Transformed sleepy Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society into butt-kicking Animal Concern DUMBARTON, Scotland––John Frederick Robins, 64, probably the most colorful and dynamic animal advocate in Scottish history, despite his self-conferred title “The Eejit,” has announced his impending retirement after 41 years of directing pro-animal campaigns initially for Friends of the Earth, but chiefly as campaigns manager and […]
Hunters & birders get boost under Biden
Biden administration claims credit for unprecedented expansion of hunter access to National Wildlife Refuges initiated under Trump WASHINGTON D.C.––Why would the Joe Biden administration want to claim credit for one of the most odious actions of the Donald Trump administration pertaining to animals and habitat? Specifically, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service under Biden appointee […]
Murder along the equator: seven die defending parrots & gorillas
Colombian and Congolese wildlife guardians were ambushed RONCESVALLES, Colombia; VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo––Simultaneous sad reminders of the human cost of wildlife conservation came on January 10, 2021 from the Reserva Loros Andinos in southwestern Colombia and Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Reserva Loros Andinos and Virunga […]
When parrot “conservation” consisted chiefly of shooting them
Vista Nieve by Melbourne R. Carriker Blue Mantle Press (36901 Marshall Hutts Rd., Rio Hondo-Arroyo City, TX 78583), 2001. 312 pages, paperback. $18.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton On July 28, 2002, Colombian ornithologists Jorge Velasquez and Alonso Quevado photographed 14 examples of Fuertes’ parrot among tall trees in an alpine forest near the summit of […]
Law protects birds from poaching but not oil spills, says Trump administration
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service makes “permanent” abdication of Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement against “accidental” bird kills WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on November 27, 2020 published a Final Environmental Impact Statement on amendments to the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act enforcement rules which will allow businesses, in the mineral extraction industries […]
How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years
ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters, except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh, who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866, might have perfectly understood Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi’s frustration, expressed on November 14, 2020 in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column “Talk […]
Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi
Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, https://sharkonline.org/, in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club, located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020, shooting emaciated, dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]
“To kill a mocking bird is a crime,” judge reminds Trump administration
Ruling reverses attempt to gut the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1919 NEW YORK CITY––“It is not only a sin to kill a mockingbird, it is also a crime,” wrote U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni in an August 11, 2020 decision upholding enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 as it […]
Add to COVID-19 toll expanded hunting on U.S. Wildlife Refuges
Trump administration appointees open more federal refuges to hunting than last three administrations combined WASHINGTON D.C.––Opponents of hunting might imagine that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service chief Aurelia Skipwith waited until the public was distracted by soaring daily death tolls from the COVID-19 global pandemic to announce the biggest-ever […]
Bird bloodbath over Britain & Scotland: regulatory failures, royal hypocrisy
“General licenses” mean open season on 22 non-game species LONDON, Edinburgh––Birds are in steep decline over Europe, as they are over the U.S. and Canada, reports the British-based organization BirdLife International, monitoring bird populations since 1922––but the chief cause of the European bird crash appears to be simply that hunters, including the British royal family, […]
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