Ruling reverses attempt to gut the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1919 NEW YORK CITY––“It is not only a sin to kill a mockingbird, it is also a crime,” wrote U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni in an August 11, 2020 decision upholding enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 as it […]
Mary Lou Simms, Lori Golden, & Linda Lord focused their lives on animals
Geese, cats, dogs & potbellied pigs were beneficiaries of their work Mary Lou (Andrews) Simms, a journalist for 60 years, best known as author of more than 30 exposés of purges of non-migratory Canada geese, died on July 19, 2020 in hospice in Tallahassee, Florida, from complications of a brain tumor. Simms died one day […]
Killed for freeing parrot, young servant set example of compassion to the world
Murder shocks Pakistan, but U.S. & other nations have much to learn as well KARACHI, Pakistan; PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad; JENKINTOWN, Pennsylvania–– Zohra Shah, age seven or eight, according to contradictory reports, may have had the chance to make only one moral and ethical decision in her brief lifetime. On May 31, 2020, Zohra […]
Add to COVID-19 toll expanded hunting on U.S. Wildlife Refuges
Trump administration appointees open more federal refuges to hunting than last three administrations combined WASHINGTON D.C.––Opponents of hunting might imagine that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service chief Aurelia Skipwith waited until the public was distracted by soaring daily death tolls from the COVID-19 global pandemic to announce the biggest-ever […]
Fox hunters run amok despite unenforced British hunting ban
But the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds kills even more foxes LONDON––On February 18, 2020, the 15th anniversary of the Hunting Act coming into effect in England and Wales, supposedly banning fox hunting by riders on horseback galloping after hounds, “The Wynnstay Hunt deliberately killed a fox in the private garden of […]
Poisoning Australia in the name of wildlife recovery after bushfire losses
And kangaroos shot, koala trees bulldozed MELBOURNE, CANBERRA, SYDNEY, BRISBANE––Six months of bushfires ravaging Australian coastal forests and grasslands stretching into parts of the Outback are reportedly almost at an end. The last two dozen fires in New South Wales and a comparable number left in Victoria state are smoldering on at the lowest […]
Helping animals through the Australian firestorm
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 […]
Don’t know pigeons from bowling balls? Among pigeon rollers, you’ll fit right in
Local humane society says nothing ESSEX, Ontario––Why has the Harrow Fair, the official fair of Essex County, Ontario, elected to become internationally notorious for promoting so-called “parlor pigeons” as “the bowling balls of the avian world?” Why has the county allowed it? Why did the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society say and do nothing about it […]
Bird bloodbath over Britain & Scotland: regulatory failures, royal hypocrisy
“General licenses” mean open season on 22 non-game species LONDON, Edinburgh––Birds are in steep decline over Europe, as they are over the U.S. and Canada, reports the British-based organization BirdLife International, monitoring bird populations since 1922––but the chief cause of the European bird crash appears to be simply that hunters, including the British royal family, […]
Who killed 2.9 billion birds since 1970? Not cats, says a look through the glass!
Who killed cock robin? Clues are transparent. CORNELL, N.Y.––The Southern Tier city of Corning, New York, noted for glassmaking since 1868, may hold one of the key clues to the loss of 2.9 billion birds from U.S. and Canadian habitat in just under 50 years. Corning lies at one end of the Finger Lakes, […]
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