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If plants have feelings, how does this affect our advocacy for animals?

August 22, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

by Karen Davis, PhD, president of United Poultry Concerns Can a tree be “strategically responsive, and exhibit kinship, or a sense of self? Is a tree intelligent?” ––Rebecca Giggs, “The Trees Are Talking,” The Atlantic, July /August 2021,  published online as A Better Way to Look at Trees. This intriguing article in The Atlantic recounts […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans, Wildlife Tagged With: Helen Nearing, Jonathan Balcombe, Norm Phelps

What does the Taliban mean for animals in Afghanistan?

August 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Sharia law may be much better for animals than for western-funded animal advocacy organizations             KABUL,  Afghanistan––Six days after the Taliban retook Kabul,  the national capital of Afghanistan,  the one certainty for the status of animals may be that dogfighting will be prohibited and firmly suppressed,  along with a violent regional sport called buzkashi in […]

Filed Under: Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Central Asia, Cockfighting, Dogfighting, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Other animal fighting, Pakistan, Religion & philosophy, Sports, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdul Jalil Mohammadzai, Buzkashi, Mayhew International, Nowzad, Pamela Constable, Penny Farthing, Tahera Rezaei

Project Chimps paints walls in lieu of giving chimps daily outdoor time

July 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Paint job was not “whitewashing” because Project Chimps used bright colors BLUE RIDGE, Georgia–– Humane Society of the U.S. representatives once upon a time derisively denounced as eyewash meant to impress human visitors,  not the imprisoned animals, the common zoo practice of painting scenic backdrops on bare concrete walls. Staff and volunteers at the Project […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Crystal Alba, Donny Moss, HSUS, Kitty Block, Lindsay Vanderhooght, Merritt Clifton, Project Chimps

Dying tule elk need water now diverted to cattle; can lawyers save them?

July 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore was to end by 1987,  but now 10 times more cattle crowd the habitat than before the land was “protected”             POINT REYES, California––The remains of at least 18 endangered tule elk at drought-parched Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County,  California,  38 miles north of San Francisco,  attest […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Craig Kenkel, Jack Gescheidt, Jeff Miller, Katherine A. Meyer, Katherine Barnekow, Laura Charlton, Merritt Clifton, Skyler Thomas

Marine mammal activist Ben White,  53,  dies of abdominal cancer

July 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Long problematic career Ben White,  53,  died on July 30,  2005,  in Friday Harbor, Washington,  after a six-month struggle against abdominal cancer. White “cut open dolphin-holding nets in Japan,  scaled buildings to hang anti-fur banners, jumped in front of naval ships in Hawaii to stop sonar tests,  and slept atop old-growth trees to protest logging,” […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Faroe Islands, Humane history, Iceland, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Wewer, Clair George, David Howitt, Feld Entertainment, Kathleen Marquardt, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Rick Spill, Rod Coronado

Fixing for a fight of Leviathans

July 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The Makah Harpooners vs. Willy the Whale,  alias Killer Keiko [Originally published in September 1998] NEAH BAY,  Washington;  NEWPORT,  Oregon––If the September 1998 media drama underway in the Pacific Northwest was a professional wrestling match,  it would be billed as the Makah Harpooners vs. Willy the Whale,  alias Killer Keiko,  orca star of the hit […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Laws & politics, Marine life, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Ben White, Jose Truda Palazzo, Mark Berman, Marylou Sappone, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ric O'Barry, Rick Spill, Rick Trout, Russ Rector

Tiger exhibitor Marcus Cook: ex-cop has dodged the law for 20 years

July 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Carole & Howard Baskin aim to stop Cook by persuading feds to do their job KAUFMAN, Texas––Having already put tiger cub exhibitors “Joe Exotic” Schreibvogel Maldonado Passage,  Tim Stark,  and Jeff Lowe out of business,  Carole and Howard Baskin of Big Cat Rescue are metaphorically gunning now for Marcus Cline Hines Cook,  doing business as […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Sanctuaries, Spectacles, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: All Things Wild, Bearcat Hollow, Big Cat Rescue, Carole Baskin, Critter Lane, Gayle Reaves, Lisa Lopez, Melissa Coody, Michael Todd, Mighty Thomas Carnival, Zoo Dynamics, ZooCats

Hunter gets 7 to 20 years for killing teen he mistook for a groundhog

July 11, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Rare stiff sentence for “hunting accident”             DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania––Kenneth Troy Heller,  52,  of Warminster Township,  Pennsylvania,  was on July 7,  2021 sentenced to serve from seven to 20 years in prison for a so-called “hunting accident” that on October 24,  2020 killed 18-year-old Jason Kutt at Nockamixon State Park,  Bucks County. The unusually stiff sentence […]

Filed Under: Deer & other horned species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Howe, Donald Howe Sr., Donald Rogerson, Harry Watkins, Jason Kutt, John Varndell Jr., Joshua Stewart Burks, Karen Wood, Karen Wrentzel, Kenneth Troy Heller, Megan Ripley, Robert Trundy, Sean Peterson, Simon Howell, Timothy Bean, Troy Ellis, Zachary Rock

Sheriffs ignored chimp in their own back yard until they shot him

June 24, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Two sheriffs and many deputies helped to found and run the former Buck Brogoitti Animal Rescue,  named for the chimp PENDLETON, Oregon––Tamara Brogoitti,  68,  closed the 800-acre Buck Brogoitti Animal Rescue on the outskirts of Pendleton in January 2019. Knowing she was no longer either physically or financially capable of running the sanctuary,  looking after large […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: John Brogoitti, John Kitzhaber, John Trumbo, Merritt Clifton, Pendleton Rodeo, Steve Hindi, Tamara Brogoitti, Terry Rowan

Shooting war: cats win, feeders lose in East Bay Regional Park District

June 20, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

East Bay Regional Park District agrees to ceasefire if cat rescuers remove cats from sensitive wildlife areas             OAKLAND, California––Histrionic headlines and activist alerts aside,  what the East Bay Regional Park District board of directors really did at a heated June 15,  2021 meeting over cat policy was to: Permanently reassign staff biologist David “Doctor […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Population control, Spay/neuter, Uncategorized, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Alley Cat Allies, Becky Robinson, Cecilia Theis, David “Doctor Quack” Riensche, Merritt Clifton

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