Or is hippo overpopulation even really the issue? LUSAKA, Zambia––Why has Zambian tourism minister Charles Banda revived a five-year-old plan to cull up to 250 hippopotamuses per year from South Luangwa National Park, only two years after scrapping it? “The South Luangwa National Park has a population of more than 13,000 hippos but the area […]
BLM to gather 575 Nevada wild horses, thanks to Friends of Animals’ “victory”
Friends of Animals blocked use of contraception while wild horse herd multiplied GARDNERVILLE, Nevada––One of the largest planned gathers of wild horses in recent memory, scheduled for Pine Nut Mountains Herd Management Area of western Nevada in fall 2018, results directly from Friends of Animals’ May 2016 claimed success in causing the Bureau of […]
Auction date set for survivors of ISPMB wild horse sanctuary meltdown
Victorious Dakota Access protesters unlikely to ride to the rescue LANTRY, South Dakota––If just one Dakota Access pipeline protester in 10 could stop at the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs & Burros premises en route home from the multi-month vigil that kept the pipeline from crossing the Missouri River by passing under Lake […]
Wildlife contraceptive researcher Jay Kirkpatrick, 75
Developed PZP for use in 85 species Jay Kirkpatrick, 75, for more than 40 years a leading developer of contraceptive vaccines for wild horses, deer, elk, and other wildlife, died on December 16, 2015 in Billings, Montana “from a brief but serious illness,” family and friends said. Kirkpatrick, originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, spent […]
Sex, drugs, & wild horses
Friends of Animals tries to stop use of PZP WASHINGTON D.C.––Friends of Animals on May 20, 2015 asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to “consider new scientific evidence demonstrating the need to cancel the registration of porcine zona pellucida (PZP) for population control of America’s wild horses and burros, which was issued to the […]