Day: June 1, 2006

Brooke outreach in Pakistan, Afghanistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

MULTAN–Often the young pro-animal organizations of the
Islamic world can do little beyond raising awareness, with
proclamations such as a June 3, 2006 resolution by the Animal Save
Movement of Multan, Pakistan, objecting to overdriving oxen,
donkeys, and horses in the summer heat.
But Pakistan is among the seven nations, four predominantly
Muslim and two others with substantial Muslim minorities, in which
the British-based Brooke Fund for Animals operates equine
clinics–including a clinic in Multan.
The Brooke began working in Pakistan in 1991 with a mobile
clinic operating out of Peshawar in 1991. That project rapidly
expanded into a base clinic, two field clinics, and six mobile
veterinary teams.

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Tuli elephant case reprised

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

Eight years after video of the capture and holding conditions
endured by 30 baby elephants became the globally notorious “Tuli
elephants” case, a similar incident occurred in April 2006 at the
Selati Game Reserve in Limpopo state, South Africa, Michele Pickover
of Xwe African Wild Life told ANIMAL PEOPLE.
“Six young elephants were cruelly separated from their
families for use by the elephant-back safari industry,” Pickover
wrote. “Helicopters, guns, and electric prods were used. The young
elephants went to Howard Blight’s Elephants for Africa Forever in
Mooketsi, near Duiwelskloof.
“On the EFAF website, Blight claims that, ‘Animal welfare
is the most critical issue,'” Pickover noted, “but this kind of
capture has nothing to do with animal welfare and certainly shows no
respect for elephant family structures.”

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Rabies strikes Namibian kudu

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

WINDHOEK–Veterin-arians Otto Zapke and
Beate Voights in mid-May 2006 reportedly
confirmed that a rare outbreak of rabies
spreading from herbivore to herbivore during the
past two years was responsible for the deaths of
“thousands” of kudu in the Omaruru region of
Namibia.
“Sources in the industry have voiced
concern that the outbreak could impact negatively
on the hunting season,” reported Chrispin
Inambao of the Windhoek New Era. “People come to
Namibia because of kudus,” Inambao said a
hunting industry source told him. About 5,000
hunters per year visit Namibia.

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Canned hunts for rare imported “trophy” species are booming in Spain

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

Only U.S. hunters visit South Africa more
than Spaniards, who make up about 8.5% of the
South Africa hunting traffic–and Spanish hunting
ranch proprietors are trying to keep them home,
even if it requires stocking rare species in
violation of the law.
“In January 2006, 12 Indian blackbuck
antelope were confiscated from a farm near
Cáceres, Extremadura,” recently wrote Sunday
Telegraph correspondent David Harrison. “Guardia
Civil officers said they had found evidence that
exotic beasts had been hunted illegally on at
least six reserves. During the first half of
last year the Guardia Civil game protection unit
confiscated 678 illegally imported live animals
across Spain.”

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Zimbabwe running out of “trophies”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

HARARE–The Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority in
April 2006 suspended hunting in game conservancies, just three
months after nationalizing the hunting industry amid reports that
profiteering Robert Mugabe regime insiders were allowing visiting
hunters to annihilate the “trophy” animal population of the country.
“We want the animals to be more mature before hunting can
resume,” said parks public relations manager Edward Mbewe. “We want
to improve the trophy quality.”
All lion hunting was suspended in Matabeleland North.
“Villagers should report any stray lions instead of killing the
animals,” Mbewe said. “Lions are favoured by hunters and thus
generate a lot of foreign currency.”
Mbewe acknowledged that tourists had complained about seeing few
animals in drought-stricken Hwange National Park.

Letters [June 2006]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

Corrections and more info about the Ghana SPCA

On behalf of the Ghana SPCA, thank you
very much for publishing an article in your May
2006 edition about the work we are doing in
Accra, Kumasi, and in some of the rural areas
of Ghana.
While we appreciate your interest in the
GSPCA, I am writing to correct a few errors in
the article.
Most importantly, Roland Azantilow and
David Nyoagbe are co-founders of the GSPCA; it
was very much a joint effort. While the article
focused on Azantilow, David Nyoagbe is chair of
the Ghana SPCA, and has been in that position
since the organization started. Azantilow is
vice chair. Nyoagbe oversees activities in the
Accra area; Azantilow oversees the Kumasi area.
Nyoagbe’s interest in animal welfare was
first sparked by the World Society for the
Protection of Animals Kindness Clubs. For over
20 years he was a leader in first a school
Kindness Club, and later in a community club.

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Bear escape, mauling, & deadly fire may bring tougher Ohio exotic regs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

CLEVELAND–Ohio state senator Tim Grendell (R-Geauga County)
on May 26, 2006 pledged to introduce a bill to increase restrictions
on keeping exotic pets and wildlife. “State law now requires
wild-animal breeders to obtain a license and keep records, but does
not require cages,” observed Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter John
Horton.
Two incidents in three days may at last have brought
legislative attention to the hazards of keeping exotic and wild
animals, more than 22 years after the first such incident involving
one of the keepers involved.
On May 22, 2006 a 500-pound black bear escaped from a cage
at the Grand River Fur Exchange in Hartsgrove Township, one of 57
businesses in Ohio that hold permits to breed a total of 137 captive
black bears. The bear mauled Rachel Supplee, 36.

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South Africa moves on canned hunts–can rules be enforced?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

PRETORIA–Six weeks of public comment on
government proposals to reform the South African
trophy hunting industry are expected to end in
mid-June 2006 with the recommended reforms on the
fast track to adoption–almost 10 years after the
British TV expose series “The Cooke Report”
brought to light the abuses that the proposals
address.
Introducing the proposed “National Norms
and Standards for the Regulation of the Hunting
Industry” and accompanying “Threatened and
Protected Species” on May 1 at the De Wildt
Cheetah & Wildlife Centre, west of Pretoria,
Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van
Schalkwyk predicted that they might be in effect
before the end of the year.

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St. Petersburg G8 Summit meet brings war against street dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2006:

ST. PETERSBURG–Tight security
precautions for the G8 Summit to be held in St.
Petersburg, Russia, July 15-17, include
“exterminating street animals with utmost
cruelty,” Baltic Care of Animals members Elena
Bobrova, Marina Ermakova, Svetlana Los, and
Tatiana Goritcheva alleged in a June 2 joint
statement relayed to western media by North Kent
Animal Welfare founder Mark Johnson, of Britain.
The BCA members’ joint statement echoed
and amplified exposés by St. Petersburg
journalists Yelena Andreyeva and Galina
Stolyarova, published on December 2, 2005 by
the St. Petersburg Times and on May 5, 2006 by
PetersburgCity.

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