OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Boonlerd Angsirijinda, Thai chief of wildlife law enforcement until his death

in September 1992, is remembered in the spring 1993 issue of Friends of Animals’

Action Line for his “indomitable spirit and great reservoir of personal courage.”

Boonlerd suffered a fatal stroke while studying U.S. law enforcement methods in

Washington D.C.––after surviving numerous attempts on his life by animal traffickers,

many of whom he jailed despite weak wildlife laws and flagrant corruption under the

former Thai military dictatorship. In 1991 Boonlerd obtained an international boycott of

trade with Thailand under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species,

which led to the 1992 closure of the notorious Bangkok animal market.

Obituaries

BOOKS: The Newfoundland Pony

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

The Newfoundland Pony, by

Andrew F. Fraser. Creative

Publishers (St. John’s, Newfoundland,

Canada), 1992. 213 pages. $14.95.

The Newfoundland pony is on the

cusp of extinction, no match for progress in

the form of tractors and snowmobiles.

Numbers of Newfoundland ponies have

dwindled from more than 10,000 in 1976 to

barely 400, as the greater part of its popu-

lation has been sacrified to the insatiable

Moloch of the slaughter trade––in particu-

lar, to the killing plants of Quebec, which

supply the French appetite for horseflesh.

BOOKS: Dolphins and Their Power to Heal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Dolphins and Their Power to Heal, by

Amanda Cochrane and Karena Callen, Healing

Arts Press (1 Park St., Rochester, VT 05767), 1992.

182 pages. $17.95 paperback.

The title of Dolphins and Their Power to Heal is a

little misleading. Yes, the authors, who practice alterna-

tive healing in London, explore reports of dolphins’ influ-

ence on our physical and emotional well-being. But they

move quickly beyond these anecdotes to consider the wider

implications of the mutual attraction between two such dis-

similar species.

Heroic Dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

A six-year-old German shep-

herd brought home a lightly dressed

three-year-old boy she found wandering

alone in sub-freezing weather on

February 17 near Midland, Ontario

––and just in time. The boy was trying

to visit his mother, who gave birth the

night before in a hospital 25 miles away,

and slipped out while his father slept.

The Michigan Anti-Cruelty

Society on February 17 rescued a mon-

grel named Brownie, who survived a

Detroit housefire that killed seven chil-

dren in front of a barred window.

Though suffering from smoke inhala-

tion, Brownie hadn’t allowed firefight-

ers to separate him from the victims.

A survey of convicted bur-

glars published by Special Reports

found that 59% consider a dog in the

home the most effective deterrent to

break-ins.

Companion Animals

BOOKS: Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How You Can Help Stop The Destruction of Wild Animals and Their Habitat

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

Wildlife Protectors Handbook: How

You Can Help Stop The Destruction of

Wild Animals and Their Habitat, by

Donald Heintzelman, Capra Press (P.O. Box 2068,

Santa Barbara, CA 93120), 1992, 160 pages, $9.95

paper.

This handy guide to wildlife issues is the most

concise and practical review of this complex topic to date.

Donald Heintzelman, president of the Wildlife Information

Center, pulls no punches, whether he’s describing human

influences on wildlife population or the efficacy of efforts

to protect wild animals.

BOOKS: The Albert Schweitzer Activity Book

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

The Albert Schweitzer Activity Book:

curriculum guide for grades 1-6. Albert

Schweitzer Center (50 Hurlburt Road, Great Barrington,

MA 01230). 1992, 40 pages, $5.00 paper; $10 with

28-minute video, The Spirit of Albert Schweitzer.

Albert Schweitzer’s life and philosophy of service

are presented as a teaching tool to instill in children a sense

of responsibility to the earth and to life, through simple,

almost cost-free activities which lead into community

involvement. Schweitzer’s biography is linked to ways chil-

dren can act to deal with and thus be less frightened by

some of the major problems of today: AIDS, the homeless,

pollution, dwindling resources, animal suffering, and the

quest for meaning and purpose to life in a cynical time.

Included are versions of the Golden Rule as taught by nine

major religions.

Making a home for magical migrating monarchs by Nicole Kraft

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

There once was a time when millions of monarch

butterflies dotted the skies each fall, the eastern band

migrating south to Mexico and the western population fly-

ing to the coastal regions of central California. That was a

time before development ruined much monarch habitat,

leaving them struggling to find the safe haven of a milk-

weed field in which to lay the eggs of their next generation.

Judith Levicoff, a habitat educator in Jenkintown,

Pennsylvania, has worked for the past two years in class-

rooms throughout the Delaware Valley to help children

restore monarch numbers, by creating their own butterfly

gardens, and by raising and releasing their own butterflies.

Energetic humane educator: “Bow to the cat!” (Or she’ll change you into a mouse?)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

PORT JERVIS, N.Y. –– Jan Matthews is over-

worked, and that’s the way she likes it. A classroom elementary

school teacher for 17 years, she now visits 72 classrooms a

month at four different schools, as humane educator for the

Humane Society of Port Jervis/Deerpark, New York. Her dedi-

cation is such that when her husband took a temporary job in

Alaska, she commuted between New York and Alaska for seven

months to keep her program going.

“Three of those months were during the summer,” she

explains, “when we were only visiting summer classes.”

Oh.

NABT president moves against dissection alternatives

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

RESTON, Virginia –– National Association of Biology

Teachers members’ comments were due April 1 on proposed major revi-

sions to the organization’s 1989 Position Statements on Animal Use. I f

adopted, the revisions would effectively overturn NABT’s policy of encour-

aging teachers to seek alternatives to dissection and vivsection.

The 1989 statement begins, “NABT believes that all biology teachers

should foster a respect for life,” and continues to state in the second para-

graph that, “NABT supports alternatives to dissection and vivisection

wherever possible in the biology curricula. These alternatives must satisfy

the objectives of teaching scientific methology and fundamental biological

concepts.”

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