Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Flooding

Mid-May flooding stranded and

killed livestock and pets in rural areas of

Louisiana and Missisippi, but populated

areas, protected by levees and drainage sys-

tems, were only lightly hit, Jeff Dorson of

the New Orleans activist group Legislation

In Support of Animals told ANIMAL PEO-

P L E. LISA and the Louisiana SPCA did

some pet rescue in Jefferson Parish, while

Mary Hoffman and Doll Stanley-Branscum

of In Defense of Animals organized a rescue

effort around Grenada, Mississippi. “Even if

the waters recede rapidly, injured and home-

less wildlife and domestic animals will need

assistance,” Stanley-Branscum predicted.

ALASKAN WAR ON WILDLIFE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

JUNEAU––Alaska governor

Tony Knowles has pledged to veto a bill

setting a bounty on wolves, passed by

the legislature––but that’s about the only

good news for wolves in Alaska.

On May 3, wildlife biologist

Gordon Haber, monitoring Alaskan wolf

populations for Friends of Animals,

found the last of the Headwaters pack

dead in snares––”nearly three weeks after

he end of trapping season,” wrote

Alaskan freelance journalist Tim Moffatt.

“Along with the body of a pregnant

female,” Moffat said, “were four pups,

two of them skinned; a coyote snared by

its back legs; a yearling moose; the

remains of another moose; and a cari-

bou,” possibly killed as bait. Haber docu-

mented the site and called the Alaska

State Troopers, Moffatt added.

WILDLIFE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

The National Parks Board of South

Africa announced May 10 that, “To maintain

for as long as possible the option of translocat-

ing family groups of elephants,” only 300 will

be killed this year instead of 600 as biologists rec-

ommended. “The breeding herds will mainly be

culled in areas where the greatest damage has been

done to trees,” the NPB added. “Of special con-

cern is the declining baobob population,” in

Kruger National Park, which has about 8,000 ele-

phants in an area the size of Israel. The elephants,

including 70 bulls, are to be shot from helicopters.

Tranquilizer darts will no longer be used before-

hand because this appears to increase rather than

decrease the stress to the elephants, who afterward

are immobile but fully conscious.

ESA update

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

WASHINGTON D.C. ––Senators

Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), with co-sponsors

Bennett Johnston (D-La.), and Richard Shelby

(R-Ala.), on May 9 introduced the first of three

expected Republican drafts of a revised

Endangered Species Act. Largely authored by

timber industry lobbyists, the Gorton bill would

end the federal obligation to try to save all

endangered species. Instead the Secretary of the

Interior would be allowed to rule that a species

should go extinct. The bill would also lump

together captive and wild animals in counting

populations, meaning for instance that hatchery-

bred salmon, with little ability to survive in the

ocean, would count toward meeting the conser-

vation goals of endangered runs. In addition, the

bill would virtually preclude the designation of

protected critical habitat, and require taxpayers

to cover costs of routine corporate compliance.

LAB SHORTS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Using pigs to grow spare parts

for humans came closer to reality with

the late April announcements that a team

at the Lahey Hitchcock Clinic in

Burlington, Massachusetts, had trans-

planted pig tissue into the brain of a 59-

year-old man in hopes of reversing

Parkinson’s disease, while a team at Duke

University created genetically engineered

pigs whose bodies include two human pro-

teins that prevent hyperacute tissue rejec-

tion. “In societies where animals are

killed in the tens of millions for food,”

wrote Dr. John Favre of the London

University Institute of Child Health, in a

Nature Medicine editorial accompanying

publication of the Duke data, “it would be

difficult to argue on ethical grounds for a

proscription on the killing of a tiny num-

ber of pigs to save the lives and restore the

health of sick and dying patients.”

PETA, Romero court updates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

The Nevada Supreme Court has

withdrawn their January 27, 1994 reversal

of the $4.2 million libel verdict won by

orangutan trainer Bobby Berosini in August

1990 against PETA, PETA director of inves-

tigations Jeanne Rouch, the Performing

Animal Welfare Society, PAWS executive

director Pat Derby, and dancer Ottavio

Gesmundo. An FBI probe of alleged conflicts

of interest in other Nevada cases found that

8th Judicial District Judge Jack Lehman is an

advisor to the Animal Foundation of Nevada,

a Las Vegas low-cost neutering organization.

Lehman was appointed by Governor Bob

Miller to serve on the three-judge panel that

heard the PETA appeal of the Berosini ver-

dict, after Chief Justice Robert Rose with-

drew and two other justices were occupied

GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Wilderness Society president Jon

Roush, who makes $125,000 a year, in

February and March sold $140,000 worth

of old growth timber from an 80-acre tract on

his 763-acre Montana ranch, bordering the

Bitteroot National Forest. “The area he cut,”

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

reported in The Nation of April 24, “is less

than two miles from a national wilderness area

and well within the boundaries of the

Salmon/Selway Ecosystem ––the largest com-

plex of wild land in the Lower 48 and home to

elk, black bears, mountain lions, and grey

wolves.” Roush in 1983 successfully sued the

U.S. Forest Service, contending that logging

and roadbuilding would irrevocably harm the

watershed. The roads built then were used to

remove the logs from his own land.

People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Esther Mechler, founder of the

low-cost neutering referral service Spay/USA

and the Focus on Animals video library, has

won the first annual Geraldine R. Dodge

Humane Ethics in Action Award, a prize of

$10,000 to be used as the winner sees fit.

Begun in 1990, Spay/USA made circa 1,500

referrals a year through 1993; taken over by

the North Shore Animal League in mid-1993

and now run as part of the NSAL-affiliated

Pet Savers Foundation, it made 8,640 refer-

rals, resulting in 14,002 neutering opera-

tions, during the first three months of 1995.

Dennis White, former head of the

American Humane Association animal pro-

tection division, has left, after 19 years, for

undisclosed personal reasons.

Hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Johnie Young, treasurer of a group trying to repeal the

ban on bear and cougar hunting with dogs approved by Oregon

voters last November, pleaded no contest in November 1990, along

with his wife Diana, to poaching bears and trafficking in bear paws

and gall bladders. State police records indicate Young killed 32 black

bears, including cubs, between April 1987 and June 1989––along

with three cougars and a bobcat. A police undercover video showed

Young leading several hunting parties who used dogs to tree bears,

shot the bears out of the trees, and allowed the dogs to maul the bears

after they fell.

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