Bureau of Land Management hid the announcement––why? WASHINGTON, D.C.––Has Bureau of Land Management director Tracy Stone-Manning really banned the use of M-44 “coyote getter” cyanide-shooting traps on BLM lands? “Yes, it’s real,” Predator Defense Fund president Brooks Fahey assured ANIMALS 24-7 late on November 24, 2023, providing an unpublicized link to confirmation at https://www.blm.gov/programs/fish-and-wildlife. Ducking […]
Oregon halts wildlife killing contests; New York gov Hochul dithers
New York legislature passed bill to ban wildlife killing contests three months ago, but governor has yet to sign it into law BEND, Oregon; ALBANY, New York––The Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission on September 15, 2023 voted unanimously to prohibit wildlife killing contests for coyotes and other species classified as unprotected mammals in the […]
New Zealand exempts cats from killing contest, finds cure for FIP
But all other land predators & even non-native waterfowl remain in the crosshairs CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand––Nationally hellbent on destroying any semblance of a natural, normal predator/prey ecology since the introduction of the Predator Free 2050 program in 2012, New Zealand might be the last place the rest of the world might expect to produce a […]
Would you shoot bison for scratching their butts on your house?
Bison leaving Yellowstone National Park looking for something to eat are shot in record numbers at the Montana border HELENA, Montana––With unusually heavy snow driving bison out of Yellowstone National Park into Montana in record numbers, and bison being killed in record numbers too for following their ancient migration route from the Rocky Mountains into […]
Caribbean tax shelter wants to kill 450 tiny vervet monkeys––why?
Technically not a banana republic, Sint Maarten acts like one PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten––Suddenly globally infamous for a scheme to exterminate an estimated 450 feral vervet monkeys, who have colonized the 16-square-mile Caribbean island nation for nearly 400 years, the former Dutch colony of Sint Maarten might be considered a banana republic. Sint Maarten does have […]
“Kangaroos are not shoes” campaign kicks back against ghost of Pelé
Demand for soccer shoes helps to drive increased kangaroo culling BETHESDA, Maryland––When Pelé, the most famous and perhaps the greatest soccer player of all time, died on December 29, 2022, almost nobody figuratively jumped on his grave. There was, however, one exception, Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action president Wayne Pacelle. […]
Cat-friendly Portland Audubon director Bob Sallinger retires
Fought against many schemes to kill one species to “help” another PORTLAND, Oregon––Few changings of the guard anticipated among animal advocacy leadership in 2023 may be felt more than the impending retirement of Bob Sallinger, 55, longtime public face of the 124-year-old Portland Audubon Society and a distinctly different voice from the stodgy, conventional […]
Monkey-laundering? Busts of lab suppliers follow 15 years of warnings
Wild-caught macaques may have flooded into U.S. labs for more than 15 years before the feds moved to stop the traffic HONG KONG–Did a small amount of monkey-eating in southern China cover for the development of large amount of monkey trafficking from the wild to U.S. labs? ANIMALS 24-7 and the International Primate Protection League […]
Sodium nitrite, used to cure bacon, is introduced to kill feral pigs
Panicked Australian & American pig producers push for the perfect poison to protect their investments Yellow phosphorus, cyanide gas, & Compound 1080 already flunked BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia––Japanese encephalitis, a potentially deadly disease spread by mosquitoes who lay their eggs in pig effluent, with onset symptoms resembling rabies in severe cases, “has been found for the […]
USDA-APHIS wants your 2¢ on animal-related federal law enforcement––NOW!!!
“Come on, animal advocates, let’s move fast! Your big chance has come at last! Want a chance to have your say? Tell it to the USDA!” WASHINGTON D.C.––The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service [APHIS] is, until the end of July 2022, offering the public a unique chance to kibbitz on an “APHIS […]