Barred owls, close to massacre in name of saving northern spotted owls, find unexpected friends on the right WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Senate Joint Resolution 69, to stop the impending massacre of barred owls in the name of saving northern spotted owls, on October 15, 2025 cleared the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. […]
Jane Goodall, 91, defied scientific & ecological convention all her life
Beloved by the public, Goodall often left dogmatic authorities to rage like frustrated chimps PASADENA, California––Jane Goodall, 91, a British citizen originally best known for chimpanzee research done at Gombe Stream, Tanzania, during the first half of her 65-year professional career, and later as an international humane ambassador, died in California on October 1, 2025 […]
Barred owl massacre isn’t about saving spotted owls; it’s about saving face
Such unnatural intervention is not about “saving nature” WASHINGTON D.C.––The first thing to understand about the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service scheme to start shooting upward of 450,000 barred owls, perhaps beginning in just a few days in mid-September 2025, is that it has nothing to do with actually saving northern spotted owls, saving the […]
How snowmobile wolf killer Cody Roberts helped to restore wolf protection
Montana federal judge rules Fish & Wildlife Service wrongly returned wolf management to states CHEYENNE, Wyoming; MISSOULA, Montana––In the court of public opinion, one wolf stands for all. An August 5, 2025 verdict rendered by U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy may return wolves in the western states to Endangered Species Act protection. But as […]
Don’t be fooled: 450,000 barred owls are still on the hit list despite budget cut
Just seven tenths of 1% of the barred owl culling scheme were defunded WASHINGTON D.C.––As many as 450,000 barred owls may be safer as result of recent federal budget cuts, but may yet be shotgunned in the name of saving endangered northern spotted owls if the presence of northern spotted owls on timber land again […]
Trump administration moves to protect pangolins, but not giraffes or hippos
Giraffes, hippos, & polar bears are in trophy hunting demand. Pangolin demand is believed to come chiefly from China. WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on June 17, 2025 formally proposed in the Federal Register to protect pangolins under the Endangered Species Act. Pangolins are the first vertebrate species to be proposed for an […]
Elephants starve in South African park to make case for trophy hunting
Elephant overpopulation was preventable & manufactured at the Madikwe Game Reserve PRETORIA, South Africa––Starving elephants at the Madikwe Game Reserve in northern South Africa appear to be hostages to management demand to reintroduce trophy hunting, more than a decade after hunting there was stopped. Only 132 road miles from Pretoria, the South African national capitol, […]
Why did William Custis Smith get just a day in jail for killing 20+ bald eagles?
Sentence raises questions & eyebrows HALLWOOD, Virginia––Who is William Custis Smith, 74, of Hallwood, Virginia, population 206, and why did he get away with just one day in jail, two years on probation, 50 hours of community service, and a fine of $9,800 for allegedly killing at least 20 bald eagles and other birds of […]
Will Trump administration ICE cockfighters? ICE busts two in first 100 days
Push to deport illegal alien criminals so far appears to bust cockfighters mostly by accident MEMPHIS, Tennessee––Has the Donald Trump administration push to deport Latin American illegal alien criminals stimulated federal law enforcement interest in busting cockfights? An investigation by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement [ICE], a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, […]
Why is Vantara hiring flacks & lawyers instead of just explaining itself?
Vantara founder Anant Ambani may have good reasons for doing things differently from the international conservation establishment, but he has not done a good job of explaining why JAMNAGAR, India––Somewhere between 5,000 and 7,500 years ago, Biblical tradition and Mesopotamian texts have it, a man named Noah built a huge ark, he claimed under orders […]