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Is Down Under biological warfare killing bunnies across the Pacific?

December 13, 2019 by Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Spreading disease by air is much easier than containing it by any method             LANGLEY, Washington––About sixty feral Belgian hares, long beloved village pets in Langley,  Washington,  may be the latest casualties of deliberate releases of the rabbit hemorrhagic disease RHD-1 in Australia and New Zealand,  8,000 and 7,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean,  respectively. […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Feature Home Top, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Dave Parent, Merritt Clifton, Steve Layman

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

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

Authoritarian Iranian & Brazilian regimes menace animal defenders

July 23, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Iranians sought to save endangered cheetah.  Glenn Greenwald exposed corruption in anti-animal Brazilian government.             TEHRAN,  RIO DE JANEIRO––Eight imprisoned Iranian cheetah conservationists and Brazilian resident Glenn Greenwald,  editor of the U.S.-based online political periodical The Intercept,  have in common almost nothing except that they are animal advocates whose lives are in jeopardy under authoritarian […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, Amir Hossein Khaleghi, and Taher Ghadirian, Anna Jean Kaiser, Antonio Pasolini, David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald, Houman Jowkar, Kavous Seyed-Emami, Merritt Clifton, Morad Tahbaz, Niloufar Bayani, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Sergio Moro

Man-eaters of Kenya: The Ghost & The Darkness

June 9, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Maneless lions legendary for more than a century The Ghosts of Tsavo by Philip Caputo Adventure Press (c/o National Geographic Society,  1145 17th St. NW,  Washington,  DC   20036),  2002.  275 pages,  hardcover.  $27.00. The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa’s Notorious Man-eaters by Bruce D. Patterson McGraw-Hill Co. (Two Penn Plaza,  New York, […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Bruce D. Patterson, John Henry Patterson, Merritt Clifton, Philip Caputo, The Ghost & The Darkness

How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power

May 12, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species             CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18,  2019 Australian federal election ballot,  and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants,  either.  Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Politics, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Daniel Ramp, Greg Hunt, Jessica Camille Aguirre, Merritt Clifton, Scott Morrison, Shel Williamson

Earth Day dilemma: enviro agencies addicted to deadly chemicals

April 22, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Catherine de Medici might have considered wildlife poisoning schemes medieval Let me tell you about the birds and bees,  and the cats and the rats,  and the possums and the pigs,  and the chemical-addicted descendants of Catherine de Medici at USDA Wildlife Services,  Threatened Species Strategy of Australia,  and Zero Invasive Predators of New Zealand, […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bees, Birds, Conservation, Dog use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Organizations, Politics, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Catherine de Medici, Jo Pollard, Maggie Barry, Merritt Clifton, Will Harvie

Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity

April 2, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

And why killing dogs, rats,  pigs,  goats,  mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators             SANTA CRUZ,  California––Appealing for funding to kill cats,  dogs,  rats,  pigs,  goats,  and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations,  in the name of promoting biodiversity,  the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, Edward Howe Forbush, Helen Briggs, John R. Platt, Merritt Clifton, Sally Esposito

Can scary drones save birds from massacre?

March 31, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

The test of what works up above may come Down Under             ADELAIDE,  Australia––Little corellas,  the smallest of the cockatoo family,  are again under the gun as purported avian pests in South Australia.  Their cousins,  long-billed corellas,  are under attack in West Australia. Another cousin,  the allegedly invasive sulphur-crested cockatoo,  native to New Guinea,  has […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Brandon Keim, David Paton, Fran Stanley, Gian De Poloni, Gisela Kaplan, Keith Parkes, Merritt Clifton, Michael L. Avery, Royce Kurmelovs, Scott J. Werner, Shane Van Styn, Zihao Wang

Canada reviews “humaneness” of strychnine, sodium cyanide, & Compound 1080

February 23, 2019 by Merritt Clifton

Health Canada consultation to include public comments             OTTAWA, Canada––Health Canada has extended until April 18,  2019 the public consultation period on a review of the “humaneness,”  when used to kill wolves,  coyotes,  and bears,  of the poisons strychnine,  sodium cyanide,  and sodium fluoroacetate,  better known as Compound 1080. The Canadian consultation on what it […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Organizations, Politics, The Americas, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian Wallach, Bob Kerridge, Bob Weber, Justine M. Philip, Merritt Clifton, Ryan Brook

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