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Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton,  83, felled by bees

December 14, 2025 By Merritt Clifton

Studied everything about elephants from their psyches to the tips of their tails & fought for elephant survival from the northern Kenyan desert to lecture halls in Beijing,  China NAIROBI,  Kenya––Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton,  83,  died on December 8,  2025 at his home in Nairobi,  Kenya. Excellence in all things was expected of […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Conservation, Cultural, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Laws, Laws & politics, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Tanzania, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ann Prunella Stack, Brian Jackman, Cynthia Moss, Daniel Stiles, Esmond Martin, Jane Goodall, Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, Merritt Clifton, Oria Rocco, Richard Leakey, Saba Douglas-Hamilton

What Kenya’s wildlife needs most is water––not “fake news”

February 28, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Rumors of death penalty for poachers never held water,  Agence France Presse reports––but Patrick Mwalua’s projects do             VOI, Kenya––Rumors stoked since April 2018 by a Xinhua news agency report that Kenya will soon introduce the death penalty for poachers not only have no legal or legislative foundation,   as ANIMALS 24-7 reported in February 2019,  […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Kenya, Poaching & trafficking, Sub-Saharan, Wildlife Tagged With: Daphne Sheldrick, Gitau Mbaria, Merritt Clifton, Nijab Balala, Patrick Kilonzo Mwalua, Richard Leakey

Cryptozoologist & taxonomist Colin Groves, “The Ultimate Classifier,” 75

December 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Member of International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975 CANBERRA,  Australia––Colin Groves,  75,  called “The Ultimate Classifier” by the Society of Conservation Biology,  a member of the International Primate Protection League advisory board since 1975,  and a cofounder of the anti-pseudoscience organization Canberra Skeptics,  died in Canberra,  Australia,  on November 30,  2017. Born in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African species, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, China, Conservation, DRC, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Isles, Kenya, Lab animals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Other animals & science topics, Poaching & trafficking, Science, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Colin Groves, Katherine Buri, Lynette Shanley, Merritt Clifton, Richard Leakey, Shirley McGreal

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