“This goes down as one of the really significant failures in wildlife management in recent decades.” PORTLAND, Oregon––Cormorant massacres at East Sand Island, near the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, not only did not save any salmon and steelhead from predation in 2015 through 2017, but may have tripled predation losses, […]
U.K.: “Nation of animal lovers” or of wildlife assassins?
Royal SPCA, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, et al disregard & even promote cruelty on a shocking scale LONDON, U.K.––The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Great Britain, the world’s oldest western-style animal advocacy organization, founded in 1824 and granted a royal charter in 1840 by Queen Victoria, wants […]
Why killing predators won’t bring back the salmon
Gulls join sea lions, seals, & cormorants in the crosshairs VICTORIA, British Columbia; PORTLAND, Oregon––Blaming seals and sea lions for declining salmon stocks, Pacific Balance Pinniped Society founder Thomas Sewid is frustrated these days because, Sewid posted to Facebook on January 23, 2019, “My firearm possession and acquisition license is expired. I cannot hunt […]
Trial of Iranian cheetah defenders facing death penalty begins
“Evidence” is reportedly “confession” extracted from female defendant under torture––who then retracted it TEHRAN, Iran––The closed-door trial of eight Iranian cheetah researchers and conservationists for alleged “corruption on earth,” espionage, and “conspiracy against national security” is to resume on Saturday, February 2, 2019, and is expected to continue on Sunday, February 3, 2019. All […]
Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal
Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal, Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25, 2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission, which has maintained a global moratorium on […]
The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas
Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it: you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer, you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]
Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you
Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14, 2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.” Lauding […]
Mountain gorillas downlisted from “critically endangered”?!!
World Health Organization Ebola virus emergency response team bugged out two days later BENI, DRC––The World Health Organization on November 17, 2018 temporarily evacuated 16 Ebola virus emergency response vaccination staff from the city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a dud mortar shell hit the WHO staff residence near […]
Iranian cheetah defenders face the death penalty
Accused of “sowing corruption on earth” TEHRAN, Iran––Because fair trials in Iran are historically scarcer than the highly endangered Asiatic cheetah, who survives only in remote habitat in the eastern part of the country, the global conservation, scientific, and human rights communities are anxious as a cat on a hot tin roof about “espionage” […]
Over-counting jaguars, over-estimating poaching
1964-1966 flood rescue data suggests there were never as many jaguars in Suriname as World Animal Protection claims have been poached PARAMARIBO, Suriname––Claims recently amplified on social media about the alleged extent of jaguar poaching in Suriname appear to have inflated at most a handful of rare, scattered incidents occurring over many years into a […]
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