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The Coasts of California, ecological apocalypse, & evolution

November 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Written & illustrated by Obi Kaufmann 639 pages $55.00 from HeydayBooks.com  Yes,  The Coasts of California would make an excellent holiday season gift for anyone interested in nature,  ecology, hiking,  or just in California generally,  if only by reason of living there and wanting to understand the habitat and the socio-economic and political issues associated […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Beliefs, Birds, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Habitat, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, James Rust, Jean Jacques Roousseau, Merritt Clifton, Obi Kaufmann, Steve Wasserman

Charles Henry Turner proved Darwin was right about animal sentience

January 31, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Turner had no laboratory & no lab animals for most of his career,  but keenly watched bugs CINCINNATI,  Ohio––Science,  law,  and animal advocacy have at last begun paying serious attention to what Charles Henry Turner discovered and wrote about animal intelligence and sentience. In the United Kingdom,  for instance,  a pending amendment to the Animal […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Insects, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Darwin, Darwin T. Turner, E.O. Wilson, Galpayage Dona, Hiruni Samadi, Lars Chittka, Thomas Lovejoy

Cats, mice, & even octopi sacrificed to false gods of conservation

January 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

E.O. Wilson sidekick Thomas Lovejoy contributed to rationales for massacring some animals to save others              Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III,  80,  on December 25, 2021 quietly died from pancreatic cancer in McLean,  Virginia,  just 24 hours before the death of E.O. Wilson,  92,  in Burlington,  Massachusetts. (See E.O. Wilson, counter-evolutionary “evolutionary biologist,” dies at 92.) […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Birds, Cephalopods, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Food, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Insects, Marine life, Meat issues, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Darwin, E.O. Wilson, Farallon Islands, Kangaroo Island, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Lovejoy

Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity

April 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

And why killing dogs, rats,  pigs,  goats,  mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators             SANTA CRUZ,  California––Appealing for funding to kill cats,  dogs,  rats,  pigs,  goats,  and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations,  in the name of promoting biodiversity,  the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, Edward Howe Forbush, Helen Briggs, John R. Platt, Merritt Clifton, Sally Esposito

The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate

September 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  what is bio-xenophobia? (Part I of a four-part series.  See also How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy; How the Twin Towers fell on animals too;  and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) With just six weeks left of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign season,  xenophobia,  the fear of foreigners,  has thus far […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Agriculture, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Food security, Germany, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Insects, Isles, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Other animals & science topics, Religion & philosophy, Reptiles, Science, Sheep & goats, The Americas, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Merritt Clifton, Ted Cruz

How an ant doctor came to be driving public policy

September 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Who is E.O. Wilson? (Part 2 of a four-part series.  See also The animal issue that made Donald Trump a presidential candidate;  How the Twin Towers fell on animals too;  and Questioning the claims of “crisis.”) Perhaps the most influential author and thinker from the rise of the late 20th century environmental movement to today,  and certainly […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Beliefs, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Charles Darwin, E.O. Wilson, Merritt Clifton, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould

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