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Jail break for Colombian owl monkeys; hippos remain on the lam

July 12, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Arbitrarily assigned conservation status protects owl monkeys,  but designates hippos Public Enemy Numero Uno. CALI,  Colombia––What a difference 15 million years makes! The most distant ancestors of Colombian owl monkeys,  a subspecies of night monkey,  are believed to have floated across the then much narrower South Atlantic ocean circa 30 million years ago on logs […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Latin America, Poaching & trafficking, South America, The Americas, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: IPPL, Merritt Clifton, Myriam Arévalo-Herrera, Pablo Escobar, PETA, Sócrates Herrera

Good days in court for chickens, gamecocks, Wisconsin wolves, & feral hippos

October 25, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Decisions may mean better days for animals,  but use & exploitation industries will fight back ROCHESTER, N.Y.;  WASHINGTON D.C.;  MADISON, Wisconsin;  CINCINNATI, Ohio––A flurry of mid-October 2021 court decisions brought good news for plaintiffs against the poultry slaughter industry,  cockfighting in Puerto Rico,  wolf hunting in Wisconsin,  and hippopotamus culling in Colombia. Probably the most […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Ducks & geese, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Poultry, Predators, Religion & philosophy, South America, Sports, The Americas, Turkeys, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Animal Welfare Institute, Charles J. Siragusa, Farm Sanctuary, Gonacon, Jacob Frost, Luis Domingo Gómez Maldonado, Meredith Turner-Smith, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, PZP

Aussie prof’s video challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

November 9, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Feminist Ferals by Arian D. Wallach Produced by Tommy Lin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpx-ZHHWN5s&t=2s This video explores how conservation remains tethered to chauvinistic ideologies.  It explores how archaic beliefs about animals,  wildlife,  and nature,  has erased one of the Earth’s most significant rewilding events in recent history. Feminism would radically reshape conservation and our view of nature.  It […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Book & film reviews, Cats, Cattle & dairy, China, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Donkeys, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Food & agriculture, Global, Hooved stock, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, India, Indian subcontinent, Israel, Laws & politics, Mediterranean, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arian D. Wallach, Billie Lazenby, Dove Sax, Erick Lundgren, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar

Hippos out of water: easy trophy targets

July 25, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

May be shot even in Colombian mini-refuge CAPE TOWN, LUSAKA, MEDALIN–– Hippopotamuses, under the gun now in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, decried as a menace by fishing villages in Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi, and perhaps soon to be shot in Colombia, might be described as casualties of global warming. Evolved due to global warming […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Zambia, Zimbabwe Tagged With: Kruger National Park, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Escobar, Paul Zyambo, Rio Magdalena, South Luangwa National Park, Theo De Marillac, Will Travers, William Mbasa

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