by Bob Sallinger, conservation director, Audubon Society of Portland Last week the federal government resumed killing double-crested cormorants on East Sand Island in the Columbia River Estuary. Federal agents in boats used shotguns to kill 200 cormorants near the island. The Corps has indicated that it intends to continue killing cormorants in the coming weeks. […]
Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors
Pigs can get Ebola, but do they spread it? KAMPALA, Uganda; NAIROBI, Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans, though no one knows for sure yet, warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]
Conservation or not? Johnny Rodrigues looks at trophy hunting
by Johnny Rodrigues, founder, Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force We often hear of trophy hunters claiming to be conservationists and we find this difficult to understand. If this is the case, then there are two types of “conservation.” TYPE ONE There is the breeding of wild animals for hunting. This industry is supported by the hunting […]
“Cecil died for your sins!”
Martyred lion (See also Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia and How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters.) Cecil, poached in Zimbabwe in early July 2015, was not a lion who martyred human saints, but rather a lion who became a martyr in the classic sense […]
How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters
Cecil was slain just in time to help Mugabe increase the government cut (See also Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia, part one of a series about the Cecil slaying and what it means.) HARARE––Robert Mugabe was already hoping to extract more money from trophy hunters when alleged trophy poachers […]
Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia
“I’m a-comin’, Cecil lad!” (See also How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters.) Few people today remember Cecil the puppet sea serpent, who starred from 1949 to 1962 in various incarnations of the satirical “Beany & Cecil” radio and television broadcasts. Nominally produced for children, the “Beany & Cecil” […]
Feds hid data showing that killing cormorants will not help salmon & steelhead
Ignored own study in pushing cormorant massacre PORTLAND, Oregon––Obtaining U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service research showing that killing cormorants near the mouth of the Columbia River would have no beneficial outcome for salmon and steelhead, the Audubon Society of Portland, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Animals, Animal Legal Defense Fund and Wildlife Center […]
The myth of sport hunting as a solution to conservation
An open letter to Mozambique by Josphat Ngonyo, founder, Africa Network for Animal Welfare: Date: 12/08/2015 Mr. Daniel Antonio High Commissioner Mozambique High Commission Dear Sir, Your Excellency, it our hope that this letter finds you well in the service of your great country, Mozambique. On behalf of Africa Network forAanimal Welfare (ANAW), […]
Death of Cecil: Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife responds
Bow hunting suspended Press Statement by the Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority on Measures to Improve the Administration of Hunting in the Country Following the illegal killing of an iconic lion, Cecil, outside the HwangeNational Park on Antoinette farm in Gwayi River Conservancy on the 1st of July 2015, it has become necessary that […]
U.S. consumer demand helps push pangolins toward extinction
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 […]