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Hunters frustrated by U.S. national security

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.; AK-RON, Ohio; Tallahassee, Fla.;
BARABOO, Wisc.; DALLAS, Tex.– “Given the events of September 11,”
an October 11 Massachusetts State Police advisory read, “the
appearance of armed individuals wearing camouflage outfits and
possibly operating camouflage boats along the coast of Massachusetts
may cause concern to some of our citizens. This having been said, we
want to remind everyone that today is the opening day for duck
hunting.”

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Man lives–but snakes, backyard big cats kill kids

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

MIAMI, Fla.–An air ambulance rushing Taipan antivenin to
aid of exotic snake fancier Lawrence Van Sertima, 62, of South
Dade, Florida, made the first authorized civilian flight over U.S.
air space after the September 11 terrorist hijackings and crashes.
Bitten on the afternoon of September 11, Van Serima had by
three a.m. the next morning received all seven vials of Taipan
antivenin that the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Team could
locate within Florida–which has the most extensive snakebite
response network in the nation–and was close to death.
“Of the 455 medically significant snakes in the world, the
Taipan is at the top of the list,” Venom Response Team captain Al
Cruz told Tere Figueras of the Miami Herald.
“It was like we were treating him with water,” agreed fellow
team member Ernie Jillson.

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Animals in Afghanistan–and getting out

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan–“Fleeing families now number in the
millions and the number of horses needing our help grows every day,”
Brooke Hospital for Animals field staff in Pakistan said in
mid-October.
The London-based charity said it had fielded “six mobile
teams and three clinics in Peshawar, treating more than 150 horses
of Afghan refugees a day” since March 2001, and far more after
September 11, when “the situation became even more desperate” as
refugees trying to escape U.S. bombing joined those fleeing the
Taliban.

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Senate moves on Arctic refuge, bioterror

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

WASHINGTON D.C.–Post-September 11 concerns about
bio-security and U.S. dependence upon Middle Eastern oil boosted U.S.
Senate efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling, and to upgrade the investigative capabilities of the USDA,
including the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
U.S. President George Bush took office pledging to allow
drilling in the Arctic refuge, an issue split along party lines,
but his chances dwindled when Senator Jim Jeffords, of Vermont,
changed his affiliation from Republican to Democrat, giving
Democrats the Senate majority. The Republican-controlled House of
Representatives passed an enabling bill, however, in August.
Sensing that current events might have weakened Democratic
resolve, Repub-lican Senators tried twice in September to attach
enabling amendments to bills on defense funding and energy policy.
Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) pledged to filibuster against
any pro-Arctic refuge drilling bills that reached the floor.

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Animal control & sheltering

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

Pressured for a decade by the Animal Rights Coalition,
helped in recent months by visits from the SHARK “Tiger” video truck,
the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley, Minnesota, is to
discontinue using two gas chambers to kill animals, and effective in
October 2001 will instead use injections of sodium pentobarbital,
board president Sharon Decker announced on August 28. Board member
Wayne Popham told Dan Wascoe Jr. of the Minneapolis Star Tribune that
he thought the pivotal protest tactic was publishing board members’
names, addresses, and telephone numbers in a July 10 ad placed by
ARC in the Lakeshore Weekly News, enabling readers to voice their
feelings. Handling about 20,000 animals per year, killing about
40%, AHS was among the largest nongovernmental shelters in the U.S.
still using gas. The switch to injections encouraged similar efforts
by activists trying to stop the use of gas at the city shelters in
St. Joseph, Missouri, and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada.

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BlueVoicers, Sea Shepherds, MEDASSET defend marine life

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

Video crew assaulted in Japan

“Videotaping the capture of whales for broadcast on the
Internet,” BlueVoice.org executive director Hardy Jones, director
Larry Curtis, and Sakae Fujiwara of the Elsa Nature Conservancy, of
Tsukuba, Japan, reported that they were “threatened with knives” on
October 9-10 “by the fishers who killed more than 20 pilot whales,”
in a shallow bay near the village of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture,
Japan.

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BOOKS: The Parrot Who Owns Me

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
The Parrot Who Owns Me:
The Story of a Relationship
by Joanna Burger.
Villard Books (299 Park Ave., New York, NY 10171), 2001.
256 pages, hardcover. $23.95.

Animal People readers are sometimes accused of being
anthropomorphic–especially by people who pretend to take a
“scientific” view of animal life and intelligence.
Joanna Burger, however, is a world-class behavioral
ecologist, who serves on the National Academy of Sciences advisory
panel on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, yet in The Parrot Who Owns
Me unabash-edly blurs the distinction between human and birds.

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No medals–and no peace–for the beleaguered birds of Malta

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

MALTA–King George VI of Britain in 1942 awarded a cross for
bravery under fire to every resident of Malta who had survived more
than two years of intensive bombing by the Italian fascists and Nazis.
Before and after the aerial seige of Malta, the millions of
migratory birds who make brief rest-and-feeding stops there have
endured flak more intense than anything the bombers faced–because
unlike the British troops, who were isolated from any source of
resupply, Maltese hunters need not hoard ammunition.

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