Mother shot by hunter under depredation permit in an already harvested cornfield ELLENDALE, Delaware; DENVER, Colorado––The September 19, 2026 shooting death of Santos Maria Chilel Soto, 39, a Georgetown, Delaware mother of five, Amendment 83 on the 2026 Colorado state ballot, and right-to-hunt constitutional amendments adopted in 23 other states since 1996 have in common […]
Wood & wine bucks allegedly bring barred owl & mule deer massacres
Claim that killing barred owls & Catalina mule deer is to protect endangered species is at best questionable SALEM, Oregon; LOS ANGELES, California––Blazing gunfire directed at barred owls in the Coast Range of Oregon and at mule deer on Catalina Island, 26 miles west of Los Angeles, again demonstrates how successfully adaptive species can become […]
Tweety & Sylvester Down Under: two new studies exonerate cats
Birds are Still Singing in Our Suburbs and Bella & Charlie Are Not the Problem, argue team from the University of Queensland KENMORE, Queensland, Australia––Two new studies from scientists associated with the Australian Pet Welfare Foundation and the University of Queensland challenge the notion that cat predation has much of anything to do with bird […]
Dogs & cat use in labs is up under Trump/Kennedy, says White Coat Waste
Former Trump ally details new use of beagles & kittens in report MAHA Betrayed WASHINGTON D.C.––Apologists for the abysmal record of the second Donald Trump administration on animal issues have thus far tended to offset harm to wildlife, farmed animals, and horses, both wild and domestic, by citing purported huge reductions in animal use for […]
Catalina Island Conservancy invokes drone ban, starts killing 2,000 deer
Deer cull may do more for wine-growing relatives of Catalina Island Conservancy founder than for either nature or claimed pretext of fire suppression LOS ANGELES––Henry David Thoreau, had he been an observer of the Catalina Island mule deer cull now underway, might have observed that “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find […]
Allegedly trapped by entrapment attempt, Wildlife SOS tries to “wring off”
How did Wildlife SOS cofounder & experienced anti-poaching investigator Kartick Satyanarayan get caught in such a tangle? AGRA, India––Wildlife law enforcement agents worldwide, both with government agencies and with nonprofit organizations, might take a lesson from the present plight of Wildlife SOS cofounder Kartick Satyanarayan. In particular, Satyanarayan could probably teach quite a bit from […]
Trump admin opens 95% of National Wildlife Refuges to hunting & fishing
Pre-election ploy: U.S. animal advocacy groups don’t say a peep about it WASHINGTON D.C.––The Department of the Interior on August 13, 2026 announced “the largest expansion of hunting and sport fishing opportunities in the history of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. “With this action,” the Department of the Interior crowed in a media release, […]
The myth of the big bad wolf: the truth of living among wolves & wolf history
by Wayne Pacelle with Merritt Clifton (Adapted and expanded from “The Persistence of the Myth of the Big Bad Wolf,” distributed by Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy on August 11, 2026.) On August 4, 2026, Senator Ron Johnson, a three-term Republican from Wisconsin, stood at his desk in the ornate U.S. Senate chamber […]
“Pigeon-shooting psychopath” indicted for allegedly defrauding Medicare
Former Philadelphia Gun Club president claimed his father was not a relative & to have urged Donald Trump to run for president PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] founder Steve Hindi introduced the existence of then-Philadelphia Gun Club president E. Bruce DiDonato, 71, to ANIMALS 24-7 on April 1, 2013, but what Hindi said […]
Hare coursers’ threats beat ban in Ireland; terrorize rural England
“When hare coursing is outlawed, only outlaws will course hares.” As they do. DUBLIN, Ireland; LONDON, U.K.––Warned Niall Collins, agriculture minister for the Republic of Ireland, ahead of a July 8, 2026 vote on a motion to ban hare coursing, “If we over-regulate or ban it, this can lead to worse practices as well. That […]