An Animal Hoarder’s Son Dropped 500 Parakeets in 7 Cages at a Michigan Shelter
A couple of parakeets behind bars? Okay. Seventy-one in one cage? No.wonry/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.I lived nextdoor to a Cat Person once—you know, the kind who feeds and maintains dozens of feral or semi-feral kitties. As a lower-case cat…
Hero: Fernanda the Tortoise, Whose Species Everyone Thought Was Extinct
Mother Jones illustration; Magdalena Kula Manchee/Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As usual, the staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Find all of 2021’s heroes and monsters here. There is, quite possibly, no organism as…
Inside the Wild, Twitter-Fueled Race to Airlift Dogs From Afghanistan
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On the morning of August 29, a little more than 24 hours before the United States military would complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan, an Army veteran named Tom Amenta took to Twitter for a big announcement. “Good…
NRA Chief LaPierre Hunted Elephants in Botswana, Video Shows
NRA head Wayne LaPierre at CPAC 2021Paul Hennessy/SOPA/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In 2013, National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre and his wife traveled to Botswana’s Okavango Delta to hunt the now-endangered African bush elephant,…
The Senate Confirms Deb Haaland to Be the First Native American Cabinet Secretary in US History
Deb Haaland speaks during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, in February.GRAEME JENNINGS/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In a…
Trump Was a Disaster for Wildlife. Here Are 5 Things Biden’s Interior Secretary Can Do to Help.
The Trump administration delisted the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act last year.hkuchera/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As president, Donald Trump’s record on protecting imperiled plants and animals was, in a word, abysmal. His…