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, […]
Botswana, please rethink resuming hunting! by Sebastian Mwanza
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 […]
Trophy hunting history defeats wildlife board nominee: a U.S. first?
Disqualified by protest sparked by hunting photos SALEM, Oregon––Hunters nationwide are worried over the outcome of a high-profile confrontation among ranking Democrats over who will serve on the Oregon Fish & Wildlife Commission. Their side lost. This signaled a significant loss of grip in a largely rural state where for decades hunters were politically […]
Wolves, grey whales, & sea lions targeted to preserve meat-getting traditions
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 […]
No apology from Olbermann for selling turkey sandwiches
Apologized for asking Twitter followers to make turkey hunter’s life “a living hell,” but made point of pitching pit bulls KILN, Mississippi––Sports announcer, broadcast journalist, and political commentator Keith Olbermann, 60, on March 27, 2019 apologized “unreservedly” for calling upon his Twitter followers two days earlier to make the rest of Hunter Waltman’s life […]
Johnny Rodrigues, 69, fought to save wildlife in Zimbabwe
Felled by cancer after surviving two wars, poachers’ gunfire, & the Mugabe regime QUARTEIERA, Portugal––Johnny Rodrigues, 69, founder of the the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force and an enthusiastic contributor of information and occasional guest columns to ANIMALS 24-7, died on September 17, 2018 at his daughter Lorraine and son-in-law Gavin Randall’s home in Portugal, after […]
“Ivory queen” sentence helps to sell “real estate” deal in Tanzania
366 settlements on “protected land” to become incorporated villages––and “dam the Rufigi River” goes full speed ahead DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––Resolving a case pending since September 2015, and ruling at a politically opportune time for Tanzanian president John Magufuli, Kisutu Court magistrate Huruma Shaidi on February 19, 2019 sentenced reputed “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng […]
Killing contests: culture war losers flip the bird
The whole point is to be part of a gang doing the socially unacceptable To non-hunters, little could present a worse advertisement for hunting than the photographs, widely distributed via social media, of the 149 corpses of coyotes hung by their tails from a barbed wire-topped chain link fence outside American Legion Post 76 in […]
Study: killing cormorants tripled losses of salmon & steelhead
“This goes down as one of the really significant failures in wildlife management in recent decades.” PORTLAND, Oregon––Cormorant massacres at East Sand Island, near the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington, not only did not save any salmon and steelhead from predation in 2015 through 2017, but may have tripled predation losses, […]
The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas
Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it: you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer, you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]
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