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Four chimps shot dead at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden––why?

December 23, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Shootings,  as info emerges,  look more like panic than a safety precaution             GAVLE,  Sweden––The more information emerges about the December 14,  2022 fatal shooting of four chimpanzees and wounding of another at the Furuvik Zoo,  about 100 miles north of Stockholm,  the Swedish capital city,  the more the shootings look like an ill-informed panic […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Annika Troselius, Frans de Waal, Ing-Marie Persson, Jane Goodall, Mathias Osvath, Merritt Clifton, Santino, Torsten

Buffalo attack death mystery recalls injuries & deaths of other animal advocates

May 29, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Shando Mathebula,  Steve Ross,  Jerry W. Brown,  & Angela Glover JOHANNESBURG––The South African National Park Service [SANParks] and South African Police Service [SAPS] are reportedly investigating the May 4,  2022 death of Kruger National Park field ranger and dog handler Shando Mathebula,  36. Mathebula,  while on patrol in the park,  was either fatally gored by […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pacific islands & other, Sanctuaries, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Andrew Oberle, Angela Glover, Frodo, Jane Goodall, Jerry W. Brown, Merritt Clifton, Shando Mathebula, Steve Ross

Forever Young: Thoreau, Einstein, Bronte, Thurman, Goodall, & Carson

February 19, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Forever Young:  How Six Great Individuals Have Drawn upon the Powers of Childhood and How We Can Follow Their Lead by William Crain, cofounder of Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary Turning Stone Press Reviewed by Karen Davis, PhD,  president, United Poultry Concerns Our society’s children seldom experience nature anymore.  They move between poles of a cold-blooded […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Bill Crain, Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Thurman, Jane Goodall, Karen Davis, Rachel Carson

Uttam Dahal, 33, was dynamo for animals in Nepal despite ill health

July 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Dahal won 2014 Supreme Court of Nepal case against Gadhi Mai mass sacrifice             KATHMANDU, Nepal––Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center founder Uttam G.P. Dahal,  33,  died on July 26, 2019 after battling illness for most of his brief but dynamic life. Dahal left Santana Sharma,  his wife of just two years and two months,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Other, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Street dogs, USA, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Gyanendra Bir Bikram Dev, Jane Goodall, Merritt Clifton, Santana Sharma, Sujan Bhandari, Uttam G.P. Dahal

Death of Koko, 46, raises question what will become of her rejected mate Ndume?

June 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Koko was among the last great apes used in still controversial 1970s language research             WOODSIDE,  California––With Koko deceased,  what now will become of Ndume,  37,  the last and least famous of the three gorillas who once shared the Gorilla Foundation sanctuary and primate language research laboratory in the Santa Cruz Mountains,  south of San […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Animal sentience & intelligence, Beliefs, Book & film reviews, Cameroun, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA Tagged With: Barbara J. King, Dawn Forsythe, Francine Patterson, Herb Terrace, Jane Goodall, Jane Hu, Jeffrey Kluger, Merritt Clifton, Penny Patterson, Ronald Cohn

Why is Asia for Animals excluding man who won case against Gadhi Mai?

November 13, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Court victory upstaged host Jane Goodall Institute Nepal  KATHMANDU,  Nepal––Nepal Animal Welfare & Research Center founder Gita Prasad “Uttam” Dahal,  hospitalized in Delhi,  India,  for internal bleeding that has plagued him since a childhood spleen removal,  on November 7,  2017 received an e-mail from Sangita Sapkota,  program coordinator for the Jane Goodall Institute Nepal,  which […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: David Semple, Jane Goodall, Manoj Gautam, Merritt Clifton, Uttam Dahal, William F. Harvey

The Six Million Dollar Chimps

June 3, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Will $6 million be enough to provide lifetime care to as many as 66 chimps abandoned in Liberia by the New York Blood Center?             NEW YORK CITY,  WASHINGTON D.C.––Response from animal advocates was mixed after Humane Society of the U.S. president Wayne Pacelle on May 30,  2017 announced a $6 million commitment from the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Lab animals, Liberia, Sanctuaries, Science, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Jane Goodall, Kaleigh Rogers, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Richard Wrangham, Wayne Pacelle

The dolphin stories that made two authors famous

December 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Build Me An Ark:  A Life With Animals,  by Brenda Peterson WW. Norton (500 5th Ave.,  New York,  NY  10110-0017),  2000.  256 pages,  hardcover.  $23.95. Journey Of The Pink Dolphin:  An Amazon Quest,  by Sy Montgomery Simon & Schuster (1230 Ave. of the Americas,  New York,  NY  10020),  2000.  320 pages,  hardcover.  $26.00. Reviewed by […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Christianity, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Marine mammals, Religion & philosophy, Seals, South America, The Americas, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Birute Galdikas, Brenda Peterson, Dian Fossey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jane Goodall, Jane Werner, Merritt Clifton, Ric O'Barry, Richard Scarry, Sy Montgomery

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