Big cats caught CHRONOLOGY OF HUMANE PROGRESS in a war zone (PAGE 17) BAGHDAD, SAN ANTONIO, A S H E B O R O , the city, had been closed for many months, ostensibly for N . C . ––Anxious U.S. Marines under the command of “renovation.” The public and news media were barred, and Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schwartz during the nights of April as at other public facilities throughout Iraq, weapons and 15 and April 17 unhappily shot three of seven starving munitions were stored on the grounds. African lions found at the Baghdad Zoo after first one and “Even before the conflict the zoo was a sorry then two more broke out of their bomb-damaged enclosures. place,” recalled Sherwell. “Many animals, including ponies On the loose, they could easily have found their and camels, have died or have been killed for food. way into densely populated parts of the city. The remaining animals had not been fed in about “We fought our way from Kuwait to Najaf to 10 days when the Marines arrived and began giving them Kerbala to Baghdad, but the hardest thing I’ve had to do in their own rations. Iraq was kill those lions,” Schwartz told London S u n d a y “The troops slaughtered pigs penned at the zoo Telegraph correspondent Philip Sherwell. site, and butchered a dead wolf to feed the lions and tigers. Wrote Sherwell, “Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, But it couldn’t go far —a lion consumes 18 pounds a day,” 3rd Infantry Division––the troops who first fought their way wrote Patrick McDowell of Associated Press, into Baghdad––have been feeding the caged animals with “My men really care about these animals,” slaughtered donkeys and bringing them water from an artifi- Schwartz said. cial lake,” with the help of zoo veterinarian Hashim Non-essential travel through Iraq was still restrict- Mohamed Hussein, who was among the few staff who ed during the first days after the Marines entered Baghdad, remained on duty after the fall of Saddam Hussein. but a truck from Kuwait hauling seven tons of frozen meat, Added Sherwell, “The zoo’s birds, fish, and rep- fruit, vegetables and grain for the animals arrived on April tiles were stolen by looters, but they thought better of tack- 19, escorted throughout the 24-hour drive from the border ling the lions, who were donated by Saddam’s son Uday.” by a military convoy. Rosalind Russell of Reuters reported that Uday’s “This represents two to four weeks of food for the 20-year-old tiger Mandor also remained at the 11-acre zoo, Baghdad Zoo,” Army reservist Jim Fikes told McDowell. but that the looters had taken “chimpanzees, vervet mon- Fikes “put together the shipment with the keys, Pekinese dogs, love birds, and cockatoos. More than Humanitarian Organizing Committee in Kuwait City, which 300 animals are missing,” Russell said, but it was not clear handles connections between charities and the U.S. military,” that all of them disappeared with the looters, who were still McDowell wrote. trying to steal zoo equipment as of April 17. “It comes from a request that I got through the mil- The Baghdad Zoo, actually one of three zoos in itary chain,” Fikes explained. “It was considered urgent.” (Kim Bartlett) (continued on page 16) ANIMAL PEOPLE News For People Who Care About Animals
May 2003 Volume XIII, #2 Elephant captures & rampages spotlight habitat encroachment PRETORIA, NEW DELHI, Germany; and five were sold to former co- NAIROBI, SAN DIEGO, BANGKOK, defendant Saunders. COLOMBO,––Pretoria Regional Court magis- The “Tuli elephants case,” as the trate Adriaan Bekker on April 7 found African episode became known, was instrumental in Game Services owner Riccardo Ghiazza of rallying protest against the conventional prac- Brits, South Africa, guilty of cruelty to 30 tices of wild elephant capture and training. It young elephants in 1998-1999. The verdict spotlighted an increasing dilemma throughout reportedly took Bekker four hours to read. the range of both African and Asian elephants, Convicted with Ghiazza, but on just afflicting both the wild and captive populations: two cruelty counts, was student elephant han- what to do about overcrowded or displaced ele- dler Henry Wayne Stockigt. phants in a world which allows them only limit- Charges were dismissed against ed wild habitat. another handler, Craig Saunders, and another The Ghiazza conviction came amid a company, African Game Properties Inc. new worldwide furor over the prolonged suffer- Ex-dancing bear enjoys a break at Wildlife SOS in Agra, India. (Alan Knight) Captured in the Tuli district of ing and death of an Indian elephant captured on Botswana during July 1998, the elephants were February 5 in Chattisgarh state by the noted Bear sanctuary at the Taj Majal transported to Brits for training and sale to female mahout Parbati Barua. A G R A ––The future of captive The CZA has already closed 90 overseas zoos. Wrote Alex Kirby of BBC News wildlife protection in India is at Agra, People substandard zoos since 1995, Sinha warned, Global outrage erupted first over the Online, “Witnesses say the elephant was for Animals founder Maneka Gandhi while 91 others have been ordered to close separation of the elephants from their mothers, repeatedly jabbed with spikes and struck with believes, near the east gate of the Taj Mahal. but are still operating because there is as yet and then over alleged rough treatment of the bamboo canes,” after being run to exhaustion, There, at Soor Sarovar village, nowhere else to place their animals. Of the elephants by trainers hired from Indonesia. The tranquilized, and dragged between two tame Wildlife SOS cofounders Kartick Sayanar- 346 zoos open as of 1995, just 165 meet the South African National SPCA began the long elephants. “His legs were tied,” Kirby contin- ayan and Geeta Sheshamani in December CZA animal care standards––and Mrs. effort to convict Ghiazza after videotape sur- ued, as was the elephant’s head. “Then his 2002 opened a 30-acre sanctuary for former Gandhi and PfA are actively lobbying for the faced that reportedly showed Stockigt and oth- tusks were sawn off. He was left without food dancing bears. Indian Forest Service to raise those standards ers beating the chained elephants. and water, and died 18 days later, apparently Nearly two years into a sustained by creating a trained professional force of zoo Ghizza, a major supplier of African of stress, starvation, and thirst.” effort to enforce provisions of the 1972 Indian administrators. wildlife to zoos in China, apparently intended Videographers Mike Pandey and Wildlife Protection Act that prohibit the trav- Admitting that circuses cannot meet to sell some or all of the elephants to China. Amalendu Mishra documented the suffering of eling exhibition of lions, tigers, leopards, the existing zoo standards, Indian Circus None are known to have actually gone there. the elephant. The International Fund for monkeys, apes, and bears, Mrs. Gandhi sees Federation chief Ashok Shankar reportedly Instead, according to the South Africa-based Animal Welfare and the Wildlife Trust of India in the Wildlife SOS project the start of a sanc- won from current environment minister and Wildlife Action Group, nine went to the distributed the video to news media. People for tuary network to provide quality care-for-life minister for animal welfare T.R. Baalu a Marakele Game Reserve in South Africa; nine Animals founder Maneka Gandhi demanded to hundreds of seized former circus animals. promise that the proposed Wildlife Protection went to the Sandhurt Safaris hunting lodge in that Barua be criminally prosecuted. The drive to end the use of lions, Act amendment will be reviewed by a panel North West Province; seven are held in contro- “The acts of Barua were not negligent tigers, leopards, monkeys, apes, and bears appointed by Baalu, the CZA, and the versial conditions at the Dresden Zoo, in (continued on page 16) in traveling shows began in 2001. As then- Animal Welfare Board of India minister of state for animal welfare, Mrs. Mrs. Gandhi and allies have mean- Gandhi won a series of verdicts from the while begun the struggle to raise sufficient Supreme Court of India against exhibitors funds to enable Wildlife SOS to demonstrate who had for a decade used protracted lawsuits that the sanctuary concept is viable in India. to defy seizure order she originally issued in If sanctuaries succeed in India, they are 1989, during a stint as environment minister. aware, they will have established working In January 2003 Central Zoo models for other economically stressed Authority member secretary P.R. Sinha nations of alternatives to exhibition for the announced a proposed amendment to the upkeep of wild animals who for any reason Wildlife Protection Act which would cannot be returned to the wild. strengthen the regulation of circus care of “I am going to Australia for three other species by bringing traveling shows weeks, the longest I have ever been away under CZA jurisdiction. (continued on page 8) 2 - ANIMAL PEOP LE, May 2003
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In mid-April 2003 the Wise Giving Alliance formally introduced the new standards Animal charities and their fundraisers are at liberty to pursue whatever policies the for charities that it has been developing for several years now to update and replace the stan- law allows. dards of the former National Charities Information Bureau and Council of Better Business These standards, however, define what ANIMAL PEOPLE believes to be ethical Bureaus, which merged to form the Wise Giving Alliance. and moral conduct by animal-related charities and fundraisers. To be considered ethical by A few weeks earlier the Animal Centers of Excellence introduced the most thorough ANIMAL PEOPLE, a charity or fundraiser must actively strive to meet them. code of ethics proposed so far to govern the operation of animal sanctuaries. ANIMAL PEOPLE meanwhile has been obliged since July 2002 to defend in court Our standards our efforts to monitor the accountability of animal charities and fundraisers. During deposi- tions in connection with that case, which is still underway, we were asked if we had ever list- 1) The activities of an animal protection charity should verifiably endeavor to help ed the standards that we believe ethical animal charities and fundraisers should observe. animals, committing the overwhelming volume of resources raised to animal protection work In view of the awkwardness of some of the Wise Giving Alliance standards when other than fundraising, administration, and the maintenance of reserve funds. applied to animal charities, we realized that now would be a good time to spell out precisely a) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that all fundraising and program literature distrib- which of those standards and which others we consider most important in evaluating whether a uted by an ethical animal protection organization should be truthful, accurate, and up-to-date, charity and the fundraisers it hires, if any, are working in an ethical manner. and should be amended or withdrawn, as is appropriate, when circumstances change or new Expecting people and institutions to observe ethical standards must be recognized as information emerges. If a project, campaign, or program is announced but fails to be devel- expecting something more than mere obedience to laws. Laws set the foundation for ethical oped, for whatever reason, donors should be informed as to what happened and what was conduct, but only at the level that lawmakers deem essential to enable society to function. done instead with the resources raised in the name of that project, campaign, or program. Much that remains legal is nonetheless neither ethical nor moral. b ) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that under all except the most unusual circum- Thus institutions other than law-making bodies, ranging from professional accredita- stances, which should be clearly, fully, and prominently explained to donors with solicita- tion panels to individual watchdogs, recommend codes of ethics which are meant to inspire tions for funds, an ethical animal protection charity should hold fundraising and administra- adherence to higher standards than laws alone require. tive expense to less than 35% of total expenditures within a calendar or fiscal year. ANIMAL Subscription to a code of ethics is usually voluntary, but must be essential in order P E O P L E considers “fundraising expenses” to include any use of telemarketing to solicit to earn the endorsement or approval of whoever recommends it. funds, as well as any direct mailings which solicit funds, include envelopes for the return of Many organizations and individuals offer ethical standards that apply in various donations, and would probably not have been mailed if postal rules forbade the inclusion of ways to animal-related charities, yet there is no single widely recognized code of ethics that the donation envelopes. (This standard parallels the guidelines of the Wise Giving Alliance.) addresses the spectrum of animal-related charitable purposes, nor even a single standard for c) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes under all except the most extraordinary circum- the ethical operation of nonprofit organizations which ANIMAL PEOPLE believes is fully stances, which should be clearly, fully, and prominently explained to donors with solicita- appropriate to the unique aspects of animal charities. tions for funds, an ethical animal protection charity should avoid keeping more than twice the The existing standards for the ethical operation of charities, over and above the annual operating budget of the charity in economic reserves, including investment accounts requirements of law, tend to presuppose that the charities are serving a constituency (such as and the reserved assets of subsidiaries. (This is also consistent with the recommendations of the membership of a church, patients and staff of a hospital, or the students and faculty of a the Wise Giving Alliance.) school) who are capable of substantial self-governance and self-protection from corruption and 2) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that the charitable activities of an animal protection exploitation. charity should be clearly visible to donors, news media, and the public. This includes filling Animal-related charities serve a far more vulnerable constituency. This in turn out IRS Form 990 fully and accurately, and filing it in a timely manner. Donors, news media, requires a different approach to oversight. and the public should have appropriate opportunity to personally verify the charitable program. The standards established for the governance of charities by the Wise Giving 3) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that animal care charities should go beyond meet- Alliance and similar organizations tend to assume that mismanagement and misuse of donated ing the minimal animal care standards enforced by government agencies such as the USDA funds are most likely to result from corruption among hired staff at the program management Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service under the U.S. Animal Welfare Act, and should level. The Wise Giving Alliance et al are primarily concerned with abuses that may be com- endeavor to meet or exceed the “best practice” recommendations of the major supervisory mitted by “hired gun” administrators, who are motivated more by the rewards they may obtain and/or accreditation organizations, if any, overseeing their specialties. Because the purposes from managing a charity than by the charitable work itself. Therefore, they seek to minimize of animal care charities vary widely, the “best practice” recommendations appropriate for the influence of program service staff on boards of directors, whose duties are usually defined them to follow are also widely varied. as policymaking, oversight, and fundraising. Examples of supervisory and/or accreditation organizations whose animal care stan- This approach is backward, however, in application to charities managed by the dards we may expect charities to follow include, but are not limited to, the National Animal founders or other people who have worked their way into authority after starting as volunteers Control Association, if an organization holds animal control contracts; the American Zoo or low-paid program service staff––as is often the case with small charities and charities in Association and the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks & Aquariums, if the organization causes such as animal protection, which usually employ just a few professionals, if any, exhibits animals or manages zoological conservation programs; and for animal sanctuaries, recruited on a competitive basis from highly paid fields such as medicine and law. the standards of the Animal Centers of Excellence, The Association of Sanctuaries, and the Founders and others motivated enough by the charitable mission to work for low American Sanctuary Association. wages, or none, are relatively unlikely to steal or otherwise seek excessive benefits from the Similar organizations set comparable standards for animal care in many nations, organizations they serve. with variations suited to their circumstances. Adhering to the board structure recommendations of the Wise Giving Alliance there- Where no national or regional organization has established standards appropriate for fore tends to increase rather than decrease the possibilities for conflict of interest and self-deal- the operation of animal care charities, ANIMAL PEOPLE finds generally applicable the ing within small charities and animal charities. Attempting to prevent highly paid profession- “best practice” recommendations in the instructional pamphlet series authored by Sri. Maneka als from operating charities in a self-interested manner, the Wise Giving Alliance standards all Gandhi for distribution by the Animal Welfare Board of India. These recommendations were but exclude paid personnel from having any responsibility for policymaking, oversight, and developed for use under highly adverse conditions with limited resources, yet aspire to a very fundraising, even if they are the founders and earn just a fraction of what their skills might high level of animal well-being. fetch in the for-profit sector. 4) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that an ethical animal protection charity should ANIMAL PEOPLE has observed and documented over many years that within ani- behave in a manner which takes into consideration the welfare of all animals, not only those mal protection, corruption and other unethical conduct proceeds far more often from the activ- under the direct auspices of the charitable programs. Just as it would be unethical for a human ities of detached boards and hired fundraisers than from the work of founders and key staff. welfare charity to sacrifice the well-being of some people in order to benefit a chosen few, so ANIMAL PEOPLE accordingly offers the following 10 standards for the operation ANIMAL PEOPLE believes it is inherently unethical to cause some animals to suffer on of animal charities, and 10 parallel standards for fundraisers employed by animal charities. behalf of other animals. a ) Policies which promote the well-being of some animals by encouraging the SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES: www.animalpeoplenews.org killing of predators or competitor species are to ANIMAL PEOPLE inherently unethical––as Key articles now available en Español et en Français! are policies which encourage the release or return of animals to habitat where the animals are unwelcome and may be at high risk of enduring human cruelty or extermination. b) ANIMAL PEOPLE recommends that all food served for human consumption by ANIMAL PEOPLE or on behalf of animal protection organizations should be vegetarian or, better, vegan. News for People Who Care About Animals 5) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that an ethical animal-related charity should behave in a manner which takes into consideration the well-being of the whole of the animal-related Publisher: Kim Bartlett nonprofit sector. Editor: Merritt Clifton a ) Fundraising may be competitive, as organizations strive to develop the most Web site manager: Patrice Greanville effective programs within their specialties, but ANIMAL PEOPLE views as inherently Newswire monitor: Cathy Young Czapla unethical any practice which tends to increase the fundraising costs as opposed to program expenditures of the animal protection sector in general. POB 960 b) ANIMAL PEOPLE views as inherently unethical the involvement of an animal Clinton, WA 98236-0960 protection charity, or the officers, directors, and other management of the charity, in any ISSN 1071-0035. 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ANIMAL PEOPLE: News for People Who Care About Animals is published 7) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that even beyond the requirements of law, an ethi- 10 times annually by Animal People, Inc., a nonprofit, charitable corporation dedicated to cal animal protection organization must endeavor to maintain facilities which are safe, clean, exposing the existence of cruelty to animals and to informing and educating the public of and physically and emotionally healthy for animals, visitors, and staff. the need to prevent and eliminate such cruelty. 8) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that if and when an ethical animal protection orga- Subscriptions are $24.00 per year; $38.00/two years; $50/three years. nization finds itself to be in violation of any of the above standards, however accidentally and ANIMAL PEOPLE is mailed under Bulk Rate Permit #2 from Clinton, unintentionally, it must set to work immediately to resolve the problems. 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This is a somewhat more stringent requirement than is recommended a stamped, self-addressed envelope of suitable size. We do not publish fiction or poetry. (continued on page 4) 4 - ANIMAL P EOPLE, May 2003 What is an ethical charity? Animals’ Angels talks about tactics I would like to comment was not a success. At first only the (Editorial, continued from page 3) on the March 2003 edition of ANI- Christian slaughterhouses actually by other codes of ethics recommended for nonprofit organizations. It MAL PEOPLE: used them. Dr. Rosemari Jaouhari replaces the expectation implied within the standards developed with 1) Thank you for the edi- may now have succeeded in per- human service institutions in mind that the constituency of the charity torial “Conferences build move- suading more facilities to use them. shall be able to monitor the work and intervene if necessary to ensure ments.” I do not like conferences, A far more sucessful that the duties of the charity are properly fulfilled. but I stage them and participate in approach was recently tried by 10) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that an ethical animal-relat- them. We even sit with our adver- Petra Sidhom, DVM, in Cairo. ed charity, if it employs an outside fundraiser, should hire only saries from the livestock trade, With the help of Al-Asrah Univer- fundraisers with no conflicts of interest, such as simultaneously repre- which I find hard, because I have sity Dr. Sidhom established a train- senting organizations or political candidates with goals opposed to those to stay firm on the issues but ing program for local mullahs to demonstrate nice manners nonethe- address the illegal slaughter of ani- of the animal-related charity, and follows the standards below: less. Attend-ing conferences of vet- mals on the street at Abd-el-Kabir. erinarians and police officers has The Egyptian government decreed What is an ethical fundraiser? been a great help for the animals in that at Abd-el-Kabir the official F1) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes that an ethical fundraiser the past regarding transport. slaughterhouses must offer their for an animal protection charity is one who endeavors to help the client 2) Concerning Steve services free to everyone. This charity to meet all of the ten standards enumerated above. Hindi’s guest column “Why animal resulted in a dramatic slowdown of F2) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes it is inherently unethical for advocates’ ‘war on terror’ must be slaughter in the streets of Cairo, a fundraiser to undertake telemarketing, direct mailing, or any other ––Wolf Clifton nonviolent,” we have it in our verified by Animals’ Angels. kind of activity at a level or in a manner which results in combined employment description that our ––Christa Blanke fundraising and administrative cost exceeding 35% of the total expendi- work must be strictly non violent. I Animals’ Angels tures of the charity during the fiscal or calendar year. have already sacked two people for Bismarckallee 22 - D-79098 F3) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes it is inherently unethical for LETTERS using bad language toward police. Freiburg, Germany a fundraiser to make claims in telemarketing, direct mailing, or other 3) Concerning “Slaughter Phone: 49-761-2926601 fundraising activity which are not factually substantiated. Drive Fishery in the streets,” our investigations in Fax: 49-761-2926602 F4) ANIMAL PEOPLE believes it is incumbent upon a Lebanon found that purchasing
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Instead, they slow- don’t want to know the gruesome details.” burg, of Escondido, California, will not be trol program had cost $73 million. ly starved, froze, drowned in melting snow, Alberta Egg Producers animal wel- charged with cruelty for having employees or suffered for days with injuries until the fare chair Manfred Kannehl warned members toss more than 60,000 live hens into wood Dutch avian flu ruined barns were tented and fumigated with in March that, “If you people don’t get your chippers, the San Diego County district attor- Yet it was far from the biggest carbon monoxide several days later. act together and get the proper cage size and ney’s office announced on April 10, because “depopulation” of chickens underway in the “As far as we’re concerned, this is a enshrine it in your regulations, within five the Wilgenburgs were told to chip the chickens world to try to stop disease outbreaks. More violation of Maryland’s felony anti-cruelty years we are going to have the grocery chains alive by a USDA-accredited veterinarian. than 15 million chickens were killed in The law. There are dead birds, already decompos- coming into our barns,” seeking to enforce The veterinarian was neither work- Netherlands from mid-February through mid- ing, in cages with live or injured animals,” humane standards demanded by consumers. ing for the USDA nor representing it, but was April to fight avian flu. The outbreak nonethe- Compassion Over Killing executive director The Alberta Egg Producers reported- advising the Wilgenbergs about killing their less spread to Belgium, where whole-flock Myun Park told Chris Guy of the B a l t i m o r e ly agreed to require new poultry facilities to flocks, at two sites, to help halt the spread of killing began on April 16. Sun, after a visit to one of the fallen barns. give chickens 67 square inches of space the worst outbreak of Newcastle disease since Avian flu outbreaks among factory But there were no cruelty charges. apiece, rather than the 64 square inches that 12 million chickens and other domestic birds farmed hens are not unusual, but the Dutch During the same week, PETA dis- Alberta law requires––which is still far less were killed to control an outbreak in 1971. epidemic caused extra concern after a 57-year- tributed an affidavit from ex-Tyson poultry than the 72-square-inch standard now request- San Diego County Animal Services old veterinarian from Den Bosch fell ill on slaughterhouse worker Virgil Butler. ed by the McDonald’s restaurant chain. Lieutenant Mary Kay Gagliardo later told the April 4 after visiting some of the afflicted Employed by Tyson from July 1997 until In Britain, meanwhile, agriculture Wilgenburgs to stop macerating the hens alive. poultry barns. He died on April 17. At least November 2002, Butler “told of birds regular- minister Elliot Morley deferred making any Live maceration would be prose- 70 poultry workers developed a related form of ly being left in cages on trucks for hours in the ruling on the legality of a new “enriched” bat- cutable cruelty almost anywhere if done to a conjunctivitis, and in at least three cases they summer heat, many of whom died of dehydra- tery cage pending a European Union review of pet. When done as a routine agricultural prac- appeared to have infected family members. tion,” said the electronic activist newsletter whether the new cages meet the requirements tice, however, it is exempt from prosecution Avian flu antibodies were found in Farmed Animal Watch, edited by Mary of an EU battery cage ban, supposed to take in most states, and is in fact among the most pigs near the poultry barns, intensifying epi- Finelli. “Others died inside of heat stroke, effect in 2012. The enriched cages are slightly common means used by egg ranchers to dis- demiologists’ fears .about the possible conse- heart attack, and suffocation, or froze to death bigger and include perches. pose of unwanted male chicks and spent hens. quences if the flu mutates to travel from per- in cold weather. Butler also explained how However, said Compassion In The southern California outbreak of son to person and is a deadly variety. New flu birds had their legs broken to fit them into World Farming spokesperson Peter Stevenson, Newcastle had already become not only one of strains usually travel from birds to pigs to hanging shackles,” the account continued. “We believe enriched cages are just as bad as the biggest “depopulations” of diseased farm humans. The only strain known to have “Butler wrote of the processing line breaking conventional cages, since they are too small to animals in the U.S. in many years, but also passed directly from birds to humans killed six down, resulting in birds left to drown in the allow birds to even stretch and flap their wings one of the most publicized, since it involved of 18 infected Hong Kong residents in 1997 cold water stun bath. He told of his supervisor properly, and will cause hens almost as much people other than farmers. and killed one man in February 2003. requiring the power to the electric water bath suffering as conventional cages.” “Some wild birds have also been Flu rarely kills otherwise healthy to be kept turned down, resulting in large per- While fighting that battle on behalf killed,” reported Los Angeles Times staff writ- humans, but one mutant strain killed from 40 centages of birds missing the stunner, evading of egg-laying hens, Compassion In World ers Tina Daunt and Bob Pool, as parrot to 100 million people in 1918. the killer, and instead being scalded to death,” Farming in early April filed suit seeking to fanciers scrambled to save their birds from Dutch officials began killing poten- Farmed Animal Watch added, before moving require the British government to ban raising inspectors conducting door-to-door searches tially infected pigs on April 18. from the routine cruelties that Butler saw to so-called “fast-growing” broiler fowl, who based on tips provided by letter carriers. overt acts of sadism that he also described. reach slaughter weight in half as many days as First detected in the Los Angeles “Don’t want to know” Still during February, the Humane the broiler fowl of circa 1970. The accelerated area during September 2002, the Newcastle The U.S. poultry industry kills more Society of the U.S. newsletter H u m a n e L i n e s growth, Stevenson alleged, “leads each year to outbreak appears to have spread to Arizona, than 9.5 billion birds per year. Much beyond described “thousands of chickens starving to millions, probably tens of millions, of broil- Nevada, and Texas through illegal traffic in live maceration occurs that would be consid- death after Empresas Pic poultry [of Puerto ers in the U.K. suffering from painful, some- fighting cocks. It crossed into egg-laying ered unacceptably cruel if done to other ani- Rico] filed for bankruptcy and stopped supply- times crippling leg disorders.” flocks in February, possibly through egg mals, as was exemplified by three situations ing food for the 182 farmers” who raised Poultry industry spokespersons ranch workers who attend cockfights. coming to light in February 2003. chickens under contract to Empresas. claim only about 2% of all British broilers are As of mid-April, more than 3.2 mil- Almost a million hens were killed Commented Louise Chu of Associ- so afflicted, which would be 16 million per lion chickens had been killed at 22 commercial when heavy snow caused 68 poultry barns to ated Press in January, “In the debate over year; CIWF says it is more like 30%, or about businesses in futile efforts to contain the out- collapse in Virginia, West Virginia, and poultry processing, producers and animal 240 million. Legal action against ocean fishing U.S. District Judge Thelton enforcing a 1989 law that bars imports of Henderson on April 10 held for the fourth shrimp from nations whose shrimpers are time in 13 years that 1988 amendments to not required to use turtle exclusion devices the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection in their nets. U.S. shrimpers have had to Act oblige the U.S. to exclude imports of use TEDs since 1987. The World Trade tuna netted “on dolphin,” a method often O r g a n i z a t i o n in 1999 held that the 1989 used by foreign fleets because dolphins law is an unfair trade barrier, since it is a and tuna feed on the same fish species and “process standard,” i.e. a law which often swim together. Surrounding feeding addresses not what a product is, but rather dolphins with nets therefore usually cap- how it is made. U.S. Solicitor General tures tuna––as well as dolphins who do not Theodore Olson argued that only escape before the nets close. Henderson in Australia and Brazil still ship shrimp to the May 1990 banned imports of yellowfin U.S. without enforcing a TED law. tuna from Mexico, Venezuela, and Oceana in late March 2003 sub- Vanuatu. After Congress reinforced the mitted a proposed settlement of a five- 1990 verdict by introducing “dolphin-safe” year-old case seeking to protect endan- labeling, Henderson in January 1992 gered Stellar sea lions from loss of their banned $266 million worth of tuna imports food sources to overfishing in Alaskan from 30 nations. A General Agreement waters to U.S. District Judge John Zilly on Trade and Tariffs panel in 1995 ruled in Seattle; sued the National Marine that the U.S. “dolphin safe” law is an Fisheries Service in Boston for allegedly Spay improper trade barrier. The law was eased allowing scallop dredgers to jeopardize sea by the 1997 International Dolphin Con- turtles and a cod nursery, after losing sim- servation Program Act, but Henderson ilar cases in 2000 and 2001; and indicated and U.S. Court of International Trade that it may sue NMFS over alleged flaws USA judge Judith Barzilay issued conflicting in a new plan to reduce the dumping of verdicts when then-Commerce Sec-retary “bycatch” off Alaska. The Alaska William Daley tried to admit non-“dol- Marine Conservation Council r e c e n t l y phin-safe” tuna to the U.S. In December reported that fishers in Alaskan waters dis- 2002 the Commerce Department m o v e d carded more than 261 million pounds of to allow U.S. firms to market tuna netted unwanted bottom fish during 2001. “on dolphin” as “dolphin-safe,” if no dol- Oceana was formed in 2000 by the O a k phins are known to have been killed during Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the netting, but Henderson ruled that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna 1990 definition of “dolphin-safe” must Foundation, and Turner Found-ation. stand unless the law is changed. President Steve Roady previously headed The U.S. Supreme Court o n the Ocean Law Project, begun by the April 6 ruled against the contention of the Pew Charitable Trusts and incorporated Sea Turtle Restoration Project, t h e into Oceana. 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Box 9, Dept AP, Glendale, CA 91209 Telephone: 011-661-269-4010 • Fax: 011-661-269-0648 8 - ANIMAL PEOP LE, May 2003 Bear sanctuary at the Taj Majal (from page 1) Vegetarian mandates from my home, to help raise funds for the Agra bear sanctuary challenges a cultural taboo against donating to “Tourists visiting wildlife Shiv Sena political party in mid- sanctuary,” Ms. Gandhi e-mailed to ANIMAL PEO- feed meat-eating animals––which has evolved, ironical- sanctuaries in Orissa state will now April threatened to retaliate against PLE on April 17. ly, from the pro-animal vegetarian teachings of have to turn vegetarian for the entire Jain and Hindu vegetarian housing The Wildlife SOS sanctuary is the prototype Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and also persists to duration of their trip,” Times of cooperatives by opening stinking for a “carnivore rescue center” to handle tigers and the disadvantage of dogs and cats. An underlying con- India News Network c o r r e s p o n d e n t fish or chicken stalls beside their lions, authorized by the Indian environment ministry in cept in all three religions is that humans should not eat Rajaram Satapathy reported from buildings, wrote Haima Deshpande November 2002 but not yet assigned to a specific site. meat because we can choose not to, while naturally car- the Bengal coast city of of the Indian Express. Like most prototypes, the Agra sanctuary had nivorous animals are blameless because they cannot. A Bhubaneswar in February. Shiv Sena is a “party, a long development phase. Sheshamani outlined the common misinterpretation, however, is that carnivo- “Concerned with rampant movement and gang at once,” wrote Wildlife SOS plans for the sanctuary to A N I M A L rous animals are unclean and unworthy of charity, along poaching, the state government has Julia M. Eckert in The Charisma of PEOPLE at the November 1998 Animal Welfare Board with meat-eating humans, especially of lower castes. banned cooking and eating non-veg- Direct Action: Power, Politics and of India conference in New Delhi, several years after This perspective does not, however, prevent etarian food in all 18 sanctuaries in the Shiv Sena, recently published she and Sayanarayan began the process of obtaining the many devoutly vegetarian Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains Orissa,” Satapaty elaborated. “The by Oxford University Press. Build- land and the necessary permits. Construction at the 30- from owning non-vegetarian stores and restaurants, on order, issued by the chief conserva- ing a power base among disaffected acre site started with an investment of about $100,000 the pretext that this is acceptable because the owners do tor of forests, is being strictly Hindus of the meat-eating middle U.S. by the World Society for the Protection of Animals. not actually handle or eat the meat they sell. implemented. Recently more than classes and military castes, it was That proved to be barely half the cost of getting the These paradoxical beliefs are not new. 125 tourist vehicles, on a single once the second strongest faction sanctuary up and running. Free The Bears, founded by Shelters for aged and disabled cattle called pinjarapoles day, were refused entry into the within the Hindu nationalist coali- Mary Hutton of Australia, put up about $70,000 to com- have operated in India for more than 3,000 years, often Similipal Tiger Reserve because tion government headed by the plete the work, Mrs. Gandhi told ANIMAL PEOPLE. keeping other vegetarian species too. The p i n j a r a p o l e they were found carrying meat and Bharatiya Janata party, but fell The operating expenses are to be provided by tradition may have inspired the former British military chicken for consumption.” from influence after alienating the Free The Bears, which also funds bear rescue projects officers who founded the Royal SPCA in London in Taking an opposite view Jains, Brahmins, and other vegetar- in Cambodia; the French charity One Voice; and 1824, but western-style dog and cat sheltering only of diet on the opposite coast, South ian classes, along with the Dalits, International Animal Rescue, based in England, spon- began in India with the British-led formation of the Mumbai leaders of the neo-fascist who are the poorest of the poor. soring other animal protection projects in India, and Bombay SPCA in 1874. now raising funds in the U.S. as well. Some carnivores have been kept since ancient WSPA is no longer involved in the Agra bear times at sanctuaries and wildlife hospitals maintained by People for Animals founds Delhi sanctuary. The British group Care For The Wild is mak- Hindu and Buddhist temples, but most of these facilities ing a donation this year, IAR founder Alan Knight told long since degenerated into quasi-roadside zoos, and shelter for ex-laboratory mon- ANIMAL PEOPLE, but in January 2003 decided many may never have been much else. D E L H I––Gautam Grover, no longer many of these in urban against making a longterm commitment to the sanctuary. Until now, the major destinations for big cats, president of the Delhi chapter of areas. Instead, self-proclaimed “holy “To date we have given £25,000 to the Agra nonhuman primates, and bears seized from exhibitors People for Animals, has “started a men” squat in ruins, throw garbage bear rescue facility, with £22,000 more due in three have been six zoological rescue centers: the Vadodara, shelter for monkeys called Hanuman about to attract monkeys, and installments over the next eight months,” Knight said. Jaipur, and Tirupati city zoos, a 40-acre facility at Vatika,” he recently wrote to A N I- aggressively beg from passers-by, “We are to provide £30,000 a year from 2004 on. Bannerghatta National Park near Bangalore, the Arignar MAL PEOPLE. becoming almost as common and “I have just had a message from Kartick from Anna Zoo at Vandalur (a suburb of Chennai), and the “We get monkeys from problematic in India as are animal Wildlife SOS telling me that on April 3 we took in Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park in Visakhapatnam. research labs,” Grover explained. hoarders in the U.S. who claim to be another 13 bears,” Knight added, “bringing the total we The largest rescue center, at Bannerghatta “Most are old and deformed [from running no-kill shelters. now have under our care to 41. Our plan is to limit the National Park, officially reached capacity with the experimentation] and are incapable Many Indians are as fond intake to 50 bears,” he said, “although whether we will January 2003 seizure of nine African lions from the of survival in the wild. We also have of monkeys as Americans are of dogs be able to stick to this is unknown. We desperately need Great Prabhat Circus. The center now has 95 lions, five infants who have had a terrible past,” and cats, but too many monkeys in a to expand the sanctuary to take as many bears as possi- tigers, and five bears. Grover added. “For example an city may be even more problematic ble and keep them in acceptable conditions.” Despite several years of frequent seizures, the infant came to me whose mother was than free-roaming dog packs and The Agra sanctuary may be the first in India rescue centers continue to receive large numbers of ex- killed by dogs. The infant was cling- fast-proliferating feral cat colonies. for large carnivores to be established along western circus animals. A five-month legal battle begun by ing to her, crying. We called the Monkeys are not as fecund lines. Indeed the very term “sanctuary” is used in India PETA/Mumbai after the death of a Great Empire Circus infant Chiku. He now has a new as either dogs or cats, but a monkey to mean “wildlife refuge,” like the forest habitat to lion in November 2002, for example, apparently ended mother, named Basanti, and a new bite is much more likely to transmit which 88 leopards were moved during a recent 22- in March 2003 with the confiscation of 10 tigers and father, called Dharmender.” infection than either a dog or cat bite, month effort to halt predation on people and livestock in nine lions, who were taken to the Jaipur rescue center. Hanuman Vatika now has monkeys can go anywhere that either the vicinity of Junnar and Pune. A bear remained temporarily with the circus, since there more than 100 monkeys, attended by dogs or cats can and more, monkeys Displaced by irrigation projects in the western was no rescue center able to take him. a human staff of 12, Grover said. are smarter, they eat almost every- Ghat mountains, leopards killed 19 humans and 535 The circus also still has elephants, horses, But it does not yet have adequate thing that humans do, and they can cattle during the first 18 months of the relocation, for dogs, and cockatoos, whom PETA contends are like- funding to ensure stability and permit open doors for themselves. which two leopards were shot, but the leopard attacks wise mistreated. expansion. Ahead is the long task of Some exasperated people reportedly ceased after November 2002. [Contact Wildlife SOS c/o D-210 Defence educating people who are sympathet- respond to monkey incursions as they Apart from the cost and difficulty of keeping Colony, New Delhi 110024, India; phone 91-11- ic to monkeys about the distinctions do toward dogs and cats who annoy large carnivores safely in captivity, the Wildlife SOS 24621939; fax 91-11-24644231; among sanctuaries, zoos, and them––like whoever poisoned 50 Hanuman temples. monkeys in Muttara, Kerala, in Finding suitable accommo- February. Only one baby survived. dations for rescued or retired labora- As macaques and languors tory monkeys is an enormous task for are native to India, and abundant, the activists of any nation. In India, trying to provide sanctuary care to even though it is also no small task, those who can fend for themselves it is simultaneously the smallest part and stay out of trouble is not a realis- of solving the surplus monkey prob- tic option. Instead, People for lem, as successful Animal Birth Animals has been investigating ways Control programs have markedly and means of starting Animal Birth reduced the numbers of dogs on the Control programs for monkeys who streets of many cities, allowing are too well habituated to urban liv- macaques and languors to take over ing to be returned to the wild. the habitat and food sources. The Catching monkeys for sur- primary importance of sheltering ex- gical sterilization is much harder than lab monkeys in India might even be catching street dogs, however. that it gives animal advocates the Human contraceptive implants work opportunity to learn how to humane- in female monkeys, but males must ly prevent unwanted reproduction. be vasectomized, not castrated, to www.BaylorBearAbuse.com We will go again during Baylor's graduation week- Hanuman temples are the avoid rejection by their troupes, In July 2002 SHARK learned about two end––and I hope I can count on your help. traditional Indian safe havens for which makes them more likely to young bear sisters held as "mascots" in separate If you are moved by the suffering of street macaques and languors. At depend on human food sources. cages by Baylor University, in Waco, Texas. these beautiful and desperate animals, please one time the basic Indian monkey However, vasectomizing monkeys in Six-month-old Lady paced and cried in voice your demand for an end to the acquisition control strategy was to try to keep a manner that precludes natural an area half the size of a one-car garage. 18- of baby bears, and for state-of-the-art lifetime urban monkey populations in prox- reversal within a matter of months is month-old Joy wandered in circles. Her drinking care of Lady and Joy, to: imity to the local Hanuman temple, notoriously difficult. water is a pool polluted with her own feces--which Dr. Robert B. Sloan, Jr., President where they were welcome and would The longterm answer, in is also her only way to cool off in the Texas heat. Baylor University presumably not get into trouble. dealing with both male and female Baylor has used, abused, and either P.O. Box 97096 That concept, these days, monkeys, may be finding a safe and killed or discarded over fifty bears in the past 80 Waco, TX 76798 is mostly just a theory. Built in reliable birth control vaccine. years. They are dragged to football games and Office Phone 254-710-3555 honor of the Hindu monkey god [Contact Hanuman Vat- other events, even though black bears are shy ika, c/o Gautam Grover, People Office Fax 254-710-3557 Hanuman, the best temples provide by nature and do not wish to be around humans. for Animals, BA/1A, Ashok Vihar - [email protected] semi-natural habitat for monkey At about age two, when the bears are colonies who are fed by the offerings 1, Delhi – 110052, India; tele- no longer cute and cuddly, they are dumped. And please send your most generous of the visiting faithful––but there are phone 91-11-7141648.] Accredited sanctuaries will no longer take donation to help us stop this abuse and send a Baylor's bear castoffs, so Baylor's last bear went strong message to other schools with live mas- to a facility that sells some bears to slaughter for cots! We urgently need your help to keep the human consumption! SHARK video truck circling Baylor for as long as Bear experts from the US and Canada it takes to persuade Baylor to do right by the have spoken out against the abuse. So have bears. Please send your donation to: three Texas sanctuaries that have rescued Baylor SHARK bear castoffs. The Waco Tribune-Herald and the P O Box 28 Baylor student newspaper have called for improved conditions. Caring Baylor students are Geneva, Illinois 60134 speaking out too––but still the bears suffer. [email protected] The SHARK Tiger video truck has visit- Phone: 1-630-557-0176 ed Baylor three times on behalf of Joy and Lady. Fax: 1-630-557-0178 ANIMAL P EOPLE, May 2003 - 9 IS THE NIH REALLY GOING TO SEND CHIMPS TO INDIA? THURUVANANTHAPURAM––G. properly cared for. At the same time, we view nearly two decades,” Mahadevan noted, men- Mahadevan of The Hindu daily newspaper this as a potential opportunity to provide chim- tioning that a chimp care staff must be trained caught both the Indian and U.S. animal advo- panzees to an educational organization.” during the coming months and citing “some cacy communities by surprise with an April 15 The NIH has recently been reducing concern among the zoo authorities” about the report that the Thuruvananthapuram Zoo in the its stock of adult chimps, chiefly through propensity of chimps for catching human dis- capital city of Kerala state “is finalizing paper- retirements to the Chimp Haven sanctuary-in- eases, “as there is no way they will be able to work for the transfer of two male and two development at Shreveport, Louisiana. screen visitors for any such diseases. The zoo female chimps from the National Institute of The NIH has not, however, previ- director, C. S. Yelakki, points out that some Health in Maryland.” ously retired chimps abroad, and has been chimps in captivity in Indian zoos suffer from Joyce McDonald, acting communi- skeptical of attempts by Friends of Animals tuberculosis,” Mahadevan mentioned, “which cations director for the National Center for and other nonprofit organizations to privately they most likely contracted from visitors.” Chimpanzee. (Kim Bartlett) Research Resources at the U.S. National retire ex-laboratory chimps to semi-natural Responded People for Animals ing chimps around the world,” Goodall told Institutes of Health, confirmed to A N I M A L habitat in Africa. The NIH has also insisted founder Maneka Gandhi, “Thuruvanantha- Ramya Kannan and P. Oppili of The Hindu, PEOPLE that “NCRR has begun preliminary upon being able to recall any chimps it has puram has the worst zoo in India. It has no “but this bunch are in by far the worst condi- discussions with the Thiruvananthapuram Zoo retired for further research use, along with any space, and it is under the museum department. tion. They look like skeletons. It is shocking in India concerning the transfer of chim- offspring they may have, should they ever It is death to have the chimps transferred there. that they have been treated so callously.” panzees from the United States,” but indicated again be of interest to researchers. If the chimps absolutely have to come,” she PfA and the police went back to get that it is far from a done deal. “The zoo is planning to initiate a suggested, “then the Arignar Anna Zoological Guru on January 14. “There are many issues that need to breeding program as soon as the chimps Park near Chennai has open space for chimps, “When all arrangements were made be resolved before any final determinations are arrive,” Mahadevan continued, after briefly and they have chimps who were recently res- to shift the primate to an ambulance, the keep- made,” McDonald said. “For instance, discussing the permitting process for the cued from a circus.” er suddenly released Guru,” Oppili wrote. NCRR has to be assured that the zoo environ- acquisition. Since chimps are protected by the The rescue, in January 2003, was “He ran helter-skelter, creating panic among ment is appropriate and properly accredited; Convention on International Trade in among the most prominent confiscations of visitors and employees of the circus.” that lifetime care is available; that the animals Endangered Species, a breeding loan may be Indian performing animals yet. The first Ganga and Shiva were brought back will stay in the zoo; that notification and the easiest format for arranging the transfer. three––Ganga, 43, Shiva, 22, and Lakshmi, to the circus the next day to help persuade approval from U.S. and Indian regulatory Critics of the NIH chimp program 22, who had paralyzed hind limbs––were Guru to cooperate. But convincing Guru agencies has been obtained; that proper trans- have suspected that the NIH may intending to seized from the Great Royal Circus on January proved to be less difficult than getting cooper- portation can be provided, etc. In addition, we replace the older chimps it now has with a 9 by the Chennai chapter of PfA and local ation from the circus staff. Police commis- need to assured that expenses can be covered younger population, but sending any chimps police. The circus kept Guru, 10, a purported sioners Babu and Krishnamoorthy again inter- by the Indian zoo. Again, our discussions are born in India to the U.S. would require the albino whose act involved riding a bicycle, vened to complete the transfer. very preliminary,” McDonald emphasized, amendment of an Indian national policy and reportedly resisted releasing any of the Shiva, 22, died in quarantine on “and these issues must be resolved to our satis- against exporting nonhuman primates which chimps until regional Joint Commissioner of March 16 at the Arignar Anna Zoological faction before NIH would coordinate the trans- has been in effect since 1978. Police C. Sylendra Babu and Deputy Commis- Park. The prognosis for Ganga and Lakshmi fer of the animals from a U.S. research facility. “Work on the construction of an sioner S.S. Krishnamoorthy came to supervise. was reportedly poor. “NCRR takes very seriously its enclosure for the chimps will commence on Chimpanzee ethologist and advocate The circus contested the seizure of responsibility for the welfare of all the April 24,” Mahadevan said, naming the con- Jane Goodall was in Bangalore at the time, the chimps. The circus petition was dismissed research animals it supports,” McDonald con- tractor and describing the plans in detail. and saw photos and video of the chimps. on March 28 by Justice P. Sathasivam of the tinued. We want to be sure the animals are “The zoo has not had chimps for “I have a lot of experience at rescu- Madras High Court. Events
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In a way, we’re Welfare donated $25,000 to help get the have lions in Mexico who need to be brought Byron-Marasek’s husband Jan Marasek, 70, helping them as much as the animals,” Baghdad relief work started. to the United States for care but nobody can was mauled while feeding a tiger in October Kuwaiti coordinator of Baghdad Zoo relief In addition to helping the Baghdad provide the transportation or lifetime sanctuary 2002. He was hospitalized for 10 days. Abdullah Onlanzi told McDowell. zoo animals, Jones as board president of the costs. I have two tigers in Alabama who need Byron-Marasek in March 2003 was The other zoos in Baghdad are the London-based Brooke Hospital for Animals is to be moved to a sanctuary in Indiana, but refused permission to move to Maine, after a comparatively tiny Rasafa amusement park arranging aid for the equines and other hooved money for their transportation and lifetime plan to move to upstate New York fell though. menagerie, owned by Saddam Jolan, 59, beasts of Iraq. Partner organizations will help care has not been forthcoming. I have two Other recent human casualties of the including two chimpanzees, a bear, and a dogs and cats, in a nation which has apparent- bears in Washington who need to be taken to U.S. big cat wars include William Olsen, 32, camel, and the private carnivore collection of ly never before had a humane society. California or Texas for proper sanctuary and fatally mauled by a tiger on March 31 at his Uday Hussein. Another London charity, the Society lifetime care. We had a verbal commitment Second Nature Exotic Cats Sanctuary in The existence of the latter was for the Protection of Animals Abroad pledged from WSPA to assist but they backed off Hennepin, Illinois, and Linda Bracket, 35, a unknown, Chicago Tribune staff reporter Bill to “supply veterinarians, supplies, and assis- because of the Baghdad situation.” volunteer who was fatally mauled on April 2 at Glauber wrote, until Staff Sergeant Darren tance to local agencies in and around Iraq Added Wild Animal Orphanage Safari Joe’s Rock Creek Exotic Animal Park Swain, 37, of Talladega, Alabama, opened under the guidance of the (British) Foreign a.k.a. Animal Sanctuary of the U.S. founder near Adair, Oklahoma. the door to a “suspicious” concrete compound Office” as soon as possible, but it was not Carol Asvestas, “I fully understand that Olsen was fined $2,000 for Animal on the grounds of Saddam Hussein’s clear what “local agencies” SPANA expected Baghdad offers an opportunity to raise funds, Welfare Act violations last year after another Republican Palace and “saw a big old tail go to find to work with. and yes, I understand that the animals there tiger in his care bit a 7-year-old girl in May past. I said to myself, that looks like a lion’s The Mayhew Animal Home, also of need help. I commend WSPA and IFAW for 2002. That tiger was owned by Mary Jean tail,” Swain told Glauber. London, has had fulltime animal welfare staff the help they have given in the past to some of Williams of Ivanhoe, Texas, who was con- The compound held three adult working at the Kabul Zoo for more than a the animals here, but I share Sumner’s frustra- victed of endangering the health of a child. lions, four cubs, several cheetahs, a bear, year, and is expected to assist in Iraq as well. tion. I cannot begin to list the many animals The tiger escaped from her vehicle en route and three German shepherds. John Van Zante of the Helen V. who have been displaced recently,” Asvestas back to Texas in September 2002 and was shot David Zucchino of the Los Angeles Woodward Center in Chula Vista, California, wrote––from a wheelchair, temporarily, as a by police. Olsen’s Second Nature sanctuary T i m e s wrote of the discovery that, “Scouts indicated to ANIMAL PEOPLE that the casualty herself of the big cat wars. was closed and all the remaining animals were from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division Woodward Center also hopes to take an active Asvestas is also a cofounder, with relocated after his death. found a live sheep and fed it to a cheetah, role in the relief effort. Austin Zoo director Cindy Carroccio, of Bracket was killed and helper which was joined in the feast by three lions. A separate relief team headed by Animal Centers for Excellence, the newest of Amanda Sternke, 20, was injured, by a tiger Across the pen, a thin brown bear cub bound- conservationist Lawrence Anthony was report- many efforts to produce effective standards for belonging to the International Wildlife Center ed through the grass, draggng the entrails of a edly dispatched from the Royal Natal National sanctuary operation. On April 6, someone of Texas, formerly of Corsicana, now leasing sheep provided earlier by the same scouts.” Park in South Africa. His expedition was who left behind tracks and a pipe used as pry- space from Safari Joe Estes. The International An Associated Press report said, sponsored, Agence France-Press said, “by a bar tried hard to damage Asvestas’ reputation Wildlife Center was closed in early 2002 due “Soldiers have been throwing in sheep from a local corporate finance house.” for excellence. The intruder entered the newer to repeated violations of animal welfare and nearby pen. A feeding on April 13 ‘looked of the two ASUS big cat facilities near San zoning standards. like something from the National Geographic The U.S. front Antonio, Texas, and lifted a corner of the Other recent animal casualties of the Channel,’ said one American soldier.” Sumner D. Matthes, wildlife rescue cage occupied by a lioness named Hanna just proliferation of exotic cats in private hands ANIMAL PEOPLE e-mailed to coordinator for the Florida organization enough to enable her to squeeze out. apparently include up to 30 dead tigers and 58 Zucchino to find out whether the sheep were in Sarasota In Defense of Animals, meanwhile Asvestas and five of her staff rushed dead cubs discovered on April 22 at the origi- fact being fed alive to the big cats, but at reminded donors rushing to help the hungry to the scene, along with 10 sheriff’s deputies. nal Tiger Rescue site in Glen Avon, Calif- deadline had received no response. big cats in Iraq that there are lions and tigers in After a police helicopter located Hanna in ornia. Founded in 1972 by former breeder and A comparably appalling story came distress on the home front, too, many of them heavy brush, Asvestas told ANIMAL PEO- performer John Hans Weinhart, 60, Tiger meanwhile from Alexandra Zavis of in trouble partly because of the fundraising PLE, Asvestas shot Hanna with a tranquilizer Rescue relocated to Colton, California, in Associated Press, who wrote that Marine slump afflicting animal charities since the dart. Asvestas was preparing to give Hanna a 1998, after a prolonged zoning dispute, and Wing Squadron 271 was killing and eating the high-tech stock crash of 2000-2001, intensify- second dose when Hanna charged her, knock- was no longer supposed to have animals in gazelles formerly kept by Saddam Hussein at a ing after the terrorist attacks of September 11, ing her into a mesquite branch that punctured Glen Avon. Thirteen live tiger and leopard hunting ranch near the Tikrit south airfield. 2001, and again during the economic uncer- her back, fractured her pelvis, and broke a cubs and two alligators were seized by the “Each of the squadron’s platoons has tainty associated with the start of the Iraq war. rib. Another ASUS caregiver darted Hanna a California State Department of Fish & Game. been limited to killing one gazelle a day to “Of course we have great concern second time, about 90 minutes later, but when Weinhart and his wife Marla Smith were make sure the herd isn’t depleted,” Zavis said. for the animals at the Baghdad Zoo,” Matthes Hanna charged again, four deputies shot her. arrested on suspicion of endangering their “The Marines are using 9mm pistols to hunt said. “However, it is ironic to me that we in “They did the right thing,” Asvestas young son and cruelty to animals, and Tiger after initially being forbidden to use firearms the U.S. have animals in the same horrible said sadly. A CrimeStoppers Rescue veterinarian Wendelin Ringel was also for fear that gunshots in the woods might be reward was offered for whoever arrested, according to Sergeant Chad Bianco mistaken for enemy fire.” lifted the fence. Investigators of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. “We hunted them with rocks, as are interested in the coinci- Weinhart and Smith were already facing 14 Stone Age as that sounds,” said Corporal dence, Asvestas indicated, that counts of alleged neglect of more than 40 Joshua Wicksell, 26, of Corpus Christi. the escape loosely paralleled the tigers kept at the Colton site, where state offi- January 1999 alleged escape of cials seized 10 tiger cubs in November 2002. How to help a tiger from the Tigers Only In Chicago, meanwhile, taxidermist North Carolina Zoological Society Preservation Society compound William Kapp, 37, was convicted on April 3 director Davy Jones is heading the official in Jackson Township, New on 17 counts of violating federal wildlife laws international relief effort for the Baghdad zoos, Jersey. That tiger was also by participating in a ring that allegedly killed modeled after the relief program he arranged killed by police. State officials and/or illegally sold the parts of 19 tigers, for the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan during moved to close Tigers Only and seven leopards, a snow leopard, and an Asian October 2001. relocate the 24 surviving tigers swamp deer in 1997-1999. All 15 other people The official donation address is: Aid to ASUS, but Tigers Only charged in connection with the case accepted to Baghdad Zoo, c/o North Carolina Zoolog- founder Joan Byron-Marasek plea bargains earlier, including exotic meat ical Society, 4403 Zoo Parkway, Asheboro, has resisted closure in court market owner Richard Czimer Jr. NC 27205; (Donations are 510-337-8989, [email protected] tax-ductible.) 12 - ANIMAL PEOP LE, May 2003 The Watchdog monitors fundraising, spending, and The political activity in the name of animal and habitat pro t e c - tion—both pro and con. His empty bowl stands for all the bowls left empty when some Watchdog take more than they need. Dutch assassin gets 18 years Will new Kenya government lift hunting ban? A M S T E R D A M – – V o l k e r t vote in the first election following the N A I R O B I ––Kenya has a new President, will need all the help he can get, especially now that van der Graaf, 33, who confessed to assassination, but soon self-destructed National Rainbow Coalition candidate Mwai Kibaki, the KWS board includes Dr. Imre Lofler, chair of the killing anti-immigration and pro-fur due to factionalism and fell out of the succeeding Daniel arap Moi, President since 1978. East Africa Wildlife Society and a close friend of the politician Pim Fortuyn on May 6, 2002, governing coalition in late 2002. Kibaki, a longtime leading member of the ranchers. As you may imagine,” Nyongo explained, in the first Dutch political assassination Founding the organization parliamentary opposition to the arap Moi regime, “it is the ranchers who have been pushing for sport since World War II, was on April 14 Environmental Offensive in 1992, the almost immediately replaced the entire Kenya hunting and are practicing game cropping.” sentenced to serve 18 years in prison. militantly vegan van der Graaf “before Wildlife Service board of directors, fueling concern The pro-hunting faction sees opportunity in Seeking a life sentence, the the assassination worked up to 80 hours that Kibaki may next move to overturn the national the collapse of the Zimbabwean trophy hunting prosecution said it would appeal. a week litigating against commercial ban on sport hunting enforced throughout arap Moi’s industry due to land invasions by “war veterans” sup- Likening the assassination to animal farming, and was described by tenure as––according to Ghosts of Tsavo a u t h o r porting the shaky Robert Mugabwe regime. shooting Adolph Hitler before he could other activists as a fanatic,” wrote Toby Philip Caputo––a gesture of respect to Daphne The pro-hunting campaign gains numbers rise to power, van der Graaf testified Sterling of Associated Press. Sheldrick, widow of Tsavo National Park founder from farmers and herders whose crops and livestock that he shot Fortuyn, 54, because he If van der Graaf is not re-sen- David Sheldrick and pioneer of successful rehabilita- are harmed by elephants, buffalo, lions, and leop- was “a threat to weaker groups in soci- tenced to prison for life, he is expected tion of orphaned elephants. ards who wander out of Tsavo and other wildlife ety,” including asylum-seekers, to be eligible for parole in 2014. Dutch The removal of two-time KWS director parks––but the average Kenyan is unlikely to prosper Muslims, the disabled, and animals. courts have sentenced only 21 people to Richard Leakey from the KWS board is of particular from hunting. Though hunting supporters anticipate Fortuyn’s political party, named for prison for life since 1945, most of them concern, International Fund for Animal Welfare a lucrative guiding and trophy ranching industry for himself, gained a substantial sympathy serial killers. regional director Amed Khan told ANIMAL PEO- those who have the means to get involved, they have P L E . “We know for sure that the sport hunting difficulty making a case that hunting will benefit as crowd couldn’t be happier, as they have long felt many Kenyans as much as nonlethal tourism did Ed Sayres to head American SPCA that Leakey was the only person standing in their before it was almost killed in the late 1980s by an NEW YORK CITY, SAN Humane Association animal protection way” post-Moi, Khan continued. explosion of elephant ivory and rhino horn poaching. F R A N C I S C O ––Edwin J. Sayres, 54, division 1995-1997, and then headed KWS chief Michael Wamithi, who previ- The Kenyan wildlife parks and tourism are president of the San Francisco SPCA PETsSMART Charities for a year ously headed the IFAW office in Nairobi, “is going still struggling to recover. Yet nonlethal tourism since January 1, 1999, was on April 8 before succeeding Richard Avanzino at to need all the help he can get,” Khna added. remains among the top five national industries, with introduced as new president of the the SF/SPCA, who retired after 24 “Yes indeed,” confirmed Youth for capacity to expand rapidly when the global economy American SPCA in New York City, to years to lead Maddie’s Fund. Conservation founder Josphat Nyongo. “Wamithi improves and fears of terrorism subside. succeed Larry Hawk on June 2. Succeeding Sayres as acting Said Khan, “We will out of necessity be Hawk on February 3 was president of the San Francisco SPCA Embezzling in Germany launching a vigorous campaign to stop the utilization named to succeed Gus Thornton, who will be current vice president Daniel crowd from trying to sneak through sport hunting. retired, as president of the Massa- Crain, also hired in 1999, while Jeffrey M U N I C H ––Wolfgang Ullrich, 58, Kenya only needs to look to Tanzania to see what chusetts SPCA. Proulx, DVM, the SF/SPCA director head of the 230,000-member German animal wel- will happen if they allow it. This is clearly a case of Sayres debuted in humane of veterinary services since 2000, will fare society Deutsches Tierhilfswerk 1994-1999, a few individuals with a dollar-driven agenda, cover- work as successor to his father, Edwin take over direction of the Roberts was on April 1, 2003 sentenced to 12 years in ing their ambitions with bogus science.” Sayres Sr., who was longtime executive Medical Center, described as “the com- prison for embezzling $28 million. The failure of sport hunting to build a director of the St. Hubert’s Giralda shel- munity’s first comprehensive, multidis- Reported Reuters, “Thai police first strong rural economy in Tanzania and the loss of ter founded by Geraldine Dodge ciplinary specialty veterinary center, arrested Ullrich, who ran a restaurant in the resort wildlife to hunters’ excesses are spotlighted by the Rockefeller on her estate in New Jersey. scheduled to begin construction in of Pattaya, after investigating him for tax evasion. Tanzania-based Masai Environmental Resource Sayres headed the American December 2003.” Subsequent probes into his finances uncovered a Coalition (www.maasaierc.org) in a new download- front company Ullrich had set up in Switzerland, able report entitled The Killing Fields of Lolondo: FOLLOWING THE MONEY into which he channeled donations from animal Hunting Operations of the Ortello Business Co. and lovers.” Deutsches Tierhilfswerk is now expected their Impact on Masai Rights, Wildlife, and the Philanthropic Research Inc., charities nor the public will pay to use to sue seeking recovery of the money. Environment. the subcontractor to the U.S. I n t e r n a l the GuideStar UK database,” Revenue Service responsible for post- Philanthropic Research Inc. said. ing the IRS Form 990 filings of U.S. A Foundation for Biomed- Helping donkeys in Middle East & Central Asia charities in downloadable PDF format at ical Research publicity campaign fea- PETA president Ingrid Newkirk o f f e n d- trained local vets treating sick and injured animals, We have rescued many dogs and If you know cats, including this mother and her kittens. Your donation to our someone sanctuary fund will help us save else who many more from the terrible cruelty of might the Korean dog and cat meat mar- kets. 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Courts weigh activist rights SCRANTON, Pa.––A three-judge maturity to express or form valid opinions con- The appellate ruling against Ringling mending to the city council a series of code panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the cerning the proposed class trip to the circus I “appears to make organizations more vulnera- amendments which would allow protesters to Third Circuit on April 15 unanimously upheld find unacceptable.” ble to such animal abuse suits if the actions are come within five feet of nonparticipants in the dismissal of a lawsuit against the Lacka- brought in part by a former insider,” wrote order to offer literature, and would cut the wanna Trail School District in Scranton, Ringling ruling United Press International legal correspondent advance notice required to obtain a demonstra- Pennsylvania, alleging that Amanda Walker- Activists won precedental rulings Michael Kirkland. tion permit from five days to 36 hours. Serrano, then a third grader, was denied her earlier in 2003 in unrelated cases pertaining to First Amendment right to freedom of expres- circuses and First Amendment rights. RICO & Hobbs McDonald’s lawsuit sion in February 1999 when her school On February 4, the U.S. Court of On February 25 the U.S. Supreme award still in dispute stopped her from petitioning against a class Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reinstated a case Court ruled 8-1 that the 1970 Racketeer trip to the Shriners’ circus in Wilkes-Barre. brought against the Ringling Brothers Barnum Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and CHICAGO––Cook County Judge Amanda Walker-Serrano is the & Bailey Circus alleging violations of the the 1946 Hobbs Act cannot be used to punish Richard Siebel on March 25 disqualified daughter of Scranton animal advocates Lisa Endangered Species Act, brought by the protesters for acts such as blocking sidewalks, three of the 26 organizations that were Walker and Michael Serrano. Her rights were American SPCA, the Animal Welfare because such acts do not constitute the crime named to share the $10 million settlement of not violated, Judge Anthony J. Scirica wrote, Institute, the Fund for Animals, and Thomas of extortion. Extortion, as defined by a class action brought against McDonald’s because she was allowed to distribute coloring Rider, a Ringling elephant care staff member Congress involves an attempt to unlawfully Corp. for concealing from vegetarians that books and stickers about animal abuse. from 1997 to 1999. take tangible benefit from the victim. its French fries are seasoned with beef broth. “Absent punishment for expression, The case was originally dismissed on The Supreme Court ruled on behalf Dropped due to alleged conflicts a significant pattern of concrete suppression, grounds that the plaintiffs lacked legal stand- of anti-abortion protesters who were originally of interest involving attorneys who worked or some other form of clear suppression of the ing to sue, meaning that they could not prove sued in 1986 by clinics in Delaware and on the case were the National Ramah expression of elementary school students, a that they suffered injury from the alleged Wisconsin and by the National Organization of Commission, representing Conservative federal First Amendment action is not an offenses. However, the Court of Appeals for Women, but the protesters’ appeal was backed Jews; Arya Pratinidhi Sabha America, a appropriate forum for resolution of disputes the D.C. Circuit followed the precedent it set by advocacy groups from across the political Hindu group; and the Department of over schools’ control of third graders’ con- on behalf of Long Island activist Marc Jurnove spectrum, including PETA. Nutrition at the University of North Carolina duct,” opined Scirica. and the Animal Legal Defense Fund in With the judicial precedents running at Chapel Hill. Circuit Judge Morton I. Greenberg September 1998, in a verdict later upheld by in favor of protest, the city of South Salt Lake, Whether new organizations will wrote, “I think it is unlikely that the third- the U.S. Supreme Court, when it ruled that an Utah, in early April settled a First Amendment be named to replace these three is reportedly grade children here could have had knowledge activist can have a legally significant interest case filed in March by the Utah Animal Rights undecided. Plaintiffs opposed to the settle- of how a circus treats its animals. After all, I in the fate of a captive animal. Coalition by paying UARC $101 and recom- ment indicated that they would appeal. have no such knowledge myself.” Replied District Judge John P. Fullam, promoted to complete the panel, “The First Amendment rights of school chil- HFA - Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz dren are undoubtedly somewhat more limited than the First Amendment rights of adults. But that does not mean that a 9-year-old child should be treated as if she were a preschooler. To suggest that neither Amanda Walker- Serrano nor her classmates had sufficient Dairies win two cases Ruling that government agencies are exempt from the prohibitions on false advertising that apply to private citizens, San Francisco Superior Court Judge David G a r c i a on March 25 dismissed a lawsuit by PETA against a “Happy cows” ad campaign sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board. Arguing that scenes of cows in green pastures used in the ads misrepresent the reali- ty of how California dairy cattle are kept, PETA previously complained to the F e d e r a l Trade Commission. The FTC declined to take action in October 2002. The Pennsylvania State Superior Court on April 8 upheld a $96,000 verdict against the Fayette County SPCA for alleged invasion of privacy in April 1993 while inves- tigating the purported theft of a dog and cruel- ty to a heifer reported by dairy farmer J o h n T a b a j ’s former son-in-law during a messy divorce case. Tabaj was charged with five counts of cruelty, but the charges were later dropped. The incident caused the Pennsyl- vania legislature to mandate in December 1994 that humane officers must be appointed by a judge. A Fayette County jury in January 1992 ordered the $96,000 penalty against the Fayette County SPCA, and ordered T r i - County Humane Protection Inc., a l s o involved in the raid, to pay Tabaj $105,000. Tri-County Humane Protection is now defunct. The Fayette County SPCA has indicated that the size of the award will force it to close, too, leaving the county without an animal shelter. 14 - ANIMAL P EOPLE, May 2003 Hong Kong & WHO seek SARS Neutering Can Be Traumatic... HONG KONG––Severe Acute Respirat- at least 278 residents of the Amoy Gardens Housing ory Syndrome, the latest flu-like disease among Estate in Kowloon, deputy health director Leung many to cross from animals to humans in southern Pak-yin theorized that cockroaches were the inter- Since 1995 over 100,000 caring pet owners Worldwide have China, had been diagnosed in 3,947 people in five mediate host. WHO investigative team leader selected an alternative to the traditional form of neutering. months as the May edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE Robert Breiman told Leu Siew Ying of the S o u t h went to press, killing 229 while 1,935 were fully China Morning Post that same afternoon that ducks, Neuticles® replicates the pets testicles in size, shape, weight recovered, according to the latest daily data summa- chickens, pigs, bats, pangolins, pigeons, and owls and feel allowing pets to retain a natural appearance -even after ry from the World Health Organization. were all possible intermediate hosts. As epidemics go, SARS was not especial- A letter-writer to the South China neutering. ly serious. The global toll from all forms of flu Morning Post named L. Cho-Tuen Lau, living in ranges from 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year. 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But few diseases have ever terrified a city “Are we seeing redress?” Lau continued. as SARS has terrified Hong Kong––and as cases “SARS, Hong Kong flu, and like pestiliences may Neuticles® turned up in other nations, almost entirely among well be the price we pay for all the unexamined and “Its Like Nothing Ever Changed” recent visitors to Hong Kong, the panic spread. despicable beliefs about bears and their paws and (US Patent # 58-68140) “The SARS virus is thought by many gall bladders, swifts and the products of their nests, health experts to have made the leap from animals to and the fins of sharks. Let SARS be a wake-up humans in Guangdong province,” in China just call,” Lau pleaded. “There is a great minefield in north of Hong Kong, CNN explained, “although our traditional beliefs and practice. Let’s give it a Breeders blast dog transfers for how exactly that happened is one of many mysteries thorough sweep, disarm these practices, and get yet to be solved. The virus then spread to Hong ourselves out of harm’s way.” adoption as alleged biohazard Kong and from there it has been carried by air trav- Struggling to combat apparently com- HARTFORD, Connecticut; that the outcome was markedly reduced elers to more than 20 countries and territories.” pletely unfounded rumors that dogs, cats, rabbits, PORTLAND, Oregon––Rachel With- shelter killing. Influenza and other flu-like viruses typi- or hamsters were responsible for transmitting SARS, erspoon, 40, of Litchfield, Connecti- The biggest supplier of ani- cally start out as endemic but fairly harmless infec- Hong Kong SPCA acting exective director Pauline cut, only wanted to help the Kentucky mals to North Shore was then the tions in birds. Migratory waterfowl, meeting at Taylor, DVM, seconded Lau with her own letter to Humane Society find homes for nine American SPCA, which at that time summer feeding areas in the Arctic Circle, share the South China Morning Post. puppies. Her misadventures in early still held the New York City pound con- viruses and then redistribute them around the globe. “Eating dogs, cats, birds, snakes, other March 2003, however, may have tract. The late John Kullberg, president Guangdong is the leading influenza incu- reptiles, rats, or any kind of exotic species only become Exhibit A for introducing feder- of the ASPCA 1977-1991, was the only bating region in the world because the flooded rice increases our chances of creating a new virus that al and state regulation governing what nationally prominent humane executive paddies of southern China attract the world’s largest may kill our family, friends, and community,” the National Animal Interest Alliance willing to defend humane relocation. concentrations of waterfowl, in proximity to mil- Taylor declared. “Knowing this, we must stop decries as, “The mushrooming practice Quietly emulating the North lions of outdoor-raised pigs. archaic if traditional eating practices.” of moving dogs around from one region Shore program, or operating parallel The presence of the pigs is almost always to another and from one shelter to programs, were about 35 other shelters essential for a new flu virus to mutate into a form Suspect turtles? another within regions,” also known as including the Animal Humane Society capable of afflicting humans. Typically the virus Among all the possible animal hosts men- “humane relocation.” of Hennepin County (Minnesota), the passes from ducks or geese to pigs to people. tioned and studied, somehow no one seemed to Founded in 1992 by Oregon Denver Dumb Friends League, the Rarely does a flu-like virus pass directly from birds mention turtles, or remember the January 2003 dog breeder Patty Strand, the NAIA Humane Society of the Tennessee to people or through any other intermediary hosts. warning of Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Gardens represents many animal use industries, Valley, the Northeast Animal Shelter, But the only form of flu known to have senior fauna conservation manager Gary Ades that but most vigorously defends the inter- the San Francisco SPCA, and the infected people directly from waterfowl emerged in the seemingly insatiable appetite of turtle consumers ests of dog breeders. The NAIA sees in SPCA of Texas. Hong Kong in 1997, also with a probable etiology in Hong Kong and China could be big trouble–– humane relocation a direct threat to Leading vocal opposition in Guangdong. Five of the first eight known victims although Ades meant for turtle species, as many breeders’ share of dog acquisitions. were the Humane Society of the U.S., died, making it an exceptionally deadly if rare flu varieties have been pushed close to extinction. As of 1994, three separate Friends of Animals, and PETA. variant. Most flus kill only 4% of the people they Kadoorie Farm, in the New Territories, is studies published by the American The growth of the PETs- infect, and the fatalities tend to be among the weak- the leading wildlife rehabilitation center and public Veterinary Medical Association and the MART and Petco pet supply chains and est––often people who are already desperately ill education facility in Hong Kong. In December 2001 National Pet Alliance found that breed- the advent of the Internet rapidly trans- with some other condition, such as cancer. Kadoorie Farm led a successful international effort ers and pet stores had about a third of formed attitudes. The scariest aspect of SARS, however, is to save 10,000 turtles seized by Customs officers the “new dog” market. Shelters and Refusing to sell dogs and cats that despite intensive medical research, the original from a single smuggling cargo. rescuers had from 10% to 14%. from breeders, the PETsMART and animal source of it is still unknown. It is a member “We want people to think about what they Shelters and rescuers have Petco chains instead display rescued of the coronavirus family, like the common cold, are doing when they consume turtles,” Ades told boosted their share since then to about animals for adoption to thousands of but does not seem to have reached humans through Heike Phillips of the South China Morning Post. 21%, according to data submitted by times more people than visit animal the usual duck-to-pig-to-person linkage. “We’re talking about a crisis. Hong Kong is mainly applicants for Maddie’s Fund grants shelters. The Petco in-store adoption Theories are many. “It somewhat resem- a transit point, but there are many turtle soup outlets with copies to ANIMAL PEOPLE. program actually started in 1965, but bles several animal viruses,” Canadian National and also pet shops selling turtles here,” Ades said. Most of the increase appears to reflect remained obscure until the coming of Microbiology Laboratory scientific director Frank Even as the SARS panic peaked, howev- the declining numbers of unintentional the Internet gave volunteer rescuers the Plummer told Andre Picard, public health reporter er, the illegal turtle traffic continued, with major litters given away by families and cheap, fast communication tool they for the Toronto Globe & Mail. “It’s somewhere seizures not only in Hong Kong but also in Vietnam, friends, but breeders also seem to be needed to make humane relocation a big between a mouse corona, a bird corona, and a cow the nation with the second most SARS cases, where feeling the competition from shelters part of arranging rescued pet adoptions. corona,” Plummer continued. Hanoi inspectors found 4,159 turtles of five species and rescuers who are increasingly astute If pounds and humane soci- The possibility that cattle were the inter- aboard a Thai Airways flight from Malaysia, just a about using paid ads to boost adoption eties balked at the labor cost involved in mediate host seemed to make sense, as at the time few days after intercepting a similar load on a demand and using the Internet to taking advantage of the PETsMART the first case of SARS known to WHO had occurred Singapore Airlines flight. arrange humane relocations, so that and Petco opportunities, and in arrang- in Foshan City, Guangdong, China, a center of the Turtles live in the same wetlands as adopters can find the dogs they want. ing animal transfers to keep the display Chinese cattle industry that exports beef and other migratory waterfowl. Turtle consumption is The use of paid advertising cages filled, the Internet enabled volun- cattle products to Hong Kong in high volume. strongest among the centers of Chinese and and humane relocation were both pio- teer rescuers to bypass shelters to make Three days later, Brazilian researchers Vietnamese affluence where the most SARS cases neered by the North Shore Animal the necessary links themselves––and to Laura Áaneth Villareal Buitrago and Paulo occurred. Medicinal foods made from turtles are a League America, and were intensely advertise animals inexpensively. Educardo Brandao identified a coronavirus in a major part of Chinese traditional medicine, so peo- controversial within the sheltering com- Post-Internet, shelters quick- chicken which might have offered a clue about ple of poor health, most likely to be harmed by a munity as recently as March 1993, ly joined the trend. By 2000, about a SARS. new virus, might actually have the most exposure when ANIMAL PEOPLE e x p l a i n e d third of all animal adoptions were But five days after that, as Hong Kong ––if in fact SARS is carried by turtles. the North Shore methods in a cover Internet-assisted. Shelter involvement health officials explored the spread of SARS among And if it is, that might save turtles. story and examined the results, finding (continued on page 15) ANIMAL PEOPLE Mobile Adoptions or Spay/Neuter thanks you for your generous support! Honoring the parable of the widow's mite -- in which a poor woman gives but one coin to charity, yet that is all she possesses -- we do not list our donors by how much they give, but we greatly appreciate large gifts that help us do more for animals. Sudhir Amembal, Louis Bertrand, Joann Bray, Donna & Jim Carter, Barbara Chadwick, Shirley Ann Coffey, Gale Cohen-Demarco, Carolyn DiCecca, Joseph D'Angelo, B.B. 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The quarantine requirement that was imposed on But neither rescue/adoption group U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit all dogs entering the United Kingdom from Witherspoon worked with knew that she was overturned that verdict in January 2003. abroad from 1901 to 2001––regardless of also rescuing and placing animals on her own, Writing regulations to restrict res- nation of origin and proof of vaccination. North Shore operations director Perry Fina cuers but not breeders would be difficult. Since 2001, vaccinated dogs from told ANIMAL PEOPLE, and North Shore The National Animal Interest nations certified to be rabies-free have been did not know, either. Because neither North Alliance meanwhile is focusing criticism of allowed to bypass quarantine. Shore nor the rescue/adoption groups even humane relocation on transfers from abroad, “Dog travel is increasing; about knew the nine puppies Witherspoon brought appealing to public concern about biosecurity. 90,000 dogs have entered the U.K. in the past from Kentucky existed, the pups did not go “New charities devoted to rescuing two years,” warned University of Bristol through the procedures used by North Shore dogs from distant lands are popping up across senior lecturer Susan Elizabeth Shaw in a and the two local groups to ensure that animals the U.S.,” the NAIA web site warns. “Save a March 17 posting to the electronic bulletin are healthy before being offered to the public. Sato,” of Puerto Rico, “has already sent board of the International Society for Witherspoon on both March 1 and 14,000 dogs to the U.S. Dozens of shelters are Infectious diseases. “It is now common for March 11 allegedly adopted out sick puppies involved. Some bring in 100-200 dogs each dogs to enter the U.K. from leishmaniasis- Simon the alleged bioterrorist, plotting with without issuing the health certificates that are month, placing them for $200-$250 each,” endemic areas. I have dealt over the past two Wolf Clifton in August 1999. (Kim Bartlett) supposed to accompany any animals who are which is actually much less than the typical years with more than 100 confirmed canine dogs and three cats for leishmaniasis, babesio- adopted or sold in Connecticut. On March 12 full cost of facilitating a shelter adoption. leishmaniasis cases in traveled animals, either sis, and erlichiosis, the vets found that all of she was questioned by animal control officers. “If you examine the evidence and through our lab or through phone advice. the cats were healthy, but 17 of the 53 dogs She was eventually charged with operating a connect the dots,” the NAIA web site contin- “Unfortunately,” Shaw continued, who were imported without quarantine had pet shop without a license plus nine counts of ues, “the steady influx of foreign strays “the U.K. has become a base for rehoming one or more of the three diseases, along with importing dogs without a health certificate. reveals an evolving plan” to put breeders out stray dogs from Spain, handled through wel- seven of the 14 dogs who were quarantined. Such charges are usually brought of business. The NAIA cites a remark by fare groups. Many enter the country already In contrast to the British situation, at against allegedly negligent operators in the Linda Hunter of the Humane Society of on therapy for known infection.” the ANIMAL PEOPLE deadline there commercial pet trade. Around the U.S. during Snohomish County, Washington: A collaborative study by British and seemed to be no opposition to a proposed eas- the first 100 days of 2003, at least 12 breeders “We feel it is better to bring small French veterinarians published a week earlier ing of the Hawaiian 30-to-120-day quarantine faced similar allegations, in cases involving dogs in from another part of the world than to in the British Veterinary Association rule, approved by the state Board of Agricul- 1,282 dogs and 33 cats, along with five pet have these people going to a breeder.“ Veterinary Record recommended stricter ture in mid-April and considered certain to be stores, in cases involving 73 dogs and 100 For that reason, Hunter has for scrutiny of dog imports. Testing 67 imported ratified by Governor Linda Lingle. other animals of numerous species. Also dur- about four years occasionally placed animals ing the first 100 days of 2003, five Canadian brought to the U.S. from Taiwan by Mina breeders were in court on similar charges, in Sharpe, 21, of Carlsbad, California. Sharpe cases involving 521 dogs and 17 cats. started the Taiwan Abandoned Animal Rescue Alarmed by the Witherspoon case, Foundation as a 12-year-old then living in Connecticut acting agriculture commissioner Taiwan. She has helped hundreds of Tai- Bruce Gresczyk proposed regulating animal wanese street dogs to find good homes in the rescuers more-or-less in the same manner that U.S. (including Simon, of the A N I M A L his department already regulates boarding and PEOPLE family)––but still fewer dogs, over- IPPL breeding kennels, animal shelters, groomers, all, than were seized in early 2003 alone from and pet shops. substandard U.S. breeders. The original draft regulation would “The Buddy Dog Humane Society in have been unnecessarily and unconstitutionally Massachusetts shares the anti-breeder senti- intrusive, Animal Advocacy Connecticut ment and offers a similar rationale on their founder Julie Lewin told ANIMAL PEOPLE. website,” the NAIA web site fumes on. Lewin persuaded the key people involved in Said a recent Buddy Dog newsletter, implementing new state regulations to review “Many people ask why we are taking dogs the issues and approaches at greater length from Puerto Rico. The answer is simple. during the coming months. Most of the dogs are small, usually under 30 Both Perry Fina of North Shore and pounds, thus enabling Buddy Dog to find Betty Hicks of Connecticut Save-A-Pup many adopters looking for a smaller dog with- agreed that some regulation might be appropri- out going to a pet store or breeder. At the ate. Fina further pledged that North Shore pro- same time we are helping homeless dogs get cedures for loaning the adoption vehicle would off the streets and into a caring home.” be tightened to avoid repetition of the The NAIA “unequivocally opposes Witherspoon incident. the importation of stray dogs (and more recent- The National Animal Interest ly cats) into the US for adoption. Importing Alliance and the vastly more influential strays is a dangerous and irresponsible prac- American Kennel Club did not immediately tice,” the NAIA web site asserts, “and should issue statements on the Withersp.oon case. be outlawed immediately,” because while The AKC in particular may be aware “animal protection groups seek ever-tighter that moving to regulate humane relocation by regulation of dogs from breed enthusiasts individual rescuers within the U.S. might along with commercial breeders, it is a sick reopen the question of regulating backyard dog and intolerable paradox that poorly bred, often Win or Die. www.GREY2KUSA.org 16 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003 Elephant captures & ram- pages but deliberate,” Ms. Gandhi noted. “Under treetops,” the Deccan Herald of Mysore, the circumstances, a clear case has been estab- India reported on April 1. The account might lished. Barua has committed an act of hunting have been dismissed as an April Fool, except that is punishable by imprisonment for not less that approximately 150 people have been then three years and which may extend up to killed by elephants in Jharkand since seven years,” Ms. Gandhi added. November 2000, including a young woman A federal investigation of the who was trampled on April 14. episode began on April 16. Similar problems are anticipated in The elephant was among a trio who Sri Lanka, as a 12-year civil war subsides. At had allegedly killed 33 people since September least 1,369 elephants were killed during the 2001. According to some accounts the ele- fighting, many of them poached by rebels who phants had learned to abscond when wardens allegedly traded ivory for weapons. Anti- hunting them with guns begin to pray for for- poaching law enforcement in the northern half giveness before lining up their shots. of Sri Lanka virtually ceased after 1990, and Chhattisgarh chief wildlife warden formerly protected elephant migration corri- Anup Bhalla had authorized capturing all three dors were extensively encroached. Attempting of the elephants in lieu of killing them, but to reopen the corridors by evicting the people after the controversy over the death of the first could spark resumed conflict. Young elephants play in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. (Kim Bartlett) elephant captured blew up in late March he Sri Lankan newspapers are full of Park, Uganda––the first known instance of were in holding pens awaiting transfer, but ordered that the other pair should be shot. schemes to deal with the problem by diverting ivory poaching in Uganda since 2000. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals the recovering elephant population into zoos, Elephant birth control experiments and other activist groups were pursuing legal Options sanctuaries, the export trade, and national have had some reported success, after initial action in hopes of blocking the deal. The much disputed options for wild parks redeveloped to facilitate ecotourism. failures, but the technique is still in develop- elephants include expanding their habitat; Whether any of the ideas will work ment and the concept is not widely accepted Keeping them allowing trophy hunters to shoot them; culling is a matter of speculation. But there seems to yet, especially by politicians, hunters, and them for ivory and hides; trying to chemically be little chance that elephants will regain much some international conservation groups who home control their births; capturing them for exhibi- of the habitat they have lost, much to the dis- see elephants as a “sustainable resource.” Capturing elephants for either exhi- tion; and training them for work. tress of Kala Santha, DVM, the Sri Lankan bition or work in their own nations is a non- Habitat expansion is costlier than animal advocate who brought the controversy Exhibition starter. Prasanta Paul of the Deccan Herald most of the governments which have wild ele- to the attention of ANIMAL PEOPLE. Capturing elephants for exhibition News Service reported on March 19 that the phants could fund without enormous outside Santha fears that surplus Sri Lankan elephants abroad runs afoul of opponents of elephant West Bengal forest department is hoping to support, and is often politically unfeasible will either be exported or be reduced to servi- captivity, even though there is growing raise funds by selling 26 elephants to Indian anyway, since elephants’ habitat is shrinking tude like the working elephants of Jaipur, demand among zoos for healthy young ele- zoos, but even if the zoos had the money to in the first place because of human encroach- India, whom she has helped to treat at clinics phants to replenish the fast dwindling number purchase the elephants, there are already more ment on their existing reserves. organized by Help In Suffering. who were captured and exported from Asia captive elephants in Asia than anyone knows In some regions the encroachment Since people vote and elephants and Africa before the 1972 adoption of CITES what to do with––most of them trained for log- has actually resulted from the success of ele- don’t, human interests tend to take precedence and, in the U.S., the 1973 passage of the ging or carrying tourists, but out of work due phant-focused tourism, creating jobs for lodge even where the laws are on the elephants’ side. Endangered Species Act, which effectively to the advent of tractors and the global tourism staff and safari drivers, who bring their fami- ended imports of most listed species. slump resulting from the U.S. recession and lies to villages on the fringes of wildlife Poaching Captive breeding programs have not fears of terrorism. reserves that eventually boom into small cities. Trophy hunting and culling surplus produced new zoo and circus elephants at even The Thai cabinet on March 11 In other places, the elephant popula- elephants, practiced in South Africa, a fraction of the captive elephant death rate. approved a scheme to employ as forest guards tion was poached to abnormally low numbers Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, can be Although the life expectancy of an adult zoo an estimated 200 elephants who have been ille- during the 1980s, allowing farmers and lucrative for those who control the trade, but elephant is now as long or longer than life gally roaming Bangkok. Proposed by King herders to take over temporarily vacated habi- for the second time in six years there is expectancy in the wild, the increasing propor- Bhumibol Aduladej in his 2002 birthday tat, especially in migration corridors close to increasing evidence that allowing any legal tion of geriatric elephants among the zoo and speech, the idea outraged the volunteers who water sources, that the elephants are now try- international commerce in elephant parts tends circus herd hints that the death rate will only now patrol the Thai national forests for an ing to reclaim––with frequently catastrophic to stimulate poaching, as traffickers use the rise if more elephants are not imported. allowance of a fifth as much as the elephants consequences for all concerned. legal trade as cover. Walt Disney Inc. in 1996 considered and their mahouts will get––but the elephants The Nation, of Kenya, reported on The Convention on International importing a herd of elephants from South have markedly greater food needs. March 26 that rampaging elephants kept vil- Trade in Endangered Species banned interna- Africa who were otherwise slated for culling, Elephants whose mahouts bring lagers in Tetu, Nyeri District, from saving a tional sales of ivory in 1989, but allowed but dropped the idea after the International them back to Bangkok are to be seized, if the three-year-old boy from a dawn housefire. The Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe to sell Fund for Animal Welfare bought additional recommendations of the Friends of the Asian elephants then smashed three local schools, some of their stocks of culled and confiscated land for elephant habitat on the promise of the Elephant Foundation for implementing the just as classes were starting, and critically ivory in 1997. As the vote approached, ivory South African government that the elephants king’s idea are followed. Bangkok officials, injured three villagers during a six-hour con- poaching in Asia, other parts of Africa, and would be spared. however, say they do not have the budget, frontation that apparently resulted from a along the border between Zimbabwe and No further attempts to import ele- staff, or impound facilities to seize elephants, botched attempt to chase them back into the Zambia reportedly was more intensive than it phants were made until 2002, when the U.S. which is part of why so many are at large in forest. Police finally shot several elephants. had been in a decade. Fish and Wildlife Service authorized the San the city despite previous expulsion orders. Repeated elephant forays out of After the poaching outburst appeared Diego Zoo and the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa Elephant captures continue in Tsavo East National Park meanwhile put to have subsided, CITES in early 2002 began to obtain 11 elephants from Swaziland, Thailand, and elsewhere in Asia not because 20,000 people at risk of starvation in Kilifi considering allowing the same nations plus including six females of breeding age. there is market demand for the elephants, but District, due to crop losses, The Nation said. South Africa to sell more stockpiled ivory. Swaziland officials said the elephants would rather because, as brutal as the captures and Reports of similar damage have Poaching again markedly increased, as shown otherwise be culled. San Diego Zoo subsequent training tend to be, there is wide- recently reached ANIMAL PEOPLE f r o m by the February 2003 seizure of 33 tusks from spokesperson Christina Simmons told spread opposition to killing even the most Indonesia and Malaysia. five alleged poachers in northern Kenya, and Catherine Ivey of Associated Press that problematic elephants wherever there exists “Fear of being crushed by wild ele- by the March 25 massacre of a seven-member Swaziland would be given “several million either a tradition of worshipping Ganesh, the phants is driving pregnant women in Dumka, elephant family in Queen Elizabeth National dollars” for anti-poaching work. half-elephant Hindu god in charge of placing Jharkand to give birth on platforms built in As of early April 2003 the elephants or removing obstacles, or of practicing TRIBUTES In honor of the Prophet Isaiah, St. Martin de Porres, and Humphry Primatt. ––Brien Comerford –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In honor of Alice Lipska for a lifetime of loving and helping animals, including spaying/neutering many hundreds of dogs and cats. ––Elizabeth Kantanen –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In honor of Bonita Preston. ––Marianne Pearlman Animals, Nature & Albert Schweitzer Schweitzer's inspiring life story and philosophy in his own words. Commentary by Schweitzer Medallist Ann Cottrell Free $10.50 post paid Flying Fox Press 4700 Jamestown Road Bethesda, MD 20816 ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003 - 17 Chronology of humane progress (Part 2 of two parts: Mohandas to Maneka) by Merritt Clifton 1 9 4 7 –– At request of M o h a n d a s 1 9 5 4 –– Formation of the H u m a n e G a n d h i , Jawaharal Nehru wrote into the Society of the U.S. by former A m e r i c a n constitution of I n d i a as Article 51-A[g] that Humane Association National Humane “It shall be the fundamental duty of every citi- R e v i e w editor Fred Myers, C l e v e l a n d zen of India to protect and improve the Natural Amory, Helen Jones, and others, mostly Environment including forests, lakes, rivers formerly associated with the American SPCA and wildlife, and to have compassion for all or the AHA; formation of the North Shore living creatures.” This was reinforced by the Animal League by Elizabeth Lewyt a n d 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. friends. HSUS, founded largely in opposition 1 9 4 7 – – Defenders of Wildlife to the ASPCA and AHA acceptance of the use formed as an anti-trapping organization, but of animals in biomedical research, later led was taken over by hunters in 1957 and became opposition to the use of decompression cham- a mainstream hunter/conservationist front. bers to kill homeless dogs and cats, but by the mid-1980s was a leading voice of tradition in 1948 –– Minnesota adopted the first humane work. No-kill sheltering, meanwhile, law requiring public shelters to make dogs and had existed before North Shore only in the cats available to laboratories for biomedical care-for-life paradigm of retirement homes for research, testing, and teaching. Similar laws privileged pets and horses. North Shore intro- were passed by 1960 in Wisconsin, New duced the use of paid ads to promote adop- Henry Spira (with cat) and Chinny Krishna (with dog) York, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Connect- tions, and initiated interstate transport of icut, Ohio, Utah, and Iowa. The New York 1 9 5 7 ––The Soviet Union scored a gave the USDA Animal and Plant Health adoptable dogs and cats from animal control space-race first by shooting into orbit a small Inspection Service the legal tools it needed to law was repealed in 1977. Thirteen states, facilities where they would be killed to high- including Connecticut among nine contiguous stray dog named Laika. She lived only a few close the U.S. border to imports of random volume adoption centers. At peak, circa 1990, hours, according to recently released Soviet source dogs and cats in February 1993, and to northeastern states, outlawed selling shelter North Shore was adopting out as many as animals for lab use between 1977 and 1985. archives, but at the time the world believed initiate vigorous prosecution of random source 45,000 dogs and cats per year (about twice as she had lived long enough to be burned alive animal dealers within the U.S. who could not 1948 –– David Sheldrick f o u n d e d many as in recent years.) North Shore funding in re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere. document the origins of their animals. Seven Tsavo National Park in Kenya. His young has also increased the U.S. pet sterilization Somewhat naive horror at the fate of Laika USDA Midwest Stolen Dog Task Force wife Daphne began rehabilitating wildlife, and capacity by about 70,000 surgeries per year. outraged animal advocates everywhere. The agents were killed in the 1995 bombing of the eventually became the first person to success- 1 9 5 4 - 1 9 5 5 –– The San Francisco public was then largely unaware that pound Oklahoma City federal building by white fully rehabilitate orphaned elephants. Daphne S P C A formed the Northern California dogs were being experimented upon, electro- supremacist terrorist Tim McVeigh, but by Sheldrick was acquainted with another young S P C A and the Western Humane Education cuted, decompressed, shot, or gassed by the then many of the most notorious alleged sellers rehabilitator, Martine Colette, the daughter Society to promote “appropriate and humane tens of millions, throughout the world, while of stolen pets had already been put out of busi- of a Belgian diplomat who was stationed in kenneling” and “humane education.” By this it the Soviet propaganda machine made Laika ness. Lab demand for random-source dogs and Kenya. Colette later founded the W i l d l i f e apparently meant teaching the use of decom- probably the most famous dog in history cats plummeted, meanwhile, with the advent Waystation sanctuary near Los Angeles. pression to kill animals. Both subsidiaries before discovering that millions of people were of genetic research, which requires the use of David Sheldrick died in 1976, six months folded and the SF/SPCA was nearly bankrupt more upset about her plight, isolated in space, animals with known genetic histories. Of after a forced relocation to Nairobi National by 1976, when exposes by TV reporter than were thrilled at the scientific triumph that more than 300 sellers of random-source ani- P a r k to accommodate the interests of well- Marilyn Baker brought a regime change. she represented. Soviet premier Nikita mals to labs in 1980, fewer than 30 remained placed ivory traffickers. Daphne Sheldrick New executive director Richard Avanzino Khruschev responded by authorizing the for- active by 2000. Total U.S. lab use of dogs fell persevered, however, eventually winning a scrapped the decompression chamber on his mation of the Animal Protection Society, the from 211,104 in 1979 to 70,541 in 1999. national ban on sport hunting and the thus far second day, introduced high-volume dog and first and only Soviet humane organization. It Total U.S. lab use of cats fell from 74,259 in resolute opposition of the Kenyan government cat sterilization, returned the San Francisco was disbanded and supplanted by independent 1974 to 23,238 in 1999. Pet theft post-Pet to resumption of international trade in ivory. animal control contract to the city in 1989 after nonprofit humane groups after the 1990 col- Theft Act is mostly associated with dogfight- 1 9 5 1 –– Christine Stevens f o u n d s a five-year phase-out, and in 1994 introduced lapse of Communism. ing and acts of individual sadism and abuse. the Animal Welfare Institute, influential in the Adoption Pact, under which San 1 9 5 8 –– Congressional passage of 1 9 5 9 –– Joy Adamson, wife of winning passage of most of the present federal Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to t h e Delany Amendment, which mandated Kenyan game warden George Adamson, animal welfare and endangered species conser- practice no-kill animal control. Baker, who animal testing as part of the assessment of con- authored Born Free, about her rehabilitation vation legislation, often with the help of died in 2001, went on to found Orphan Pet sumer products for cancer-causing properties. for release of the lioness Elsa. The story Washington D.C. journalist Ann Cottrell Oasis, in Palm Desert, California. The Delany Amendment was repealed in 1996, became an influential hit film. The Adamsons F r e e , who covered the White House during 1 9 5 4 –– Soviet premier N i k i t a at request of leading chemical manufacturers, and George’s brother Terrence remained active the Eisenhower administration. Stevens head- Khruschev introduced the first Soviet animal i n c l u d i n g Procter & Gamble, with virtually in wildlife rehabilitation and protection for the ed AWI until her death in 2002. protection law in 1954, a year after the death no input or even awareness from the animal rest of their lives. Joy was murdered by a for- of Joseph Stalin, as part of an effort to intro- advocacy sector. mer employee in 1980, Terrence died from duce at least a semblance of compassion to the 1958 –– Pet theft for laboratory sup- natural causes in 1986, and George was killed Soviet police state. ply emerges as a hot-button issue. After read- while defending a German woman from a gang 1 9 5 7 –– Alice Harrington f o u n d e d ing about pet theft by lab suppliers in a popular of poachers and marauders in 1988. Their Friends of Animals, whose initial project was magazine, which provided few hard facts, legacies included establishing the Elsa Appeal operating the first low-cost dog and cat steril- Minnesota schoolteacher Lucille Aaron and the Born Free Foundation, and helping ization clinic in the U.S. at Neptune, New M o s e s began doing her own investigation, many other noted African wildlife conserva- Jersey. FoA later opened a second clinic in eventually as a field representative for the tionists to get started, among them E s m o n d Miami, Florida, and then started the first Humane Society of the U.S. Her work and Bradley Martin and Tony Fitzjohn. national low-cost sterilization program, still that of other investigators in other parts of the 1 9 5 9 –– Jane Goodall became the the largest program of the organization. FoA U.S. prompted the 1966 Life magazine expose first of “Leakey’s Angels,” a trio of young evolved into the present multi-purpose animal that resulted in the passage of the Laboratory women sent by anthropologist Louis Leakey advocacy group during the 1980s. Splits with- Animal Protection Act. Moses retired, mar- to live among and observe wild great apes. in FoA during that era indirectly produced ried, and moved to California, where she con- Goodall’s observations of wild chimpanzees, Animals’ Agenda magazine (1981), the Doris tinued animal advocacy work as Lucille Moses Dian Fossey’s observations of wild gorillas, Day Animal League (1986), the R u t g e r s Scott until her death in 1991. Her anti-pet and Berute Galdikas’ observations of wild Animal Rights Law Clinic (1987), and theft work was continued in Minnesota by orangutans substantially revised human per- Spay/USA (1990), among many other groups Mary Warner, who moved to Virginia circa ception of our closest relatives. Fossey was whose founders or cofounders were FoA staff 1976 and formed the anti-pet theft group murdered in 1985. Goodall and Galdikas just before starting their own projects. Splits Action 81. It was absorbed in the early 1990s remain highly active advocates for animals of within Animals’ Agenda eventually produced by the Animal Welfare Institute. By then pet all species. Goodall in particular revolution- Animals’ Voice (1987), E Magazine ( 1 9 8 8 ) , theft for lab supply had become an anachro- ized the techniques of wildlife study. Cleveland Amory and ANIMAL PEOPLE (1992). nism. The passage of the1990 Pet Theft Act (continued on page 18) The 2003 ANIMAL PEOPLE Watchdog Report on 101 Animal Protection Charities provides the background you need to make your donations most effective: $20, c/o ANIMAL PEOPLE, P.O. Box 960, Clinton, WA 98236. YES! I’M AN ____Please enter my subscription for one year (10 issues.) Enclosed is $24. ANIMAL PERSON! ____Please enter my subscription for two years (20 issues.) Enclosed is $38. ____Please enter my subscription for three years (30 issues.) 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How rapidly the numbers in 1964 introduced the first neuter/return pro- research, founded Humane Information can fall once high-volume dog and cat steril- gram for street dogs in the world, which he S e r v i c e s , with a lobbying arm called the ization begins is especially evident in North called “ABC,” short for “Animal Birth National Association for Humane Carolina, whose shelters in the mid-1980s Control.” In 1997 the Indian goverment L e g i s l a t i o n . The chief activity of Humane were killing 238 dogs and cats per 1,000 accepted the recommendation of the A n i m a l Information Services was publishing the quar- humans, but by 2000 were killing 35 per Welfare Board of India that ABC should terly newsletter Report to Humanitarians. 1,000––still, however, more than twice the become national policy, and endorsed the goal This expanded into a quarterly newspaper, U.S. average. Gross numbers of animals killed of abolishing animal control killing throughout The Humane Report, circulating 19,000 in U.S. shelters are less indicative than rates India by 2005. copies, but ended with his death. H e n r y per 1,000 humans because of human popula- Brigitte Bardot and friend Spira introduces financial accountability tion growth, but also show a steep decline, 1959 –– Congressional passage of 1 9 7 6 –– Shirley McGreal f o u n d e d reporting about leading humane organizations from circa 23.4 million in 1970 to 17.8 million the rarely enforced Humane Slaughter Act, the International Primate Protection League as a guest essayist in 1976. Ironically, in 1985 to 4.4 million in 2001. 85 years after Switzerland became the first of in Thailand. IPPL and the Blue Cross of Humane Information Services itself dissolved 14 nations to pass similar laws before the U.S. 1 9 7 1 –– Film Bless The Beasts & India in 1978 won a ban on the export of mon- in scandal, and eventually surrendered its The Children more-or-less prophesied the rise keys from India to foreign labs. Similar bans 1 9 5 9 –– Breaking with HSUS, remaining fiscal assets to a humane agricultur- of the modern animal rights movement. were later won in other Asian nations and in Helen Jones founded the National Catholic al research project at Texas A&M University. Humane Society, renamed the International 1 9 7 1 –– Passage of the A n i m a l parts of Africa. 1966 –– A Life magazine expose of Society for Animal Rights in 1981. The Welfare Act and Wild And Free Ranging 1 9 7 6 –– Protests led by A n i m a l conditions at facilities that sold impounded (or National Catholic Humane Society, an early Horse and Burro Protection Act, followed Rights International founder Henry Spira stolen) dogs and cats to research produced advocate of no-kill sheltering, was for about by the Marine Mammal Protection Act forced the American Museum of Natural more mail to Congress that year than any sub- 20 years the most militant major U.S. animal (1973), the Endangered Species Act (1973), History to halt cat experiments––the first time jects other than Social Security and the welfare organization. and U.S. ratification of the Convention on anti-vivisection activism ever stopped a funded Vietnam War. Public outrage over the L i f e International Trade in Endangered Species research project. This is recognized as the first 1 9 6 1 –– O h i o canceled the deer expose brought the passage of the Laboratory (1973). Polarized by the Vietnam War, victory of the modern animal rights movement. hunting season due to a scarcity of deer. This Animal Welfare Act. This was expanded into President Richard Nixon, a Republican, and Spira followed up by persuading A v o n a n d led to the rapid adoption nationwide of “buck the present Animal Welfare Act in 1971, and Congress, dominated by Democrats, found Revlon to abandon animal testing (1980), and laws,” which promote the hunting of bucks was strengthened by amendment in 1985 and that animal protection was a topic popular with then won a 1984 agreement from Procter & only, ensuring that the wintering deer popula- 1990, but was weakened by the permanent voters, that they could agree upon without Gamble to fund research and development of tion will consist mainly of pregnant females–– exclusion of rats, mice, and birds from labo- political risk. Opposition to the ESA and other alternatives to animal experimentation, and who because of the lack of food competition ratory animal welfare standards in 2002. Rats, federal laws protecting animals did not emerge then phase them into use as rapidly as possible. from bucks are more likely to bear twins. In mice, and birds were previously excluded in as a Republican “wedge” issue until the 1980 As P&G was signing the agreement with less than 30 years the U.S. goes from a deer the enforcement regulations, but not by law. shortage to alleged deer overpopulation. Presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan. Spira, word of it somehow leaked out to 1 9 6 7 –– G r e e n p e a c e was founded PETA, Peter Singer recounts in his 1998 biog- 1961 –– The World Wildlife Fund 1 9 7 2 –– Eleanor Seiling f o u n d e d as the Don’t Make A Wave Committee, a raphy of Spira, Ethics Into Action. Trying to was founded by trophy hunter Sir Peter Scott United Action for Animals. The UAA Quaker peace group, and became Greenpeace claim a piece of the “victory,” PETA declared and cronies, among them captive bird-shoot- library assisted Peter Singer during the writ- in 1971 after several years of disrupting a last-minute boycott of P&G, joined by the ers Prince Philip of Britain and P r i n c e ing of Animal Liberation. UAA also encour- nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Canadian Humane Society of the U.S. (which dropped Bernhardt of The Netherlands, the whaler aged the formation of the Animal Legal volunteer Paul Watson created the interna- out of the boycott in 1997), In Defense of Aristotle Onassis, and then-National Rifle Defense Fund (1978) and many other activist tional reputation of the group with dramatic Animals, Uncaged Campaigns, and many A s s o c i a t i o n president C.R. “Pink” Guter- groups, mostly in the New York City area. high-seas confrontations against Russian other animal rights and antivivisection organi- muth. Simultaneously, trophy hunter Russell 1 9 7 3 –– Mercy Crusade, of Los whalers and on-the-ice clashes with New- zations. They were all ignored. During the Train founded the African Wildlife Leader- Angeles, opened the low-cost dog and cat foundland sealers, but left Greenpeace in 1977 first 10 years of the boycott, P&G tripled in ship Foundation, now called just the African sterilization clinic which became the first in to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation size, and it has continued rapid growth, while Wildlife Foundation. A primary goal of both the U.S. to receive a municipal subsidy. Society. Post-Watson, Greenpeace dropped reducing in-house animal use since 1984 by WWF and AWF was to promote funding of anti-sealing and anti-fur campaigns, and 1 9 7 3 –– Martine Colette f o u n d e d approximately 75%. In June 1999 P&G wildlife conservation internationally by sales backed away from total opposition to whaling Wildlife Waystation, possibly the first and announced that it had ended all use of animal of hunting permits, as the National Wildlife ––although some chapters outside the U.S. and certainly the most emulated U.S. sanctuary for tests for current beauty, fabric, home care, F e d e r a t i o n had already achieved in the U.S. Canada continue in the Watson mode. captive wildlife, near Los Angeles. Also in and paper products, except as required by law. This, it was hoped, would prevent newly 1973 the U.S. adoption of the E n d a n g e r e d 1 9 6 7 –– Cleveland Amory a n d “This announcement covers roughly 80% of independent former colonies of European Species Act and endorsement of C I T E S Marian Probst founded The Fund For P&G’s total product portfolio,” said P&G nations from following I n d i a and K e n y a i n together cut off most zoo access to replace- Animals, out of frustration with the failure of spokespersons Mindy Patton and Amy banning sport hunting (which was not finally ment stock from abroad. The A m e r i c a n the Humane Society of the U.S. and other Neltner. After the P&G campaign, Spira accomplished in either India or Kenya until Association of Zoological Parks & leading humane groups to oppose sport hunt- formed the Coalition for Nonviolent Food 1977, although attempts began much earlier). Aquariums urged members to reduce the size ing. By the early 1980s they all opposed sport and focused on farm animal issues. 1 9 6 2 –– Miami Seaquarium s t a f f and variety of their animal inventories, and hunting. 1 9 7 6 –– Richard Morgan f o r m e d including trainer/diver Ric O’Barry e v a d e d allow their animals adequate space to facilitate Mobilization for Animals. Among the most the first anti-dolphin capture protest on record 1968 –– Former Humane Society of captive breeding. The result, from 1973 until influential animal rights groups of the era, it is to capture Snowball, an albino dolphin who the U.S. California office chief B e l t a n AAZPA charter amendments in 1986 and 1991 best remembered for a 1983 report on the bud- lived for three years at the Seaquarium. M o u r a s founded the Animal Protection cut off most of the flow, was a mass exodus gets, assets, and spending of 16 leading ani- O’Barry left the Seaquarium in 1967, after I n s t i t u t e , one of the first animal advocacy of “genetically redundant” zoo animals into mal welfare and advocacy organizations. The production of the Flipper TV series ended. He organizations built primarily by direct mail. A private hands. This in turn fueled a boom in report was the direct ancestor of the annual became a semi-recluse for a while; became a 1986 split impelled Mouras to found U n i t e d exotic petkeeping, roadside zoo start-ups, “Who gets the money?” reports produced by vegetarian; traveled to India to seek his soul; Animal Nations, which he left in 1996. speculative breeding schemes, canned hunts, ANIMAL PEOPLE since 1991. returned to the U.S. to participate in marine 1 9 6 9 –– Privatization of the U . S . and eventually, the creation of sanctuaries to 1 9 7 8 –– Founding of P r i m a r i l y mammal intelligence research; and was called Postal Service led to the introduction of bulk try to cope with the overflow. At least six P r i m a t e s , the first sanctuary to rehabilitate one day to try to save the life of one of the mail presort discounts, enabling the growth of organizations formed between 1991 and 2003 ex-laboratory primates. F l i p p e r dolphins, Kathy, who died in his the direct mail advocacy fundraising industry. to attempt to establish a unified voice and stan- arms from conditions O’Barry diagnosed as dards for the fast-growing sanctuary move- 1979 –– Emergence of covert “ALF” 1 9 6 9 –– Best-seller The Year of the consequences of stress and neglect. On Earth ment. T h e Association of Sanctuaries activity in Britain. Parallel actions began in W h a l e , by Victor B. Sheffer, took whale- Day 1970, O’Barry tried unsuccessfully to (1991), American Sanctuary Association the U.S. two years later. free a captive dolphin from the Lerner Marine saving from the pursuit of a handful of scien- (1996) and Animal Centers of Excellence 1979 –– Paul Watson and crew ram Laboratory in Bimini. He learned from his tists (most influentially, Sheffer himself and (2003) are attempts to elevate standards; at med the Portuguese pirate whaler Sierra on the failure, and has been freeing captive dolphins, Sydney Holt) to the rise of an global Save the least two of the others appear to be defensive high seas, the first of 10 whaling vessels sunk with increasing success, ever since. His work Whales! movement. responses from facilities that would not meet or incapacitated by the Sea Shepherds and in recent years has been sponsored by WSPA. the TAOS, ASA, and ACE requirements. 1 9 6 9 –– Brian Davies founded the allies during the next 14 years. The Sea 1 9 6 3 –– Canadian naturalist and International Fund for Animal Welfare, 1973 –– French screen star Brigitte Shepherds went on to confront illegal driftnet- author Farley Mowat published Never Cry which grew into a web of 14 organizations Bardot retired from acting to promote animal ters and other maritime poachers, facing pros- W o l f, which with A Whale For The Killing operating in 10 nations. Spinoff organizations welfare. Her efforts were viewed at first as a ecution by government in some jurisdictions, (1972) and Sea of Slaughter (1989) are among and projects include the I n t e r n a t i o n a l publicity stunt. Thirty years later, she has emulation by government agencies in others, the most influential books in the history of ani- Wildlife Coalition (1985), I n t e r n a t i o n a l been a fulltime animal advocate for more than and encountering both in Atlantic Canada, mal advocacy. Aid for Korean Animals (1998), the Kenyan twice as long as she was involved in film mak- where Watson served jail time in the mid- group Youth For Conservation (1999), and ing, and her Fondation Brigitte Bardot is a 1963 –– William Allen Swallow, a 1990s for challenging foreign fishing vessels the Animals Asia Foundation (2000). leader in helping the humane movements of lifelong humane worker, authored The Quality two years before the government itself did. impoverished nations. Swedish-born actress of Mercy, a “history of the humane movement 1970 –– Dog and cat killing in U.S. 1 9 7 9 –– Leo Grillo f o u n d e d Tippi Hedren made a similar career change in in the United States,” published by the Mary pounds and shelters peaked in frequency at DELTA Rescue, eventually the largest care- 1972, founding the Shambala Preserve near Mitchell Humane Fund, which made no ref- 115 per 1,000 human citizens. By 2002 it was for-life dog and cat sanctuary in the world, Los Angeles to house exotic cats and two ele- erence to dog and/or cat sterilization, and down to 15.7 per 1,000. Steep drops followed housing only animals he personally rescues phants, but the Hedren project grew out of her envisioned running pet cemeteries and rest public acceptance of sterilization of pet dogs from the Angeles National Forest and other own animal purchases in connection with mak- homes for horses as the future of the cause. during the 1970s, sterilization of pet cats dur- locations around Los Angeles. (Programs to ing a film about African wildlife. aid horses and wildlife were later added.) 1 9 7 4 –– Success of books A n i m a l 1 9 8 0 –– Stephen Kellert p u b l i s h e d Liberation by Peter Singer and Man Kind? by American Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Cleveland Amory begins the process of coa- Animals, a study based on interviews done in lescing the animal rights movement. 1977 with 3,107 randomly selected Americans. 1976 –– In a message to news media Commissioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife while awaiting arrest, research assistants Service, the study was meant to help promote Steven Sipp and Ken Lavasseur coined the sport hunting. Kellert identified a genera- term “Animal Liberation Front.” Sipp and tional shift in attitudes from utilitarian views Lavasseur had just released two dolphins from predominant among people raised on farms to the marine science laboratory headed by L o u more empathic views found mainly among Herman at the University of Hawaii, as an act people who do not use animals in connection of peaceful civil disobedience for which they with making their livings. Franklin Loew, Jane Goodall, Berute Galdikas, and Alex Pacheco (circa 1985). accepted both the credit and the consequences. (continued on page 19) ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003 - 19 CHRONOLOGY OF HUMANE PROGRESS (from page 18) formerly dean of the Tufts University and 1982 –– The first Best Friends 1987-1988 –– U.S. retail fur sales Cornell University veterinary schools, pointed Animal Sanctuary opened near Prescott, peaked at $1.85 billion, fell 50% during the out nearly 15 years after Kellert published the Arizona. Best Friends moved to Angel next four years, and then creep back to about data that in retrospect it had not only predicted Canyon, near Kanab, Utah, in 1987, and two-thirds of the 1987-1988 level by 2001- the rise of the animal rights movement but also grew from an all-volunteer group just barely 2002, in inflation-adjusted dollars. the eventual success of it in achieving a cultur- surviving into a $15 million a year institution 1 9 8 8 –– Fringe activist Fran Trutt al transformation, as the holders of the utilitar- most noted for teaching other animal advocates left a bomb in the U.S. Surgical Corporation ian viewpoint die out. Kellert also identified a how to develop their own local sanctuaries and parking lot in Norwalk, Connecticut, aided “dominionistic” attitude toward animals held anti-pet overpopulation projects. and encouraged by undercover operatives to a significantly greater degree by hunters, 1982 ––The formation of the Korea hired by U.S. Surgical, via the now defunct trappers, and rodeo and bullfight fans, charac- Animal Protection Society by Sunnan Kum private security firm Perceptions Inter- teristics of which, Kellert wrote but later and the rise of the Philippine Animal Welfare n a t i o n a l. Trutt had only slight involvement denied, are that the individual’s “primary sat- S o c i e t y , founded by Nina Hontiveros- with the animal rights movement beforethat isfactions [are] derived from mastery and con- Lichauco, began organized opposition to dog- incident, and dropped totally out of sight soon trol over animals.” Measuring the influence of and-cat-eating in Asia. Taken up by IFAW after she served a year in jail for it. The inci- dominionism on a scale with a maximum pos- and other international groups, the campaign dent is the first of many in which anti-social sible score of 18, Kellert found that humane won unenforced legislative victories in Korea actions harming the image of animal advocacy society members rated 0.9, anti-hunters 1.2, (1991) and the Philippines (1997). KAPS can be linked to covert infiltration by animal the general public 2.0, livestock farmers 2.7, thereafter struggled to obtain real change in use industries. fishers 3.0, meat hunters 3.3, and sport Korea almost alone until Sunnan’s sister 1 9 8 9 –– Beginning of C o n v e n t i o n hunters from 3.8 to 4.1. Among the sport Tom Regan, mid-1980s. Kyenan Kum formed International Aid for on International Trade in Endangered hunters, trophy hunters––whom studies by Korean Animals in 1998. IAKA revived 1 9 9 3 –– Hit film Free Willy! a n d University of Wisconsin sociologist T h o m a s S p e c i e s global ban on ivory trafficking, global attention to the issue. Other Korean breached in 1997 and 2002 by agreements to sequels brought a boom in fundraising and Heberlein have identified as being especially animal advocacy groups started at about the other activity to free captive cetaceans. The dedicated to hunting––were most inclined allow African nations which have presumably same time, and more have since debuted. controlled ivory poaching adequately to sell boom faded as more than $20 million was toward dominionism. Trappers, Kellert found, spent to try to return the orca star of F r e e were twice as dominionistic as recreational 1983 –– The neuter/return method of accumulated stocks of “culled” and confiscat- feral cat population control is promoted by the ed ivory. The result each time is an explosion Willy! to the North Atlantic. In midsummer hunters, at 8.5, and more than four times as 2002 he finally swam free for a prolonged dominionistic as the general public. The Cat Welfare Society of Britain, the of ivory poaching in other nations. Universities Federation for Animal Welfare time–– to coastal Norway, where he sought desire for mastery and control are also recog- 1989 –– Chicago-area industrial rivet of Britain, and the Kenya SPCA, apparently human friends and fish handouts. R i c nized leading characteristics of sadists and maker Steve Hindi, a shark fisher and hunter, after some trial use in South Africa. It catches O’Barry had warned all along that this partic- pedophiles, who typically reinforce a weak stopped to watch the annual Labor Day pigeon on in the U.S. in a major way through the ular whale was too well socialized with self-image through their dominance of their shoot in Hegins, Pennsylvania, on his way to efforts of Alley Cat Allies, founded in 1991, humans for successful release. victims. Kellert’s findings reinforced to the fish off Long Island. Appalled by the lack of although several smaller organizations had humane community the importance of publi- sportsmanship he saw at the shoot, Hindi a 1994 –– San Francisco became a no- already been using it since the middle 1980s, cizing the frequent association of violence year later challenged shoot organizer Bob kill city. (See 1954-1955.) and various individuals were sterilizing feral toward animals with violence done to human Tobash to a prize fight, in lieu of the shoot, as 1 9 9 5 –– The first No-Kill Confer- cats on their own even before that. victims by the same perpetrators. Even major a fundraiser for the Hegins Park Association. ence attracted 65 people. Within five years the humane groups, however, have tiptoed 1 9 8 3 –– Tom Regan publishes T h e Tobash declined. Hindi’s undercover videog- annual conference drew 600. It became a pro- around the 1994-1995 ANIMAL PEOPLE Case For Animal Rights, followed by T h e raphy was later instrumental in ending the ject of the North Shore Animal League finding that rates of convicted pedophilia and Philosophy of Animal Rights (1985), A n i m a l Hegins shoot and other public bird shoots in America (a co-sponsor all along) in 1999, and child abuse closely parallel the rates of hunting Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use both Pennsylvania and Illinois. Giving up in 2002 was renamed the Conference on participation at the county level in the states of of Animals in Science (1986), and T h e blood sports and becoming a vegan, Hindi in Homeless Animal Management and Policy. New York, Ohio, and Michigan. Struggle for Animal Rights (1987). His works the mid-1990s used a paraglider to turn deer The rapid growth of the no-kill movement 1981 –– Number of licensed hunters distinguish between the concept of “animal and geese away from hunters. He was repeat- reflected the realization of activists that indi- in the U.S. peaks at 21 million. As of 2002, it rights,” which holds in simplest form that edly jailed for alleged hunter harassment, but vidual action in response to homeless dogs and is down to 13 million. Number of licensed “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, or experi- put the oldest canned hunt in the Chicago area cats can cumulatively bring about societal trappers also peaks in 1981 at 800,000, but ment upon,” as PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk permanently out of business. His exposes of change; the emotional reinforcement that indi- falls under 100,000 by 1994 and has hovered puts it, and “animal welfare,” which allows animal abuse in rodeo later helped to end sev- viduals obtain by working directly with ani- just over 100,000 since then. human use of animals so long as the animals eral rodeos. His most successful campaign to mals; and the relative ease of fundraising for are not subjected to avoidable suffering. date, however, assisted by Maneka Gandhi hands-on work. While the original conference 1981 –– Existing overseas programs of India, persuaded P e p s i c o to stop sponsor- went mainsteam as CHAMP, Best Friends in of the Royal SPCA of Great Britain, 1984 –– Start of a 10-year suspen- ing bullfights. Hindi also won a shortlived 2001 initiated the regional No More Homeless Massachusetts SPCA, and Humane Society sion of the Atlantic Canada offshore seal hunt. withdrawal by C o c a - C o l a from sponsoring P e t s conference series, which continue the of the U.S. are merged to form the W o r l d The hunt resumed in 1995, after the failure of rodeo, and appears to have won a recent cam- early No-Kill Conference focus on empower- Society for the Protection of Animals. the depleted cod fishery to recover from over- fishing left the Canadian and Newfoundland paign to get ESPN to stop televising rodeo. ing new and small organizations. 1 9 8 1 –– Debuts of People for The governments looking for someone or some- 1 9 9 0 –– Karen Davis founded 1 9 9 6 –– A sequel March for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, T r a n s - thing to blame, and by 2002 was back up to United Poultry Concerns, the first organiza- Animals drew barely 10% of the crowd of the Species Unlimited, Farm Animal Reform near-peak levels. tion to focus on the plight of chickens, who first one, and in effect marked the end of the M o v e m e n t , and Animals’ Agenda m a g a z i n e , constitute more than 95% of the 10 billion ani- first phase of the modern animal rights move- produced by the merger of two newsletters that 1984 –– Maneka Gandhi f o r m e d mals killed for food in the U.S. each year. ment. Opinion research by Dr. Scott Plous of debuted in 1979. Formed within the next five People for Animals, the first national animal Wesleyan University discovered a generational years were many of the other groups that are advocacy network in India, with active chap- 1 9 9 0 –– T h e March for the shift in priorities: while activists over age 40 generally considered to be at or near the core ters in nearly every major city. Many operate Animals in Washington D.C. attracted 20,000 still saw vivisection as the most important of the animal rights movement: In Defense of the local Animal Birth Control programs. to 24,000 participants, according to estimates issue, activists under age 40 saw the treatment A n i m a l s (1983), the Humane Farming 1 9 8 5 –– Houston and D a l l as were by the National Park Service and other credi- of farm animals as most important, followed A s s o c i a t i o n (1985), the quasi-PETA sub- reputedly the last two U.S. cities to stop killing ble sources. This was about half as many peo- by dog and cat overpopulation. Most of the sidiary Physicians Committee for Respon- shelter animals by decompression, nine years ple as the organizers had projected; disap- subsequent growth and accomplishment of the sible Medicine (1985), and Farm Sanctuary after San Francisco was the first. Sao Paulo, pointed mass media, bringing a temporary dip cause has been in response to farm animals and (1986). PETA, founded by former Brazil, used decompression until 2001. in coverage of animal advocacy; and immedi- companion animals. The Plous findings coin- Washington D.C. animal control chief I n g r i d ately preceded the economic collapse (and in 1986 –– The International Whaling cided with meat industry research which shows N e w k i r k and former Fund for Animals v o l - some instances the dissolution) of at least 10 C o m m i s s i o n imposed a global ban on com- lower per capita meat consumption among unteer and Sea Shepherd Conservation national or regionally influential animal rights mercial capture of baleen whales and sperm both men and women in each younger age Society crew member Alex Pacheco, became groups formed during the 1970s and 1980s. whales. Japan formally accedes to the ban in group. The trend suggests a precipitous drop the dominant U.S. animal rights group in part 1988, but continues and steadily escalates so- 1 9 9 2 –– Former Animals’ Agenda in U.S. meat consumption with the passing of due to the prominence of the “Silver Spring called “research whaling.” Norway resumed editor Kim Bartlett (1986-1992) and news the World War II and Baby Boom generations. monkey case,” in which researcher E d w a r d commercial whaling in coastal waters in 1994. editor Merritt Clifton (1988-1992) founded Taub was prosecuted for cruelty as result of an 1 9 9 8 – –PeopleSoft computer soft- ANIMAL PEOPLE and began expanding the undercover investigation by Pacheco. Taub 1986-1994 –– Attempts to introduce ware founders Dave and Cheryl Duffield cre- international humane network by sending free was convicted on six of 17 counts, but the British-style hunt sabotage to the U.S. resulted ated Maddie’s Fund, dedicated to financing subscriptions to every animal protection orga- convictions were reversed on jurisdictional in all 50 states and the U.S. Congress passing community efforts to achieve no-kill animal nization in the world––now more than 9,500. grounds. The case was in court from August laws against hunter harassment. control, with an endowment of $225 million Electronic on-call information service was 1981 to May 1991. Belonging to the National 1986 –– The Canadian Depart- investment fund––larger by itself than all of added in January 1994, and the online library Institutes of Health, the monkeys remained ment of External Affairs and the public rela- the other investment funds dedicated to animal of past articles was begun in 1996. French and in NIH custody until all either died or were tions firm Thomas Grey Inc. p r o d u c e d welfare. The Duffields hired R i c h a r d Spanish subsections of translated articles and used in terminal experiments. Defence of the Fur Trade, a strategy docu- Avanzino away from the SF/SPCA to direct it. useful how-to information were added in 2002. ment echoed in the 1989 American Medical Publishing annual financial reports on U.S. 1 9 9 8 –– Deaths of Helen Jones, Association Animal Research Action Plan. animal charities each December since 1992, Henry Spira, and Cleveland Amory. Both papers argued that the animal rights ANIMAL PEOPLE introduced the annual 1 9 9 8 - 2 0 0 2 –– Maneka Gandhi movement could be defeated by publicizing Watchdog Report on Animal Protection served as the first minister of state for animal violence, to link the cause in the public mind Charities, a handbook for donors, in 1999. welfare in India, and the world. She was with fanaticism. The strategy backfired. removed from office after conflicting with the There is survey evidence that the public does 1 9 9 2 –– Passage of the first two of biomedical research and pharmaceutical indus- identify animal rights activism with fanaticism. more than 30 pro-animal ballot initiatives won tries, as well as with practitioners of animal Yet polls sponsored by the AMA and by 2002, including cockfighting bans, bans or sacrifice, and the authority of the ministry is Associated Press show that between 1989 and restrictions on leghold trapping, and establish- significantly reduced. 1996 unqualified support for the use of ani- ment of state-funded dog and cat sterilization mals in research fell from 36% to 8%. programs. Some gains have subsequently been The ANIMAL PEOPLE “ C h r o n o - Qualified acceptance of the use of animals in rescinded by state legislatures. Losses have logy of Humane Progress” pauses with the research increased from 28% to 62%––which mostly involved the passage of initiatives to major events of 1998 in order to give more means that three fourths of the people who enshrine a legal right to hunt. The Humane recent events more time to settle into perspec - expressed no qualms about animal use in 1989 Society of the U.S. has been prominent in tive. Humane progress itself continues. We had qualms seven years later. The percentage about two-thirds of the initiative campaigns, hope to continue recording it through many of people opposing animal use in biomedical with many other groups taking the lead on par- more years and triumphs. Ric O’Barry, early 1980s. research held steady at 29%. ticular issues and within particular states. 20 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003 A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong soon eliminates their free food source. As why people who care about either animals or Saving Baby Ubuntu reinforces their Saving Baby soon as refuse is collected and concentrated, relieving hunger should be concerned about m e s s a g e , and rebuts the myth of Old the edible slops are sold to larger-scale farm- schemes that encourage the poor to try MacDonald’s Farm, heavily invoked by ers, leaving the slum would-be farmers with improve their lives by keeping livestock. Heifer Project International in soliciting Ubuntu animals whose individual food intake, if the Saving Baby Ubuntu, through telling money and volunteer labor from children. food is purchased, can be more expensive than the story of this one fortunate calf, reviews the If an Old Macdonald’s Farm where Video from Compassion In feeding an entire family. animal welfare issues involved in such efforts, all the animals were kindly treated ever existed World Farming (South Africa) Allowing dairy cattle to roam at and even offers an unusually happy ending. anywhere, we have not seen it, in many visits c/o Humane Education Trust large and feed themselves worked for centuries Although it directly refers only to the to rural regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and in rural India, but has become a disastrous practices of South Africa, and makes no men- both North and South America. Agriculture in P.O. Box 825, Somerset West, custom in the India of today, where car/cow tion of organizations other than those who any form that includes killing animals has 7129, South Africa; accidents kill thousands of both cattle and peo- assist the calf Ubuntu, Saving Baby Ubuntu is never been kind. If you know some- one else who might like to read ANIMAL PEOPLE, please ask us to send a free sample. Buddhism. The symbol of Buddha was a white elephant, whose name in the U.S. is synonymous with being an unwanted gift. ––M.C. 2003.org> or