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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
NEW YORK CITY––One hundred forty-seven years after Henry Bergh incorporated the American spca to enforce the New York state anti-cruelty act of 1860, the ASPCA is transitioning out of the lead role in New York City humane law enforcement. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
SAN FRANCISCO––A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on August 30, 2013 unanimously affirmed an earlier Los Angeles district court verdict that a statewide ban on the sale of foie gras may be enforced. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
VIENNA––The Austrian-based international animal welfare charity Vier Pfoten (Four Paws in the U.S.) is expanding its constellation of bear sanctuaries to accommodate 15 to 20 bears who have been used in bear-baiting competitions in Ukraine. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
LIMON, Costa Rica––Nine alleged sea turtle egg poachers and drug smugglers are facing charges in connection with the killing of marine biologist Jairo Sandoval Mora, 26, and the sexual assault of at least two of the four women who accompanied him on a patrol of Moin Beach near Limon on the night of May 31, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
By Kim Bartlett and Merritt Clifton
Playing at Parcul Tei in central Bucharest, Romania, four-year-old Ionut Anghel and his six-year-old brother on September 2, 2013 wandered briefly out of sight of their grandmother, through a hole in the park fence, into a large vacant lot that offered dirt piles to climb and access to the marshy edge of the Danube river. They might have mistaken for friendly the six dogs who rose to attack them. The six-year-old, though injured, escaped to tell his grandmother that Ionut Anghel was dead. Rushing to the scene, the grandmother and other Parcul Tei visitors found the dogs already devouring the remains.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
HARARE––Sentencing three convicted elephant poachers to long prison terms and a game ranger to hang for shooting an alleged poacher, Zimbabwe courts appeared to send mixed messages about protecting elephants in late September 2013––but the facts leading to the death sentence may have been more nuanced than headlines that touched off a flurry of online petitions and activist alerts on behalf of ranger Maxwell Bowa, 53. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina––Eastern Band of Cherokee tribal elders Amy Walker and Peggy Hill on September 23, 2013 served notice of intent to sue the operators of the Cherokee Bear Park for violating the federal Endangered Species Act if the resident bears are not transferred to a suitable sanctuary within 60 days. “The Cherokee Bear Zoo is an open concrete grave for these intelligent animals. They must be moved from this despicable facility to a place where they’ll be cared for, not abused and neglected,” Walker told Mitch Weiss of Associated Press. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
Human Origins: Are we hybrids? by Eugene McCarthy Free download from: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html#.Ud5d8GSgn6k
Recalling my April 2012 review of evolutionary geneticist Eugene McCarthy’s provocative opus On the Origins of New Forms of Life: A New Theory, British ANIMAL PEOPLE online reader Mervyn Sanders wrote recently to mention that “Dr. McCarthy is now claiming that humans are a hybrid of chimp and wait for it, pig. Yet he appears to be able to back his claims up with well researched evidence.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
SACRAMENTO––A U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan to kill federal protected barred owls to benefit endangered northern spotted owls violates the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Friends of Animals alleged in an October 1, 2013 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California. Read more