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Vultures circling overhead are good news for Planet Earth

May 9, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Both black vultures & turkey vultures are rapidly expanding U.S. range and numbers Feeling down about global warming,  chemical pollution,  and reports about loss of species? See the vultures circling overhead? Both black vultures and turkey vultures are rapidly expanding in numbers and range across the U.S. Turkey vultures have even appeared in southeastern Alaska […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animism & Santeria, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Beliefs, Birds, Birds, Birds, Caribbean, Central Asia, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Ethiopia, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting, India, Indian subcontinent, Laws, Meat issues, Organizations, Other, Other species, Pakistan, Poaching & trafficking, Police & military, Population control, Rabies, Religion & philosophy, Service dogs, Slaughter, South Africa, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts, Zimbabwe Tagged With: bald eagle, California condor, David Semple, Evan Buechley, Jim Sterba, Merritt Clifton, rabies, Scott Weidensaul, William F. Harvey

Louisiana House says “fox pen hunting is part of the folklife heritage of the state, and as such, should be preserved”

May 17, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

Chase pen fox, coyote, and raccoon hunting resemble dogfighting more than hunting             BATON ROUGE, Louisiana––The Louisiana House of Representatives on May 12, 2014 voted 68-16 in favor of a bill that declares “fox pen hunting is part of the folklife heritage of the state and, as such, should be preserved in order to help […]

Filed Under: Captive animals, Dog use, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Hunting, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: chase pens, Louisiana, Merritt Clifton, rabies

Trapper died from undiagnosed rabies,  transmitted rabies via organ donation

April 17, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Rare human-to-human transmission BALTIMORE,  RALEIGH––Hunter,  trapper,  and fisher William Edward Small,  20,  who died of an undiagnosed rabies infection in September 2011,  transmitted rabies as an organ donor to a Maryland man who died of rabies in early March 2013––the first human rabies death in Maryland since 1976,  and one of just a very few […]

Filed Under: Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, organ donor, rabies

U.S. issues rabies advisory for Bali visitors as control effort stumbles 

January 1, 2009 By Merritt Clifton

“The CDC advises travelers to take precautions” JAKARTA,  DENPASAR––The U.S. embassy to Indonesia on January 12,  2009 issued the outbreak notice that the Bali tourism industry had feared would be coming since mid-November 2008,  when reports first circulated about four human rabies deaths resulting from dog bites in two villages on the peninsula south of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Merritt Clifton, rabies

Bali animal welfare societies battle rabies outbreak 

December 1, 2008 By Merritt Clifton

Four human victims DENPASAR,  Bali, Indonesia––Someone brought a rabid dog to Bali.  Yachting,  fishing,  or trading goods,  the culprit apparently came by boat,  docking near Ungasan village,  where about 170 families live on a peninsula forming the southernmost part of Bali. The rabid dog arrived at about the same time that more than 200 animal […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Indonesia, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs Tagged With: Bali, BAWA, Deborah Briggs, Henry Wilde, Janice Girardi, Made Mangku Pastika, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail, rabies

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