Veterinarian Jim Keen suggests they can GRAND LAKE, Colorado––Five people spoke at an August 22, 2024 online media conference in support of the “Cats Aren’t Trophies” ballot initiative going before Colorado votes on November 5, 2024, but veterinarian Jim Keen, in particular, had a message ranging far beyond Colorado in ecological, economic, and humane significance. […]
Three recent deaths of people who cared about animals in very different ways
Conservation theorist Michael E. Soulé, 84; activist Linda Ann DeStefano, 76; Bill Jenkins, 53 Michael E. Soulé, 84, widely identified as the “father of conservation biology,” but an enthusiastic advocate of “compassionate conservation” by the end of his life and career, died on June 17, 2020. “Conservation is engaged in the protection of the integrity […]
Takaya the “sea wolf” headed for home, but hunter shot him
Lived for eight years almost within sight of British Columbia provincial parliament VICTORIA, B.C., Canada––Takaya, 10, the “sea wolf” star of the 2019 CBC Nature of Things documentary “Takaya: Lone Wolf,” was on March 24, 2020 shot by a hunter near Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, possibly after being chased and/or mauled by the hunter’s […]
“Cargo cult” politics make caribou the bison of the Canadian North
Far North learns the hard way that climate & geography can’t prevent effects of global warming EDMONTON––Neither cold and wind, short summers and seemingly endless winter, voracious summer mosquitoes and blackflies, nor the distance from urban civilization present the harshest of the many harsh realities currently facing the Canadian Far North. Rather, the Far […]