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Indianapolis 500: no longer a balloon chase & Nebraska Cornhuskers ditto!

May 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Balloons Blow takes the checkered flag after a five-year campaign––and wins again in Nebraska!             INDIANAPOLIS,  Indiana––The Florida-based all-volunteer grassroots activist group Balloons Blow on April 21,  2022 earned a victory lap,  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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Sports, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Balloons Blow, Danielle Vosburgh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Meyer, Merritt Clifton, Roger Penske, Tony Hulman

Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

Reptile diversity study findings are less scary than a snake in your boot

April 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Crocodilians, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Indian subcontinent, Land turtles, Reptiles, Sea turtles, Snakes, Soft-shelled turtles, The Americas, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Bruce E. Young, Christina Larson, Erik Stokstad, Godzilla, Merritt Clifton, Neil Cox

Sonoran desert pronghorn: safer on a bombing range than in a refuge

April 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Bureau of Land Management, Merritt Clifton, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Western Environmental Law Center, Yuma Proving Ground

Is the ivory-billed woodpecker––declared extinct five times––still with us?

April 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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, […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: David Kelvian, David Luneau, Gene Sparling, Geoffrey Hill, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Steven C. Latta

Animal-friendly energy: solar takes flight, wind power gets the bird

April 11, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Bats, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Altamont, Avangrid Renewables, California condor, ESI Energy, Manzana, Merritt Clifton, NextEra Energy

What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count

March 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fur trapping, Hooved stock, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Reptiles, Sheep & goats, Snakes, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: APHIS, Merritt Clifton, starlings, USDA Wildlife Services

CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse

March 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sub-Saharan, USA, Welfare, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, World Tagged With: CITES, International Whaling Commission, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, totoaba, United Nations Environment Program

See the video exposé that sent Jack Hanna into demented retirement––free!

February 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting practices, Laws, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, Screen industry, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Carole Baskin, Howard Baskin, Jeff Kremer, Merritt Clifton, Michael Webber, Tim Harrison

Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours

February 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Brian Sweeney, Judge Jeffrey S. White, Merritt Clifton, Wile E. Coyote, Yellowstone wolves

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