“Poster bear” for ending bile farming Jasper, 30, the moon bear who became “poster bear” for the Animals Asia Foundation campaign against farming bears to extract bile from their livers, was euthanized on April 29, 2016 due to incurable cancer. “Moon bear Jasper spent 15 years in a Chinese bile farm crush cage,” the Animals […]
Zoos tried not to let anyone see an elephant fly
17 eles flown from Swaziland to Dallas, Wichita, & Omaha zoos DALLAS, Texas––Why were 17 elephants stuffed aboard a custom-built Boeing 747 on March 8, 2016 and flown secretly to Alliance Field in Dallas? It wasn’t just because trunks are not allowed as carry-on baggage on regularly scheduled commercial flights. The 17 elephants, equivalent in […]
“Coon hunt” fundraiser may be seen as racist, frets St. Jude hospital
Wants to change name but not disassociate from “World’s Largest Coon Hunt” MEMPHIS, Tennessee––Unfazed by 28 years of protest against the cruelty to animals involved in the now-41-year-old Decatur County World’s Largest Coon Hunt, an annual benefit for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital of Memphis, the hospital may at last disassociate itself from […]
Snow Leopard: Stories from the Roof of the World
Edited by Don Hunter Univ. Press of Colorado (5589 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 206-C, Boulder, CO 80303), 2012. 216 pages. Hardcover $26.95, e-book $21.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Don Hunter, who assembled Snow Leopard: Stories from the Roof of the World, acknowledges inspiration and help in arranging publication from wildlife ethologist Marc Bekoff, co-editor of the 2008 […]
Giraffe killing in Copenhagen brings zoo culling to global notice
Marius the giraffe was then dissected COPENHAGEN––Despite a worldwide campaign to save him, a healthy 18-month-old bull giraffe named Marius was on the morning of February 9, 2014 lured from his quarters at the Copenhagen Zoo with a treat of rye bread, then dispatched with a captive […]