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“Ivory Queen” wins appeal––and gets 15 years again

December 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But elephant poachers featured in Leonardo DiCaprio film are released due to faulty prosecutions             DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court on December 8,  2021 re-sentenced “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng Glan and two alleged Tanzanian co-conspirators to 15 years imprisonment each for illegally trafficking 860 elephant tusks. (See “Ivory queen” sentence helps to […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Boniface Mathew Malyango, Chris Morris, Dickens Olewe, John Magufuli, Leonardo Di Caprio, Merritt Clifton, Samia Suluhu Hassan, Yang Feng Glan

Why Namibia is losing wildlife despite claimed success of conservancies

December 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Investigation:  The Efficacy of Namibia’s Wildlife Conservation Model As It Relates to African Elephants https://africanelephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Investigation-in-Namibias-conservation-model-Full-Report-LR.pdf “Namibia was the first African country to incorporate protection of the natural environment into its constitution,”  open African Elephant Journal editor Adam Cruise and anthropologist Izzy Sasada in their newly published  53-page Investigation:  The Efficacy of Namibia’s Wildlife Conservation Model […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Namibia, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: ≠Khoadi //Hôas Conservancy, Adam Cruise, Caprivia, Izzy Sasada, Merritt Clifton, N≠a Jaqna Conservancy, Nyae-Nyae Conservancy, Uibasen-Twyfelfontein Conservancy

International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal, 87

November 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Animal advocate,  teacher, conservationist,  investigative journalist,  and beloved friend to primates,  both human and nonhuman              SUMMERVILLE,  South Carolina––“With heavy hearts,  we are informing Shirley’s many friends that she died Saturday morning,”   the International Primate Protection League posted to founder Shirley McGreal’s Facebook page on November 21,  2021. McGreal,  87,  “had been in declining health […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, U.S., United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Koros, Ardith Eudey, Beth Clifton, Colin Groves, Cyril Rosen, Diane Taylor-Snow, Geza Telecki, James Mahoney, Jean Martin, Leonie Vejjajiva, Lynette Shanley, Matthew Block, Merritt Clifton, Milka Knezevic-Ivaskovic

Native opposition to fur farming joins COVID-19 to kill the B.C. mink industry

November 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

British Columbia government accepts recommendation of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs VICTORIA, B.C.––British Columbia agriculture minister Lana Popham on November 5, 2021 made British Columbia the first jurisdiction in North America to announce a permanent ban on mink farming. In so doing,  Popham responded,  six months later,  to an April 6,  2021 urgent […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bonnie Henry, Don Tom, Joe Clark, Judy Wilson, Lana Popham, Merritt Clifton, Stewart Phillip, Thomas Grey & Company, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

Bad for bears, people, & their wallets: the myth of “diversionary feeding”

November 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

British Columbia bear feeder fined $60,000             VANCOUVER, B.C.;  VANCOUVER,  Washington––Three hundred miles apart,  in different nations,  the two west coast Vancouver areas recently witnessed remarkably similar court cases over back yard bear-feeding,  with comparably sad results for the bears,  but strikingly different outcomes for the convicted feeders. The British Columbia Provincial Court for North […]

Filed Under: Bears, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting practices, Wildlife Tagged With: Allan Piche, Donna Munson, Doris Parks, Jo Ann Medina, Karen Noyes, Kay Grayson, Lynn Rogers, Lynne Gravier, Mary Musselman, Merritt Clifton, Richard Whitney, Sandra Sherman, Wayne MacLean, Zuzana Stevikova

Animal friends Kim Crumbo, David Amess, & Ali Laoual Abagana remembered

November 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Rewilding Earth board member,  Member of Parliament,  & giraffe advocate at CITES Crumbo presumed dead in Shoshone Lake,  Yellowstone National Park Conservationist Kim Crumbo,  74,  remembered by Project Coyote founder Camilla Fox as “a true environmental hero for wildlife and wildlands,”  has been missing and presumed dead since September 20,  2021,  when the remains of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Isles, Laws, Niger, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ali Harbi Ali, Camilla Fox, Mark O’Neill, Merritt Clifton, Roger Gale, Rosie Awori

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

October 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Decisions may mean better days for animals,  but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.;  WASHINGTON D.C.;  MADISON, Wisconsin;  CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry,  cockfighting in Puerto Rico,  wolf hunting in Wisconsin,  and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Poultry, Predators, Religion & philosophy, South America, Sports, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Charles J. Siragusa, Farm Sanctuary, Gonacon, Jacob Frost, Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado, Meredith Turner-Smith, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, PZP

Baylor University mascot bears benefit from SHARK campaign 18 years later

October 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Longterm payoff bears recognition             WACO, Texas––A Showing Animals Respect & Kindness campaign targeting Baylor University back in 2002-2003 continued to pay off eighteen years later when the Baylor mascot bear enclosure,  built in 2005 in response to the SHARK campaign,  in May 2021 won Association of Zoos & Aquariums accreditation,  “a first for a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Bears, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Sports, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Baylor University, Colleen Gardner, Dr Pepper, Jeremy Beckham, Merritt Clifton, Rob Laidlaw, Steve Hindi

No more bullshit saves National Wildlife Refuge for endangered deer

October 15, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But the Columbian white-tailed deer came off the U.S. endangered species list before the refuge even began to recover from 45 years of cattle grazing             CATHLAMET, Washington––Thanks to wetland restoration,  the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbian white-tailed deer now looks more like protected habitat than a feedlot. Fifty years after […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Wildlife Tagged With: Cathlamet, Julia Butler Hansen, Marissa Heffernan, Merritt Clifton, Skamokawa

Will captive lions caught in wildfire light a fire under South African legislators?

October 10, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Promised bill to ban breeding lions for cub-petting, trophy shoots,  & bone commerce awaits introduction––and action             BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa––Five months after South African minister of forestry, fisheries & the environment Barbara Creecy announced that she would pursue legislation to ban breeding captive lions for cub-petting,  trophy shoots,  and exports of lion bones for use […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Captive animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws, Reptile farming, Reptiles, Snakes, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Barbara Creecy, Bloemfontein SPCA, Merritt Clifton, National SPCA of South Africa

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