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Dog rescue on the slopes of Agung, Bali’s erupting “Mount Doom”

November 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

BAWA rushes to save animals beneath clouds of hot ash             UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia––More than 4.2 million people,  350,000 dogs,  and perhaps a million other animals from monkeys and chickens to goats and cattle,  plus wildlife,  are looking over their shoulders at a 30,000-foot column of steam,  smoke,  and ash boiling out of Mount Agung. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Hinduism, Indonesia, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Agung, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

Bali better at handling farting goats (or sheep) than canine rabies

March 4, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Gaseous ovines gone in hours;  rabies outbreak still killing after seven years          DENPASAR,  Bali,  Indonesia––An animal welfare issue in Bali made global headlines on November 4,  2015,  but it wasn’t the ongoing mishandling of a canine rabies outbreak by the Made Mangku Pastika gubernatorial regime that has frustrated control efforts since 2008,  at cost of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogfighting, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Indonesia, Population control, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Uses of dogs Tagged With: BAWA, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton

Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika invites public to kill dogs

February 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

“If you see a free-roaming feral dog just kill it” DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia––Raged Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika on January 31, 2015, seven years into the most badly bungled rabies control program of the 21st century, “There’s so much rabies. Our money has been depleted just to purchase rabies vaccine. Please help. If you see […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Indonesia, Population control, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali Animal Welfare Association, BAWA, Janice Giraridi, Made Magku Pastika

How BAWA beat the dog-cullers in one Bali banjar

July 5, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Stopped extermination drive             GIANYAR, Bali, Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association on July 3, 2014 claimed a small victory for vaccinating dogs against rabies and educating the public in Singapadu Tengah village, Gianyar regency, Bali. Responding to a June 26, 2014 directive from Bali governor Made Mangku Pastika, public officials “were scheduled to eliminate stray […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia Tagged With: BAWA, Made Mangku Pastika, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton

Political foes close Bali Animal Welfare Association

September 1, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Veterinarians complained UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia––The Bali Animal Welfare Association was on September 30,  2013 closed by police for allegedly operating without permits,  apparently following complaints from veterinarians about competition from the BAWA street dog clinic. “Our ambulance and spay/neuter team are not allowed to work until we get the clinic permit,  which will take a […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

BAWA achieves Bali rabies turnaround

May 1, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

  UBUD,  Bali,  Indonesia–Vaccinating 210,000 dogs in the six months ending on March 31,  2011,  the Bali Animal Welfare Association achieved a 48% reduction in human rabies deaths and a 45% decrease in dog rabies cases.  This was the fastest containment of a rabies outbreak in the history of Indonesia,  achieved even as a 13-year-old outbreak continues in Flores,  where […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton

Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak 

December 1, 2008 By Merritt Clifton

Four human victims DENPASAR,  Bali, Indonesia––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali.  Yachting,  fishing,  or trading goods,  the culprit apparently came by boat,  docking near Ungasan village,  where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Deborah Briggs, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail, rabies

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