Brooke, Donkey Sanctuary, ESAF halt feeding working animals near pyramids

May 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
CAIRO–The Egyptian army on Arpil 11, 2011 forcibly cleared
Tahrir Square in central Cairo of protesters demanding the trial of
former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Two months to the day after
Mubarak left office, turning the government over to army leaders,
thousands of Egyptians joined protests against army rule.
But, anticipating that tourism would rapidly recover over
the Easter weekend, the Brooke Hospital for Animals, the Donkey
Sanctuary, and the Egyptian Society of Animal Friends jointly
announced on April 11 that they would stop feeding working animals in
the vicinity of the Giza Pyramids on April 21, the Thursday
preceding Good Friday.

Are Serengeti highway proponents practicing “Shoot, shovel, & shut up”?

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
Dar es Salaam–“Shoot, shovel, and shut
up,” the creed of ranchers and land developers
opposed to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, may
have reached Tanzania. But nobody knows for sure.
What is known is that a confidential
government Environmental & Social Impact
Assessment Draft Report on a proposed highway
that would bisect Serengeti National Park in
October 2010 identified the May 2010
reintroduction of five black rhinos to Serengeti
as a potential obstacle.

Flood rescues in Australia, Sri Lanka, Africa driven by La Niña

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
Climate change has more than doubled the
risk of flooding since 1950, two new studies
agreed in the February 16, 2011 edition of
Nature.
“For years scientists have said that
global warming would likely cause extremes in
temperatures and rainfall. But this is the first
time researchers have been able to point to a
demonstrable cause-and-effect,” assessed
Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press writer
Seth Borenstein.

Concern for animals who were locked up in Cairo under curfew

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

CAIRO–Unable to move about Cairo and surrounding suburbs
during the January/February 2011 Egyptian unrest, due to barricades
guarded by police, the military, and ordinary citizens trying to
protect their neighborhoods, animal rescuers did what they could by
cell telephone and e-mail. When electronic communications were shut
down for several days as well, those trapped in their homes could
only imagine the plight of animals trapped at the Giza Zoo, in pet
stores, and left behind by foreigners who heeded warnings to
evacuate.

Is South Africa phasing out sow stalls?

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
CAPE TOWN– South African Pork Producers Organisation
officers indicated to news media twice in the first two months of
2011 that sow gestation stalls are to be phased out–but Compassion
in World Farming national representative Tozie Zokufa has yet to get
SAPPO to confirm the planned phase-out directly to him.
Zokufa became hopeful when SAPPO chief executive Simon
Streicher e-mailed to the Beeld newspaper in January that South
African pig producers are beginning “the gradual phasing out of sow
crates,” and that “SAPPO supports the phasing out of crates in a
reasonable and realistic time frame.”

Camels, horses & change in Egypt

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

CAIRO–The conflict of old and new in Tahrir Square, Cairo,
was perhaps most starkly illustrated by the February 2, 2011 charge
of 18 whip-wielding men on horseback and two on camels against the
tens of thousands of people demanding the resignation of
then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The demonstrators had
occupied the square since January 25.
Mubarak left on February 11, ending a 30-year dictatorial
regime, but on February 2 the outcome of the protests was still in
doubt. “In Dokki, in western Cairo,” reported Al Jazeera,
“thousands of Mubarak supporters gathered in Lebanon Square,
chanting ‘He won’t go,’ in reference to Mubarak, as they watched
camel riders and horse-cart drivers parade in circles.”

South African Supreme Court overturns 2007 ministerial ruling against hunting captive lions

November 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Bloemfontein, South Africa–Lions will continue to be killed
in put-and-take “canned hunts” in South Africa, the South African
Supreme Court of Appeal ordained on November 29, 2010, reversing a
February 2007 edict by then minister of environmental affairs
Marthinus van Schalkwyk that captive-bred lions had to be returned to
the wild for two years before they could be hunted.
“No doubt the minister was entitled to take account of the
strong opposition and even revulsion expressed by a substantial body
of public opinion to the hunting of captive bred lions,” wrote Judge
Jonathan A. Heher, ruling on behalf of the South Africa Predator
Breeders’ Association. “But in providing an alternative,” Heher
continued, “he was bound to rely on a rational basis. The evidence
proves he did not do so.”

Zimbabwe/North Korea “Noah’s Ark” animal deal is reportedly cancelled due to international pressure

October 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2010:

HARARE–The Zimbabwean government “has aborted a wildlife
trade deal with the secretive Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
amid widespread condemnation from pressure groups,” Bernard Mpofu of
The Independent reported on June 17, 2010.
The Independent is the largest Zimbabwean newspaper not
controlled by the Zanu-PF political party, which is headed by
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.
The $23,000 deal was “blocked after local and international
natural resources campaigners criticised the destined living
conditions of the animals at Pyongyang Zoo,” Mpofu said.

Rhino poachers hope to outlast South African & Zimbabwean will to stop them

October 1, 2010 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2010:
(Actual press date November 3.)

PRETORIA–Poachers in Borakalalo National
Park, near Brits, South Africa, sent a message
found on October 17, 2010 that mass arrests and
rangers shooting to kill won’t stop them: they
killed and dehorned yet another white rhino,
just days or perhaps even hours after rangers
killed one poacher and wounded another in Kruger
National Park.
A third poacher was arrested within
Kruger National Park two days later, but two
others escaped. A rhino fleeing the poachers ran
over and injured two park rangers who were
involved in making the arrest.

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