Microsoft founder Paul Allen pushed a Washington state ballot initiative to criminalize trafficking WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society International, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Born Free USA, and the Center for Biological Diversity on July 15, 2015 petitioned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to list pangolins as endangered under […]
Scottish minister admits allowing Gamekeepers’ Association to write policy
by John F. Robins I’d like you to view a short video (link at the foot of this page). In fact I’d like you to view it two or three times just so you believe that you really are hearing with your own ears exactly what Aileen McLeod, the Scottish Minister for Environment, Climate Change […]
Desnaring in Kenya with ANAW and China House
Following the successful de-snaring event held on June 1, 2015 with local Chinese volunteers from China House, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare and China House held a second successful de-snaring on June 23, 2015, this time with a group of 30 Chinese volunteers working and residing in Kenya. Held at the Kenya Agriculture and […]
SHARK & Fish Feel fight “The Battle of the Rays”
The so-called “Battle of the Rays” was not really a battle at all PATUXENT, OAK ISLAND, WASHINGTON D.C.––On Saturday, June 13, 2015, dozens of men pointlessly killed perhaps hundreds of harmless cownose rays––among the smallest and most innocuous members of the shark family––near the mouth of the Patuxent River on Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. Hosted by […]
Tennessee columnist equates frog-gigging contest with school prayer
Frog-giggling defender had apparently not read either Leviticus 11:3–8 or Deuteronomy 14:3–21, both of which forbid eating frogs. SMITHVILLE, Tennessee––The DeKalb County Young Farmers & Ranchers annual frog-gigging contest, arguably the most bizarre of the hundreds of wildlife killing contests held in the U.S. each year, has elicited one of the most bizarre defenses […]
Zebra rescuers earn their stripes
On 23rd April 2015, the Africa Network for Animal Welfare received a call from Fred Olembishi, a citizen who called to inform us about two zebras who were spotted with injuries from poaching attempts in Keekonyoke, a community land area and sanctuary near Kipeto Kajiado. The Kenya Wildlife Service vet team was not available at the time. Our team […]
Undercover video calls into question both how deer are culled and why
Have deer been over-counted? JOLIET, Illinois––Video surveillance of ongoing deer culls in Will County, Illinois, southwest of Chicago, has unexpectedly called into question not only whether the culling is humane, but whether the target areas support anywhere near the claimed numbers of deer. Opposition to deer culling––in the Chicago area and nationwide––has historically focused on […]
Steve Hindi repeats 15-year-old challenge to NRA to debate pigeon shoots
Hindi challenged NRA originally in Tuscon, home of Safari Club International CHICAGO––Reprising a 15-year-old challenge to debate the ethics and morality of pigeon shooting, made originally in person, that the National Rifle Association leadership never accepted, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi on February 12, 2015 called out the NRA leaders again in […]
Is this the most mismanaged U.S. National Wildlife Refuge?
Not so much as glimmering eyes to indicate the presence of the Columbian whitetailed deer for whom refuge was created by Merritt Clifton CATHLAMET, Washington––Traversing the Steamboat Slough dike at the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge with headlights and a jacklight on the night of January 29, 2015, Beth and I spotted a large Roosevelt […]
SHARK names “10 Worst U.S. Animal Abusers of 2014”
Coca-Cola, the Catholic Church, the NRA and leading state and national political figures are among those listed by Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on the SHARK “10 Worst U.S. Animal Abusers of 2014” list. 10 Worst U.S. Animal Abusers of 2014, according to SHARK #1 – U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (OK). The Senator held a […]