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How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years

November 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters,  except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh,  who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866,  might have perfectly understood Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi’s frustration,  expressed on November 14,  2020 in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column “Talk […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bats, Birds, Birds, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ernest Freeberg, James Gordon Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Robert Roosevelt, Steve Hindi, Theodore Roosevelt

Mountain goat massacre begins in Grand Tetons

January 6, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Shaky science may doom mountain goats in their own habitat             JACKSON,  Wyoming––The northern and western slopes of the Cathedral Mountains in Grand Teton National Park were on January 5,  2020 closed to the public to allow air gunners flown by Baker Aircraft of Baker City,  Oregon,  to massacre as many as 100 mountain goats […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Disease, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Global, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Sheep & goats, Wildlife Tagged With: Alyson Courtemanch, Augusté "Johnny" Janisse, Cory Hatch, Jack Dempsey, John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Merritt Clifton, Mike Koshmrl, Sarah Dewey, Steve Kilpatrick, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Hornaday

Why mass shooters sometimes sound like conservationists

August 6, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Madison Grant was the missing link             EL PASO,  Texas;  NEW YORK CITY––Much more than misanthropy links mass shootings by white supremacists to the obsession of mainstream conservation societies with extirpating “invasive species” and “cleansing” wildlife habitat of any trace of human presence. But don’t expect the Boone & Crockett Club,  the Sierra Club,  and […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Predators, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Aldo Leopold, Arthur Desmond, George Bird Grinnell, Gifford Pinchot, John Muir, Jonathan Spiro, Madison Grant, Merritt Clifton, Ota Benga, Patrick Crusius, Ragnar Redbeard, Robert Bower, Santino William Legan, Theodore Roosevelt, William T. Hornaday

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