What affects us affects cats
By Jo Singer This past June, a beloved and highly popular lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe was brutally and illegally slain by Walter Palmer, D.D.S. It will be a long time before animal lovers will forget the huge impact that the murder of this majestic lion made on the public. Following the news of …
It has emerged that the Oxford University laboratory that was studying Cecil the lion with a radio collar is partly funded by companies which advocate sustainable trophy hunting. As a result of Cecil’s killing by Walter Palmer and his team the laboratory has now received more than £550,000 in funding; a silver lining amongst …
This is Dame Jane Goodall’s statement about the well publicised and discussed shooting of Cecil the lion, a 13-year-old head of pride who was famous and a tourist attraction. Jane Goodall is famous as the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees having studied them in the wild in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania for 55 …
This is almost at the opposite end of the spectrum to the crazy trophy hunting of lions in Africa. A lot of people are critical of Big Cat Rescue (BCR). I don’t buy their strident criticisms. This video shows good work being done to simply ease away the pain caused by a condition in …
Now Cecil’s brother, Jericho, has been shot dead. I want to scream. I hate this damn world. I hate these people who kill for stupid reasons. What is wrong with people? Why are humans so crazy? Now that Jericho has gone Cecil’s cubs who were being cared for by Jericho will almost certainly be …
It may happen. Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri has said that Palmer should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face charges. She’s angry. As the Obama administration has received a 140,000 petition from American citizens requesting that Palmer is extradited to Zimbabwe, there appears to be nothing in the way of it happening unless someone …
Although my deepest sympathies are with the family of the bereaved woman, there is a good aspect to this tragic story which you may have heard about. In brief, on June 1st, an American woman was visiting a South African safari park, in Gauteng, in which there are many lions. You drive through the …
“Descendants of the monstrous man-eating lions of Tsavo in Kenya, that devoured dozens of railway workers in 1890s, blamed for new attack.” (journalistic hype) The original Tsavo man-eating lions are immortalised in the display above at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Now, it is said that their descendants are back …
