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Murder along the equator: seven die defending parrots & gorillas

January 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Latin America, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, South America, Sub-Saharan, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Gonzalo Cardona Molina, Merritt Clifton, Reserva Loros Andinos, Virunga National Park

When parrot “conservation” consisted chiefly of shooting them

January 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Top, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Latin America, Poaching & trafficking, Wildlife Tagged With: Fuertes' parrot, Gonzalo Cardona Molina, Meb Carriker, Melbourne Carriker, Merritt Clifton, Roger Tory Peterson

Law protects birds from poaching but not oil spills, says Trump administration

November 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Brett Wilkins, Celine Castronuovo, Daniel Jorjani, David Yarnold, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Shogren, Jamie Rappaport Clark, Merritt Clifton, Sarah Greenberger, Valerie E. Caproni

How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years

November 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bats, Birds, Birds, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ernest Freeberg, James Gordon Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Robert Roosevelt, Steve Hindi, Theodore Roosevelt

Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi

November 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Heidi Prescott, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Philadelphia Gun Club, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

“To kill a mocking bird is a crime,” judge reminds Trump administration

August 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andy McGlashen, Aurelia Skipwith, Daniel Jorjani, David Yarnold, Donald Trump, Humphrey Olsen, Merritt Clifton, Valerie E. Caproni

Add to COVID-19 toll expanded hunting on U.S. Wildlife Refuges

April 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Malta, Mediterranean, Predators, Wildlife Tagged With: Al Gore, Anna Seidman, Aurelia Skipwith, Bill Clinton, David Bernhardt, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Sara Amundson, Steve Hindi

Bird bloodbath over Britain & Scotland: regulatory failures, royal hypocrisy

October 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

“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,  […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Laws, Mediterranean, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Chris Packham, Jason Endfield, John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Prince Harry, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II

Who killed 2.9 billion birds since 1970? Not cats, says a look through the glass!

September 24, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Who killed cock robin?  Clues are transparent.             CORNELL, N.Y.––The Southern Tier city of Corning,  New York,  noted for glassmaking since 1868,  may hold one of the key clues to the loss of 2.9 billion birds from U.S. and Canadian habitat in just under 50 years. Corning lies at one end of the Finger Lakes,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Hunted species, Insects, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Jillian Mock, Kenneth Rosenberg, Merritt Clifton, Rachel Carson, Scott Loss

What do you do when duck hunters start shooting up a county beach?

August 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Dear friends & readers: Shotgun blasts boomed out across the Saratoga Passage,  almost directly below our home three short blocks away as we started down toward Hidden Beach with our dogs,  Teddy,  a young Jack Russell/Shi tzu mix,  and Bo,  an old cattle dog mix.  A startled flock of surf scoters hurried out across the […]

Filed Under: Birds, Birds, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Beth Clifton, Merritt Clifton

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