When the dogs are away, the monkeys will play

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

HONG KONG, BANGKOK, KUALA LUMPUR, BUCHAREST, NEW DELHI–
Celebrating 99 years as the first and biggest humane society west of
San Francisco and east of Mumbai, the Hong Kong SPCA will go no-kill
in June 2002, executive director Chris Hanselman announced on
January 1.
The Hong Kong SPCA has handled dog and cat sheltering and
population control killing for much of the city since 1921–like the
San Francisco SPCA, which held the San Francisco animal control
contract from 1895 until 1984, when it began a five-year phase-out
while the S.F. Department of Animal Care and Control geared up to
take over.

Tribes gun for more whales–and polar bears

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

NEAH BAY, Washington–The Makah Tribal Council has asked the
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service for a high-speed Coast
Guard-grade cutter similar to the whale-catchers used by Japan and
Norway– and has hinted that the Makah, like Japan, may engage in
so-called “research whaling.”
Claiming a right to kill gray whales since 1995, under the
1855 treaty that brought the Makah into the U.S., the Makah Tribal
Council said at first that it expected to sell whale meat to Japan.

Low-frequency sonar killed whales, U.S. Navy and NMFS admit

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

WASHINGTON, D.C.–A joint report by the U.S. Navy and
National Marine Fisheries Service confirms the February 2001
allegation of Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb that
sound waves from Navy sonar exercises caused 16 small toothed whales
and a spotted dolphin to beach themselves in the Bahamas in mid-March
2000.
Seven of the animals died. The other 10 were pushed back out
to sea by would-be rescuers, but are also believed to have died.

B.C. grizzly hunt is “difficult to defend,” warns biologist hired by the Safari Club

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

VANCOUVER, B.C.–Animal rights groups, a European Union
scientific panel, and a top bear biologist hired by Safari Club
International are agreed: British Columbia grizzly bears could
disappear if hunters keep killing them at the current rate.
But, aligned with the hunting and guiding industry, the
governments of Canada and British Columbia are still determined to
keep grizzly bear hunting open.
The European Union suspended issuing import permits for B.C.
grizzly bear trophies in November 2001.

Editorial: Humane nation-building

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Flying into Afghanistan on January 13, World Society for the
Protection of Animals international projects director John Walsh
drove straight to the Kabul Zoo with two colleagues and several
suitcases of veterinary supplies.
Few if any humane workers have helped more animals in more
places, under more dramatic circumstances, than John Walsh. A
former field officer for the Massachusetts SPCA, Walsh transferred
to the International Society for Animal Protection when it was spun
off as a subsidiary in 1964, and was soon literally immersed in
helping to carry an estimated 10,000 animals to safety from the
floodwaters behind a new dam in Surinam.

Pet theft cases plummeted in 2001

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

ALLENTOWN, Pa.–Allegedly smashing a stolen van through the
door of a local pet shop at 5 a.m., grabbing two Chihuahuas and two
exotic birds, and attempting escape with police in hot pursuit,
Luis Antonio Bracero, 24, and Ramon Alberto Maldonado-Cruz, 20,
of Allentown, Pennsyl-vania, on January 12, 2002 apparently
exemplified most of the current trends in pet theft: they took both
birds and dogs, took only animals of high resale value, and got
caught.

NSW copies U.S.-style wildlife mismanagement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SYDNEY, Australia–In the name of regulating hunting and
eradicating introduced species, the Labor government of New South
Wales, Australia, is positioned to pass a new Game Bill in
February 2002 which would repeal the suspension of duck hunting won
in 1995 by Green Party legislator Richard Jones, put hunters in
charge of implementing hunting policy, and exempt hunting from
humane laws.
Introduced in November 2001, the Game Bill appears to be
opposed by most and perhaps all humane groups in Australia, but is
eagerly sought by hunters and the NSW Farmers’ Association.
Modeled after typical U.S. state hunting statutes, “The Game
Bill will legalise hunting with bows and arrows, clubs, knives,
dogs, wire snares, or any other means except poison,” Animal
Liberation representative for introduced species Frankie Seymour
charged in an internationally distributed series of alerts.

India shuts cruel horse serum plants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

CHENNAI, India–“We are now, with the help of e Supreme
Court of India, closing down the wretched serum institutes,” Indian
minister of state for animal protection Maneka Gandhi e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE on January 16, a year and six weeks after ANIMAL
PEOPLE visited and photographed one of the oldest, the King
Institute, at Guindy, Chennai.
A maker of snakebite antivenin, the King Institute injects
snake venom into a resident herd of 140 to 150 retired Indian Army
horses and mules, waits until the horses form antibodies to the
venom, and then draws blood serum from which the antivenin will be
extracted.

Bulldogging the Olympic Rodeo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY–“The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the
forthcoming Winter Olympic Games was expected to drop the scheduled
February 9-11 Command Performance Rodeo from the Cultural Olympiad
at a January 3 meeting with rodeo foes,” ANIMAL PEOPLE reported in
our December edition, citing coverage from both the Salt Lake
Tribune and the Deseret News, and quoting rodeo protest leader Steve
Hindi, who flew to Salt Lake City in anticipation of the
announcement.

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