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Cat-friendly Portland Audubon director Bob Sallinger retires

December 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Fought against many schemes to kill one species to “help” another             PORTLAND,  Oregon––Few changings of the guard anticipated among animal advocacy leadership in 2023 may be felt more than the impending retirement of Bob Sallinger,  55,  longtime public face of the 124-year-old Portland Audubon Society and a distinctly different voice from the stodgy,  conventional […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Birds, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Elisabeth Neely, Merritt Clifton, peregrine falcons, Peter Wolf, spotted owl, Tweety & Sylvester

Alisa Marie Mullins: longtime behind-the-scenes voice of PETA

March 28, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

PETA obituary understated Mullins’ role as author,  ghostwriter,  & spokesperson Alisa Marie Mullins,  59,  a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals researcher and writer for 30 years,  died on March 22, 2022 “after a 2-year battle with brain cancer,”  PETA announced. The PETA obituary announcement understated Mullins’ longtime role as author and/or ghost writer […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Cats, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Islam, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Barack Obama, KKK, McDonald's, Merritt Clifton, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Peter Wolf, Steve Hindi, Vox Felina

Audubon writer allegedly recommended poisoning cats

September 17, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

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 Though the alleged recommendation was later withdrawn,  it received […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Population control, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: David Yarnold, George Fenwick, John Marbanks, Merritt Clifton, Mike Lafferty, Peter Wolf, Ted Williams

Cats, tahrs & feathers on Table Mountain, South Africa

September 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Goats gotten,  South African National Park Service scopes in on feral cats             CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Have feral cats succeeded feral Himalayan mountain goats,  called tahrs,  as the purported greatest threat to native South African wildlife at Table Mountain National Park? The few remaining Table Mountain tahrs, a cause celebré from 2001 to 2004,  are descended […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anneke Malan, Colleen Seymour, Edward Howe Forbush, Kyle Mijlof, Merritt Clifton, Nicoli Nattrass, Niki Moore, Peter Wolf, Tiara Walters

Secrets of Marion Island: what NatGeo didn’t tell you

December 18, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Seabird recovery project haunted by ghosts of cats, in the form of voracious mice             CAPE TOWN––National Geographic writer Leslie Nemo omitted two of the most ecologically significant facts about the Marion Island Special Nature Reserve from her December 14,  2018 online feature “Saving a remote island’s birds—by getting rid of its mice.”              Lauding […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Population control, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Ben Dilley, Leslie Nemo, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Otto Whitehead, Peter Wolf, Ross Wanless

Mystery marine toxo host kills sea mammals; cats wrongly blamed

October 22, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Toxoplasma gondii finding in beluga whales points same way as sea otter and monk seal studies––& not toward cats             MONTREAL––A new study widely publicized for allegedly linking domestic cats to losses of endangered beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River estuary actually shows almost the opposite,  read in context––and contributes to a growing stack of […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Canada, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Fish, Habitat, Marine life, Science, Sea otters, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, David Yurkowski, Gloeta Massie, Jitender P. Dubey, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf, Robert Michaud, Stéphane Lair

“Rabies roulette” in Tampa: the odds favor TNR

June 16, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

You are 32,250 times more likely to hit double zero than to meet a rabid cat in Hillsborough County          TAMPA,  Florida––With the 2016 final numbers yet to be reported by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention,  the lowest annual total of rabid cats ever found in the U.S. came in 2015,  the second lowest […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Christy Layton, Don Thompson, Ellen Alence, Gary Richter, Katie Thompson, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf, Sherry Silk, Steve Andrews

What if an island has no cats?

December 8, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Birds on remote islands are sometimes better off with cats than without them Part II of a two-part series.  See also When the cats are away, the mice will play––and the rats & rabbits. Gough Island,  also in the South Atlantic,  never had any cats. “Today, the British-owned island,  described as the home of the most […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Babs McHugh, Clive Cookson, Dirk Hartog, Gregory Andrews, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf

When the cats are away, the mice will play––and the rats & rabbits

December 8, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Purging cats from South Atlantic islands often harms birds more than helps them (Part I of a two-part series.  See also What if an island has no cats?)          LONDON,  U.K.––Fourteen years after declaring victory over feral cats on remote Ascension Island,  on behalf of sooty terns,  the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Fish, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Other species, Pacific islands & other, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Ben Dilley, Clive Cookson, Henry Fountain, Jim Reynolds, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf, Sarah Knapton

Culling cats increases the feral population, Australian study finds

April 11, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Expecting to validate the use of lethal culling, researchers find just the opposite HOBART, Tasmania, Australia––Perhaps the strongest scientific support yet for one of the key presumptions behind neuter/return feral cat control has emerged from a 13-month study by Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries biologist Billie Lazenby and two colleagues. Expecting to validate the use […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Australia & New Zealand, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Population control, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Billie Lazenby, Merritt Clifton, Peter Wolf

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