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Shooting cats to save lizards, or to please billionaire birders?

December 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The Cayman Islands may have more billionaires’ mansions than rock iguanas,  but cats are not to blame             GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands––If free-roaming cats were really a significant threat to iguanas––of any subspecies––one might expect most of Florida to be devoid of iguanas. Florida,  after all,  has reputedly the most optimal habitat for feral cats […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Caribbean, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Reptiles, Sea turtles, The Americas, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, Cayman National Trust, Cayman Turtle Farm, Darwin Plus, David Fleshler, Fred Burton, Merritt Clifton, Tamlin Magee

How 60+ Florida animal care facilities survived Hurricane Ian

October 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And how IFAW founder Brian Davies’ $1.4 million winter home didn’t             FORT MYERS, Florida––Forty-eight hours after Hurricane Ian first hit the southwest Florida coast on September 28,  2022,  and minutes after it slammed into South Carolina two days later,  after crossing the width of Florida and regaining momentum over the sea,  animal rescuers were […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Cats, Crocodilians, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Shelters, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Brian Davies, Gullf Coast Humane Society, Hurricane Ian, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Adams, Sanibel

Exotic animal sanctuarians race the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

June 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Animals in need,  unchecked breeding & abandonment,  limited resources,  & advancing age             TAMPA,  Florida––The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  according to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel,  are death by the sword,  famine,  wild beasts,  and plague.             But Ezekiel,  though generally believed to have been a vegetarian and perhaps a vegan,  was not […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Pigs, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: American Tortoise Rescue, Carole Baskin, Kevin Antle, Lori Keene Rutledge, Martine Colette, Primarily Primates, Susan Tellem, Tiger King, Wally Swett, Wildlife Waystation

Reptiles invade Canada––but not by their own choice

May 16, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Inhospitable habitat,  even if herps are kept indoors              EDMONTON, Alberta,  Canada––Reptile breeder John Makaryshyn,  31,  was on May 10,  2022 hit with 37 charges under Canadian federal law and 89 counts of allegedly violating the Animal Protection Act of Alberta in connection with the deaths of 674 reptiles and amphibians whose remains were discovered […]

Filed Under: Canada, Constrictors, Crocodilians, Feature Home Bottom, Reptile farming, Reptiles, Snakes, The Americas, Turtles, Venomous, Wildlife Tagged With: Connor Barthe, Drumheller, Jean Claude-Savoie, John Makaryshyn, Merritt Clifton, Noah Barthe, Poikilo Exotics, Riverfront Aquariums, Royal Tyrell

Reptile diversity study findings are less scary than a snake in your boot

April 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Mainstream reportage focused on the bad news,  but reptiles remain likely to outlive us WASHINGTON D.C.––All dinosaurs except birds,  all ichthyosaurs,  and all pterosaurs are  confirmed extinct. Dragons,  griffins,  and Godzilla are alive and well in human imagination,  the only habitat they ever actually occupied. Among the other 10,196 reptile species for whom population and […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Crocodilians, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Indian subcontinent, Land turtles, Reptiles, Sea turtles, Snakes, Soft-shelled turtles, The Americas, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Bruce E. Young, Christina Larson, Erik Stokstad, Godzilla, Merritt Clifton, Neil Cox

Seaspiracy: seas, piracy, & Cowspiracy meet fishy business

April 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Fishing industry screams bloody murder Reviewed by Merritt & Beth Clifton Seaspiracy,  whose title is a fusion of “seas” and “piracy,”  and a play on Cowspiracy,  the 2014 independent blockbluster documentary also produced by Kip Anderson,  on March 24,  2021 premiered worldwide on Netflix. Within 10 days Seaspiracy had become a runaway hit,  seen by […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Sea turtles, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Turtles, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Ali Tabrizi, Beth Clifton, Don Staniford, George Monbiot, Kip Anderson, Lucy Tabrizi, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ric O'Barry, Sylvia Earle

Legendary giant turtle, believed extinct, resurfaces in Hanoi lake

January 1, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Five years after the “last” giant softshell turtle died,  one and possibly three more turn up, plus one in zoo             HANOI, Vietnam––Five years after the January 2016 death of Cu Rua in Hoan Kiem Lake plunged Vietnam into national mourning for the legendary giant softshell turtle,  then believed to have been the last of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Soft-shelled turtles, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Vietnam Tagged With: Cu Rua, Dong Mo Lake, Ha Dinh Duc, Hoan Kiem Lake, Merritt Clifton, Robert Swinhoe

China prosecutes 10 times more wildlife scofflaws in 2020 than U.S.

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 triggers sustained crackdown on illegal fishers,  poachers, & traffickers BEIJING, China—Cracking down on wildlife-related crime in response to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  China prosecuted more than 15,000 alleged perpetrators in the first nine months of 2020. About 7,000 prosecutions were for illegal fishing,  4,000 for poaching land animals and birds,  and 3,000 for […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Birds, China, Crustaceans, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Reptiles, Snakes, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Grace Qi, Merritt Clifton, Shashank Bengali, Sister Hua, Vo Kieu Bao Uyen

Rare Aussie animals save themselves, no thanks to Compound 1080

July 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Brush-tailed rock wallabies & long-nosed potoroos need habitat,  poison drops CANBERRA,  ADELAIDE,  MELBOURNE,  Australia––Investigators are finding,  in the wake of bushfires that ravaged protected habitat right around the forested coastal perimeter of Australia,  that many rare Australian animals apparently know how to save themselves,  with or without human help. More than a billion animals are […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Reptiles, Turtles, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Brooke Jarvis, Dana Mitchell, Emma Siossan, Jill Pickering, Jim Flannagan, Konrad Marshall, Merritt Clifton, Mhairi Roberts, Miki Perkins, Sarah Marshall, Susan Fowler

Three recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways

June 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84;  activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76;  Bill Jenkins, 53             Michael E. Soulé,  84,  widely identified as the “father of conservation biology,”  but an enthusiastic advocate of “compassionate conservation” by the end of his life and career,  died on June 17,  2020. “Conservation is engaged in the protection of the integrity […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, Marine life, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Sea turtles, Turtles, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Bill Jenkins, Camilla Fox, Linda Ann DeStefano, Merritt Clifton, Michael Soule, Paul Paquet, Project Coyote, Regan Russell

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