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Animal-friendly energy: solar takes flight, wind power gets the bird

April 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Bats, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Altamont, Avangrid Renewables, California condor, ESI Energy, Manzana, Merritt Clifton, NextEra Energy

Factory farming scheme in Zambia threatens wildlife over half of Africa

June 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Bats, Birds, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zambia Tagged With: Africa Geographic, Chief Chitambo, Edgar Lungu, Lake Agro, Makanday Media Centre, Merlin Tuttle, Merritt Clifton

Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect

March 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Science, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Dan Silver, Ecohealth Alliance, Linfa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Michaeleen Doucleff, Peter Daszak

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 bat-@#$% 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

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