldering Maui?
Communications down, info scarce, but rescuers are on the job WAILUKU, Maui, Hawaii––With 53 human dead and counting, 1,700 homes burned, 3,000 acres razed, cell phone and internet service down all over the island, and more than 13,000 people homeless, animal news from the Maui fire disaster area as of the evening of August 10, […]
Who to blame for animal diseases killing humans? Report says it’s U.S.
Harvard Law School and NYU Center for Environmental & Animal Protection deliver a shocker for most Americans (but not for you!) “For many Americans, concepts such as ‘bushmeat’ or ‘wildlife farming’ seem foreign,” opens Animal Markets & Zoonotic Disease in the United States, “but they refer to practices that are common within the United States […]
Animal disease research returning to science, away from hunt for blame
Has COVID-induced bat-shit craziness run its course? NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––More than three years after COVID-19 hit the U.S., killing nearly 1.2 million Americans and 6.9 million people worldwide, animal disease research appears to be at last returning to a focus on science, away from the highly politicized hunt for someone to blame. The […]
Animal-friendly energy: solar takes flight, wind power gets the bird
But even bird conservationists favor wind over fossil fuels & nukes CHEYENNE, Wyoming––Charged with killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles over the past decade at wind farms in eight states, the NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy on April 5, 2022 pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. […]
Factory farming scheme in Zambia threatens wildlife over half of Africa
Straw-colored fruit bats, giving birth in just one place, pollinate trees throughout central Africa LUSAKA, Zambia––Public comment on what appears to be one of the most ecologically destructive development projects in all Africa, menacing Kasanka National Park, Zambia, and especially threatening to straw-colored fruit bats, closes on June 16, 2021. Who cares about African […]
Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect
Forthcoming World Health Organization report is expected to confirm Chinese investigators’ suspicions BEIJING, BOSTON, WUHAN––Will a World Health Organization report expected to be released within days indict the Chinese mink industry for infecting the world with COVID-19? Beijing University researchers have already suspected for more than a year that mink farming was likely […]
How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years
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 […]