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L.A. city council approves TNR: “project does not encourage feeding”

December 10, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Not encouraging feeding sidesteps most objections to new Los Angeles neuter/return cat control program             LOS ANGELES, California––The long-awaited Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program on December 10,  2020 won unanimous approval from the Los Angeles City Council. “The Council vote clears the way for the city to use municipal funds to operate the Citywide Cat […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Judge Thomas McKnew., Kate Hurley, Merritt Clifton, Paul Koretz, Phyllis Daugherty

Law protects birds from poaching but not oil spills, says Trump administration

November 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service makes “permanent” abdication of Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement against “accidental” bird kills WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on November 27,  2020 published a Final Environmental Impact Statement on amendments to the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement rules which will allow businesses,  in the mineral extraction industries […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Brett Wilkins, Celine Castronuovo, Daniel Jorjani, David Yarnold, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Shogren, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Merritt Clifton, Sarah Greenberger, Valerie E. Caproni

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

Maneka makes waves as animal welfare minister (November 1998)

November 15, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Moved rapidly on marine mammal exhibition, cattle transport, & wild-caught bird trade NEW DELHI––Contrary to Press Trust of India and New Zealand Press Association reports of October 7,  Indian minister for social justice and empowerment Maneka Gandhi did not ban animal experiments in India effective on October 8,  1998  but she did announce draft regulations […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Birds, Birds, Cattle & dairy, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Food, Food & agriculture, Hinduism, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Ashoke Chatterjee, Chinny Krishna, Guman Mal Lodha, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton

Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi

November 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness,  https://sharkonline.org/,  in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club,  located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020,  shooting emaciated,  dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Heidi Prescott, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Philadelphia Gun Club, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

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

“To kill a mocking bird is a crime,” judge reminds Trump administration

August 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andy McGlashen, Aurelia Skipwith, Daniel Jorjani, David Yarnold, Donald Trump, Humphrey Olsen, Merritt Clifton, Valerie E. Caproni

Mary Lou Simms, Lori Golden, & Linda Lord focused their lives on animals

July 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunting & trapping, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Shelters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Canada geese, Daniel Guss, Eros Salvatore, Merritt Clifton, Phyllis Daugherty, Sean Simms

Killed for freeing parrot, young servant set example of compassion to the world

June 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Indian subcontinent, Latin America, Laws & politics, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Hasan Siddiqui, Maheen Humayun, Merritt Clifton, Mukhtar Ahmad, Umme Kulsoom, Zohra Bibi, Zohra Shah

Add to COVID-19 toll expanded hunting on U.S. Wildlife Refuges

April 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Malta, Mediterranean, Predators, Wildlife Tagged With: Al Gore, Anna Seidman, Aurelia Skipwith, Bill Clinton, David Bernhardt, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Sara Amundson, Steve Hindi

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