How did Wildlife SOS cofounder & experienced anti-poaching investigator Kartick Satyanarayan get caught in such a tangle? AGRA, India––Wildlife law enforcement agents worldwide, both with government agencies and with nonprofit organizations, might take a lesson from the present plight of Wildlife SOS cofounder Kartick Satyanarayan. In particular, Satyanarayan could probably teach quite a bit from […]
Vantara: billionaire-built zoo/sanctuary has conservationists in a dither
Nobody knows quite what to make of the state-of-the-art facility begun by Anant Ambani, 29, but it has taken in thousands of animals from often dire situations JAMNAGAR, India––A global chorus of conservationists are currently bashing Anant Ambani, 29, son of the reputed twelfth richest man in the world, for allegedly building the world’s […]
Sex, drugs, dogs & monkey business
Can PZP keep over-sexed rhesus macaques from taking over the Taj Mahal? AGRA, India––Faster up a tree or the side of a building than a feral cat, biting more powerfully and often than any street dog, able to leap over monkey-catchers at a single bound, and usually able to outwit public officials, rhesus macaques might […]
Elephant coffee: biggest rectums in the coffee business
Only a colossal a**hole could produce elephant dung coffee. CHANG SAEN, Thailand; MADURAI, India––Marketed as a lucrative rump enterprise in support of the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, elephant dung coffee might at first sniff suggest an easy free market approach to fundraising to rescue elephants, of particular appeal to status-seeking Republicans. But […]
Awards & Honors, 1st quarter 2014
The 25th annual edition of the Limca Book of Records honored 25 women for their contributions to Indian society, including Geeta Seshamani, founder of the Friendicoes Society for Eradicating Cruelty to Animals and cofounder of Wildlife SOS. Friendicoes has operated a dog-and-cat shelter in Delhi since 1979, and has […]