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Feds resume killing cormorants despite admitting “nesting population targets were met”

September 14, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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. […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Letters, Marine life, Opinions & Letters, Wildlife Tagged With: Audubon Society of Portland, Bob Sallinger, Corps of Engineers, East Sand Island

Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors

September 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Lab animals, Liberia, Lithuania, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poaching & trafficking, Russia, Science, Slaughter, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Arnon Shimshony, Christine Atherstone, International Livestock Research Institute, Merritt Clifton, PED, ProMED-mail

Conservation or not? Johnny Rodrigues looks at trophy hunting

August 26, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, Captive animals, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Opinion, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe

“Cecil died for your sins!”

August 23, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Religion & philosophy, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil, Ingrid Newkirk, Nick Jans, Ted Nugent, Wayne Pacelle, WildEarth Guardians

How the Cecil killing helps Mugabe to squeeze more money out of trophy hunters

August 19, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, Uncategorized, USA, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil the lion, Merritt Clifton, Robert Mugabe, Walter James Palmer

Killing the most famous Cecil in Zimbabwe since Rhodes of Rhodesia

August 17, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

“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” […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, Conservation, Endangered species, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Beany & Cecil, Cecil the lion, Johnny Rodrigues, Robert Mugabe, Walter James Palmer, Wayne Pacelle

Feds hid data showing that killing cormorants will not help salmon & steelhead

August 13, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Middle Left, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Kent Mckay, Bob Sallinger, Columbia River, cormorants, Linda R. wires, Merritt Clifton, Portland Audubon, salmon, steelhead, Steve Haeseker, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

The myth of sport hunting as a solution to conservation

August 13, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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), […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Mozambique, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: ANAW, Josphat Ngonyo, Mozambique

Death of Cecil: Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife responds

August 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Captive animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cecil, Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority

U.S. consumer demand helps push pangolins toward extinction

July 16, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, U.S., USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: and the Center for Biological Diversity, Born Free USA, Humane Society International, Humane Society of the United States, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Paul Allen, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Wayne Pacelle

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