Similar attack trashed & looted renowned drill conservation project LAGOS, Nigeria––Amid the chaos and violence engulfing Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria, the October 14, 2020 mob destruction of the Nigeria SPCA has so far not even won local media coverage. But the attack crippled the oldest institution in Nigeria that offers humane education and […]
Feds quit funding guns & ammo for “anti-poaching” militias
MacGregor throws the World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society & others out of the lettuce patch WASHINGTON D.C.––Deputy Interior Secretary Katharine MacGregor on September 18, 2020 quietly ordered major reforms of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID] programs which have for decades routed millions of dollars in funding […]
Judge boots wild horse foe William Perry Pendley from top office at BLM
Federal judge finds Pendley illegally headed the BLM for nearly half of his tenure HELENA, Montana––Wild horse nemesis William Perry Pendley was on September 25, 2020 removed from his position as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management by Chief District Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District of Montana. Morris ruled that Pendley has served […]
Shoving tule elk & bison aside, National Park Service favors cattle ranchers
Point Reyes National Seashore & Yellowstone National Park allegedly managed for cows over native wildlife POINT REYES, California; BOZEMAN, Montana—Burning since an August 18, 2020 lightning strike, the 4,900-acre Woodward Fire at Point Reyes National Seashore is reportedly contained at last. Issues rising with the smoke and cinders, though, smolder on, including the National Park […]
Cats, tahrs & feathers on Table Mountain, South Africa
Goats gotten, South African National Park Service scopes in on feral cats CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Have feral cats succeeded feral Himalayan mountain goats, called tahrs, as the purported greatest threat to native South African wildlife at Table Mountain National Park? The few remaining Table Mountain tahrs, a cause celebré from 2001 to 2004, are descended […]
“To kill a mocking bird is a crime,” judge reminds Trump administration
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 […]
COVID-19: speedboat toll on manatees soars, but large land mammals get a break
Trump administration downlisted manatees to “threatened” status before body count doubled ST. PETERSBURG, Florida; DAVIS, California––More manatees, but fewer large land mammals, appear to have been hit by motor vehicles during the first five months of COVID-19 lockdowns, studies from four states show. The bad news for manatees, reported by the Florida Fish & Wildlife […]
Rare Aussie animals save themselves, no thanks to Compound 1080
Brush-tailed rock wallabies & long-nosed potoroos need habitat, poison drops CANBERRA, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, Australia––Investigators are finding, in the wake of bushfires that ravaged protected habitat right around the forested coastal perimeter of Australia, that many rare Australian animals apparently know how to save themselves, with or without human help. More than a billion animals are […]
Three recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways
Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84; activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76; Bill Jenkins, 53 Michael E. Soulé, 84, widely identified as the “father of conservation biology,” but an enthusiastic advocate of “compassionate conservation” by the end of his life and career, died on June 17, 2020. “Conservation is engaged in the protection of the integrity […]
Three-legged bears in the Great Smokies may be no accident
U.S. bear hunters & Asian gangsters cut paws & deals ASHEVILLE, North Carolina––Jody Williams and his Facebook group Help Asheville Bears want to catch the perp, or multiple perps, responsible for their recent discovery that at least 15 three-legged North American black bears are struggling for survival in the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains, […]
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