AW I Quarterly Fall 2010 Volume 59 Number 4 AWI ABOUT THE COVER Quarterly ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY Baby black rhinoceros, Maalim, is heading in for his evening bottle and then a good night’s sleep at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust outside Nairobi. Apparently abandoned by his FOUNDER mother, days-old Maalim (named for the ranger who rescued him) was found in the Ngulia Christine Stevens Rhino Sanctuary and taken to the Trust. Now at 20 months, he has grown quite a bit but is DIRECTORS still just hip-high! Black rhinos, critically endangered with a total wild population believed to Cynthia Wilson, Chair be around 4,200 animals, continue to be poached (along with white rhinos) for their horns. Barbara K. Buchanan “Into Africa” on p. 14 chronicles the visit to the Trust and other Kenyan conservation program John Gleiber sites by AWI’s Cathy Liss. Charles M. Jabbour Mary Lee Jensvold, Ph.D. Photo by Cathy Liss Cathy Liss 4 Michele Walter OFFICERS Cathy Liss, President Cynthia Wilson, Vice President Brutal BLM Roundups Charles M. Jabbour, CPA, Treasurer John Gleiber, Secretary THE UNNECESSARY REMOVAL OF WILD HORSES has reached an alarming rate SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE under the current administration. Thousands of horses have been and continue to Gerard Bertrand, Ph.D. be removed from their native range, and placed in short- and long-term holding Roger Fouts, Ph.D. facilities in the Roger Payne, Ph.D. Midwest. Taxpayers 10 22 Samuel Peacock, M.D. Hope Ryden pay tens of millions Robert Schmidt of dollars a year to John Walsh, M.D. warehouse horses who should be Armstrong Lauri “Palomino” VOLUME 59 NUMBER 4 INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Fall 2010 roaming free on Aline de Aluja, D.M.V., Mexico Ambassador Tabarak Husain, Bangladesh public lands. Jennifer Gillespie Jennifer Angela King, United Kingdom ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES WILDLIFE REVIEWS Agnes Van Volkenburgh, D.M.V., Poland Interior Secretary 4 AWI to the Rescue! AWI Joins 6 Roadkill Research: Making Highways 26 Two Books Examine Our Alexey Yablokov, Ph.D., Russia Ken Salazar Forces with Shelters and Rescue Less Hazardous Relationship with Wolves Organizations to Save Hundreds of Before After 8 The Massachusetts Beaver 26 CAFO: The Tragedy of STAFF AND CONSULTANTS announced a Animals from Lab Under Investigation Controversy Industrial Animal Factories Nancy Blaney, Senior Federal Policy Advisor plan supposedly Honey Bandit is a young foal snared in a summer 2010 for Abuse Cameron Creinin, Graphic Designer/Illustrator to improve BLM’s roundup near Twin Peaks, California. At two months of age, 6 USDA Fines Vanderbilt for Animal 10 Lead Poisoning: The Lessons of the he was found in BLM custody near death—starving, severely Birds of Esperance Michele Cunneen, Laboratory Animal Consultant management while Deaths in Lab AWI PUBLICATIONS dehydrated, separated from his mother, and covered with more Lucy Enniss, Executive Assistant 14 Into Africa: AWI's Cathy Liss Sees 27 Kamie Cat's Terrible Night saving tax dollars. than 90 bite wounds from other horses. Rescued by Palomino 18 New and Improved Guide for the Care Camilla Fox, Wildlife Consultant Conservation in Action in Kenya Unfortunately, it Armstrong, he is making a miraculous recovery. and Use of Laboratory Animals 27 Animal Welfare Publications Chris Heyde, Deputy Director, Government and Legal Affairs Booklet Dena Jones, Farm Animal Program Manager involved spending 28 Escaped Snakes Lead to Jail for Notorious Wildlife Trafficker Andrea Lococo, Wildlife Consultant more money ($43 million in the first year alone) to buy land to warehouse more FARM ANIMALS Susan Millward, Executive Director horses. AWI opposed this plan and, thankfully, Congress rejected it. (Congress also 22 Ferocious on the Field, Serda Ozbenian, Wildlife Research Associate COMPANION ANIMALS cut off another misguided “solution,” telling BLM that it could not use any funds to Compassionate on the Pasture: Above Left: Bald eagles in the nest. Annie Reinhardt, Information Specialist NFL Football Star Will Witherspoon's 7 Golf Course to Pay Owner for Every year, eagles and many other birds Viktor Reinhardt, D.M.V., Ph.D., Laboratory Animal Advisor euthanize healthy, adoptable horses.) Biggest Win is the AWA Seal Killing Dog in Trap are poisoned and killed by lead introduced Ava Rinehart, Senior Graphic Designer 24 Humane Slaughter Laws: into the environment by humans. (Photo Jen Rinick, Research Associate A bipartisan letter signed by 52 members of Congress sent to Secretary Salazar Enforcement up, but Still Insufficient by Mark Wilson); Top Right: This beagle D.J. Schubert, Wildlife Biologist GOVERNMENT AND LEGAL AFFAIRS questioned the recent tragic deaths of several wild horses and focused on the at a New Jersey shelter is one of roughly Christine Sequenzia, Federal Policy Advisor dire need for an independent analysis of the wild horse and burro program by 2 Brutal BLM Roundups 250 animals AWI helped rescue from an Tracy Silverman, General Counsel MARINE LIFE abusive lab in North Carolina.(Photo by Mariko Terasaki, Wildlife Research Assistant the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). AWI started the national call for an 17 Crush Videos 6 Maui Regulates Pet Trade in Fish Associated Humane Societies ); Bottom Regina Terlau, Office Coordinator independent review of BLM’s practices regarding wild horses, and in one bit of 17 Shark Finning 7 Palau and Honduras Call for More Right: Cows roam the pasture on Will Dave Tilford, Writer/Editor good news, BLM has finally assented. In late August, BLM formally asked NAS to Shark Sanctuaries Witherspoon’s AWA-certified Shire Gate Danielle Williams, Website and Communications Coordinator 17 B Dealers and NIH make an independent technical review of the Wild Horse and Burro Program to Farm in Owensville, Missouri. (Photo by 21 Will Genetically Engineered Salmon 17 Horse Transportation ensure that the agency is using the best science available in managing wild horses Amelia J. Moore). Sink or Swim? For subscription inquiries or other information, and burros on Western public rangelands. The proposed study would tentatively 17 Horse Slaughter contact AWI at 900 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, begin in January and take two years to complete. BLM, reprehensibly, has indicated Washington, DC 20003. Phone: (202) 337-2332; facsimile: (202) 446-2131. Email: [email protected], the roundups will continue while the study goes on. or visit AWI’s website: www.awionline.org. Rescued beagles—who arrived earlier that morning—enjoy fresh Associated Humane Society air and sunshine in the company of staffers at Associated Humane Societies' Popcorn Park Refuge in Forked River, NJ. At Popcorn Park, they are walked and socialized every day. dramatic rescue occurred in September, when Carolina. PLRS was funded by large pharmaceutical scant three days to find shelter or have the animals cruelty. AWI is extremely grateful to PETA for its nearly 200 dogs and over 50 cats were saved from a companies to test insecticides and other chemicals face possible euthanization. (All rabbits who were test investigation, to enforcement personnel at the USDA North Carolina animal testing facility. The laboratory used in companion animal products. For nine months, subjects at the facility were, in fact, euthanized.) From for its prompt action once the situation was revealed, subsequently closed its doors after an undercover a PETA investigator worked undercover at the facility, Tuesday to Friday, AWI staff members frantically and to the all the animal advocates who worked investigation documented abuse of the animals by workers and shot video showing animals in excruciating overtime to get these animals placed in shelters. at the facility. Quick work on the part of the Animal pain from procedures, as well as employees Through the actions of many, hundreds of dogs and Welfare Institute, in partnership with the Humane Society kicking, throwing, and dragging petrified dogs, cats were rescued and given the chance to receive the of the U.S. and more than a dozen animal shelters and violently slamming cats into cages, and screaming care and compassion all animals deserve.” As we go to rescue groups, succeeded in placing all of the rescued obscenities at the animals for showing fear and being press, three quarters of the rescued annuals have been animals, offering hope that they will find loving homes and uncooperative. Workers even failed to move the adopted to "forever homes." solace after their ordeal. animals when they pressure sprayed the cage areas, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) soaking them and splashing caustic chemicals on conducted the initial investigation1 that exposed the already painful open sores. 1More information on PETA’s investigation of the lab is available online at: www.peta.org/features/professional- apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research “The exposure of this gratuitous cruelty laboratory-and-research-services.aspx. Services (PLRS), a rural lab located in Corapeake, North underscores the need for stricter enforcement to Associated Humane Societies protect animals in research facilities,” says AWI President, Cathy Liss. AWI has long worked to promote better care and handling of animals used in research, nimal shelters and/or rescues that have and foster efforts to provide them with the opportunity to engage in natural, species-typical behaviors, while taken in dogs and cats from the NC lab::: sparing them unnecessary pain, fear and distress. North Star, one of six cats taken in by Associated Humane Triangle Beagle Rescue of NC Societies, left her cage behind for the “Kitty City” free- Following its investigation, PETA filed formal roaming area of the Societies’ Tinton Fall, NJ shelter. lorida Wake County Animal Center Dawn Cruz said, In Dog We Trust complaints with local, state and federal authorities, Wake County SPCA “We are so happy that Abby [adopted including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), from Associated worked the phones, calling on AWI's vast network New Jersey and submitted evidence to the local prosecutor’s office.