Day: July 1, 2007

Letters [July/Aug 2007]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2007:

 
Quaker questions

I don’t think I am alone in wishing that the Christian
churches would join the rest of us in fighting for the animals. Most
churches have strong environmental statements, caring for creation
and so on, but take little action in terms of condemning the cruelty
and misery inflicted on animals by humans.
I am not a Quaker, but I applaud their move to come to grips
with the issues by agreeing to examining the following questions at
the Friends World Council for Consultation Triennial, which will be
held in Dublin in August 2007–
“This Concern has been raised by the Central and Southern Africa
Quakers for discussion at the Dublin Triennial:
Do we recognise the suffering imposed upon billions of
nonhuman animals by human animals in the flesh and milk industry; in
vivisection laboratories; in using them for power and entertainment
and in the taking of their natural habitat? Given that nonhuman
animals are utterly powerless to resist this oppression, how is our
Society called to act?”
May I suggest that “animal people” with church connections
draw the attention of their church to the Quaker example?
–Olga Parkes
New Lambton Heights, Australia
<animals@networksmm.com.au>
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Monkey-laundering?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2007:
HONG KONG–Is a small amount of monkey-eating in southern
China covering for a large amount of monkey trafficking from the wild
to U.S. labs?
Among the reasons for vigilance:
* Monkey-trapping and smuggling appear to be increasing
throughout Southeast Asia, allegedly for Chinese markets. Yet
reports from within China indicate no rise in monkey consumption,
amid increasing efforts to suppress eating contraband wildlife.
* U.S. lab use of nonhuman primates has more than doubled,
from 25,534 in 2002 and 25,834 in 2003, to 54,998 in 2004, and
57,531 in 2005, the latest year for which the USDA Animal & Plant
Inspection Service has complete data.

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Pound seizure shocks Sri Lanka

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2007:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka–Requi-sitioning
shelter animals for laboratory use, the mostly
banned and discredited practice called “pound
seizure” in the U.S., is now reaching Asian
awareness through the story of Wussie, a gentle
former street dog.
Told first by Sri Lankan newspapers,
Wussie’s story went global via the Hong
Kong-based Asian Animal Protection Network.
Scientific institutions and regulators in New
Delhi, Mexico City, Cambridge, U.K., and
Washington, D.C. were soon investigating their
unwitting involvement.

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Global warming: Animals at risk from drought in Zimbabwe, flooding in India and Bangladesh

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2007:

 

HARARE, GUWAHATI, DHAKA– “Climatic
change” does not really describe the impact of
global warming on Zimbabwe, northern and eastern
India, and Bangladesh.
Zimbabwe has always consisted largely of
dry forest and high desert, plagued by frequent
drought. Heavy monsoons have often battered
northern and eastern India. The floods of the
past three summers just accentuated the trend.
Bangadesh, 90% of which lies 10 meters
below sea level, was inundated in 1988 and 1998,
as well as 2007.
The disasters of 2007 afflicting much of
Zimbabe, India, and Bangladesh are the result
not of climatic change but of climatic norms
intensified by global warming to extremes beyond
the capacity of people and animals to adequately
prepare.

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Animal Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2007:
Fat Paws, dachshund companion of Blue
Cross of India chair Chinny Krishna and C.P.
Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation director Nanditha
Krishna, died on May 1, 2007 in Chennai. Known
for sitting upright on his hind legs and flapping
his forepaws like a penguin’s wings, Fat Paws
was among the first participants in the Blue
Cross of India’s “Dr. Dog” program.

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Quebec wardens bust a poaching legend

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2007:
MONTREAL–For more than 30 years rumors
circulated among Quebec game wardens about trophy
hunting outfitters north of the St. Lawrence
River who would allegedly trap wolves and bears
with baited hooks, then fly rich clients out to
shoot them.
The perpetrators allegedly also chased
big moose and caribou to exhaustion with
helicopters, to give unscrupulous and
politically powerful customers easier shots.
But none of the suspects were ever caught
in any of the acts and arrested. Catching
ordinary deer poachers in relatively populated
southern Quebec was difficult. Catching
well-funded and well-equipped poachers hundreds
of miles from any accidental witnesses was deemed
almost impossible.

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Who gets the money? feature is merged into expanded ANIMAL PEOPLE Watchdog Report on Animal Charities

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This belated July/August 2007 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE appears soon after publication of the ninth annual ANIMAL PEOPLE Watchdog Report on Animal Charities a 52-page handbook that took nearly three times as long as an edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE to complete.

Now evaluating 150 of the most prominent animal charities worldwide, The Watchdog Report was conceived as a supplementary reference for serious donors that could be assembled between editions of the ANIMAL PEOPLE newspaper, sold separately, at $25 per copy.
But The Watchdog Report long since outgrew that idea. Researching and updating The Watchdog Report has become a year-round project in itself, punctuated by the production phase, when we distill the information into the most compact format possible.
The Watchdog Report evolved out of Who gets the money? , the annual financial page on major animal charities that the ANIMAL PEOPLE team began publishing in early 1991, about 18 months before ANIMAL PEOPLE itself existed.

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Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2007:
Hugh Holbrook Tebault II, 89, died on May 10, 2007 in
Alameda, California. Tebault was introduced to humane work by his
mother, a close associate of Edith Latham, who founded the Latham
Foundation for the Promotion of Humane Education in 1918. Tebault
headed the Latham Foundation from 1953 to 1998, and also served on
the American Humane Association board of directors for many years,
beginning in 1968. The Latham Foundation is now headed by his eldest
son, Hugh H. Tebault III. Early Latham projects included sponsoring
Kind Deeds Clubs, publishing a school newsletter called The Kindness
Messenger, and hosting essay contests and poster competitions.
Tebault II began exploring the use of electronic media to promote
humane education by hosting a radio program, then in the 1950s
produced the Brother Buzz television program on KPIX Channel 5, San
Francisco, which became The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz,
syndicated nationally in the 1960s. In the 1970s Tebault II produced
another nationally syndicated TV show called Withit, which in 1975
produced an influential episode about animal-assisted therapy. After
helping to organize two national conferences on animal-assisted
therapy, Tebault II in 1981 formed the Delta Committee as a project
of the Latham Foundation. A year later the committee evolved into
the Delta Society, an independent organization that promotes
animal-assisted therapy, now based in Renton, Washington.

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