• News home
  • About us
  • Our bios
  • Contact us
  • Cats
  • Disasters
  • Pit bull data
  • How to help us
  • Follow us!

Animals 24-7

News on dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, zoonoses, & nature

  • USA
  • Asia/Pacific
  • Africa
  • The Americas
  • Europe
  • Obituaries
  • Please donate!
  • Search this site

Man-eaters of Kenya: The Ghost & The Darkness

June 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Maneless lions legendary for more than a century The Ghosts of Tsavo by Philip Caputo Adventure Press (c/o National Geographic Society,  1145 17th St. NW,  Washington,  DC   20036),  2002.  275 pages,  hardcover.  $27.00. The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa’s Notorious Man-eaters by Bruce D. Patterson McGraw-Hill Co. (Two Penn Plaza,  New York, […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Bruce D. Patterson, John Henry Patterson, Merritt Clifton, Philip Caputo, The Ghost & The Darkness

Meet Blake Fischer, baboon family killer & apostle of bowhunting

October 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Frequent model for his father’s bowhunting magazine             BOISE,  Idaho––The Blake Owen Fischer baboon family killing-and-display saga did not end on October 15,  2018,  when Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced that Fischer,  40,  had resigned from the Idaho Fish & Game Commission. Indeed,  the most influential part of the story has yet to transpire. What […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Captive animals, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Namibia, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Blake Fischer, Chad Cripe, Elizabeth Blom, Ernest Hemingway, John Henry Patterson, Larry Fischer, Merritt Clifton

$10 billion from China buys big changes in Kenya wildlife tourism

October 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Effects parallel those of bringing rail travel to Yellowstone in 1902             NAIROBI,  Kenya––Looming over Kenya like the Standard Gauge Railway trestle at the northern edge of Nairobi National Park,  or the marabou storks overlooking the dense traffic on the highway into Nairobi from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,  is the question of how $10 billion […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Crustaceans, Cultural, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, Marine life, Poaching & trafficking, Predators, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Abel Muhatia, Anna Ge, Apurva Sanghi, Ben Okita-Ouma, Chang Ming Chuang, Dong Yi, Dylan Johnson, Erick Kiraithe, Ernest Hemingway, Fred Kaigwa, George Murage, Gilbert Koech, Henry John Delves Broughton, John Henry Patterson, Josslyn Hay, Lee Changqin, Lee Kinyanjui, Lilian Musili, Luo Jnili, Margaret Mwakima, Merritt Clifton, Nicanor Sabula, Paul Mbugua, Peter Mutai, Steve Njumbi, Wu Peng Te, Wu Yi, Zheng He

Quick links to coverage of dangerous dogs

FREE SUBSCRIPTION!!!

The Americas

  • Canada
  • Caribbean
  • Central America
  • Mexico
  • South America
  • Email alert list – Sign up today!
  • Our biographies
  • Memorials
  • Pit bull data
  • Black history & animals
  • Search this site

Obits & Memorials

  • Memorials
  • Obituaries (animals)
  • Obituaries (human)
  • Email alert list – Sign up today!
  • Our biographies
  • Memorials
  • Pit bull data
  • Black history & animals
  • Search this site

©

Copyright 2014-2023

Animals 24-7 · All Rights Reserved · Admin

 

Loading Comments...