Biden administration claims credit for unprecedented expansion of hunter access to National Wildlife Refuges initiated under Trump WASHINGTON D.C.––Why would the Joe Biden administration want to claim credit for one of the most odious actions of the Donald Trump administration pertaining to animals and habitat? Specifically, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service under Biden appointee […]
Second Finn dog study conflates defensive behavior with aggression
But the Finn study does not discount the influence of genetics on aggression HELSINKI, Finland––The same Finn researchers who in March 2020 published a study strongly affirming the importance of breeding in dog behavior have in May 2020 published a second analysis of the same data which––at a glance––argues just the opposite. The second […]
Bullets for bison in Grand Canyon National Park
Bison again under fire, 50 years after film “Bless the Beasts & the Children” exposed the massacre, shocking the world GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona––The National Park Service accepted 45,000 applications from would-be volunteer bison shooters during a 48-hour window opening on May 3, 2021 at midnight. A dozen shooters will be selected by […]
Three pit bull-related deaths in three days ended April 2021
And pit bull-pushing trainer honored by ASPCA & HSUS gets nearly 10 years in prison FORT WORTH, Texas––Deadly pit bull incidents re-erupted during the last three days of April 2021, killing two little girls and a 32-year-old man. The pit bull death toll had apparently been indirectly suppressed during the first three months of 2021 […]
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
Reviewed by Merritt Clifton 193 pages, paperback. $20.00. Lantern Publishing & Media, www.lanternpm.org The slimmed-and-trimmed 2021 edition of An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, published 28 years after the first edition, is dated only by author Jim Mason’s new introduction, in which he acknowledges the many changes in the world occurring […]
Five animal advocates of British accent remembered in passing
Two zookeepers, two activists, & a publisher Sharon Matola, Jeremy Mallinson, Brian Gunn, Brian Gunn-King, and Jon Wynne-Tyson were respectively two zookeepers dedicated to the conservation of endangered species, an anti-vivisection activist, a vegetarian activist of similar name, and a book publisher, of many overlapping associations. Matola and Mallinson, for instance, were both friends of […]
TNR boomed before COVID-19 hit, Alley Cat Rescue survey shows
Feral cat sterilizations were up 23% in seven years; what is happening now? MOUNT RANIER, Maryland––Feral cat control by trap-neuter-return [TNR] was accomplishing more than ever before through 2019, including a 23% increase in the numbers of cats sterilized over the annual average in 2012, suggests newly released data from the Alley Cat Rescue […]
Animal charity management: mobilized millennials bumping off boomers?
Regime change underway at Animal Legal Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, & Tony La Russa’s Animal Foundation COTATI, WALNUT CREEK, California; NEW YORK, N.Y.––Are unionization at the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the resignation of five members of Tony La Russa’s family from Tony La Russa’s Animal Foundation, though not La Russa himself, and the exit […]
Audubon writer allegedly recommended poisoning cats
Editor-at-large Ted Williams suspended, then reinstated WASHINGTON D.C.––National Audubon Society president David Yarnold on March 26, 2013 announced that Audubon magazine editor-at-large Ted Williams had been reinstated after a 10-day suspension for allegedly urging the use of the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen to poison feral cats. Though the alleged recommendation was later withdrawn, it received […]
New adoption center gives Fresno humane community a point of pride
A rare “good news for animals” event in a city which has had little to celebrate FRESNO, California––Celebrating a rare “good news for animals” event in a city which has had little to celebrate, the Cat House on the Kings and the Petco Foundation on February 15, 2013 together opened a new 1,500-square-foot adoption center […]
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