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Jury acquits activist who put pork in water to try to halt live sheep shipment to Kuwait (page 16) Weaning zoos from elephants BANGALORE, NAIROBI, SALT LAKE CITY, CHICAGO, DETROIT, SAN FRANCISCO–– “In a jumbo victory for Bangalore animal activists, Lord Ganesha has showered his benediction on Veda, a 6-year- old baby elephant at the Bannerghatta Biological Park in Karnataka, India. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided that (Kim Bartlett) Veda will not be sent as a diplomatic gift to the Yerevan Zoo in Armenia,” announced What happened to the hippos? Compassion Unlimited Plus Action founder Suparna Ganguly on April 29. K A M P A L A ––Did anthrax kill gate cases as they occur. “Karnataka State got their official let- the hippos, or was it poison? What became “Carcass disposal is done as soon ter today from the prime minister’s office that of their teeth? Who was responsible? as dead animals are sighted,” Atimnedi the decision to send the baby elephant has been “We have lost 287 hippos since explained. “Both marine and terrestrial sur- cancelled,” Ganguly elaborated to A N I M A L July 2004,” Uganda Wildlife Authority vet- veillance teams are sent out every morning P E O P L E . “We had a Thanksgiving with the erinary coordinator Patrick Atimnedi told and evening. The hippo carcasses are elephants at Bannerghatta.” fellow members of the International Society immediately buried under lime, while other Confirmed Govind D. Belgaumkar of ––Kim Bartlett for Infectious Diseases in March 2005. species, especially buffalo, are burned on The Hindu, “Bangaloreans––schoolchildren Veda, and prayed for her long life.” “So far, we have lost about 11% site. Ring vaccination of livestock, coupled and parents, as well as other animal lovers––on That was one week after the Nairobi of the hippo population. with intense community awareness educa- Friday celebrated the government decision to newspaper The Nation hinted that Youth for “August 2004 was the peak of tion, continues in high-risk areas.” leave Veda with her mother Vanita, grandmoth- Conservation might have won a parallel strug- mortality,” Atimnedi continued, “declining Atimnedi offered a textbook er Suvarna, brother Gokula, and little sister gle to block the export of as many as 318 ele- toward December. We were surprised with description of how to fight an anthrax out- Gowri. People distributed sweets, touched (continued on page 17) a resurgence from January 2005. (continued on page 8) “So far the source of infection is unclear,” Atimnedi admitted. “[Mass] hippo mortalities have occurred in this park in the last 50 years, usually in 10-year cycles. These, however, would affect at most not more than 30 hippos, and were ANIMAL PEOPLE mainly associated with drought.” Atimnedi is certain that anthrax is News For People Who Care About Animals the lethal agent. “All cases are actually being investigated,” Atimnedi emphasized, mentioning visits by foreign experts and samples sent to laboratories outside Uganda May 2005 to confirm his observations. Volume XIV, #4 “The samples are mainly from hippos,” Atimnedi said, “but there are also samples from waterbucks, kobs, buffalo, and one warthog. We continue to investi- BLM suspends wild horse sales + after 41 are resold to slaughter + R E N O ––U.S. Bureau of Land obtained them from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe,” Management director Kathleen Clarke on reported John Helperin of Associated Press. April 25, 2005 suspended all wild horse and “The tribe traded 87 of the 105 aging horses it burro transactions. bought from the government for younger ones. “In response to two recent incidents BLM officials, tipped off by Agriculture involving the commercial processing of horses Department inspectors, persuaded the plant who had been resold or traded after being managers to stop,” before all of the first lot of bought from the BLM, the Bureau is reviewing 51 horses were killed. its sales procedures,” said the terse BLM “That saved the lives of 16 mus- announcement. tangs,” Helperin continued. “The plant Clarke acted one week after Cavel agreed to give the horses food and water until International Inc. slaughtered six wild horses the BLM could pick them up. BLM officials purchased for $50 each in Canon City, also intervened to save 36 mustangs in Colorado, by former rodeo clown Dustin Nebraska who were on their way to Cavel.” Herbert, of Meeker, Oklahoma. The Ford Motor Company, makers “Herbert claimed that the horses of the Mustang automobile line, donated would be used for a church youth program, $19,000 toward the transportation and care of Minke whale breaches. (Kim Bartlett) and would not be sold for slaughter. Less than the horses who were to have been killed. three days after he purchased the animals, all The Rosebud Sioux Tribe, of South six were slaughtered so that their meat could Dakota, bought 208 wild horses, and the Japan looks to South Korea for help end up on foreign dinner tables,” posted the Three Affiliated Tribes, of North Dakota, American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, bought 250, at just $1.00 apiece. in restarting commercial whaling of Lompoc, California. “We just wanted to help,” Rosebud ULSAN, South Korea– – J a p a n e s e Annual South Korean consumption “Six wild horses’ blood was spilled, Sioux executive secretary Todd Fast Horse whalers expect a home town edge when the is now about 150 tons of whale meat, taken but it could easily have been 60 or 200,” told Ryan Slattery of Indian Country Today. 57th meeting of the International Whaling from about 80 whales, Demick wrote. American Horse Defense Fund president Trina Added Richard Mayer, CEO for the Commission convenes June 20-24 in Ulsan, But because South Korea joined the Bellak told Scott Sonner of Associated Press. Three Affiliated Tribes, “We wanted to play South Korea. IWC moratorium on commercial whaling in Virtually any and all of the wild horses sold a role in preserving these wild mustangs. The IWC meeting will start 10 days 1986, Demick added, “the only whales who recently under the Conrad Burns sale authority They are part of our heritage and are really after the end of a 12-day series of preliminary can be legally consumed are those accidental- amendment [to the 1971 Wild & Free holy to us. They deserve to be protected.” meetings on scientific issues. ly killed in fishing nets. Before the whales are Roaming Horse & Burro Protection Act] a r e The Three Affiliated Tribes are the “Ulsan is opening a $6-million butchered, maritime police inspect the car- in jeopardy,” Bellak said. Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. whale museum this month on an otherwise casses to enure there is no sign of foul play.” Bellak’s warning was affirmed when After the resale to slaughter came to dilapidated wharf across from a shabby strip At prices reportedly reaching Cavel International on April 25 slaughtered 35 light, Indian Country Today reported that, of whale restaurants,” Los Angeles Times $120,000 per whale, fishers have consider- more wild horses. “The tribe specified that it wanted to receive staff writer Barbara Demick reported on May able incentive to encourage “accidents.” “The horses came from a broker who (continued on page 15) 2. On an adjacent lot, groundbreaking is “In a petition drive led largely by expected soon on a site for a whale research old-timers in Ulsan, many of them nostalgic center, which is to include a processing facili- for the city’s past,” Demick continued, “the ty for whale meat.” South Korean government is being asked to “Dozens of speciality restaurants ease the IWC moratorium on commercial along the waterfront of South Korea’s self- whaling to allow the capture of 100 whales proclaimed whale capital” sell whale meat, per year. Those in favor of whaling argue that Demick explained. a whaling revival would boost the local econ- Retired whaler Son Nam Su, 69, omy and burnish the image of an industrial told Demick that hunting and eating whales is city where the noxious fumes of petrochemi- a cultural legacy of the Japanese occupation of cal plants drown out any whiff of sea air.” Korea, 1910-1945, and that at peak the South Japan is expected to unilaterally Korean whaling fleet killed about 1,000 announce in Ulsan that it will increase from whales per year. (continued on page 7) May 2005 3/22/13 6:32 PM Page 2
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Then when he was only seven, Delta developed a can- cer. We still went for walks every morning, though he could only go short distances. Then one morning, in 1982, while I was typing a letter on the kitchen table, I heard a whimper in the bedroom. I ran in to see if Delta needed anything . . . he had just passed away. And I never got to say good-bye. I’ve rescued many thousands of abandoned dogs and cats since Delta found me . . . and I even founded this organi- zation in his name, to honor him as the dog whose love changed my life forever. May 2005 And I promised him that whenever I found an abandoned animal in the wilderness, that I would help him in Delta’s mem- Fellow Lover of Animals, o r y. But it has haunted me for 20 years that I never got to say Years ago, I was a movie actor living with three cats in good-bye to my son . . . my beloved Delta. Hollywood. Then in March 1979, I began having these Then, a few weeks ago, I realized that Delta chose to strange dreams about a dog who was going to change my life. cross over while I was in the other room, working, for a reason As the dreams continued, I’d find myself looking . . . he didn’t want me to ever say good-bye to him. His last around my bedroom when I woke up, feeling this dog’s pres- wish, I’m sure now, was that I simply not forget him. ence. So it is with great sadness, and yet with great joy, that I Then April rolled in. I had promised my best friend that ask you to plant forget-me-not seeds on this anniversary of I would visit his family in Bakersfield . . . . D e l t a ’s last wish. Please call me at 661-269-4010 and I will As the highway cut through a section of the Angeles send you the packet of forget-me-not flower seeds for free. National Forest, I gasped! Off to the right, slowly plodding Please . . . plant them somewhere so they can grow wild his way along a ridge, was a black Doberman . . . the dog in and multiply year after year. And when you look at them in the my dream! years to come, remember my beloved Delta to whomever you I jammed on my brakes and pulled onto the soft are with. s h o u l d e r. Then I ran over to the edge of the road and called To d a y, thanks to Delta, we are home to over 1,500 to the dog. He spotted me right away and he began walking abandoned cats and dogs. toward me. Those last ten yards, he ran toward me, whim- We’re here for these animals . . . 7 days a week, 24 pering. He was magnificent . . . but very tired and thin. hours a day. And no matter what else I’m doing, the animals I took off my belt and slipped it over always come first. his head and walked him to my car. Each of our dogs As I headed for Bakersfield, the dog is neutered and then lay on the front seat and he put his head in “married” to another my lap. I held his head the rest of the way. rescued dog of the Someone had abandoned this sensitive, lov- opposite sex. ing dog . . . in the forest . . . far away from And then the food or water. couple lives in a huge I named him “Delta.” yard with their own Back in Hollywood, Delta had to straw bale adobe dog sleep in my car at first, because pets were house, which I not allowed in my apartment . . . where I invented after years already had three “illegal” cats! of trying to find out + So for months, I took Delta every- what dogs like best! + where, like a proud father takes his son. I took him to Marina Del Rey for a strawberry ice cream cone every day, and to Venice Beach where he loved to swim. Our over Seven days and evenings a week, we were always together. 500 cats live in And my only wish was to have a house where Delta could three dozen sleep on my bed at night. i n d o o r / o u t d o o r We also hiked in the forest a lot . . . and sometimes catteries and Delta chose hills that were so steep, I’d wrap his 30 foot lead they each enjoy around my waist and he’d pull me up with him! three meals a It was on one of those wilderness hikes that Delta and I day. found 35 more dogs . . . each one starving and abandoned . . . They are . . . they were so hungry they knocked over garbage safe and nobody cans full of picnic trash . . . trying to find a morsel of food . . . will ever hurt . . . they even ate paper sandwich wrappers. them again. I was so shaken by this that Delta and I drove to the city They will never and bought four large fifty pound bags of dog food. Back in go hungry, and the forest, I spread them over the ground. we have two hospitals to keep them in good health. These dogs dove into the food piles up to their elbows With your gift, we can continue to feed these animals, and started munching loudly . . . and while they ate, they rescue them . . . and shower them with love . . . at our spa- smiled at Delta and me . . . thanking us for helping them. cious 94-acre mountain-top sanctuary. Moved to tears, I vowed I’d never leave them. We For the animals, were even together in the cold winter rains when they were sick with pneumonia . . . and I put medicine in their food to help get them through it. I remember feeling so helpless that I couldn’t do more for them . . . Delta’s new best friends were homeless ...... living on the cold ground . . . trying to sleep through Leo Grillo, founder the pounding storms . . . in puddles of cold water, rain beating constantly on their naked heads. P. S . : Please call 661-269-4010 today and request It took a full year to get them all out of the forest, but I your FREE packet of Forget-Me-Nots to honor my beloved did . . . before the next winter’s rains. I found loving homes dog Delta. It was because of him that I have devoted my for a few, but most I kept myself . . . life to rescuing abandoned animals. Wherever these flowers . . . I was too much in love with them to see them go, g r o w, the spirit of Delta will shine through. and they were deathly afraid of other people. We did find a house to rent, and Delta loved his yard, and all his new friends. You could tell, he was their “leader.” All the other dogs looked up to Delta. And because the landlord allowed pets, Delta finally got to sleep on my bed . . . D.E.L.T.A. Rescue . . . for about a year. PO Box 9, Dept AP, Glendale, CA 91209 May 2005 3/22/13 6:32 PM Page 3
ANIMAL P E OPLE, May 2005 - 3 Editorial feature Lessons from finding the ivory-billed woodpecker At least one ivory-billed woodpecker still inhabits the Big Woods region of been opened or re-opened at an unprecedented pace to hunting, trapping, fishing, logging, Arkansas, the world learned on April 28, 2005. Yet, 60 years after the brightly colored big mining, grazing, oil and gas drilling, off-road vehicles, and military training. bird was believed to have been hunted to extinction, it is almost certainly still on the brink. The ivory-billed woodpecker may still be just a mindless shotgun blast or chainsaw- Gene Sparling, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, first saw the officially rediscovered ing of a nesting snag from eternal oblivion. ivory-billed woodpecker on February 2, 2004 in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, a The only real contribution the Bush administration has made to protecting either the relatively dense and impenetrable swamp, not far from U.S. I-40, which runs in an almost habitat or the welfare of animals has been by showing that whatever is saved through politics straight line from Memphis southwest to Little Rock. can be lost the same way. This has encouraged people who are serious about protecting ani- Ornithologists Tim Gallagher of Cornell University and Bobby Harrison of Oakwood mals and habitat to get serious about developing cause-specific bipartisan political clout. College in Huntsville, Alabama, confirmed the Sparling sighting after accompanying him to Interior Secretary Gail Norton promised a $10 million federal effort to promote the the vicinity. David Luneau, of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, on April 25, 2004 recovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, long listed as an endangered species but without a videotaped the ivory-billed woodpecker taking off from the trunk of a tree. recovery plan or critical habitat designation. There have been no heated political battles since Before announcing the find, the scientists enlisted the help of The Nature 1948 over what should be done to save it. It was nearly relisted as extinct in 1997. Conservancy to purchase more habitat. While the Endangered Species Act is now the front line of legal defense for the No more than one ivory-billed woodpecker has been seen at a time, and all of the ivory-billed woodpecker, it was first protected by the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. This is confirmed sightings were of a male––although turkey hunter, forestry student, and National still the only protection for most migratory birds in the U.S. Rifle Association intern David Kelivan, 21, claimed to have seen a pair in the Pearl River The Migratory Bird Treaty Act was amended in November 2004, at request of The Wildlife Management Area of Louisiana, well to the south, on April 1, 1999. That location Nature Conservancy and other hunter/conservationist organizations, to exempt from protec- is comparably dense swamp, not far from the junction of U.S. I-10, I-12, and I-59. Kelivan’s tion any human-introduced “non-native” migratory species deemed problematic by the U.S. account, apparently not an April Fool, convinced enough experts that teams of biologists Fish & Wildlife Service. The Fish & Wildlife Service at the time anticipated issuing a “hit repeatedly searched the area for three years seeking confirmation. Their hopes were dashed list” of 94 species. In January 2005, the Fish & Wildlife Service published an expanded list of when rapping sounds recorded by remote listening devices turned out to be distant gunfire. 113 species that might be extirpated, with a preface promising that more might be added. No definite ivory-billed woodpecker nests have been discovered. Yet a breeding Technically, that could allow the deliberate extirpation of the Cuban ivory-billed population almost certainly existed not long ago, since the maximum lifespan of an ivory- woodpecker, last photographed in 1956 but rediscovered in 1988, if restoration biologists had billed woodpecker is believed to be no more than 15 years. Even the oldest wild bird on actually followed through with a hypothetical scheme to reintroduce ivory-billed woodpeckers record, a Manx shearwater banded in Britain in 1953, believed to be still alive, would not be to the U.S. by using the Cuban ivory-billed woodpeckers as seed stock. old enough to be a remnant from 1939, when 22 ivory-billed woodpeckers were seen at the This idea remained hypothetical because Cuban biologists doubted that enough Singer Tract in Louisiana, after they were twice before believed to have been extinct, or woodpeckers remained to spare any. None have been seen, in fact, since 1995. In addition, 1944, when the last nesting was reported, or 1946, when the last bird was seen, other than so little is known of either the Cuban or the U.S. ivory-billed woodpeckers that their exact unverified reports from Georgia and the Florida Panhandle in the early 1950s. relationship is anyone’s guess. Some ornithologists believe they are genetically identical The Singer Tract was clear-cut in 1948. Believed to have ended any hope that the except for normal family variation. Some say the Cuban woodpeckers are slightly smaller. ivory-billed woodpecker might ever be seen again, that act of ecological vandalism helped to Currently they are classed as related subspecies rather than the same bird in different impel the 1950 formation of The Nature Conservancy, now the biggest of all animal-and-habi- habitats. Possibly the only hope for maintaining enough genetic diversity to save either popu- tat-related charities. lation may be to introduce the remnants somehow and hope they “hybridize,” but this might The Nature Conservancy was rightly quick to claim credit for preserving the Big also be species purists’ worst nightmare. Woods habitat––but dead wrong in citing the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Many conservationists have yet to recover from the shock of discovering through defense of its policy of attempting to eradicate non-native species by any means possible, DNA evidence that the last red wolves, who shared most of the historic range of the ivory- including fire-setting and inundations with herbicides and pesticides. billed woodpecker, were in fact wolf/coyote hybrids. The “pure” red wolf either never existed The April 2005 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE detailed, beginning on page1, thirty- or was long ago subsumed by coyotes, who expanded into the wolves’ range after humans odd years of effort by the Nature Conservancy and National Park Service to kill feral pigs and hunted the wolves to virtual extinction. other hooved stock on Santa Cruz Island, off the southern California coast. This effort accel- Just 14 red wolves remained, all captive, when in 1987 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife erated in January 2005 with the commitment of $5 million to an all-out attempt to purge the Service started a breeding program at Bulls Island, South Carolina. From Bulls Island came last pigs within 18 months. 26 pups who were the progenitors of about 300 red wolves alive today, including 55 pups Had the Nature Conservancy attempted to kill feral razorback hogs around the Cache born just this spring at the Alligator River Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. River National Wildlife Refuge with the same zeal and same methods used to “protect” the The red wolf restoration effort survived wise-users’ lawsuits contending that hybrid habitat now incorporated into Channel Islands National Park, the last ivory-billed woodpeck- animals cannot be considered endangered species, but lost political support as the coyote ers might have been among the casualties––just as the now endangered Channel Islands fox is ancestry became recognized. In March 2005 the Fish & Wildlife Service removed the last among the victims rather than the beneficiaries of the Santa Cruz Island killing. three red wolves at Bulls Island to save $15,000. First the fox population boomed, feasting on dead animals. The foxes were joined at The message all along should have been not that red wolves should be preserved as a the carrion piles by golden eagles who flew in from the mainland. Then, as the carrion disap- “pure” and therefore supposedly superior lineage, but rather that predators including both peared, the eagles turned on the foxes, as well as the young of the surviving pigs. Now the wolves and coyotes are essential to a healthy ecosystem. If they hybridize in their effort to official line is that eradicating the pigs will send the eagles elsewhere, but they might eat the adapt to changing survival requirements, the emerging new line is as worthy of appreciation + last foxes––other than those in a captive breeding program––before they go. and protection, and as needed by nature, as the ancestors who contributed to the gene pool. + The habitat where an ivory-billed woodpecker was found survived not because it was “managed” to preserve native species, nor because it was remote wilderness, but because it Biodiversity was mostly left alone, being mostly too wet and full of insects to either “manage” or exploit. Partisans in the perennial battle over how best to preserve endangered species quick- It is simplistic to argue, as some commentators have, that the rediscovery of the ly claimed the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker as a victory for their positions, ivory-billed woodpecker refutes the belief that the earth is undergoing an “extinction crisis.” regardless of contrary evidence. The existence or non-existence of one specimen of a single species makes no strong point on The White House pointed out that finding the ivory-billed woodpecker illustrates the either side of the debate––though it is to be noted that species discoveries and rediscoveries importance of privately funded conservation. Yet nothing the George W. Bush administration continue to exceed reported extinctions by approximately 37-to-1, not including microbes, as has done so far has encouraged private conservation, except by default, as public lands have ANIMAL PEOPLE editorially noted in November 2002. The rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker does underscore other points that SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES: www.animalpeoplenews.org ANIMAL PEOPLE has made repeatedly over the years. First is that while the visibility of various species has shifted, coinciding with Key articles now available en Español et en Français! human-induced habitat change, the abundance of species relative to each other has no inherent relationship to either biodiversity or the overall health of ecosystems. Neither are “wilderness” ANIMAL PEOPLE and “optimum wildlife habitat” to be confused. 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4 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 A model for helping overseas animal charities LIVERMORE, Calif.––Nancy Janes Romania Animal Rescue is now the made the grant in 2001 that enabled ROLDA to fell into founding Romania Animal Rescue by largest single source of support for the rapidly expand from animal rights advocacy to sheltering. accident, she often testifies. expanding ROLDA program, which includes A DELTA Rescue grant to help ROLDA feed and Just five years ago she knew little about advocacy, humane education, street dog and cat medicate the Galati pound dogs was the biggest Romania, and less about the dogs there. sterilization, feeding and medicating the dogs at that ROLDA has ever received. At least six indi- Now Dana Costin, cofounder with two overcrowded and underfunded municipal vidual readers of ANIMAL PEOPLE also sub- Rolando Cepraga of the ROLDA shelter in Galati, shelters, and operating the ROLDA shelter as a stantially aid ROLDA, many of them since read- Romania, says Janes “represents, from my point model of how sheltering ought to be done. ing a June 2004 profile of the organization. of view, a model for everyone who wants to help Among 22 shelters that ANIMAL PEOPLE has The difference between Romania animal charities abroad.” visited in Romania and five neighboring nations, Animal Rescue and the other ROLDA funders is Costin asked ANIMAL PEOPLE t o the ROLDA shelter is the only one that would that Romania Animal Rescue extends a range of profile Janes because she believes many other currently exceed a score of 80 by the strictest other support services. Nancy Janes has become U.S. animal advocates could adopt overseas ani- application of ANIMAL PEOPLE’s own 100- both an efficient self-taught fundraiser and a capa- mal charities, much as Romania Animal Rescue point evaluation scale. (The Oregon Humane ble publicist, who in only three years has helped has adopted ROLDA. Society recently scored a rare 100––see page 20.) ROLDA to become probably the Roman-ian ani- ROLDA is the chief beneficiary of Romania Animal Rescue raised nearly mal charity best-known to U.S. donors. Romania Animal Rescue, and Romania Animal $44,000 for ROLDA in 2004, with overhead Janes also brings Romanian dogs to the Rescue is in effect a support group for ROLDA. expenses of about $12,000 (21%, about as effi- U.S. and finds homes for them, with recent help But Romania Animal Rescue was not formed cient as charities ever are while still growing and from Tony LaRussa’s Animal Rescue Foundation specifically to help ROLDA. Instead, it devel- not subsidized by interest from endowments). executive director Brenda Barnette. oped that mission as the most efficient way Janes ROLDA has had other major funders. In addition, Janes helps to recruit and Nancy Janes. (Kim Bartlett) could find to fulfill her charitable goals. Greyhound Action International, of Britain, (continued on page 6) Remembering writer Andre Norton LETTERS Something told me in the one of my photo albums. past few days that I would experi- I did not receive a reply ––Wolf ence a loss, and I held off opening to my last card, and thought she SEA Lab Clifton the April 2005 edition of ANIMAL might be ill or even passed. How I’m contacting you on P E O P L E for a day, not knowing much I feel the loss of this wonder- behalf of the SEA Lab, a program of CHANNEL ISLANDS why. Today, I found the answer ful, imaginative, compassionate the Los Angeles Conservation to both mysteries: a lifelong writer! I am glad she no longer suf- Concerning your April Corps. While most aquariums favorite writer, inspiration, and fers, and she did live to a great age, 2005 cover article “Channel Islands acquire animals through purchase, mentor of sorts, though we never but I am one of many, I am sure, National Park ex-chief hits cruelty of trade, or capture, we go to power met, has passed. who will mourn her not being KHARKOV SPCA killing “invasive species,” we’re plants throughout Southern Calif- I have read Ms. Andre among us any longer. How I will grateful that you are wise to the ornia and rescue animals who come We would like to express Norton’s prolific and progressive miss her cards! I have, of course, deception of “restoration.” Even in through the saltwater intake cool- our thanks to you for sending us work since childhood, and having kept the ones she sent to me. They many animal rights people get duped ing systems. We rescue and rehabil- ANIMAL PEOPLE. Such publica- somehow found her address several will always be treasures to me. by it. We also appreciate your itate thousands of animals each year, tions are rare in the Ukraine, and we years back, sent her a letter of ––Jamaka N. Petzak wealth of knowledge on the subject. including rays, octopi, moon jellies, are glad to receive useful informa- thanks and admiration, to which Los Angeles, Calif. ––Scarlet Newton sharks, and eels. We use the ani- tion from foreign sources. she responded personally. Since
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6 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, May 2005 A model for helping overseas animal charities (from page 4) screen volunteers who visit ROLDA on work- then flew to Romania in 2003 to see what had argued about money. Now we do.” ing vacations. While helping ROLDA, the been done with the investment. Two weeks of Among Rory Janes’ contributions, volunteers may stay at a cottage on the volunteer work at ROLDA convinced them to beyond cash, business savvy, and patience, is ROLDA grounds, offering a spectacular vista make it the focal project of Romania Animal organizing an annual fundraising golf tourna- of the surrounding hills, including traditional Rescue Inc., which received U.S. charitable ment at the Clayton Valley Country Club. The gypsy camps across a deep valley. status in August 2003. second tournament was promoted by KOIT By the separate testimony of both “I found Dana to be determined and radio and
ANIM AL PEOPLE, May 2005 - 7 Japan looks to South Korea for help in restarting commercial whaling (from page 1) 440 to 800 or more the number of minke Japan will withdraw from the IWC if there is big shares of the $273-million-a-year whale- whales killed for “science” is now a $52 mil- whales that it kills each year for “scientific” “no progress” this year toward reopening com- watching industry, including Australia, New lion-a-year industry purposes inside the unenforced boundaries of mercial whaling. Zealand, and Britain. The intensity of the Japanese effort the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary, sur- The IWC put the commercial whal- The U.S. has generally opposed the to resume whaling is sustained less by demand rounding Antarctica. ing moratorium in place in 1986. At the time, resumption of commercial whaling, but not for whale meat than by concern that regulating Japan is also expected to announce all whales larger than minkes were officially when military considerations have been whaling creates a precedent for regulating fish- that it will kill humpback and fin whales inside considered endangered. Since then, only the involved. The U.S. delegation, headed by ing. The Japanese whaling fleet is owned by the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary. The western grey whale is generally believed to then-Vice President Albert Gore, favored the subsidiaries of the biggest Japanese commer- World Conservation Union includes both have recovered to pre-whaling abundance. Revised Management Scheme in 1994 while cial fishing companies. They are racing humpbacks and fin whales on its Red List of Hayashi told Agence France-Presse Gore was also brokering the sale of $261 mil- against time to reopen commercial whaling Threatened Species. In addition, Japan may that he expects at least half of the 61 IWC lion worth of surface-to-air missiles to before the potential market disappears. expand “scientific” whaling in the northwest- members to back the Japanese position, Norway. A similar compromise is expected The post-World War II generation ern Pacific, where in 2004 it killed 220 including China, Russia, and South Korea. this year, because the U.S. is relying on Japan, grew up eating whale meat in school lunches, minkes, 50 Bryde’s whales, 50 sei whales, Hayashi did not mention Kiribati and South Korea, and China to help contain the but whale meat became too expensive to be a and 10 sperm whales. Mali, the latest of many small nations that threat from North Korean nuclear weapons. staple food as whale populations dwindled in Agence France-Press reported on Japan has encouraged to join the IWC by dan- “I think that the US position is con- the 1970s and 1980s. Most Japanese who have May 6 that Yoshimasa Hayashi, chair of the gling foreign aid. Mali is a landlocked nation tinuing to change,” Hayashi said. grown up since the whaling moratorium start- Japan House of Councillors special committee in sub-Saharan Africa. “Pro-whaling countries may have a ed in 1986 are not whale-eaters. on foreign affairs and defense, delivered a Opponents of whaling have coun- voting majority for the first time since whaling Trying to rebuild Japanese support personal warning to U.S. Assistant Secretary tered this year by recruiting the Czech was banned in 1986,” conceded Whalewatch, for whaling, the whaling industry is now sub- of State for oceans and international environ- Republic and Slovakia. The anti-whaling fac- a coalition of 140 animal welfare organizations sidizing the reintroduction of whale meat to mental and scientific affairs John Turner that tion otherwise consists chiefly of nations with from 55 nations coordinated by the World school lunches in the Wakayama region, Society for the Protection of Animals. where the whaling industry is based. About Seal hunt ends with “thin ice” incidents Lifting the whaling moratorium 57,900 Wakayama children have been served would require winning a 75% majority, but whale meat, Wakayama education official HALIFAX, ST. JOHNS– – S e a l e r s April 1, six Sea Shepherd Conservation with a simple majority Japan could try to abol- Tetsuji Sawada told Agence France-Presse. on the Labrador Front were expected to com- Society crew members were beaten by sealers, ish the supermajority requirement. plete their 2005 quota of 319,500 seal pelts, while 11 Sea Shepherd crew were arrested for The Southern Oceans Whale Sanctu- WHALING NOTES the most in 50 years, in early May. The first allegedly being too close to the sealers. ary, which Japan has pushed to abolish, was The Norwegian coastal whaling phase of the 2005 Atlantic Canada seal hunt, Among the injured and arrested was declared by the IWC in 1994. The declaration season opened on April 18 with a self-set in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, killed 107,000. Sea Shepherd board member Jerry Vlasak, enabled conservationists to claim a paper vic- quota of 796 minke whales, the biggest yet. Another 103,000 were killed along the M.D., of Los Angeles. Vlasak was removed tory, after the U.S. pushed through the Norway resumed coastal commercial whaling Labrador Front by April 18. from the board by a vote of the other members Revised Management Scheme, which set up a in 1993, in defiance of the IWC. Said The Sea Shepherd flagship, the on April 21. Amid controversy about remarks framework for resuming commercial whaling. Aftenposten, of Oslo, “Whaling was for years Farley Mowat, tried to monitor the Labrador he made in 2003 that seemed to endorse killing Together with the older Indian a key part of the national heritage, especially Front killing, but was pushed away from the vivisectors, Vlasak allegedly said similar Ocean Whale Sanctuary and the Australian in northern Norway, but it is questionable ice by a storm that delayed the opening of the about sealers in an interview with CBC radio. Whale Sanctuary, declared by the government whether there is a market for the whales. second phase of the hunt for three days, and Then, reported the CBC, “The Sea of Australia in 1999, the Southern Oceans Whale meat earlier was a staple in the Nor- was obliged to give up the pursuit on April 15. Shepherds were involved in a torrent of death Whale Sanctuary nominally puts most of the wegian diet, but has lost much popularity.” Confused by the delay, the B o s t o n threats that were delivered by phone this southern hemisphere off limits to whaling, but A 16-foot walrus-skin whaling Globe on April 12 published a fabricated arti- month against Newfoundlander sealer Ren no effective mechanism exists for bringing canoe capsized near St. Lawrence Island, cle about the Labrador Front opening by free- Genge,” whose crew attacked Vlasak and the violators to justice. Alaska, on April 27, after the occupants par- lance Barbara Stewart. Following an extensive other Sea Shepherds. “An April 2 posting on a The Revised Management Scheme ticipated in harpooning a 44-foot bowhead apology and retraction, the Globe published a blog on the Sea Shepherd Conservation meanwhile could put Japan just one winning whale. Killed were Gambell mayor Jason long pro-sealing commentary by indigenous Society's website identified Genge's name, ballot round away from breaking the commer- Nowpakahok, 38, his daughter Yolanda, 11, sealing industry spokespersons Kirt Ejesiak mailing address, phone number and even the cial whaling moratorium––not that Japan has his nephew Leonard Nowpakahok, 11, and and Maureen Flynn-Burhoe. name of his wife.” ever strictly observed the moratorium, having whaling crew member James Uglowook, 20. Earlier, the Sea Shepherds video- Watson had the information removed signed on late, and having begun “scientific” Gambell is among 10 Alaskan villages that taped the Gulf of St. Lawrence killing. 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8 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 What happened to the hippos? (from page 1) Fish boycott to save seals break, but then there was the issue raised on April 20 by Industry and Fisheries,” the UWA declared. NEW YORK CITY––Legal Seafoods, a 31- Gerald Tenywa of the Kampala New Vision. Translation: reports of anthrax occurring among restaurant chain with anchor franchises in New York City “Many of the hippos were buried without teeth,” hooved stock could play hell with Ugandan livestock exports. and Boston, on May 9 joined Tavern-on-the-Green in Tenywa wrote. “This has prompted civil society sources to say Central Park and the 168-store Whole Foods Market chain in some of them were poisoned. Other sources say a Japanese Longterm vision needed endorsing a boycott of Atlantic Canada seafood called by the trader based in Dubai, who wants five tons of hippo teeth, Despite the recent rise in lethal wildlife exploitation, Humane Society of the U.S. in protest against the Atlantic could have fueled the killing of the hippos. Hippo teeth,” a two-time former Kenya Wildlife Service chief Richard Leakey Canadian seal hunt (see page 7). substitute for elephant tusk ivory, “are used for making ban- warned at an early May 2005 seminar at the State University of The boycott targets snow crabs, lobsters. shrimp, gles, bracelets and necklaces that are in high demand in Asia.” New York at Stony Brook that climate change is a bigger mussels, and ground fish. Posing as a trader, Tenywa visited the scene, he threat to elephants, tigers, and rhinos than poaching. As habi- The Legal Seafoods announcement coincided with wrote. “Some fishers were keeping the teeth,” Tenywa found, tat becomes stressed, wildlife reserve neighbors are driven by the arrival in New York City of Canadian ambassador Frank “and an unnamed trader had already bought some of them from thirst and hunger to encroach upon the reserves. Wildlife is McKenna, who was to make several prominent appearances. Katungulu village.” more inclined to wander outside protected limits. Crop failures While HSUS is promoting the boycott through a The volume of hippo teeth on the market had appar- due to drought tend to escalate reactions against crop-raiding media strategy, Anthony Marr of Vancouver, British ently driven the going price down by about 10%. Large num- and stimulate poaching. Columbia, on May 13 set out on a 90-day “Terminate the bers of teeth could be obtained from various intermediaries in Current examples include parts of Zambia, South Seal Hunt Campaign Tour” of the western U.S. and Canada. villages throughout the area. “The largest stocks were in Luanga Conservation Society chief executive officer Rachel Pushing the boycott through personal persuasion and peti- Katungulu and Kasenyi, on the fringes of Lake George, within McRobb told Sandra Lombe of the Lusaka Post on May 4. tioning, Marr said he had 35 speaking engagements already Queen Elizabeth Park,” Tenywa reported. “Due to the partial drought and crops being booked, with about 20 more still being finalized. Acting Uganda Wildlife Authority executive director destroyed, there will be an increase in poaching this year,” “Carmen Crosland, age 14, president of Youth Moses Mapesa pointed out that “The teeth from the hippos McRobb warned. “A number of elephants have been shot. Against Animal Abuse, will display a web page at were contaminated with bacteria, and there is no way we can Some people are using muzzle loaders,” McRobb said.
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10 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 Petting zoos can make children sick PLANT CITY, Florida––At least founded in 1995 by International Speedway six lawsuits filed against Ag-Venture Farms Corporation director of community affairs and the Florida Strawberry Festival, both of Donna Sue Sanders. Plant City, may hasten the demise of petting “There were no reports of anyone zoos. Two sheep, two cows, and a goat getting sick after visiting Barnyard Friends. exhibited by Ag-Venture Farms at the Florida Hand-washing and cleanliness were always top Strawberry Festival, the Florida State Fair priorities,” wrote Kevin P. Connolly of the near Tampa, and the Central Florida fair in Orlando Sentinel. But Barnyard Friends was Orlando allegedly infected 30 to 80 visitors unable to withstand the many field trip cancel- with an often disabling and sometimes deadly lations that followed the e-coli outbreak. form of e-coli bacteria during March and April “Most of the animals will go with 2005, said the Florida Health Department. Sanders when she moves from Samsula to a The bacterium attacks the kidneys of 13-acre parcel where she and husband are during the 2005 state far. “The petting zoos who had either recently visited the Auching- victims, causing hemolytic uremic syndrome, building a home near Lake Ashby in Osteen,” this year will be nearly wallpapered with signs arrich Wildlife Centre near Comrie, Scotland, a severely painful condition that in early stages Connolly reported. warning that contact with animals can spread or were members of visitors’ families. is often mistaken for a stomach flu. Many vic- At least three other petting zoos disease––especially to young children, the The CDCP warned in early May that tims are incapacitated for life. were struggling, Connelly indicated. elderly, pregnant women and sick people–– small mammals acquired as “pocket pets” have About 90% of the ill petting zoo The Florida e-coli outbreak was the and encouraging patrons to wash their hands recently infected at least 30 people in 10 states patrons were children. How many will suffer second linked to a petting zoo in under six before leaving,” summarized Raleigh News & with an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonel- longterm effects is uncertain. There were no months. Lawsuits are pending against the Observer staff writer Kristin Collins. losis. The outbreak was believed to be carried verified fatalities. Tests failed to confirm a Crossroads Farm petting zoo in Bear Creek, But the new rules are not binding by hamsters, mice, rats, and possibly gerbils, suspected link to the March 2005 death of North Carolina, identified as the source of an upon private organizations that operate on pri- guinea pigs, ferrets, and rabbits. Kayla Nicole Sutter, 12, of Wesley Chapel, e-coli outbreak that hit 108 visitors to the 2004 vate property, Collins noted. This followed an April warning that who visited the Florida Strawberry Festival. North Carolina State Fair in West Raleigh. The Centers for Disease Control & nine people in five states developed salmonel- All 37 Ag-Venture Animals “will be “Twenty-four outbreaks have been Prevention published non-binding guidelines losis after handling Easter chicks. Six cases quarantined for the rest of their lives,” health linked to fairs and petting zoos since 1995,” for traveling animal shows in April 2002, after were traced to a single hatchery in New Mexi- officials told Saundra Amrhein of the S t . said plaintiffs’ attorney William Marler, of tracing e-coli outbreaks that occurred in 2000 co. Children were infected in New Mexico, Petersburg Times. Marler Clark, a Seattle firm that specializes in to a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and a petting Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The first petting zoo to close as e-coli contamination cases. zoo in Washington state. Traveling petting zoos often feature result of ensuing public concern was Barnyard The North Carolina Department of An outbreak of another potentially rabbits and chicks around Easter, but whether Friends, of Samsula, near Daytona Beach––a Agriculture on April 21 announced new rules deadly bacterial infection, cryptospiridium, in there was a petting zoo connection to the sal- non-traveling menagerie of about 200 animals that will minimize animal contact with visitors March and April 2005 afflicted 104 people monellosis outbreaks was unclear. Events May 26-27: L e t - L i v e Canada 2005, W i n d s o r , Ontario. Info:
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ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 - 11 Greyhound racing in New England staggers after two big tracks shut down PLAINFIELD, Ct., BELMONT, even a brief future racing elsewhere. family, some now suing each other, were where in the U.S. N.H.––The last big bet on greyhound racing in “The track has been struggling for involved in running the Lakes Region In January 2005 the Tucson Grey- New England may be whether it survives at years,” employing just 100 people, down Greyhound Park. The Hart family bought the hound Park was quarantined due to an out- all, after two of the five top tracks in the from 350 at peak, “and the big racers have track in 1991, three years after Richard Hart break that the Arizona Department of Racing region closed within two weeks of each other left. If you have more than 500 dogs in the and his brother Kenneth were convicted of ille- called “kennel cough.” At least three dogs in April and May 2005. kennel, I’d be surprised,” said Plainfield ani- gal gambling in Massachusetts. died during a 10-day outbreak in February at The Plainfield Greyhound Park in mal control officer Terry Foss. The Lakes Region betting handle fell the Daytona Beach Kennel Club. Racing was Plainfield, Connecticut, opened in 1976, Responded Greyhound Pets of from $1.4 million during the week before the interrupted due to “kennel cough” in April at closed at least temporarily on May 14, after America executive secretary Liz Ardell, repre- indictments to just $262,000 in the week the Gulf Greyhound Park in La Marque, rushing through the 100 racing days it had to senting the greyhound industry, “Greyhound before the track shut down. Texas, and was suspended on May 6 at offer in 2005 to keep a gambling license. Pets of America, the American Greyhound Along with the Lakes Region and Dairyland in Kenosha, Wisconsin. New England Raceway developer Track Owners Association, the American Plainfield greyhounds, rescuers are still seek- By May 7, Van Voorhis updated, Gene Arganese, of Trumbull, Connecticut, Greyhound Council, and the National ing homes for dogs displaced by the December “Rhode Island’s Lincoln Park has seen six acquired an option to buy the dog track in Greyhound Association have a plan in place to 2004 closing of the Multnomah Greyhound greyhounds die in less than two weeks from 2004. Arganese closed the track, he said, in contact reputable adoption groups and get Park in Portland, Oregon––the last greyhound what may be a form of canine influenza.” order to proceed with a $343 million plan that retired greyhounds transported to them.” track on the west coast. The disease issue heated up in New would use the site for a 140,000-seat auto race “They’re counting on everyone else “We’re taking in as many dogs as we England just after the Massachusetts Board of track, a convention center, a 700-room hotel, to solve their problems,” said Animal Rescue can, as quickly as we can,” Greyhound Registration in Veterinary Medicine declared and an 800,000-square-foot shopping center. League of Boston spokesperson Tom Adams. Friends founder Louise Coleman told Sweet. that the treatment of five dogs by National But Arganese is hedging his bets. The Lakes Region Greyhound Park Two other New England greyhound Greyhound Association board member Paul F. “We’re hoping to have dog racing in Belmont, New Hampshire, closed probably tracks closed briefly while the Lakes Region Kippenberger, DVM, “falls below the accept- back by the end of 2006,” he said. for the last time on April 30, 2005. The own- and Plainfield shutdowns were underway. ed standards in the veterinary profession.” The Susan Netboy, president of the ers surrendered their racing license, avoiding a “Both Raynham-Taunton Greyhound board revoked Kippenberger’s license to prac- California-based Greyhound Protection scheduled May 3 revocation hearing, Associ- Park and Revere’s Wonderland dog track have tice veterinary medicine, including at the League, touched off an Internet frenzy on ated Press reported, and “are negotiating to been forced to close periodically over the past Raynham/Taunton and Revere tracks. April 29 when Hartford Courant staff writer sell the track to a developer.” few weeks as greyhounds have fallen ill,” Division of Professional Licensure Steven Goode paraphrased her warning that as Former Lakes Region Greyhound explained Boston Herald reporter Scott Van executive director Anne Collins told Raphael many as 1,500 greyhounds might be homeless Park general manager Richard Hart and assis- Voorhis on April 29. About 280 of the 1,400 Lewis of the Boston Globe that Kippenberger’s when the Plainfield kennels close. tant general manager Jonathan Broome were dogs housed at Raynham/Taunton fell ill, the case was “the worst veterinary case we have “About a thousand dogs need to be among 17 people indicted in January 2005 for track acknowledged. ever seen.” Kippenberger prominently defend- moved,” amplified New York Times w r i t e r allegedly running a five-state illegal betting Greyhound industry spokespersons ed the greyhound industry during the unsuc- William Yardley a week later. Yardley noted ring. Indicted with Hart and Broome were called the outbreaks “kennel cough.” Grey2K cessful 2000 Grey 2K effortt to ban greyhound that since Plainfield was by reputation a slow three alleged Gambino crime family figures. USA cofounder Carey Theil said it was a more racing in Massachusetts. The initiative lost by track, few of the dogs would be likely to have At least six members of the Hart serious disease that had occurred at tracks else- just 2% of the statewide vote. More events July 9-10: Friends of Animals conf., NYC. Info: ® 2 0 3 - 6 5 6 - 1 5 2 2 ; Maddie’s Fund to GiveTuscaloosa,
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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. Jailed because she spoke out for dolphins Charges against Univ. of Nevada CANCUN, Mexico––Dolphin defender intends to build a shopping plaza on the site. laboratory whistleblower dropped Araceli Dominguez, chair of Grupo Ecologista del ANIMAL PEOPLE was among numerous Mayab (GEMA), was released from jail without organizations that objected to Dominguez’ arrest in e- R E N O ––University of others as you expect them to respect charges on April 28, 2005, five days after she was mails to Vicente Fox, President of Mexico. Nevada at Reno president John Lilley your research materials and animals.” detained on a libel writ filed by Bernardo Zambrano, on April 29 informed animal nutri- Responded Hussein, “We owner of the Atlantida dolphinarium and Parc Nizuc 44 dolphins still held tion professor Hussein S. Hussein by spent huge amounts of taxpayer dol- Wet N’ Wild swim-with-dolphins attraction. The Zambrano action against Dominguez letter that Lilley has accepted the rec- lars and huge amounts of my own Zambrano, son of CEMEX cement company revived attention not only to the plight of the dolphins ommendations of a hearing officer money for a hearing that showed the chair Lorenzo Zambrano, claimed Dominguez in Cancun, but also to the reportedly deteriorating cir- and three-member university panel charges were groundless. Instead of defamed him by reporting that a dolphin recently died cumstances of 44 dolphins, captured at the same time, that misconduct charges filed against giving a simple dismissal as the panel at one of his facilities. who remain in a sea pen in the Solomons. The captures Hussein should be dropped, universi- recommended, Lilley is giving me a Dominguez “was released in the early morn- were organized by Waves Consulting, formed by ty spokesperson Jane Tors announced letter of warning––a censure.” ing hours, just after a representative of the Governor Christopher Porter, 35, a Canadian whose wife is on May 2. Lilley on April 1 appointed of the State of Quintana Roo went around midnight reportedly a Solomon Islander. Porter previously han- “After a seven-hour evi- a panel chaired by Nevada State personally to the prison,” e-mailed Ntailan Lolkoki of dled marine mammals at Sealand of the Pacific in dentiary hearing on April 19, the Board of Agriculture president Benny Ecoterra International. Victoria, British Columbia, now defunct; the panel and former Carson City District Romero to investigate further allega- “Zambrano was forced to drop all criminal Vancouver Aquarium; and the Aquario di Genova in Judge Michael E. Fondi found the tions of UNR abuse and neglect of charges against Dominguez [and co-defendants] Sara Italy. He is believed to be seeking funding to build a charges groundless,” reported Scott farm animals used in research, Rincon, head of the Association to Protect Animals of swm-with-dolphins facility in the Solomons. Sonner of Associated Press. brought to light by Mullen of the Cancun, Cecilia Navarro from Greenpeace Mexico, The government of the Solomons in late 2004 “Lilley said in the April 29 Reno Gazette-Journal. Ben White of the Animal Welfare Institute, five local forbade further dolphin exports, reportedly blocking letter to Hussein that he was accept- Other panel members reporters, and Yolanda Alaniz from Comarino,” the transactions that Porter had arranged with buyers in Fiji ing their recommendations even include Nevada Cattlemen’s Associ- Ecoterra announcement continued. and Panama. The World Society for the Protection of though he still believes Hussein acted ation vice president Boyd Spratling, Comarino is pursuing parallel civil and crimi- Animals and Earth Island Institute each claimed credit inappropriately” in seeking veteri- Nevada Woolgrowers Association nal cases against Parc Nizuc in connection with the for winning the export ban. nary help during May and June 2004 president Pete Paris, Nevada Farm allegedly illegal July 2003 import of 28 dolphins who Ric O’Barry, who originally investigated the for 10 boars that he found inexplica- Bureau executive director Doug were captured in the Solomon Islands and flown to Solomons captures for WSPA and now represents One bly placed in the same barn as his Busselman, and rancher and state Mexico during a time of civil unrest. Six dolphins who Voice, of France, told ANIMAL PEOPLE that the own research animals,” said Sonner. senator Dean Rhoads. Their findings were part of the transaction are believed to have died. key was that “Earth Island Institute put word out to the Hussein testified that the are to be reviewed by University of Dominguez and GEMA “filed a complaint in international canned tuna market, asking everyone to boars “were copiously foaming at the California at Davis vet Dale Brooks. the first week of April with the Federal Environmental not import Solomon Islands product until they banned mouth, including one who broke out Mullen reported on March Protection Prosecutor’s branch in the state of Quintana dolphin captures and transports. The canning compa- of a pen and chased two of his gradu- 30 that from 2002 until 2004, UNR Roo that suspended the building of a proposed dolphin nies were about to lose 1000 jobs. Two thousand fish- ate students, and he thought they sent about 200 female sheep who had tank adjacent to the Casa Maya resort in Cancun’s hotel ers were about to be laid off. This got their undivided might be rabid or have other dis- been injected with human stem cells, zone,” reported Talli Nauman, cofounder and co- attention. During a recent meeting, Tione Bugotla, eases,” wrote Frank X. Mullen Jr. of and whose lambs contained human director of Journalism to Raise Environmental Aware- permanent secretary of Fisheries for the Solomon the Reno Gazette-Journal. DNA, to a research ranch east of ness. JREA is a Mexican-based project funded by the Islands, told me and Mark Berman of Earth Island “Hussein told the discipli- Reno for use in weed eradication. MacArthur Foundation. Institute that, ‘The ban will not be lifted, and it can nary panel that administrators at More than 80% were killed Also active on behalf of other animals, not be reversed.’” UNR’s College of Agriculture would by pumas or coyotes, were shot due Dominguez was among the half dozen correspondents O’Barry also credited Berman with possibly not explain why the pigs were housed to injury by predators, or drowned in + in four nations whose research informed the April 2005 saving his life by discovering him unconscious and run- in his research facility or who had the Truckee River while being chased + ANIMAL PEOPLE front page article “Demolition, ning a dangerously high temperature on the floor of a responsibility for them,” Mullen by wild dogs, said former UNR staff eviction, & good deeds that save animal shelters.” At Brisbane hotel room en route to the Solomons. continued. interviewed by Mullen. request of ANIMAL PEOPLE, Dominguez investi- O’Barry, who had been incapacitated with a fever for “In August, Hussein com- “UNR College of Agricul- gated the February 5 pre-dawn partial demolition of the several days, was diagnosed as having pneumonia, plained to the USDA about unex- ture officials denied that the ewes Asociaciòn Provida Animal, A.C. shelter in Cancun by and was hospitalized overnight, but fled the hospital plained deaths and alleged abuse of used in the stem-cell experiments the construction firm Opresa S.A. de C.V., which against medical advice to complete the mission. UNR farm animals. He also has filed were sent to the ranch to die,” two federal lawsuits against UNR, Mullen wrote. “But the former ranch Lilley, agriculture dean David manager and others who worked with Join the No More Homeless Pets Forum Thawley, researcher Esmail Zanjani, the ewes said college officials told and others, accusing them of retaliat- them that because the sheep had been Join us to spend a week with some of the leaders of this lifesaving movement. They will share an inside ing against him for reporting UNR to injected with human stem cells, they view of their thoughts and work and answer your questions about topics near and dear to their hearts. the USDA,” said Mullen. couldn’t be eaten, bred, or sold, and Coming topics–– Steve Damonte, DVM, therefore had no economic value. May 16-20: Statewide Spay/Neuter, Step by Step and cellular and microbiology Ph.D. “The former employees Targeted spay/neuter programs are proven to reduce the number of animals entering shelters. candidate Laurie Bollinger testified said UNR scientists told them the Sharon Secovich of Spay Maine will answer your questions about launching a publicly funded in support of Hussein. Bollinger has ewes had human DNA in their bod- spay/neuter program. also sued UNR for allegedly retaliat- ies, but college officials said the ing against her for backing Hussein’s employees were told that ‘as an extra May 23-27: When Dogs Fail Temperament Tests claims. Bollinger and two other precaution’ to make sure the animals Shannon Cummings of ShelterWorks and Sherry Woodard of Best Friends assess temperament graduate students contend that some remained under UNR control,” assessments, gauge if a pooch can be rehabilitated, and offer advice on training “problem dogs.” of their lab work was sabotaged. Mullen added. May 30-June 3: Getting Together for Animal Welfare Lilley remained critical of UNR “had incinerated How can you start a local network or coalition? Linda Young of Syracuse Onondaga Cat Council Hussein. “The report indicates that sheep used in the project for 12 years and Michelle Buckalew of Save our Shelter Animals will offer their advice. you did, in fact, engage in activities and didn’t officially change the June 6-10: Reuniting Companions that involved another researcher’s research animals’ status before send- Sometimes beloved animals get lost and have a tough time finding their way back. Pet detective Kat animals,” Lilley wrote to Hussein. ing them to the weed mitigation Albrecht will provide tips and advice on how to find lost pets and reunite animals with their families. “It is the responsibility of all mem- experiment,” Mullen continued, but June 13-17: What Inspired Us to Help Animals bers of our institution to respect the most of the carcasses of the sheep This week YOU are the forum guest! How did you get started helping homeless animals? Have you sanctity of each and every research who died at the ranch were allegedly found creative ways to inspire new potential volunteers? project at the university. Henceforth, left to rot. About 40 were reportedly I trust that you will accord the same buried near the Truckee River. 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Whistleblower Denver pit bull terrier ban is reinstated by court & is again enforced (from page 12) Colorado Attorney General Mike 2004. In the interim, Denver largely avoided the Table Mountain Animal Center in Golden and C o f f m a n on April 20, 2005 announced through eight-fold surge in pit bull terrier attacks and four- the Humane Society of Colorado in Englewood “Researchers have revert- spokesperson Kristin Hubbell that his office will fold surge in animal shelter admissions of pit bulls also reported receiving more pit bulls than usual. ed to incinerating the animals’ not appeal an April 7 ruling by Judge Martin that has afflicted most of the rest of the U.S. April M. Washington of the R o c k y remains for ‘bio-political’ reasons, Engelhoff that the Colorado state legislature had Engelhoff previously upheld the Denver Mountain News wrote that the April 7 ruling has they said,” wrote Mullen. no right under the state constitution to usurp the ordinance in December 2004, but city officials been appealed by the American Canine New Iberia case authority of local governments to enact breed-spe- did not resume enforcing the ordinance while it F o u n d a t i o n , an organization based in Belfair, cific animal control ordinances. was still under state appeal. Denver Animal Washington, that lobbies and litigates against In a partially parallel case, The verdict reinstated the Denver ban Control received six pit bulls as owner surrenders breed-specific legislation. Founder Glen Bui also former New Iberia Research Center on possessing pit bull terriers, in effect from 1989 and animal control officers picked up six on May attempted in 1993 to overturn the Washington staffer Narriman Fakier in February until it was overturned by the legislature in May 9, the first day of resumed enforcement. The state law requiring drivers to wear seat belts. 2005 sued the University of Louisi- ana at Lafayette for alleged wrong- ful dismissal, after complaining to Australia, Connecticut, insurance industry look at breed-specific policies the USDA about perceived viola- Bob Carr, prime minister of New The Connecticut House of Represent- The Insurance Information Institute tions of the Animal Welfare Act. South Wales state, Australia, announced on May atives on May 4, 2005 approved a bill to bar estimates that U.S. dog attack liability claims in A response to the Fakier 3, 2005 that his government will introduce insurers from refusing to cover specific breeds 2003 cost $321.6 million, at about $16,600 per lawsuit filed in late April by mandatory sterilization of all pit bull terriers, of dog, 77-70––a surprising upset in “The Insur- claim paid. The ANIMAL PEOPLE log of life- Louisiana Special Assistant American pit bulls, Japanese tosas, Fila ance State.” The state capitol in Hartford is within threatening and fatal attacks by dogs kept as pets, Attorney General Steven Dupuis Brasieros, and Dogo Argentinos. “If you are blocks of the head offices of several of the largest together with similar data on attacks by all dogs, argues that Fakier “resigned volun- thinking of getting a pit bull, don’t,” commented insurance firms in the world. “The bill does allow maintained by the Centers for Disease Control tarily after sending an e-mail to her Royal SPCA of NSW chief executive B e r n i e insurers to use breed when underwriting a home- & Prevention, indicates that pit bull terriers, supervisor about the relocation of Murphy to Gerard Noonan and Bonnie Malkin owner’s or renter’s policy,” explained S u s a n Rottweilers, and their close mixes, about 6% of chimpanzees and the threat it posed of the Sydney Morning Herald. “These are fight- H a i g h of Associated Press. “Insurers could all dogs covered by homeowners and renters to employee safety,” summarized ing dogs. They are totally inappropriate animals require owners of particular breeds to have their insurance, appear to have accounted for about Jeff Moore of The Daily Iberian. to have in a residential community.” dogs neutered or take them to obedience training.” $240 million (75%) of the damages. “Fakier’s suit,” continued Moore, “said she had previously protested the treatment of animals at the facility, including an alleged incident where an employee deliber- ately burned the hands of several chimpanzees with a lighter and threw a bucket of scalding water on another. The USDA has launched an investigation into her claims.” LAB SHORTS The debut edition of Forward Focus: A P&G Update on “I support ‘guardian’ Innovation in Alternative Testing and Care is available for free down- loading at
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Wisconsin hunters, birders vote to shoot cats Record $45,480 award in loss of pet case M I L W A U K E E ––A brown tabby named Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “The 20-year average is Seattle District Court Judge Barbara Linde on May 8 ordered dog Junior and three unidentified cats found shot on a about 7,000,” Jonwa wrote, “though more than keeper Wallace Gray to pay $45,480 to neighbor Paula Roemer, 71, for the road near a Sheboygan cemetery on April 11 were 30,000 attended in 1999,” the year that the caucuses February 2004 fatal mauling of her cat Yofi by Gray’s chow. Gray was not living apparent early casualties of a Wisconsin Conservation voted to start a mourning dove hunting season. on the premises next door to Roemer at the time. The chow repeatedly broke Congress proposal to allow hunters to shoot feral cats. Debate over hunting mourning doves threat- through the fence between the properties, Roemer testified, before the fatal attack On April 11 the statewide Conservation Congress ened to split the traditional political alliance of on Yofi and several other cats. Gray, who did not defend against the lawsuit, told caucuses ratified the proposal, 6,830 (57%) in favor, hunters and birders. Hard feelings and litigation lin- Seattle Times reporters Warren Cornwall and Craig Welch that he had already 5,201 (43%) against. gered for more than a year after the dove season final- served 21 days in jail and three months under house arrest for a related animal con- Junior, normally an indoor cat, escaped on ly started in 2003. The proposal to declare an open trol violation. The award, including $30,000 for the loss of Yofi, whom Roemer Easter Sunday, April 3, from the home of Kirk and season on feral cats reunited the factions. rescued on a 1992 visit to Israel, and $15,000 for emotional distress, is believed to Liz Obear, and their daughters, ages 9 and 12. They The cat-shooting proposal was put before be the highest yet in a loss-of-pet case. Roemer was represented by Washington put up posters and searched for him. A neighbor the Conservation Congress by Mark Smith of La State Bar Association animal law section founder Adam Karp. found his remains, and the remains of the other cats, Crosse. Formally, the proposal was to designate feral while walking her dog about a mile away. cats as an “unprotected” species. They are already MURDER-BY-DOG CONVICTION REINSTATED Before shooting cats becomes legal in “unprotected” in Minnesota and South Dakota. SAN FRANCISCO––T h e writer Bob Egelko––after all appeal Wisconsin, the proposal must be formally endorsed “I look at feral cats as an invasive species, California First District Court of possibilities are exhausted. by the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board, which plain and simple,” Smith told Associated Press. Appeal on May 5, 2005 reinstated the Noted Kravets, “On [previ- was to consider it on May 13. The Wisconsin The Smith proposal was not formally March 2002 second degree murder ous] appeal, both defendants argued Legislature would then have to pass it in the form of a endorsed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural conviction by jury of former San that the prosecution’s portrayal of law. Governor Jim Doyle would have to sign the law. Resources, but DNR staff in frequent media state- Francisco attorney Marjorie Knoller, them as being white supremacist sym- “I don’t think Wisconsin should become ments played up the alleged threat to wildlife from 49, for the January 2001 fatal mauling pathizers prejudiced the jury, a claim known as a state where we shoot cats,” Doyle said. feral cats, inflating estimates of cat predation on of neighbor Diane Whipple, after the appeals court rejected.” “State senator Scott Fitzgerald, co-chair of birds in Wisconsin to between 47 million and 139 Knoller lost control of two Presa the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee, million per year. Canario dogs in the hall of the apart- Other dog-related crime said he will ‘work against any proposed legislation to Birders nationwide, and especially in ment house where both lived. The jury Robert Stevens, 64, of legalize shooting feral cats,’” reported Ryan J. Foley Wisconsin, have been inflamed against cats by exces- also convicted Knoller, and her hus- Pittsville, Virginia, on April 21, of Associated Press. sive projections of cat predation on birds promoted band and law partner Robert Noel, 63, 2005 was sentenced in Pittsburgh, “It’s not the responsibility of the DNR to since 1996 by University of Wisconsin-Madison of involuntary manslaughter. Knoller Pennsylvania federal court to serve 37 regulate cats,” added Natural Resources and wildlife biology professor Stanley A. Temple. and Noel both drew four-year prison months in prison for selling videos of Transportation Committee chair Neal Kedzie. Temple argues that cats kill from 7.8 to 100 million sentences. Both are now out on parole. dogfights, as the first person convicted + Any Wisconsin voter could attend the birds per year in Wisconsin alone, with 39 million a Trial judge James Warren of under a 1999 law against distributing + Conservation Congress meetings and cast a ballot, “reasonable estimate.” the San Francisco Superior Court, pornographic depictions of cruelty. but cat lovers mobilized too late to overcome the About 7.8 million is actually the upper end threw out the second degree murder Circuit Judge Charles “home field” advantage of hunters and birders. of likelihood, based on the preponderance of data conviction. The appellate court said he G r a d d i c k of Mobile County, Ala- “Attendance at the Conservation Congress from other sources. erred. “Justice James Lambden, writ- bama, on April 21 sentenced W a l t e r hearings was 13,281, more than twice the number Credible estimates of bird predation by cats ing for a three-judge panel, said Tyrone Ware, 32, to serve six con- who showed up last year,” reported Meg Jones of the nationwide range from 100 million per year, project- Knoller knew that the dog who killed current 20-year sentences for dogfight- ed in 2003 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Whipple was a ‘frightening and dan- ing, plus 20 years for illegal posses- THE NEW POPE LOVES CATS Migratory Bird Management Office biologist Al gerous animal: huge, untrained, and sion of steroids, and six more months Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, of Manville, to 134 million per year, projected in 2000 bred to fight,” summarized Associated for violating probation on a convicton Regensburg, Germany, named Pope Benedict by Carol Fiore of the Wichita State University Press legal writer David Kravets. for selling crack cocaine. Twenty- XVI on April 19, 2005, was heralded in a N e w Department of Biological Sciences. “The ruling could send three pit bull terriers, many of them York Times headline as “A lover of cats and About half of all pet cat keepers allow their Knoller to prison for 15 years to life,” emaciated and severely injured, were Mozart,” remembered by former neighbor Rupert cats to go out, but surveys of cat-keepers indicate that added San Francisco Chronicle s t a f f seized from Ware in December 2003. Hafbauer as adoring cats, and greeted by PETA as those whose cats stay in have about twice as many a potential alley, based on a 2002 remark by cats, reflecting the greater longevity of indoor cats. Ratzinger that, “Industrial use of creatures, so that Estimates of cat predation on birds going geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a above the 100-134 million range tend to overestimate THE NO KILL liver as possible, or hens live so packed together both the number of pet cats who roam and the number that they become just caricatures of birds, this of feral cats, which is currently circa 5-10 million in degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems winter and about twice as high at the peak of “kitten SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE to me to contradict the relationship of mutuality season”––half the level of 15 years ago, before that comes across in the Bible.” neuter/return came into widespread practice. October 1-2, 2005 in San Diego, California
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BLM suspends wild horse sales after 41 go to slaughter (from page 1) young horses from the BLM,” for use in a Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia), “and is evi- building a proposed privately operated wild eligible for sale] and to be prepared if and tribal youth program, “but the horses who dence as to why immediate action should be horse adoption and visitor center near Mound when sales resume,” said Willis Lamm of arrived were in their mid-20s to mid-30s.” taken on my legislation to restore the ban on Horse, Nevada. The allocation was attached Kickin’ Back Ranch Wild Horses, as a Robert Moore, chief of staff for the commercial sale for slaughter of our as a rider to an $80.7 billion appropriation to cofounder of the Alliance of Wild Horse Rosebud Sioux president Charles Colombe, nation’s wild horse heritage.” support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Advocates. “Hopefully any resumption of sale said “The tribe is saddened that the horses’ Rahall, Representative Ed Whitfield On May 6 the rider was reportedly authority will include additional safeguards for new [owner] chose to end the horses’ [lives]. (R-Kentucky), and Senator Robert Byrd (D- dropped during negotiations to reconcile the the horses with respect to potential exploitation A committee of the council found a broker, West Virginia) are authors of proposed legisla- Senate and House versions of the bill. by scam artists and get-rich-quick schemers.” Jack Gyer,” Moore explained, “and I have yet tion to repeal the Burns amendment. The Beyond sales of horses to slaughter, to figure out how he came into the picture, but Rahall/Whitfield bill has 50 co-sponsors so far, No follow-up Lamm was outspokenly critical of the thinking he knew somebody who knew someone else. not enough to assure it a good change of clear- Of about 8,400 impounded wild behind the Internet-distributed sales pitch for a I’m amazed at the interest and level of intensi- ing the 435-member House of Representatives. horses who were mandated for sale by the “Mustang Training Initiative Program” pro- ty that people have about this issue,” Moore Whitfield and Representatives John Burns amendment, the BLM through April 25 moted by an entity calling itself the “Mustang added, “considering we are one of the poorest Sweeney (R-N.Y.) and John Spratt (D-S.C.) had delivered 992 to buyers and sold 950 more Heritage Foundation.” The IRS service con- counties in the U.S.,” as if that excused a pub- have also reintroduced a bill to ban the sale of who were awaiting delivery, BLM spokesper- tractor
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16 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 Judges rap canned hunts Sheep export protester Hahnheuser is acquitted GEELONG, Australia– – A an agreement to resume shipping sheep opposed by animal activists,” the The Tennessee Court of Appeals in Nashville on May Geelong County Court jury on May 6, to Saudi Arabia. Livestock exports to Melbourne Age summarized on May 9. 3 upheld the 1991 state ban on private possession of white-tailed 2005 acquitted Ralph Hahnheuser, 42, Saudi Arabia were suspended in The AWA at an early May deer. Game ranchers first brought the law before the Tennessee of “contaminating feed to cause eco- August 2003 after the Saudis refused to meeting with Mark Pearson, chief Court of Appeals in 1997, lost, and tried again with different nomic loss.” accept a cargo of 57,000 allegedly dis- executive of Animal Liberation New arguments in 1999 and 2004. Hahnheuser admitted adding eased sheep transported by the C o r m o South Wales, “presented evidence that District Judge Dorothy McCarter, of Helena, shredded pork to the water and feed E x p r e s s. Australia argued to no avail a new analgesic spray could reduce by Montana, on May 2, 2005 ruled that Initiative 143, which in given to sheep at a feedlot in Portland, that the sheep were healthy. About 85% the pain suffered by sheep who 2000 outlawed game farming, was not an illegal “taking” of pri- South Australia, on November 19, 13,000 sheep died aboard the C o r m o undergo mulesing,” the A g e s a i d , vate property. Her verdict paralleled the February 12 reasoning of 2003, as he immediately afterward E x p r e s s during the next three months. adding that “Pearson welcomed the District Judge David Rice, of Havre, in a parallel case. announced to news media. Hahnheuser The 44,000 survivors were eventually analgesic spray trials as a ‘serious and Deer rancher Russell G. Bellar, of Peru, Indiana, in pleaded innocent by reason of having donated to Eritrea. significant move forward.’” early May pleaded guilty to three of 38 federal charges filed committed the act to prevent cruelty to Truss said he had won a Pearson “pledged to urge against him, including 35 counts of illegal interstate commerce in the sheep, who were to have been pledge from Saudi Arabia that livestock PETA to lift an international boycott wildlife. U.S. District Judge Allen Sharp assessed financial shipped to Kuwait the next day. would be unloaded within 36 hours of against Australian wool on the condi- penalties against Bellar totaling $570,000 in fines, restitution, and Islamic dietary law forbids reaching the port of Jeddah, but could tion the spray is used,” said the Age. court costs, and sentenced him to serve 366 days in prison. eating pork or having contact with it. not guarantee that the Saudis would “It is unclear whether the “Clients would often pay thousands of dollars to shoot specific Hahnheuser hoped that the sheep would accept all livestock shipments. breakthrough will put an end to an deer, sometimes in smaller pens, sometimes over bait,” reported not be exported if they were known to The Hahnheuser verdict may Australian Wool Innovations case Rebecca S. Green of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. “In some have possibly consumed pork. The have encouraged the Australian against PETA, presently in federal cases, the deer had been drugged. Clients included Ronnie Dunn, shipment of about 70,000 sheep was Woolgrowers Association to escalate court,” the Age added. of the country music duo Brooks & Dunn, and E S P N h o s t delayed for two weeks. Represent- efforts to end a confrontation with The court rejected the origi- Jimmy Houston,” Green added. atives of two sheep exporting firms PETA over the practice of “mulesing” nal case on March 21, but gave Kris Kenneth Johnson, 44, of Fort Lauderdale, estimated that the action cost them $1.3 without going to court. Australian Wool Innovation until May Florida, in early May was assessed $8,535 in fines and restitution million (Australian funds). “Mulesing, which involves 25 to refile an amended claim. by Michigan 93rd District Court Judge Mark Luoma for ille- The Hahnheuser acquittal cutting skin folds from around a [Updates about the anti- gally keeping elk, exotic deer, and state-owned wild deer within came three days after Australian agri- sheep’s anus to prevent fly-strike, will live export and mulesing campaigns an unlicensed 10-acre fenced enclosure. culture minister Warren Truss signed be banned from 2010 and has long been Rosebud Sioux Tribe hog factory & Israeli foie gras cases Welfare experts quit KFC posts The Rosebud Sioux Tribe 2,000 hogs each per year and will con- The Israeli Supreme Court Animal welfare consultants Temple Grandin of has reached an out-of-court settle- tinue to produce a combined 96,000 on March 31, 2005 rejected a petition Colorado State University and Ian Duncan of the University of m e n t with the U.S. Department of hogs per year,” summarized Melmer. from the Ministry of Agriculture asking Guelph, Ontario, Canada, resigned from positions as advisors to Interior that will limit the Sun Prairie “Since the hog farm lease agreement that an 18-month phase-in of a ban on the KFC fast food chain during the first week of May 2005, after hog farming development on the reser- was announced, Concerned Rosebud producing foie gras be extended fur- the parent firm, Yum Brands, asked them to sign a confidentiality vation to just the two 24-barn farms Area Citizens, the Humane Farming ther. The court ruled on August 11, agreement that would have required them to refer all media that are already operating, instead of A s s o c i a t i o n , and the South Dakota 2003 that force-feeding ducks and inquiries to the KFC corporate headquarters. “I resigned because the 13 that the Bureau of Indian Peace & Justice Center have tried to geese violates Israeli law, but allowed there is a document that I can’t sign,” Grandin told N i c h o l a A f f a i r s authorized on behalf of the shut the project down. In 1999 a new the phase-out. At the time, Israel Groom of Reuters. “I feel very strongly that I [should be able to] Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council i n tribal council began trying to stop the ranked fourth globally in foie gras talk freely to the press.” Grandin has also advised McDonald’s, 1998, reported David Melmer o f growth of the hog farm, and in 2003 exports, the Israeli foie gras i n d u s t r y Wendy’s International, and Burger King about animal welfare Indian Country Today on May 9, the BIA was asked to close it. The was worth $16.5 million per year, it matters, but told Groom that none of them ever asked her to sign 2005. In addition, the existing barns Department of Interior withdrew the employed 500 people, and it killed an agreement to not speak to the press. Added Duncan, “The way may operate for only 20 years under lease; Sun Prairie fought the tribe and about 700,000 ducks and geese per that I read it, it wouldn’t allow me to talk in general terms about the current lease, not 50 years, the federal government to keep the hog year. The Knesset, the Israeli parlia- animal welfare. If someone phoned and said ‘You are on the KFC Melmer wrote. Approval of the settle- farms open. Nearly two years ago, ment, on January 3, 2005 reinforced animal welfare committee,’ I was bound to say ‘No comment.”’ ment by U.S. District Judge Richard Battey ruled that the lease termination the 2003 court ruling with legislation KFC spokesperson Bonnie Warschauer said the company would Battey is anticipated. “The two exist- did not comply with due process and specifically forbidding foie gras p r o - try to work out a new confidentiality agreement with Grandin and ing farms have 24 barns that produce found the lease to be valid.” duction. Duncan, who have each advised KFC for about three years. Changings of the guard at Best Friends, Alley Cat Allies, Farm Sanctuary, Toledo Zoo, et al Bonney Brown, founder of the Phil Morgan, who on March 31 over the design and size of the new shelter, interim director. The Young-Williams center Neponset Valley Humane Society i n resigned effective June 30 after seven years as but was persuaded to return. The new shelter, was created after the Humane Society of the Massachusetts in 1992, and outreach director president of the Escondido Humane Society, 3.5 times as big as the present shelter, is $1.4 Tennessee Valley gave up Knoxville and Knox for the Best Friends Animal Society s i n c e was relieved of his duties three weeks later by million short of the $10 million needed for County animal control duties to focus on steril- 1998, has taken a similar post with Alley Cat the shelter board. He then took over as execu- completion. Rindy previously headed the ization and adoption. Keplinger formerly A l l i e s . “Alley Cat Allies and Best Friends tive director at the Northern Arizona Second Grand Forks Humane Society, then for 20 headed the Oak Ridge animal control depart- have always had a strong working relationship. Chance Center for Animals in Flagstaff. years was director of pet overpopulation issues ment. During his tenure the rate of shelter We look forward to future collaboration,” Kate Rindy, 53, executive director for the Humane Society of the U.S. killing in Knoxville rose from 20.9 in 2000 to Brown said. Southern Animal Foundation at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Randy Keplinger, executive direc- 27.6 in 2004. co-founder Paul Berry, with Best Friends S o c i e t y since 1995, announced in April that tor of the Young-Williams Animal Center in Responding to recurrent staff since 2001, will fill Brown’s former position. she will retire when construction of a new Knox County, Tennessee, since it opened in complaints about alleged religious prosely- Farm Sanctuary cofounder Lorri shelter is finished. Rindy previously resigned December 2000, resigned on April 14. t i z i n g on the job, the Montgomery County, B a u s t o n, who left the organization in July in March 2003 during a dispute with the board Veterinarian Michelle Williams was named Texas commissioners in late April demoted 2004 and resigned from the board in March animal services director Kelli Copeland t o 2005, has announced that she will open a new deputy director and announced that a new 26-acre sanctuary called Peaceable Kingdom director would be appointed. in September 2005. Contact info: 5200 Rebecca M. Stevens was on April Escondido Canyon Road, Acton, CA 93510; 22 named executive director of the Hamilton 661-269-0986;
ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 - 17 Weaning zoos from elephants (from page 1)
phants, hippos, lions, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, and mem- bers of about 20 other species from Kenya to Thailand. On March 12 and April 5, respectively, the last ele- phants left the San Francisco Zoo and the Detroit Zoo, en route to retirement at the Ark 2000 refuge operated by the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary near San Andreas, California, following nine months of negotiation among the zoos, the city governments, the sanctuary, and the American Zoo Association. The public loves elephants as much as ever, but knowing more about elephants than ever before, elephant enthusiasts are increasingly skeptical that elephants can enjoy the quality of life they deserve within the limited space that zoos afford. There is growing concern among zoo managers that as elephants go, so go the crowds, the multi-million-dollar projects, and the prestige that zoos now enjoy within the global conservation community. Zoos without elephants, some feel, Walt Disney’s Wild Animal Kingdom elephant habitat. (Kim Bartlett) might just as well be sanctuaries, still with an educational mis- seven of the Swaziland elephants. The Lowry Park Zoo in failed to produce a birth. sion, but quiet homes for animals whom few people think Tampa received the other four. “Zoos think it’s their God-given right to have an ele- about, rather than institutions which often win priority support Threatening to cull more than 1,000 elephants per phant,” zoo elephant management consultant Alan Roocroft over schools and libraries in municipal budgeting. year, beginning in October 2005 and continuing until the recently told Chris Metinko of the Contra Costa Times, “ b u t Of the 214 AZA zoos, only 78 have elephants. They Kruger National Park population is cut from circa 13,000 to elephants are not doing well in captivity. There are so many attract about two-thirds of the cumulative annual zoo audience less than half as many, the South African government would ailments they can get, and their surroundings are different. of about 140 million visitors. like to export as many elephants as zoos are willing to take. They walk less. They are overweight. They get foot problems. “Elephants are probably the most enigmatic and But most zoos are reluctant to engage in the bruising public It’s not unusual,” Roocroft pointed out, “for an elephant to die charismatic animals we have,” Brookfield Zoo director Stuart relations battle with anti-captivity activists that typically in captivity, and, even after an autopsy, we don’t know why.” Strahl recently told William Mullen and Jon Yates of the accompanies applications for CITES import permits. Such criticisms come often from animal rights Chicago Tribune. “People are drawn to them because of their The least confrontational way for a zoo to get ele- activists and other critics of zoos, but Roocroft is the retired size. They are an animal everybody can relate to.” phants is to breed them. Yet, of about 150 Asian and 150 longtime senior elephant keeper at the San Diego Zoo & Wild Thus at least 40 AZA members are either rebuilding African elephants still alive at AZA member zoos, fewer than Animal Park, and is among the most frequent targets in zoo or adding elephant facilities. In Ohio alone, according to John 100 are believed to have reproductive potential. management of activist attacks. C. Kuehner and Suzanne Hively of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “If we don’t do better, in 30 years there won’t be ele- the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is planning an $18 million ele- phants for exhibits,” warned Reid Park Zoo administrator phant habitat, the Toledo Zoo is spending $13 million to Susan Basford on March 1. Letting elephants go expand its elephant-holding capacity from two to six, the Basford told Joe Burchell of the Arizona Daily Star Under intensifying activist pressure, some zoos are Cincinnati Zoo spent $6 million on a new elephant exhibit that if the city of Tucson does not fund an $8 million expansion rethinking the wisdom of keeping elephants, for possibly the opened in 2001, and hopes to expand it, and the Columbus of the present half-acre elephant facility to three acres, two of first time since elephant exhibitions began, and the success of Zoo opened a $5 million elephant exhibit in 1996. the three Reid Park elephants may need to be relocated in order early exhibitors inspired emulation. The Alaska Zoo has only one elephant, named to have room to breed. The San Francisco Zoo and Detroit Zoo opted out of Maggie, who arrived in 1983 as a traumatized survivor from a Only 30 African elephants have been born in the U.S. elephant keeping more than five years after the Mesker Park lethal cull at Kruger National Park in South Africa. Her com- since the first one, in 1950. Asian elephants did not reproduce Zoo & Botanic Garden in Evansville, Indiana sent Bunny, the panion, Annabelle, died in 1997. Maggie is among the in the U.S. until 1962, when Packy, 43, was born at the last elephant it had, to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, youngest wild-caught females in the U.S., and is considered Oregon Zoo in Portland. Eighty-seven Asian elephants have Tennesee. But the Mesker Park Zoo, the first to voluntarily prime for breeding, but Alaska Zoo director Tex Edwards has been born at U.S. zoos since then, including 27 at the Oregon give up keeping elephants for stated humane reasons, had adamantly resisted pressure from the AZA and activist groups Zoo. Many other zoos have had elephant births, but only 17 already lost AZA accreditation for selling macaques in viola- to send her south. The zoo was built around Maggie and African elephant calves and 51 Asian elephant calves have sur- tion of the AZA animal relinquishment policy. Annabelle. Without an elephant, it might not survive for vived their first year. The San Francisco and Detroit Zoos are members in long––so it is spending $500,000 to add a treadmill and other In one frustrating recent case, Bella, an eight-month- good standing––although the AZA initially threatened both improvements meant to keep Maggie fit and mentally occupied, old African elephant calf, was bottle-fed at the Houston Zoo with loss of accreditation for allowing the elephants to leave the despite the absence of companions. after her mother refused to nurse her. Bella seemed to be past accredited zoo community. The Detroit Zoo elephants were the most precarious part of her infancy, but on April 12, 2005 eventually waived outside the zoo system after the AZA offi- suffered a severe femur fracture in a fall. She was euthanized cially learned that they had been exposed at one time to a Following the mammoths when three days of orthopedic treatment failed. potentially fatal transmissible disease. The San Francisco Zoo Increasing public skepticism of zoo elephant keeping “It just wasn’t going to work,” Houston Zoo director is to undergo a status review in 2006. is whetted by frequent deaths among the aging zoo elephant Rick Barongi told Salatheia Bryant of the Houston Chronicle. The San Francisco Zoo actually divested of elephants population. The trend is apparent around the world. The gener- “It wasn’t an easy break to fix. Everybody agreed that it was in two stages. Thai-born Tinkerbelle was trucked to San ation of zoo elephants imported before the Convention on asking too much of this calf.” Andreas on November 28, 2004. Lulu, an African elephant, International Trade in Endangered Species took effect in 1972 Bella’s mother, Shanti, is again pregnant. followed four months later. Celebration of her arrival at San is rapidly thinning, and there are few replacements on the glob- Barongi previously assembled the elephant collection Andreas was dampened when Tinkerbelle, long suffering from al market. at Walt Disney World’s Wild Animal Kingdom. Two of the chronic degenerative foot ailments, took a turn for the worse. Eleven African elephants imported from Swaziland in Disney elephants gave birth successfully, in May 2003 and On March 24 she collapsed and was euthanized. August 2003 were the first wild-caught elephants to reach the July 2004, but on April 24 an unborn calf died there when the “It’s a downhill slope once the foot is rotting away,” U.S. from abroad in 30 years. The San Diego Zoo received mother, Ibala, 26, did not sustain labor. An induced labor (continued on page 18) Animal exhibitions in the Islamic world ANIMAL LEGAL & VETERINARY Bear-baiting hold as many as 850 bears captive. nently following the death of her MEDICAL CONSULTING SERVICES In 2002 WSPA donated to the tank mate, Hook.” A month later, “Punjab [Pakistan] Pakistani government a bear sanc- seven months after the belugas authorities have stopped an ille- Animal Shelter Services tuary at Kund Park in the North were confiscated, Feel remained at gal bear baiting event from going West Frontier province that WSPA Merryland. ahead for the first time in twenty Assessment of Shelter and Field Service, built in 2000. 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Weaning zoos from elephants instead of losing zoo elephant babies (from page 17) In Defense of Animals president Elliot Katz told Patricia Yollin was loaded into a Hawthorn trailer to leave the zoo. Removing of the San Francisco Chronicle. “Elephants’ feet were never Lota from Hawthorn became an activist cause celebre. The made to stand on unyielding surfaces like concrete. It takes Last episode of Lota saga Milwaukee County Zoo eventually tried unsuccessfully to time, but it’s definitely a death sentence,” Katz said. At the PAWS Ark 2000 sanctuary, the former Detroit retrieve her. Cuneo declined an offer of $230,000 for Lota San Francisco Zoo director of animal care and con- Zoo elephants are reportedly mixing well with the Asian ele- from actor Kevin Nealon, who wanted to send her to the servation Bob Jenkins agreed. ”The condition she was suffer- phants who were already there. A live web camera is soon to Elephant Sanctuary, but in November 2004 finally let her go, ing from probably started 38 years ago, when it was standard go online to make their activities visible. under pressure of an agreement with the USDA to divest of his to keep elephants on concrete,” Jenkins told Yollin. “Those Winky, 52, is more-or-less back home, having lived elephants in settlement of penalties for multiple Animal decisions were made by my forebears.” at the Sacramento Zoo about 70 miles away until the Detroit Welfare Act violations. The San Francisco Zoo, located at the present site Zoo acquired her in 1991. Lota’s death was relatively little noticed amid the since 1922, had exhibited elephants since 1925, in rivalry with “Wanda, 48, had a rougher life,” wrote Detroit Free furor erupting in Chicago after Peaches, 55, the oldest African the Oakland Zoo, which was founded in 1922. Press reporter Hugh McDiarmid Jr., “working for the Disney elephant in North America, collapsed at the Lincoln Park Zoo Oakland Zoo founding curator Henry Snow reputedly company on the Mickey Mouse Show, and moving to private early on January 17. She was euthanized that evening. showed off baby elephants by hauling them to public events in collections after that. She was given to the San Antonio Zoo, Peaches and two other female African elephants, his open-topped town car. The Oakland Zoo developed a where she was once pushed into a moat and injured during a Tatima, 35, and Wankie, 36, were transferred from much nationally publicized bad reputation after a succession of young fight with another elephant. Then she went to the Fort Worth larger quarters at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in April African elephants died there, continuing to have incidents long Zoo and in 1994, to Detroit. During much of her life she was 2003, against considerable opposition from activists who con- after Snow’s time. chained and unable to move freely,” according to Detroit Zoo tended that they would have difficulty withstanding the cold In the 1980s, current Oakland Zoo general curator director of conservation and animal welfare Scott Carter. Chicago climate––even though the Lincoln Park Zoo had built Colleen Kinzley lost part of one hand to an accident involving a The Elephant Sanctuary would have been 600 miles a $23 million habitat in which to keep the elephants. rampaging elephant, and another keeper was killed by a bull closer than PAWS Ark 2000, but Detroit Zoo director Ron “They’re saying Peaches died of old age, but she died elephant in musth. Kagen opted to send Winky and Wanda to Ark 2000, he said, of the stress of living in Chicago,” former San Diego Wild In June 1991 the Oakland Zoo became the first in the because the PAWS facilities are close to the veterinary school Animal Park elephant keeper Ray Ryan told Tara Burghart of U.S. to shift to the “protected contact” method of elephant han- at the University of California at Davis. Associated Press. dling, in which direct contact between elephants and keepers is The Elephant Sanctuary was the retirement home of Tatima died in October 2004 from M y c o b a c t e r i u m minimized. Protected contact rapidly swept the zoo world, Lota, 51, who died of tuberculosis on February 9, 2005. s z u l g a i , a rare bacterial infection similar to tuberculosis. becoming the industry standard approach to elephant handling “Lota was the single most important individual in PETA and In Defense of Animals then asked the Lincoln Park by the late 1990s. raising awareness of captive elephants, but she gave her life to Zoo to send Peaches and Wankie to The Elephant Sanctuary. The AZA now requires all trainers at elephant-keep- do it,” Elephant Sanctuary founder Carol Buckley told Jackie Following Peaches’ death, the request was renewed ing accredited zoos to minimize contact with elephants by using Loohauis of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. on behalf of Wankie, who was unable to bear young and was a restraint device when doing potentially dangerous care. A longtime resident of the Milwaukee County Zoo, therefore not part of the AZA African elephant Species The Oakland Zoo elephant facilities are praised––if Lota was in 1990 transferred to the Hawthorn Corporation, Survival Plan. elephants are to be kept by zoos at all––by Katz of IDA, begun by then-traveling circus operator John Cuneo in 1957. Instead, Wankie was sent by truck on April 28 to join PAWS Ark 2000 founder Pat Derby, Elephant Sanctuary at By 1990 Cuneo had long since discovered more profit in leas- African elephants named Hy Dari and Christy at a newly Hohenwald founder Carol Buckley, and other opponents of ing animals to other circuses and boarding exotic animals. opened $5.5 million elephant facility at the Hogle Zoo in Salt elephant exhibition. A television camera caught Lota collapsing as she Lake City, the centerpiece of a $10.2 million Hogle Zoo remake. Although the move was announced ahead of time, the exact date and time of departure were kept secret to avoid demonstrations by PETA in Chicago and the Utah Animal Rights Coalition in Salt Lake City. On April 30, Wankie collapsed as the truck rolled through Nebraska. She received emergency treatment, then was hauled on to the Hogle Zoo. She was pronounced irrecov- erable and euthanized at 3:30 a.m. on May 1. A post-mortem did not immediately establish the exact cause of death, which was believed to be related to chronic leg or foot ailments. The USDA announced that it would investigate. Chicago alderman George Cardenas introduced a resolution to keep the Lincoln Park Zoo from acquiring more elephants. Lincoln Park Zoo director Kevin Bell said that the elephant habitat would be converted to house Bactrian camels, pending completion of a longterm study of the feasibility of keeping elephants healthy in a northern climate. “For the foreseeable future,” Bell told Patricia Ward Biederman of the Los Angeles Times, “we are not going to bring elephants back.” “I question whether elephants can be kept in any northern zoos,” Amboseli Trust for Elephants founder Cynthia Moss told Jeremy Manier and William Mullen of the Chicago Tribune. Moss, who has studied elephants in Kenya for more than 30 years, opined that no more than a dozen zoos in the U.S. should keep elephants. Three deaths helped Veda Though Peaches, Tatima, and Wankie were African elephants, their fate was noted in India as debate over the intended exile of Veda to Armenia intensified. The perception The Roger Williams Zoo in Rhode Island opened one of the first new-style expanded elephant habitats in 1991, that a cold climate killed them may have saved Veda. but introduced it with an old-zoo style publicity stunt. (Roger Williams Zoo photo) (continued on page 19
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ANIMAL P E OPLE, Apri l 2005 - 19 Weaning zoos from elephants (from page 18) Veda was to have joined a nine-year-old male ele- either Australia or New Zealand, but the Taronga Zoo in phant named Grandik at the Yerevan Zoo in December 2004, Sydney and Melbourne Zoo in Australia and the Auckland Zoo in consummation of an “arranged marriage” brokered in 1999 in New Zealand in 1998 formed an elephant breeding consor- by then-Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. tium with the Monarto Open Range Zoo and the Sunshine Veda was a last-minute substitution for the original Coast Australia Zoo. The latter is operated by C r o c o d i l e “bride,” Komala, age 8, of the Mysore Zoo. Komala was to Hunter TV series star Steve Irwin. have departed for Armenia on October 14, 2004, but instead The consortium goal is to produce a self-sustaining died abruptly from symptoms resembling the August 2004 zinc Australia/New Zealand zoo population of about 40 elephants. phosphide poisonings of two other elephants, Ganesha and After plans to acquire elephants from Indonesia fell through in Roopa, and a lion-tailed macaque. All three elephants and the 2002, the Taronga Zoo spent $40 million (Australian) and the macaque were believed to have been given rat poison by dis- Melbourne Zoo spent $14 million (Australian) in preparation to gruntled zoo staff. receive nine young Asian elephants from the Chiang Mai Night The “arranged marriage,” involving either Komala or Safari Zoo in Thailand in trade for two koalas. Veda, was opposed from the first by People for Animals “The project has become increasingly troubled since founder Maneka Gandhi, who was minister of state for animal elephants were selected from Thai tourist camps a year ago,” welfare at the time Komala was promised. reported Andrew Darby of the Melbourne Age on March 25, “The Yerevan Zoo has no elephants because each 2005. “The two proven breeders were lost to the group. One (Sue Clark) time they get them, the elephants die,” Mrs. Gandhi told Prime died of snakebite. Another was rejected after she was found to Minister Singh. “One elephant was shot dead when he escaped be age 40, not 20, according to Environment Department let- about $17,000, a significant temptation to people in a position in the early 1970s. One elephant, suffering from malnutrition ters” obtained through document requests filed by the Royal to take short-cuts. and hypothermia, slipped on ice and died in the early 1990s. SPCA of Australia, Humane Society International, and Thai interim natural resources and environment min- The Yerevan Zoo has no affiliations with any zoo associations International Fund for Animal Welfare. ister Suvit Khunkitti responded to scrutiny of the Chiang Mai or federations and is therefore not required to follow any rules “The zoos refused to provide details of their applica- deal by reportedly trying to expedite it. or regulations,” Mrs. Gandhi asserted. tion or say where the nine elephants eventually chosen were “He also ordered officials to complete the koala shel- India proved to be much more accepting of arranged being held,” continued Darby. ter at the Night Safari zoo by April, as instructed by prime marriages for humans than for elephants. “According to non-government sources, they went minister Thaksin Shinawatra,” wrote Kultida Samabuddhi. “India sends gift elephant to die in Armenian winter,” into pre-export quarantine in October 2004 at a rural campus of The elephants to be exported were already waiting in headlined Kounteya Sinha in The Asian Age, of Delhi. Thailand’s Mahidol University. Scheduled to stay there for 90 a pre-quarantine facility, but Australian environment minister “This young elephant is being sent to a certain days before a further three-month quarantine on the Cocos Ian Campbell balked at issuing import permits. death,” affirmed Ambika Shukla of People for Animals. “The Islands, the eight females and one male have been confined in As of early May, both the elephants-for-koalas swap Yerevan Zoo lacks proper housing, grazing, and the space Thailand ever since.” with the Australia/New Zealand consortium and the 300-animal needed to support an elephant. Worst is its climatic unsuitabili- A hint as to how the elephants might have been kept deal with Kenya were still pending––and Thai officials seemed ty. During the cold months the elephants are caged in heated occupied came in February 2005, when The Nation r e p o r t e d to be trying to slow down the Kenyan transaction. sheds with no opportunity to walk or exercise.” that the Chiang Mai Night Safari staff had trained an elephant “This issue cannot be hurried up,” Thai senator Mme Responded Yerevan zoo director Sahak Abovyan to use a flush toilet. “All seven elephants at the Palaad Pensak told The Nation, on a visit to Kenya. “We have no “There are 50,000 elephants in India but the protesters do not Tawanron camp,” near the zoo, “are being potty-trained,” memorandum of understanding on this at all,” Pensak said. want to give us just one. They are very odd people.” wrote Atcha Piyatanang of The Nation. “After a mere couple Whatever deal might eventually be worked out will That won Abovyan few friends in India when ampli- of days’ worth of training, Diew and one of his mates can exclude elephants, reported Ecoterra International, a 10-nation fied by Habib Beary of BBC News in Bangalore. already do their business in a civilised manner.” activist collaboration. “The central government [in Delhi] has taken a deci- But this may not have been the same group of off- “No mahouts (elephant trainers) will be sent to Kenya sion. We are only following orders,” Karnataka state Principal exhibit Chiang Mai Night Safari elephants. and the whole plan of training Kenyan elephants is off,” Conservator of Wildlife Ram Mohan Ray told Beary. Ecoterra claimed. The Karnataka High Court ruled on March 4 against a Thai opposition Suvit Khunkitti, who will be “left holding the bag” if CUPA claim that sending Veda to Armenia would violate the either international elephant deal fails, inherited responsibility 1972 Wildlife Act. While seeking to import African elephants from for completing the deals from his immediate predecessor, Despite winning in the court of law, the Indian Kenya, Thailand has long been the leading exporter of Asian Plodprasop Suraswadi, who is still reputedly a power behind External Affairs Ministry lost in the court of public opinion. elephants––chiefly to zoos, although five Thai work elephants the scenes. Ganguly celebrated only briefly before beginning to and their mahouts were sent to Indonesia in 1997 under a 10- Plodprasop Suraswadi lost the Thai wildlife ministry strategize on behalf of Grandik. year contract to help round up wild elephants displaced by ille- after a Thai senate panel in late 2004 found reason to believe Also originally from India, Grandik “was gifted to gal logging and forest fires. that he illegally issued permits allowing the Sri Racha Tiger Moscow years ago,” wrote Belgaumkar. In 1999, shortly An international incident ensued when the mahouts Zoo to sell 100 tigers to China. The panel concluded that the before the deal to acquire Veda was made, “The authorities in returned to Thailand in June 1998, complaining that they had tiger sale was a commercial transaction, not a legitimate Moscow transferred him to Armenia.” not been paid. The elephants were finally repatriated, with attempt to conserve the species. “He is all alone there. Maybe he should be brought great public fanfare, on December 31, 1999. Big money is also involved in the Chiang Mai Night back to India,” said Ganguly. Elephant exports have been a politically sensitive Safari Park attempt to buy elephants and other animals from Ganguly credited ANIMAL PEOPLE with introduc- subject in Thailand ever since. Kenya. The park management offered Kenya $1 million for the ing her to Armenian activists who helped to win cancellation of The controversy grew hotter in 2004 when China animals, Agence France-Presse reported. the transfer of the elephant by documenting the conditions at offered to buy 200 elephants. Of the first eight elephants sent “The ‘donation’ was requested by acting tourism the Yerevan Zoo and demonstrating that Armenian public opin- to China, two died. minister Raphael Tuju during President Mwai Kibaki’s visit to ion did not favor acquiring an elephant who would suffer. Opposition to the Chiang Mai deal with the Australia/ Thailand last October,” added Mugo Njeru of The Nation. Armenian President Robert Kocharian reportedly New Zealand elephant-breeding consortium is as intense within The role of elephants in establishing the status of requested a female elephant as a companion for Grandik by Thailand as within the would-be recipient nations. There are national leaders was already centuries old in India, Sri Lanka, presenting to Vajpayee several drawings by Armenian children about 2,000 domesticated elephants in Thailand, and 2,600 in Thailand, and China circa 2,500 years ago, when an elephant depicting Grandik with a “wife.” the wild––enough to be often perceived as a nuisance, but became the totem of Buddha. The idea might have spread west Enlisting the help of children has been a classic ele- barely half as many as a human generation ago. with the Carthaginian general Hannibal, but apparently caught phant acquisition ploy since 1955, when children donated pen- “Exchanging rare animals for commercial purposes on only after the Crusades opened trade routes to India, nies to help the San Francisco Zoo to buy an African elephant is no longer acceptable. Many of our wild animals were mal- enabling Indian animal trainers to venture into Europe. after the previous resident elephant died. Penny, as the acqui- treated and have died in such animal exchange projects,” In 1245 the emperor Frederick II traveled with an ele- sition was named, lived at the zoo for 40 years. Wildlife Foundation of Thailand secretary-general Surapol phant while struggling to keep Germany, Austria, and Italy But children from both India and Armenia, as well as Duangkhae told Kultida Samabuddhi of The Bangkok Post. united as the Holy Roman Empire. throughout Europe and the U.S., signed electronic petitions “Even a light trade in elephants is not acceptable,” Ten years later, in 1255, Henry III of England against moving Veda. echoed Friends of the Asian Elephant founder Soraida Salwala, brought an elephant across the English Channel to assist in try- to Sydney Morning Herald Bangkok correspondent Walaiporn ing to unite the eventual United Kingdom. Mekkreangkrai. “It encourages the trade. They [zoo animal Frederick II learned, as Hannibal had 1,400 years Thai deals still pending dealers] go into Laos and Myanmar to get more babies,” earlier, that elephants do not thrive on the cold side of the The proposed Thai acquisition of animals including Soraida alleged. Alps. Henry III found that giving his elephant wine to ward off elephants from Kenya and a similar deal that would send Thai By law, Thailand dealers are only allowed to sell the winter chill caused the elephant to die from hypothermia. elephants to Australia and New Zealand are still pending. domesticated elephants. In 1993, Soraida said, the going price Zoos are still assimilating these lessons. Elephants have reportedly never bred successfully in for a domesticated baby elephant was about $2,000. Now it is ––Merritt Clifton Russian circus animals killed in fire during controversial visit to India I the Lord God MUMBAI––Seven trained circus was operating in violation of & Animal Welfare Society activist sentatives Atif Ali and D.K. Kumar formed every beast of Siberian huskies, seven cats, and Indian animal welfare laws. Nilesh Bhanage leafleted against the reportedly owed more than $100,000 four sea lions belonging to the finan- In mid-March, wrote resumed circus performances. On in connection with bringing the cir- the field, and every cially struggling Rosgoscirc circus Surojit Mahalanobis of the Times of March 27 the circus closed, ostensi- cus to Mumbai. died in an April 5 fire at the I n d i a News Network, “The court bly for a two-week break. The Russian cast remained fowl of the air, and Chitrakut Grounds in the Mumbai accepted the Rosgoscirc plea that the “Mysteriously, the circus with the animals. they were also living suburb of Andheri West. Indian laws for animal use in circus organisers, an Assam-based event “The animals were an Animal Welfare Board of shows apply only to Indian animals, management company called Choice integral part of our troupe. We are souls. For I God India representative Bhavin Gathani and not to foreign species.” Events, disappeared after the shows incomplete without them,” actor and breathed into them alleged that the fire was an arson, While Khanna and Sawh- were discontinued,” the Times of singer Almar Rajsur told the T i m e s but that suspicion lifted after animal ney contemplated an appeal, Plant India reported. Choice Events repre- of India. the breath of life. caretaker Jasmin Shah and Chitrakut Veterinarian Wanted! Grounds manager Rajvir Dhillon Animals have souls confirmed that the $200,000 insur- Upstate N.Y. (Orange County) ance policy on the animals had For high-volume spay/neuter of same as you. expired two days earlier. Dhillon cats in our mobile clinic attributed the blaze to a short circuit. 1-2 days per week. Colonel J.C. Khanna of the Good pay, Hempstead/Nevada Animal Welfare Board of India and friendly atmosphere. Humane Society Mumbai PETA representative T.A.R.A., Inc. 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20 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, May 2005 Spring 2005 Legislation The U.S. Virgin Islands on May 5 gained an anti-cruelty law, after five years of negotiation and passage of two bills in nine months that were vetoed by Governor Charles W. Turnbull, who favored weaker penalties and fewer offenses, and opposed any restrictions on cockfighting In final form, the bill exempts cockfighting, does not permit felony prose- cution of cruelty, and eliminates jail time for neglect. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has thus far into 2005 From outside, the Oregon Humane Society just looks exceptionally big. The exceptional design aspects are inside. signed into law bills that require animal shelters to sterilize dogs and cats before adoption, require rabies vaccination of dogs and cats using a three- Oregon Humane Society New Shelter Project 2000 year vaccine, and prohibit “remote control” hunting, i.e. hunting with the hunter and prey not at the same location. Skanska USA Building Washington Governor Christine Gregoire is expected to sign Free downloadable PDF file:
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ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2005 - 21 The Tipping Point: How little things can make a difference by Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books (1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 2002. 280 pages, paperback. $14.95.
“Listen! My children and you shall hear destinations as possible, Revere alerted every- movement past the tipping point, so that the calls “the 150 rule.” This is the loss of cohe- of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. one he could along the way, enlisting the goals achieve broad cultural acceptance. sion and efficiency which mysteriously mani- Twas the 18th of April in ‘75. entire countryside as fellow messengers. He Gladwell relates how the preacher fests itself in most social organisations and Hardly a man is now alive was eventually arrested, but only after ampli- John Wesley established the Methodist businesses when the figure of 150 employees who remembers that famous day and year.” fying the alarm in all directions. Church, riding thousands of miles a year to is exceeded. In our own experience, the larg- The term “tipping point” refers to establish the network of churches that eventu- er the animal welfare institution, the less So begins William Wadsworth the threshold in all trends, epidemics, enter- ally became the United Methodists. effective is the expenditure of funds. Longfellow’s immortal poem about Paul prises, and social movements when whatever Wesley, writes Gladwell, “was a So let us apply Gladwell’s three fun- Revere’s ride, and so begins this profoundly is happening gains sufficient momentum that it classic Connector. He was a super Paul damentals to animal rights. There is wide- absorbing book by Malcolm Gladwell. can no longer be suppressed. Gladwell argues Revere. The difference is, though, that he spread acceptance of the notion that ethical At the same time that Paul Revere that often a trend needs only the smallest of wasn’t one person with ties to many other peo- people have a moral duty to avoid inflicting rode forth to “spread the alarm, to every nudges to push it over the critical threshold. ple. He was one person with ties to many suffering upon sentient beings, but even peo- Middlesex village and farm, / for the country Gladwell defines three categories of groups, which is a small but critical distinc- ple who are sensitive to the needs of animals folk to be up and to arm,” William Dawes set people who have the necessary influence to tion. Wesley realized that if you wanted to are apathetic and need to be roused to action. out to carry the same message. Yet Dawes’ supply that nudge: bring about a fundamental change in people’s The social context of animal rights, meaning role is little remembered, whereas in Revere’s Connectors, who are influential peo- beliefs and behavior, a change that would per- how the issue is framed and perceived, is case, “the sparks struck out by the steed in his ple with a large network of relevant acquain- sist and serve as an example to others, you often not conducive to the growth of the cause. flight / kindled a nation to flame with its heat.” tances; Mavens, knowledgeable people who needed to create a community around them, Mainstream support for animal Even less remembered is the third are repositories of relevant information and where those new beliefs could be practiced and rights at present amounts mostly to an amor- rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott, who was actually intellectual capacity; and Salespeople, who expressed and nurtured.” phous pool of goodwill which has yet to be the first of the three men to reach Concord. take that knowledge and present it in a way So rehabilitation centers and animal mobilized. Clearly what are needed are more Gladwell suggests that Revere won that appeals to the relevant market. shelters should be far more than mere facilities Connectors, Mavens, and Salespeople with the most historical note through the combina- In an afterword, Gladwell com- for animals: they should become centers of credibility and influence. tion of three fundamentals: the prestige of the ments upon the conventional ways of spread- communities where AR beliefs can be “prac- ––Chris Mercer messenger, the importance of the message, ing an important message, as well as the New ticed and expressed and nurtured.”
22 - ANIMAL P E OPLE, May 2005 HUMAN OBITUARIES MEMORIALS Elmina Brewster Sewall, 93, Bob Hunter, 63, died of prostate died on April 7, 2005 in Kennebunk, Maine. cancer in Toronto on May 2, 2005. “Hunter, In memory of David Johnson's father. Among the first breeders of Sussex spaniel a columnist for the Vancouver Sun in the ––Arendse Bernth & Michael McCord show dogs in the U.S., Brewster Sewall 1960s, came to prominence in 1971 with the –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– “between 1936 and 1940, imported some of launch of Greenpeace and its protests against In memory of Butchie-Bingo, the best stock available in England,” and nuclear testing,” recalled Associated Press. loving dog of Gloria, George, and Maya, “went on to breed seven litters over the next “Hunter, who coined the phrase ‘Don’t Make departed January 4, 2005. six years,” wrote John Robert Lewis Jr. in a Wave,’ the original name of Greenpeace, ––Gloria Wilkins Sussex Spaniel, A Complete and Reliable “boarded a small fishing boat dubbed the –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Handbook (1997). Brewster Sewall also Greenpeace in 1971 and set off to Alaska to In memory of Freddie (1987-1995). “bred and raised pugs, and was a familiar protest U.S. nuclear testing. ‘I thought I was Ten years have passed since you left us. You figure at the Westminster Dog Show,” going to be a reporter, taking notes,’ Hunter are never forgotten. You are always loved. recalled Katie Dolloff, program coordinator later said. ‘In reality, I wound up on first ––Lindy, Marvin & Melinda Sobel for the Animal Welfare Society of Southern watch.’ Hunter was elected the first president –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Maine. But she had also become concerned of Greenpeace in 1973. “In 1974, Bob took In memory of Sherman (1988-2005), about pet overpopulation, and in the 1950s the embers of what we began with the 1971 ANIMAL OBITS our little patriarch. We would not have allowed her line of Sussex spaniels to die out. voyage to Amchitka to oppose nuclear test- missed a day with you. After several years of informal animal rescue, ing, and he fanned the dying sparks into the S p l a s h , 15, a 16-foot male orca ––Lindy, Marvin & Melinda Sobel Brewster Sewall and friends incorporated the flames that became the Greenpeace move- born at Marineland Canada in Niagara, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Animal Welfare Society in 1967. A longtime ment,” e-mailed Greenpeace cofounder and Ontario, sold to SeaWorld in 1992, died on In memory of Purr Box (12/3/87), AWS board member, Brewster Sewall was Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder April 5 at SeaWorld San Diego. Splash suf- Prometheus (3/21/81), Friendl (10/30/87), also active in greyhound rescue, and assisted Paul Watson. “If there had been no Robert fered from a series of infections and illnesses Lizzie (5/8/84), Boy Cat (12/26/85), other charities including Mainely Girls, Hunter, Greenpeace would simply be a foot- that apparently began after he seriously Miss Penrose (11/18/98), Duke (11/1/98), Friends of the Sea Otter, the Student note in the history books from the early sev- scraped his face in a 1994 collision with the Purr Box, Jr. (5/1/04) and Blackie (9/9/96). Conservation Association, and the enties. In March of 1976, he and I stood on side of his tank. Massachusetts SPCA. The AWS named the the heaving ice floes off the coast of Labrador Dare, 6, a Kemp’s Ridley sea tur- Elmina B. Sewall Animal Shelter after her in as a large sealing ship bore down on us. The tle, died on March 10 at the Karen Beasley 1990. It finds homes for more than 3,000 ice cracked and split beneath our feet as I said Sea Turtle Rescue & Rehabilitation Center on animals a year,” Dolloff said. to Bob ‘When it splits, I’ll jump to the left Topsail Island, North Carolina. Found as a Paul G. Dye, 68, died on April 2. and you to the right.’ Bob looked straight stranded one-year-old in Dare County in 1999, “Dye was born in Ohio, but spent most of his ahead and calmly said, ‘I’m not going any- Dare was emaciated and battered from colli- youth in New Jersey,” recalled the E v e r e t t where.’ Because he stayed, I stayed, and we sions with boats. She was to be returned to the Herald. “By age 12, he had already started brought that seal killing ship to a dead stop. sea in September 1999 when Hurricane Floyd raising waterfowl. After moving to the Bob participated in numerous campaigns with hit. Volunteers fleeing the rescue center took Pacific Northwest, Dye purchased part of a the Sea Shepherds,” Watson added. “His last her home with them, but then had to flee their wetland near Lake Cassidy,” which became campaign with us was off the coast of home as well. Flood water contaminated the Northwest Wildfowl Farm, featuring “32 Washington State in 1998–1999,” against Dare’s tank, and she never fully recovered. Makah tribe whaling. “It was my great privi- ponds, eight acres of grain fields, four miles M u m b a l i , 7, a gorilla who lived lege to have been his friend for 35 years. of trails, a salmon stream, and forestry her whole life at the Lincoln Park Zoo in With his passing the Sea Shepherd Conserv- improvements for grouse and other woodland Chicago, was euthanized on April 28, after ation Society loses one of our most valued T s a v o , 14, a giraffe, was eutha- species. Nesting sites have been installed for three weeks of unsuccessful treatment, due to Advisory Board members.” In recent years nized at the Columbus Zoo on April 23 after wood ducks, flying squirrels, bats, chick- acute kidey failure from an unknown cause. Hunter was environmental news specialist for his keepers found him lying in his cage and in adees and flickers,” along with an “enclosed Her 9-year-old sister Rollie fell ill first with CHUM Citytv and CP24 in Toronto. “He eight hours of effort were unable to get him up. and heated wildlife observation blind and an similar symptoms, but got better. observation tower for visitors.” Dye and was perhaps best known to Toronto viewers The previous day, two Columbus Zoo zebras T r i x i e , 18, a polar bear born to Charles Pilling of Seattle were reputedly the for ‘Paper Cuts,’ a segment in which he wore named Flora and Fauna panicked and broke zoo-bred parents at the Bronx Zoo in 1987, first to breed the endangered spectacled eider a bathrobe and commented on the stories in their necks by bolting into fence posts, after transferred to the Roger Williams Park Zoo in in captivity, and helped to started a captive the day’s news,” Associated Press said. being moved to a temporary holding area at Providence, Rhode Island in 1989, died under breedng program for the eider on the North Arlin Resnicke, 48, died of can- Darby Dan Farms. Two weeks earlier, a sedation on April 29 as she was being prepared Slope of Alaska. cer on April 7, 2005, in Bakersfield, giraffe namd Kenya died from heart failure for temporary relocation to the Indianapolis while under treatment for a chronic illness. Vicky Elizabeth Bartlett, 50, of California. A motorcycle mechanic who Zoo while her habitat was rebuilt. All four animals lived in a section of the zoo Kew, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, worked at home, Resnicke had kennels for Big Red, four months, a Duroc pig that is to be replaced in five years with a $125 wife of sculptor Geoffrey Bartlett, was on 16 rescued Siberian huskies in his yard, and used by Randall’s High Diving Racers, a car- million African Savanna exhibit. February 28 flipped into the air and trampled in more than 15 years of helping huskies, + found homes for several hundred. “Every- nival show operated by Virgil and Velma + by a hippo at Fisherman’s Camp on Lake Buenos, 53, a black spider monkey Randall of Arkansas, was electrocuted on Naivasha, Kenya. Traveling with a group of thing was for the dogs,” fellow rescuer Nikki believed to have been the world’s oldest non- March 17 at the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo, 12 fellow tourists to the Masai Mara Game Artiaga said. “The dogs were his life.” The human primate other than great apes, died after plunging four feet into a tank of water. Reserve, Bartlett was fascinated by a hippo huskies left by his death were rehomed by from coronary trouble on March 26 at the Another pig dived into the water seconds later she saw the night before, tour guide John Siberian Referral of California. Japan Monkey Center in Aichi. “Just as we but was unharmed. The Randalls claimed it Mwangi said, and apparently went off alone Nancy Elizabeth Hand, 58, died were preparing to apply for the Guinness was their first accident in 15 years. to look for another one. on March 3, 2005, in Hanover, Michigan, Book, she passed away peacefully,” center remembered by the Jackson Citizen Patriot Sitka, 10, a female Pacific walrus manager Akira Kato told Agence France Press. for her love of animals and many animal who was captured under an aborignal subsis- “While lying on a bed, she always wanted to companions. “Her nurturing, compassionate tence hunting quota in 1995, residing at the hold our hands," Kato remembered, speculat- nature prompted her to serve as foster Indianapolis Zoo since May 1995, died during ing that “Her calm and kind personality greatly guardian for many abused and homeless ani- surgery on April 7. The surgical team had just helped” her longevity. “Also,” Kato said, mals,” the Citizen Patriot noted. removed a pine cone that blocked her “she started living with a young male monkey intestines and kept her from eating or drinking. 10 years ago, which might have excited her.”
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