A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
NORFOLK, Virginia––Two Norfolk Virginian-Pilot headlines published a little more than three months apart told almost the whole story to readers aware that coyotes eat rats. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Saving the White Lions: One Woman’s Battle for Africa’s Most Sacred Animal by Linda Tucker North Atlantic Books (2526 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704), 2013. 489 pages, paperback. $16.95.
In November 1991, not long after Nelson Mandela was released after serving 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid, South African author Linda Tucker and several friends drove to a favorite childhood haunt of hers in the “middle of the untamed African bushveld,” as Tucker describes it. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
ELY, Minnesota––Lynn Rogers, 74, longtime director of the Wildlife Research Institute and the affiliated North American Bear Center in Ely, Minnesota, was on June 28, 2013 told by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that the permit he has held since 1999 to radio-collar wild bears will not be renewed. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
CAPE TOWN––“Thandora, the elephant recently re-introduced into the wild at Gondwana Game Reserve after being held in captivity for 23 years, is slowly acclimatising to her new home,” Wallace du Plessis of News24 in Johannesburg, South Africa reported on April 29, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
NEW ORLEANS––Twenty-five years of protest and litigation against live tiger displays at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, inched closer to resolution with an April 25, 2013 ruling by a three-judge panel representing the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal that truck stop owner Michael Sandlin does not have a valid permit to keep a 12-year-old tiger named Tony on the premises. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Anna Merz, 83, died on April 4, 2013 at a hospital in Melkriver, South Africa, her home since 1996. Born in England, Merz was among the many London children who were relocated to Cornwall during the Nazi bombing attacks of early World War II. Studying politics and economics at Nottingham University, she read for the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, but instead of practicing law, she relocated to Ghana with her first husband. There, recalled The Times of London, she “owned a crankshaft grinding workshop, developed a love of riding, worked as honorary warden in the game department and took off on expeditions across the Sahara and around Uganda and northern Kenya.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––”A recent unexpected delay” has indefinitely postponed the anticipated removal of gray wolves in the Lower 48 states from U.S. endangered species list protection, Associated Press reported on May 21, 2013, citing only “a court filing” by “government attorneys.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
CITES at 40: Perspectives, trade patterns & future prospects, compiled by United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre Free download from <www.unep-wcmc.org>
Created in 1973 by the United Nations, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora tracks and regulates commerce in about 34,000 species. About 3% are listed on Appendix I, meaning that they are endangered, or Appendix II, meaning that they are threatened. CITES compliance is voluntary. Individual nations may invoke trade sanctions against violators, but CITES itself has no enforcement mechanism. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna by Michael Parfit & Suzanne Chisholm St. Martin’s Press (c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2013. 329 pages, hardcover. $25.99
The Lost Whale is a compelling story of a lost orca, or killer whale, who as an infant in 2001 somehow became separated from his pod, the family that he depended on for survival. Read more