“The trumpeter swans where I live, in southern Ontario, associate with non-native mute swans” Barry Kent Mackay, a friend for 47 years, a longtime colleague on the animals and nature news beat, and among the senior animal advocates in Canada, also happens to be a distinguished ornithological painter with an especially strong fondness for waterfowl. […]
When parrot “conservation” consisted chiefly of shooting them
Vista Nieve by Melbourne R. Carriker Blue Mantle Press (36901 Marshall Hutts Rd., Rio Hondo-Arroyo City, TX 78583), 2001. 312 pages, paperback. $18.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton On July 28, 2002, Colombian ornithologists Jorge Velasquez and Alonso Quevado photographed 14 examples of Fuertes’ parrot among tall trees in an alpine forest near the summit of […]
Heartless Humane Society raffles a rifle
Put fundraising opportunity ahead of humane values OTTUMWA, Iowa––Raffling off a Colt M4 carbine hunting rifle as a fundraiser for the allegedly “no kill” Heartland Humane Society, of Ottumwa, Iowa, Belinda and Anthony Smith Cicarella in mid-October 2015 demonstrated considerably less appreciation of the history, goals, ethics, and philosophy of the humane movement than […]