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Exotic animal sanctuarians race the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

June 21, 2022 By Merritt Clifton 1 Comment

Animals in need,  unchecked breeding & abandonment,  limited resources,  & advancing age             TAMPA,  Florida––The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,  according to the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel,  are death by the sword,  famine,  wild beasts,  and plague.             But Ezekiel,  though generally believed to have been a vegetarian and perhaps a vegan,  was not […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Land turtles, Pigs, Reptiles, Sanctuaries, Turtles, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: American Tortoise Rescue, Carole Baskin, Kevin Antle, Lori Keene Rutledge, Martine Colette, Primarily Primates, Susan Tellem, Tiger King, Wally Swett, Wildlife Waystation

Who will look after tigers, wolves, birds & horses as sanctuarians age?

May 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Longhopes Donkey Shelter founder Kathy Dean raises questions that many refuse to face BENNETT,  Colorado––From her Longhopes Donkey Shelter,  located in the foothills just east of Aurora and Denver,  Kathy Dean has seen fellow sanctuarians come and go for long enough to be looking ahead,  something most never seem to do. An ANIMALS 24-7 reader […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cockatoo Rescue, Kathy Dean, Longhopes, Lori Keene Rutledge, Martine Colette, Wildlife Waystation

Eight ex-Wildlife Waystation chimps can’t sleep on cardboard in an alley

September 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

North American Primate Sanctuary Association still working to keep homeless chimps off the streets of Los Angeles             LOS ANGELES––Eighteen of the 26 chimpanzees left at the former Wildlife Waystation animal sanctuary are spoken for by other sanctuaries,  but eight chimps still have nowhere to go. The chimps are not really at risk of sharing […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Sanctuaries, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Center for Great Apes, Chimp Haven, Chimp Sanctuary Northwest, Erika Fluery, Little Tujunga Canyon, Martine Colette, Merritt Clifton, North American Primate Sanctuary Association

Wildlife Waystation closure: where are the animals now?

August 24, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

32 chimps still need homes             SYLMAR, California––32 chimpanzees are the last residents of the former Wildlife Waystation sanctuary in Little Tujunga Canyon,  east of Glendale and Los Angeles. A year after Wildlife Waystation closed,  on August 13,  2019,  by order of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife,  finding the funds to rehome the […]

Filed Under: Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Chimps & other primates, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Sanctuaries, Science, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bob Wenners, Champ Davenport, Joe Taft, John Gregory, Martine Colette, Merritt Clifton

Wildlife Waystation closed & to be dismantled, after 43 years

August 21, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

If a cat has nine lives,  Wildlife Waystation had dozens             SYLMAR, California––Wildlife Waystation,  the often embattled prototype for dozens of other sanctuaries for former exotic pets and animals used in laboratories and entertainment,  has closed,  after 43 years. The closure came nearly four months after the reportedly forced retirement of founder Martine Colette. Colette […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Belgium, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Humane history, Kenya, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Screen industry, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Bob Lorsch, Bob Wenners, Daphne Sheldrick, James Mahoney, Martine Colette, Matthew Simmons, Merritt Clifton, Peggy Summers

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