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May 2005 3/22/13 6:32 PM Page 1 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 2 - ANIM AL PEOPLE, May 2005 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.