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Feral cats poop where someone feeds them––& that’s the big problem

September 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two studies confirm skepticism of waiting for studies to confirm the obvious             LOS ANGELES––The unacknowledged takeaway lesson from two new studies of neuter/return feral cat control,  published respectively by the City of Los Angeles and the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science,  may be that by the time academia,  the courts,  and public policymakers […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: A Long-Term Lens, Edward Howe Forbush, Lewis Robert Plumb, Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program, Merritt Clifton, Thomas McKnew

Elephants, giraffes, sharks, Asian otters & seahorses fare well in Switzerland

August 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

African elephants win protection near where exports for display began             GENEVA, Switzerland––Live elephant exports from Africa for exhibition at least nominally ended by plenary vote at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Triennial Conference of the Parties on August 27,  2019 in Geneva,  Switzerland,  about 200 miles north from where the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Botswana, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Hannibal Barca, Merritt Clifton, Nina Larson, Tom De Meulenaer

Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

August 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Madison Grant was the missing link             EL PASO,  Texas;  NEW YORK CITY––Much more than misanthropy links mass shootings by white supremacists to the obsession of mainstream conservation societies with extirpating “invasive species” and “cleansing” wildlife habitat of any trace of human presence. But don’t expect the Boone & Crockett Club,  the Sierra Club,  and […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Arthur Desmond, George Bird Grinnell, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Jonathan Spiro, Madison Grant, Merritt Clifton, Ota Benga, Patrick Crusius, Ragnar Redbeard, Robert Bower, Santino William Legan, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Hornaday

Botswana,  please rethink resuming hunting! by Sebastian Mwanza

May 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Ian Khama,  former president of Botswana,  resigns from ruling party when successor undoes ban on trophy hunting Editor’s note:  Outraged and disappointed that his handpicked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi had ended a five-year-old ban on trophy hunting,  Ian Khama,  president of Botswana from 2008 to 2018,  on May 25,  2019 resigned from the Botswana Democratic Party […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Botswana, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Pinnock, Ian Khama, Kahindi Lekahaile, Kitso Mokaila, Mokgweetsi Masisi, Paula Kahumbu, Ron Thomson

Do you eat dolphins? Does your cat?

May 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Don’t believe everything you read on can labels, say class action lawsuits Do you eat dolphins?  Does your cat? Not likely,  and certainly not knowingly––but three class action lawsuits filed on May 13,  2019 by nationally noted legal firms specializing in consumer affairs contend that if either you or your cat eats tuna,  the tuna […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Habitat, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Chad Sarno, Derek Sarno, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Sam LaBudde, Tom Turner

Wolves, grey whales, & sea lions targeted to preserve meat-getting traditions

April 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cultural demand for killing wildlife is much stronger than economic interest             SEATTLE––The good news for wolves,  grey whales,  and California sea lions in the Pacific Northwest is that all three once-endangered predators,  now long off the U.S. endangered species list,  are reclaiming small niches in habitat that for millennia they dominated,  before human activity––especially […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Predators, Seals, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Ben Maletzke, Evan Bush, Gillian Flaccus, Joel Kretz, Lynda V. Mapes, Merritt Clifton, Robert Wielgus, Shaun Clements

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

No, China did not ban sales of pangolin scales. But it might.

March 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

National People’s Congress has been asked to consider banning sales of pangolin scales             BEIJING,  China––Pangolins,  perhaps the cutest and most harmless animal jeopardized by poaching and wildlife trafficking whom hardly anyone has heard of,  remain in as much trouble today as yesterday,  two years ago,  and five years ago,  despite news items,  activist alerts,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cameroun, China, Culture & Animals, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Laws, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Amy Yee, Daniel Ingram, Merritt Clifton

Trial of Iranian cheetah defenders facing death penalty begins

February 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Laws, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, Abolqasem Salavati, Amir Hossein Khaleghi, Kavous Seyed-Emami, Lili Houshmand Afshar, Mahmoud Sadeghi, Maryam Mombeini, Morad Tahbaz, Niloufar Bayani, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Taher Ghadirian

Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal

December 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Japan, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Norway, Organizations, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, South Korea, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Astrid Fuchs, Darren Kindleysides, Mari Yamaguchi, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ric O'Barry, Yoshide Suga

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