U.S. Supreme Court decision on Clean Water Act may not jeopardize much actual wetland habitat, but may clarify definitions of what is what WASHINGTON D.C.––With actions on behalf of wetland and shoreline creatures including octopi, salmon, sea turtles, and horseshoe crabs underway elsewhere around the world and the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court on […]
Worst horse movie ever made? Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West
It ain’t a horse opera because the fat lady doesn’t sing Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West Directed by Ashley Avis. Premiered on May 12, 2023. 101 minutes https://wildbeautyfoundation.org/films/wild-beauty-documentary/ Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Never before, in almost a century of combined experience with equines and in environmental journalism, have the ANIMALS 24-7 […]
New Zealand exempts cats from killing contest, finds cure for FIP
But all other land predators & even non-native waterfowl remain in the crosshairs CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand––Nationally hellbent on destroying any semblance of a natural, normal predator/prey ecology since the introduction of the Predator Free 2050 program in 2012, New Zealand might be the last place the rest of the world might expect to produce a […]
Speeding boater tried to hit sea lions on the Columbia River near Portland
Frustrated would-be salmon fisher suspected, but not yet caught PORTLAND, Oregon––The Oregon State Marine Board, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration––as well as ANIMALS 24-7, many other concerned media, and countless outraged private citizens––are all hunting for an as yet unidentified individual who on April 3, 2023 was caught […]
Big Cat Rescue turns a corner, sending big cat residents to Arkansas
Sanctuary property to be sold, proceeds to go to wildcat conservation TAMPA, Florida––If Howard and Carole Baskin had hoped to make headlines with their March 27, 2023 announcement that the Big Cat Rescue large and exotic cats are soon to be relocated to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, they picked the […]
U.K. House of Commons votes to ban imports of hunting trophies
Ban still must clear the House of Lords and gain Royal Assent, but these formalities are more likely to delay than prevent enforcement LONDON, U.K.––The Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill cleared the House of Commons on March 17, 2023 by unanimous voice vote. The silence of pro-trophy hunting opponents, however, scarcely means that the bill […]
Did stranded macaques come from Cambodia, or from Thai temples?
1,200 monkeys stuck at Charles River Labs have reason to signify HOUSTON, Texas––Twelve hundred illegally imported wild-caught long-tailed macaques at last report were still waiting at a Charles River Laboratory warehouse near Houston for Charles River Laboratories, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and potential sanctuary caretakers to decide what will become of them. […]
One African-American journalist’s view of John James Audubon
by Roger Witherspoon (Roger Witherspoon, a member of the ANIMALS 24-7 board of directors, has reported about environmental issues for more than 50 years; developed the global Save The Tiger program for the Exxon Corporation; and cofounded the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, the first chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists.) John James […]
Charles River Labs sending bootlegged macaques back to traffickers
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals & Born Free USA sanctuary offer snubbed HOUSTON, Texas––If 1,000 juvenile long-tailed macaques held in Houston at this writing by Charles River Laboratories had the rights of humans, they would either be returned to their homes in the wild in Cambodia or be granted asylum as refugees. If […]
Crocodile tears in the monkey labs as Charles River suspends imports
Charles River is latest monkey supplier named in wild-caught macaque smuggling case BETHESDA, Maryland––Laboratory monkey users and investors in the laboratory monkey business are shedding crocodile tears to mass media about an alleged monkey shortage jeopardizing public health by delaying approval of new drugs and medical procedures. No less an authority than the National Institutes […]