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Elephants, giraffes, sharks, Asian otters & seahorses fare well in Switzerland

August 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

African elephants win protection near where exports for display began             GENEVA, Switzerland––Live elephant exports from Africa for exhibition at least nominally ended by plenary vote at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Triennial Conference of the Parties on August 27,  2019 in Geneva,  Switzerland,  about 200 miles north from where the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Botswana, China, Conservation, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Gabon, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: Hannibal Barca, Merritt Clifton, Nina Larson, Tom De Meulenaer

Feds must hide names of hunters who kill for show, rules Trump appointee

August 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Brave enough to shoot a cage-raised lion,  but not enough to face the public             WASHINGTON,  D.C.––Ruling that trophy hunters’ right to privacy trumps the public right to know what animals they kill,  even though the goal of trophy hunting is showing off,  U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on August 19,  2019 ruled that the […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Blake Owen Fischer, David Bernhardt, Donald Trump, Guy Gorney, Jimmy John Liautaud, Judge Timothy Kelly, Larysa Switlyk, Merritt Clifton, Mike Jines, Ryan Zinke, Tess Thompson Talley, Walter Palmer

Why vultures are not circling over the drought-parched world

June 25, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

It isn’t that vultures don’t feel the threat from global warming             GABORONE,  Botswana––Scarce over much of drought-parched India,  Central Asia, and Africa,  vultures still converge over dead livestock and wildlife in Botswana,  stripping the corpses of even elephants and hippos down to the bones within hours––but for how much longer? The Botswana Department of […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia, Birds, Birds, Birds, Botswana, Conservation, Dogs, Endangered species, Feature Home Top, Habitat, Hunted species, India, Indian subcontinent, Israel, Kenya, Mediterranean, Poaching & trafficking, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Çağan Şekercioğlu, Evan Buechley, J. Lindsay Oaks, Merritt Clifton, Salvatore Cardoni, Zafrir Rinat

Johnny Rodrigues, 69, fought to save wildlife in Zimbabwe

March 20, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Felled by cancer after surviving two wars, poachers’ gunfire, & the Mugabe regime QUARTEIERA, Portugal––Johnny Rodrigues,  69,  founder of the the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force and an enthusiastic contributor of information and occasional guest columns to ANIMALS 24-7,  died on September 17,  2018 at his daughter Lorraine and son-in-law Gavin Randall’s home in Portugal,  after […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, South Africa, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Chery Rodrigues, Francis Nhema, Gavin Randall, Lorraine Randall, Merritt Clifton, Robert Mugabe, Sharon Pincott

No, China did not ban sales of pangolin scales. But it might.

March 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

National People’s Congress has been asked to consider banning sales of pangolin scales             BEIJING,  China––Pangolins,  perhaps the cutest and most harmless animal jeopardized by poaching and wildlife trafficking whom hardly anyone has heard of,  remain in as much trouble today as yesterday,  two years ago,  and five years ago,  despite news items,  activist alerts,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Cameroun, China, Culture & Animals, DRC, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Laws, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, USA, Vietnam, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Amy Yee, Daniel Ingram, Merritt Clifton

What Kenya’s wildlife needs most is water––not “fake news”

February 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Rumors of death penalty for poachers never held water,  Agence France Presse reports––but Patrick Mwalua’s projects do             VOI, Kenya––Rumors stoked since April 2018 by a Xinhua news agency report that Kenya will soon introduce the death penalty for poachers not only have no legal or legislative foundation,   as ANIMALS 24-7 reported in February 2019,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Kenya, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Daphne Sheldrick, Gitau Mbaria, Merritt Clifton, Nijab Balala, Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, Richard Leakey

“Ivory queen” sentence helps to sell “real estate” deal in Tanzania

February 26, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

366 settlements on “protected land” to become incorporated villages––and “dam the Rufigi River” goes full speed ahead             DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania––Resolving a case pending since September 2015,  and ruling at a politically opportune time for Tanzanian president John Magufuli,  Kisutu Court magistrate Huruma Shaidi on February 19,  2019 sentenced reputed “Ivory Queen” Yang Feng […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Adam C. Stein, Brennan Peterson Wood, Fumbuka Ng’wanakilala, John Magufuli, Medard Kalemani, Merritt Clifton, Yang Feng Glan

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

October 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine             BOISE,  Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15,  2018,  when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer,  40,  had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed,  the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Blake Fischer, Chad Cripe, Elizabeth Blom, Ernest Hemingway, John Henry Patterson, Larry Fischer, Merritt Clifton

$10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

October 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Effects parallel those of bringing rail travel to Yellowstone in 1902             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Looming over Kenya like the Standard Gauge Railway trestle at the northern edge of Nairobi National Park,  or the marabou storks overlooking the dense traffic on the highway into Nairobi from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,  is the question of how $10 billion […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Crustaceans, Cultural, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Abel Muhatia, Anna Ge, Apurva Sanghi, Ben Okita-Ouma, Chang Ming Chuang, Dong Yi, Dylan Johnson, Erick Kiraithe, Ernest Hemingway, Fred Kaigwa, George Murage, Gilbert Koech, Henry John Delves Broughton, John Henry Patterson, Josslyn Hay, Lee Changqin, Lee Kinyanjui, Lilian Musili, Luo Jnili, Margaret Mwakima, Merritt Clifton, Nicanor Sabula, Paul Mbugua, Peter Mutai, Steve Njumbi, Wu Peng Te, Wu Yi, Zheng He

Trophy hunting scheme & Chinese-built railway fire debate in Kenya

September 1, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

ANIMALS 24-7 reports from the scene             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Most of the delegates to the 2018 Africa Animal Welfare Conference,  opening on September 3 at the United Nations Complex in Nairobi,  will have already seen the second most controversial wildlife-related topic in Kenya,  a four-mile Chinese-built railway overpass crossing Nairobi National Park,  on their 20-mile ride […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, China, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Kenya, Laws & politics, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, South Africa, South Sudan, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Cyril Ramaphosa, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, Mordecai Ogada, Najib Balala, Perez Olinda, Ramadhan Rajab

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