Armed with the recently published “killer cat study” from the Smithsonian Biological Conservation Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TNR opponents are calling for increasingly extreme measures.
Travis Longcore was among the first, telling KCET reporter Judy Muller that “managing and controlling unowned, free-roaming cats will require euthanasia. There are not enough shelter spaces, there [...]
Browsing the archives for the George Fenwick tag
14 Mar 13
1 Mar 13
“The only sure way to protect wildlife, cats and people is for domestic cats to be permanently removed from the outdoor environment,” argues American Bird Conservancy president George Fenwick in a Baltimore Sun op-ed published earlier this week.
“Trap-neuter-release programs that perpetuate the slaughter of wildlife and encourage the dumping of unwanted cats is [sic] a [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Trap-Neuter-Return
4 Oct 12
I don’t imagine USA Today has ever been accused of producing substantive journalism. And, judging from a worthless he-said/she-said-we-report-you-decide story in yesterday’s edition, that’s not likely to change anytime soon.
OK, not worthless, exactly. After all, American Bird Conservancy president George Fenwick finally went on record calling for the killing of free-roaming cats: “I detest the [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, PETA, Peter Marra, Rabies, USA Today
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, PETA, Peter Marra, Rabies, USA Today
9 Sep 12
“There’s hostility to lying, and there should be.” —Bob Woodward
With just six minutes and 34 seconds to play, I don’t imagine readers got very far with their bingo cards during Friday night’s episode of 20/20 (“The Camera Never Lies: Kitty Cam Killers”). (My apologies for not including Killing Spree—I should have seen that one [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged 20/20, ABC News, American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams, Nico Dauphiné, Sonia Hernandez
Tagged 20/20, ABC News, American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams, Nico Dauphiné, Sonia Hernandez
7 Sep 12
Earlier this week, the American Bird Conservancy announced to eNewsletter subscribers that ABC president George Fenwick will be appearing on ABC News’ 20/20 tonight “in a segment about domestic cat predation on birds and other wildlife.”
“The program was prompted by an August American Bird Conservancy news release on a University of Georgia and National Geographic [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams
6 Aug 12
In a joint media release, the American Bird Conservancy and The Wildlife Society team up to misrepresent the results of a recent predation study, decrying the “ongoing slaughter of wildlife by outdoor cats.” Meanwhile the University of Georgia researcher contradicts her previous position that “cats aren’t as bad as biologists thought.”
“To be persuasive we must [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, feral cats, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams, Michael Hutchins, Nico Dauphiné, Sonia Hernandez, The National Geographic and University of Georgia Kitty Cams Project, The Wildlife Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, feral cats, George Fenwick, Kerrie Anne Loyd, KittyCams, Michael Hutchins, Nico Dauphiné, Sonia Hernandez, The National Geographic and University of Georgia Kitty Cams Project, The Wildlife Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
12 Feb 12
According to a story in last Saturday’s Akron Beacon Journal, the American Bird Conservancy “estimates there are 90 million wild cats nationwide, part of a free-roaming population that is killing more than a half billion birds annually.”
Beacon Journal readers unfamiliar with ABC’s free-roaming cats “message” probably assumed those “estimates” correspond to real numbers, give or [...]
13 Jul 11
By now, many—perhaps most—readers have already seen the segment of Monday night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in which correspondent Aasif Mandvi satirized the cat-bird debate (described all too accurately, I’m afraid, by Mandvi as an “intractable war”).
Interviewed for the piece were American Bird Conservancy president George Fenwick and Alley Cat Allies [...]
13 Dec 10
For years now, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has been promoting erroneous and misleading information in their tireless effort to vilify free-roaming cats. No organization has been more effective at working the anti-TNR pseudoscience into a message neatly packaged for the mainstream media, and eventual consumption by the general public. Speaking to the Wall Street [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
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