A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
Alan R. Andreasen’s book Marketing Social Change appeared in 1995, but a reader
only just brought it to our attention, noting the application to humane work in the subtitle:
Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development, and the Environment.
This, the reader recognized, is exactly what is involved in getting people to fix their
dogs and cats, and quit either letting pets roam or leaving them alone, miserably chained.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
INDONESIA, THAILAND,
BRAZIL, TIBET, NEW ZEALAND,
CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA––Wildlife officials
rescued eight orangutans including four
babies from the path of flames in early
February at Kutai National Park in East
Kalimantan, Indonesia, but found the
remains of two others in poachers’ traps.
A third orang was killed on March
12 when according to Indonesian media she
apparently mistook two farmers who had
been drafted into a firefighting force for
attackers, and rushed them to defend her
baby. She reportedly bit three fingers off one
of the men before the other man beat her to
death with a machete. Antara, the Indonesian
state press agency, hinted that the men
might actually have killed the mother in
attempting to steal and sell her baby.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince
Edward Island––Gabrielle Fredericks, 102,
of Toronto, in early March demonstrated just
what kind of rugged macho man it takes to go
out on the ice among newborn harp seal pups:
none at all. A paid customer of Natural Habitat
Adventure Tours, a Boulder, Colorado-based
ecotourism firm, Fredericks shrugged off two
tour guides who held her arms at first, and
walked among the seals alone for several hours
in the Northumberland Strait, reported Nancy
Willis of the Charlottetown Guardian.
Fredericks left before the annual sealclubbing
bloodshed broke out on March 15.
She has a knack for leaving just in time: sixty
years earlier she, her late husband Joe, and
their son Martin fled Adolph Hitler and Austria
just a day before the outbreak of World War II.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
WASHINGTON D.C.– – Environ-
mental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner
on March 5 personally announced an EPA plan
to regulate livestock feedlots, hog barns, and
poultry sheds like industrial plants.
For the first time invoking the Clean
Water Act against agricultural polluters, the
EPA will require about 6,600 of the biggest
factory-style farms in the U.S. to obtain pollution
permits and undergo routine federal
inspection. Anyone keeping more than 1,000
animal units, defined as 1,000 cattle, 2,500
swine, or 100,000 hens, would fall under the
new rules, to be phased in over seven years.
Not long ago, such a notion would
have been politically decried as a bureaucratic
assault on God, Mom, fried chicken, and
hamburgers, possibly thought up by animal
rights activists.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
LONDON, U.K.––The Countryside Alliance,
mobilized by the British Field Sports Society,
claimed 284,500 fox hunting supporters marched past
750 volunteer stewards who counted them by ranks at
the start of the March 2 Countryside March.
The departures alone took five hours.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare,
relying on Napier University scientists who used electronic
recorders, put the crowd count at less than half as
many: 142,000. Scotland Yard guesstimated 250,000,
still more than the estimated 215,000 British fox hunting
participants, and more than two-thirds of the total
BFSS membership––though not all attendees claimed to
be either fox hunters or BFSS members.
Representatives of about 60 Irish hunting
clubs weren’t even British citizens, but demonstrated
solidarity in support of recreational bloodbath anyway.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:
About as far from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence seal hunt as one can get and still
be within Canada, the government of the
Northwest Territories has invoked rhetoric
similar to that of Newfoundland, based on
local culture and poverty, in defense of a mere
dozen native hunters who reportedly used
snowmobiles to chase down more than 460
wolves during the winter, who were shot and
skinned after collapsing of exhausting.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:
KAILUA KONA, Hawaii– – Ocean
Mammal Institute volunteers tried apparently unsuccessfully
to amplify last-minute opposition to
Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System Low
Frequency Sound testing northwest of Hawaii,
begun by the U.S. Navy in February, scheduled to
continue through March.
The area is “immediately adjacent to the
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National
Marine Sanctuary,” explains a newly leaked August
1997 memo from Hawaii Division of Aquatic
Resources staffer Emily Gardner to state Board of
Land and Natural Resources chair Michael D.
Wilson. ANIMAL PEOPLE obtained the memo
from Carroll Cox of EnviroWatch, who said he
received it from an anonymous source.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:
Days before former U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service CITES
Operations Branch chief Susan
Lieberman was promoted to head the
Office of Scientific Authority ( page
14), she told ANIMAL PEOPLE that
while the Makah Tribal Council h a s
reportedly “made assurances to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration that” the grey whales it
intends to kill in Washington coastal
waters this fall “will be used exclusively
for local consumption and ceremonial
purposes, and will not be sold or offered
for sale, the USFWS has not had any
official communication with the Makah
Tribal Council on this issue. In the
event that the Service does communicate
officially with the Makah Tribal
Council on this issue,” Lieberman continued,
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:
Max Corkill, 50, his motorcycling
cat Rastus, and sidecar passenger
Gaynor Martin, 48, died on January 20
about twenty miles from their home in New
Plymouth, New Zealand, when a car hit
them head-on. Corkill found Rastus about
nine years ago as an abandoned kitten at a
motorcycling meet in Canada. They moved
from Canada to New Zealand in 1994, but
planned to return to Canada this year with
Martin. Riding everywhere with Corkill in a
custom-made zipper pouch, Rastus was a
major fundraiser for the Royal New Zealand
SPCA. “Max and Rastus were completely
irreplaceable,” mourned RNZSPCA committee
chair Jackie Poles. Hundreds of bikers
turned out for their funeral.