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Reports from Iran: perhaps world’s most officially animal-unfriendly nation

March 3, 2026 By Merritt Clifton

The Iranian people have never been hostile toward animals,  but the Islamist government & the Revolutionary Guard are another matter TEHRAN,  Iran;  JERUSALEM,  Israel––Animal advocates and rescuers on opposite sides of shooting between Iran and Israel report similar responses among the dogs and cats in their care since U.S. and Israeli forces jointly bombed targets […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Cats, Central Asia, Circuses, Crocodilians, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Islam, Marine life, Meat issues, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Reptile farming, Reptiles, Science, Spectacles, Street dogs, Vegetarians & vegans, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Abdoreza Kouhpayeh, Abdu’l-Bahá, Fatemeh Motamedi, Hamid Ghahremanzadeh, Hassan Heidari, Kavous Seyed-Emami, Masoumeh Ebtekar, Merritt Clifton, Mohammad Ismail Kowsari, Nasim Aghdam, Nasser Makarem Shirazi, Nick Jukes, Payam Mohebi, Ramak Roshanaie Moghaddam, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Yashar Asadi

Why did the Houston Humane Society host a Halloween dissection lab?

November 6, 2024 By Merritt Clifton

Inviting tweens and teens to dissect snakes is not the same thing as inviting them to carve jackolanterns             HOUSTON, Texas––“Learn about snakes with the Houston Humane Society,”  social media ads aimed at “tweens” and teens from ages 10 to 18 opened in mid-October 2024. But these ads were not promoting a typical humane education […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Canada, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Educational use, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Isles, Lab animals, Religion & philosophy, Science, The Americas, United Kingdom, USA Tagged With: Carolina Biological Supply, Charles Darwin, David Mech, Gary Poon, Interniche, Merritt Clifton, Nick Jukes, William Hogarth

Mouse studies often don’t work,  NIH admits after landmark 10-year study

June 4, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

National Institutes of Health finding in 2013 presaged Wellcome Foundation decision to close the Sanger Institute genetically modified mouse lab by 2022 WASHINGTON D.C. (March 2013)–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11,  2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Echoing […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Mice & rats, Science, USA Tagged With: Biao He, Charles Calisher, Francis Collins, Gad Simon, Harald Schlatter, Jack Woodall, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Nick Jukes, Sue Leary, Wayne Pacelle

Snehal Bhatt, “The Cobra Girl of Gujarat,” dies at 55

January 29, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Made famous by The Snake Wranglers Snehal Bhatt,  55,  made famous worldwide as “The Cobra Girl of Gujarat” by the second episode of the National Geographic reality television series The Snake Wranglers,  died in her sleep from a heart attack in the early morning hours of January 23,  2017 at her home in Vadodara,  Gujarat,  […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Crocodilians, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Poaching & trafficking, Reptiles, Snakes, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Gyan Marwah, Jose Louies, Maneka Gandhi, Merritt Clifton, Nick Jukes, Shubhobroto Ghosh

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