Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming, chemical pollution, and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]
Reptile diversity study findings are less scary than a snake in your boot
Mainstream reportage focused on the bad news, but reptiles remain likely to outlive us WASHINGTON D.C.––All dinosaurs except birds, all ichthyosaurs, and all pterosaurs are confirmed extinct. Dragons, griffins, and Godzilla are alive and well in human imagination, the only habitat they ever actually occupied. Among the other 10,196 reptile species for whom population and […]
Sonoran desert pronghorn: safer on a bombing range than in a refuge
Fastest land animals in North America, yet not quite faster than a speeding bullet, nor more powerful than the gun lobby SONORAN DESERT NATONAL MONUMENT, Arizona––Why is the endangered Sonoran desert pronghorn safer on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, strafed and bombed day and night since 1941 by 20 squadrons of U.S. Air […]
Indianapolis 500: still a car race, but no longer a balloon chase
Balloons Blow takes the checkered flag after a five-year campaign INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana––The Florida-based all-volunteer grassroots activist group Balloons Blow has earned a victory lap after taking the checkered flag in a ten-year campaign against the ceremonial release of as many as 40,000 balloons just before the start of the Indianapolis 500 car race. “Finally, […]
Is the ivory-billed woodpecker––declared extinct five times––still with us?
Or have scientists just held a seance? TALLULAH, Louisiana––“Multiple lines of evidence indicate survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana,” insist a nine-member team in a newly posted paper by that name. The lineup of co-authors, headed by Steven C. Latta, director of conservation at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, […]
Animal-friendly energy: solar takes flight, wind power gets the bird
But even bird conservationists favor wind over fossil fuels & nukes CHEYENNE, Wyoming––Charged with killing at least 150 bald and golden eagles over the past decade at wind farms in eight states, the NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy on April 5, 2022 pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. […]
What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count
Only 4% of the toll of 1.76 million animals were “livestock predators,” but 44% were “invasive” starlings RIVERDALE, Maryland––Released on March 22, 2022, the USDA Wildlife Services program activity report for 2021 tells a different story from the sunny spin put on it by the accompanying media release from USDA Animal & Plant Health […]
CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse
U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare, the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950 LYON, France––This is not just a fish story, nor just a fish-and-elephant story, nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]
See the video exposé that sent Jack Hanna into demented retirement––free!
The Conservation Game Directed by Michael Webber, featuring Tim Harrison, founder, Outreach for Animals If you have not yet seen The Conservation Game, the acclaimed exposé of exotic cat exhibition and trafficking that sent longtime animal exhibitor Jack Hanna into retirement due to alleged dementia, there will never be a better time to watch it––free––than […]
Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours
Will Yellowstone wolves follow Wile E. Coyote’s roadmap? SAN FRANCISCO, California––If gray wolves could read, the gray wolves of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana would already be on the run south and west from the Northern Rocky Mountains into every adjoining state with mountains, elk, deer, and other wolf prey. In legal terms, Judge Jeffrey S. […]
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