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Russian invasion of Ukraine is killing the trapped fur trade too

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Already down allegedly due to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021,  fur sales crash at first pelt auctions of 2022             NORTH BAY,  Ontario––North Bay Fur Harvesters Auction chief executive Mark Downey blames the Russian invasion of Ukraine for what appear to be the most depressed trapped fur pelt sales since 1999. Founded in 1991,  the […]

Garbled stories show why wolverines need a defense lawyer

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Rare 28-pound scavenger accused of killing a ton of sheep RICH COUNTY, Utah––A wolverine alleged to have killed 18 sheep six miles west of Randolph,  Utah was briefly jailed on March 11,  2022,  but––instead of a lynching––got off with a warning,  an escort out of the county,  and a radio collar to follow his whereabouts. […]

What Wildlife Services did not say about the newly released 2021 body count

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Only 4% of the toll of 1.76 million animals were “livestock predators,”  but 44% were “invasive” starlings             RIVERDALE,  Maryland––Released on March 22,  2022,  the USDA Wildlife Services program activity report for 2021 tells a different story from the sunny spin put on it by the accompanying media release from USDA Animal & Plant Health […]

CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse

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U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare,  the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950             LYON, France––This is not just a fish story,  nor just a fish-and-elephant story,  nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]

See the video exposé that sent Jack Hanna into demented retirement––free!

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The Conservation Game Directed by Michael Webber, featuring Tim Harrison,  founder,  Outreach for Animals If you have not yet seen The Conservation Game,  the acclaimed exposé of exotic cat exhibition and trafficking that sent longtime animal exhibitor Jack Hanna into retirement due to alleged dementia,  there will never be a better time to watch it––free––than […]

Northern Rockies persecution plus verdict could send wolves our way & yours

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Will Yellowstone wolves follow Wile E. Coyote’s roadmap? SAN FRANCISCO, California––If gray wolves could read,  the gray wolves of Idaho,  Wyoming,  and Montana would already be on the run south and west from the Northern Rocky Mountains into every adjoining state with mountains,  elk,  deer,  and other wolf prey. In legal terms,  Judge Jeffrey S. […]

Ex-POW speaks out for Help Asheville Bears campaign vs. Amazon trap sales

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by Jody,  Alex,  & Heather Christina Williams,  founders,  Help Asheville Bears Colonel Hershel Scott Morgan (Ret.),  our stepfather,  was the fourth longest held Air Force prisoner of war in American history.  He was imprisoned in North Vietnam for seven years and ten months––more than two years longer than John McCain,  the late U.S. Senator and […]

Cats, mice, & even octopi sacrificed to false gods of conservation

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E.O. Wilson sidekick Thomas Lovejoy contributed to rationales for massacring some animals to save others              Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III,  80,  on December 25, 2021 quietly died from pancreatic cancer in McLean,  Virginia,  just 24 hours before the death of E.O. Wilson,  92,  in Burlington,  Massachusetts. (See E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92.) […]

Richard Leakey, 77, saved elephants & found missing links to veg past

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Richard Leakey both extended human history backward & helped Kenyan wildlife survive into the future NAIROBI, Kenya––Richard Erskine Frere Leakey,  77,  known to the world as simply Richard Leakey,  died on January 2,  2022,  in Nairobi,  the Kenyan capital city and his home for most of his life. Born in Nairobi on December 19,  1944,  […]

E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92

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E.O. Wilson considered himself the Charles Darwin of our time,  but contradicted many basic Darwinian precepts Edward Osborne Wilson,  92,  better known as E.O. Wilson,  died on December 26,  2021 in Burlington, Massachusetts,  16 miles north of Cambridge,  where he was for 46 years a star member of the Harvard University biology faculty. Wilson was perhaps […]