Wise-use wiseguys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Yet another parody “PETA” World
Wide Web page popped up in September, easily
downloaded accidentally by users seeking the
actual PETA site. This one came from an
anonymous party claiming to be People for the
Economical Torture of Animals, possibly
inspired by People for Eating Tasty Animals,
which surfaced earlier.
Gene Coan, senior advisor to
Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope,
promised prompt legal action on September 17,
after someone using a post office box in Cape
Canaveral, Florida, “spammed” an e-mail pitch
under the assumed screen name >>SierraClub@
GNN.com (Sierra Club)<< to thousands of
America OnLine subscribers, requesting $3.00
for “a list of legal brothels in your zip code and
surrounding zip codes.”

ORGANIZATIONS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The decade-long alliance that enabled
The Fund for Animals and People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals to take control of
the New England Anti-Vivisection Society in
1988, after failing in 1986, is at a messy but
uncertain end. Fund president Cleveland Amory,
also NEAVS board president since 1988, in late
1995 told fellow board members that he planned
to retire, and appointed a nominating committee
consisting of three board members including treasurer
Dick Janisch, Alex Pacheco of PETA, and
Boston activist Evelyn Kimber to seek his
replacement. According to the Amory faction,
including Janisch, Kimber, and Laura Simon,
the committee named psychologist and veteran
activist Theo Capaldo. Pacheco, however, contested
the choice, contending that Amory, having
retired, had no right to name the committee.
Board members reportedly backing Pacheco are
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk, Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine president
Neal Barnard, and activists Tina Brackenbush,
Merry Caplan, and Scott Van Valkenburg. On
the verge of the April 17 NEAVS annual meeting,
Fund secretary/treasurer Marian Probst told ANIMAL
PEOPLE, “over 300 proxy ballots for
Theo, which had arrived at the NEAVS office,
‘disappeared.’ The entire process was referred by
the minority side to the Office of the
Massachusetts Attorney General, Charities
Division,” who asked NEAVS corporate counsel
Howard Mayo to report on the matter.

Activists & Organizations

PEOPLE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The Green Party has
nominated Captain Paul Watson
of the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society to run for mayor of
Vancouver. A legal resident of
Vancouver, Watson told ANIMAL
PEOPLE that he takes the nomination
as seriously as he ever takes
politics. Nominated for office on
previous occasions, Watson attended
press conferences with two hats,
one representing the nominating
party and the other representing the
Sea Shepherds, then deftly changed
hats as he cheerfully contradicted
himself on points of conflict.

Activists & Organizations

Sugarloaf fight goes on

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

MIAMI, Fla.––The troubled two-year-effort to rehabilitate
and free the former Ocean Reef Club dolphins Bogie,
Bacall, and Molly, along with the former Navy dolphins
Luther, Buck, and Jake, gained addenda in September, four
months after unknown vandals freed Bogie and Bacall from the
Welcome Home Project sea pen on the Indian River Lagoon,
while dolphin freedom advocate Ric O’Barry’s release of
Luther and Buck from the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary, in
defiance of federal permit requirements, ended with their
recapture, injured and allegedly malnourished.
On September 13, the USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service assigned permanent custody of
Molly, the oldest of the dolphins, to the Dolphin Research
Center, which is also keeping Buck; Luther and Jake are back
at the U.S. Navy marine mammal center in San Diego. The
APHIS order was contested by Rick Trout of the Key Largobased
Marine Mammal Conservancy, who worked with Molly
at both the Ocean Reef Club and the Sugarloaf Dolphin
Sanctuary, and claims to have legal title to her.

Whales

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Norwegian government marine mammal management
advisor Lars Wallxe will advise increasing the unilaterally
declared Norwegian minke whaling quota from 425, the current
level, to circa 800-900, the newspaper Nordlands Framtid
reported on September 11. Norway is the only nation that currently
assigns itself a commercial whaling quota, but Iceland is
reportedly considering doing likewise.
Continuing to ignore the Norwegian violation of the
International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial
whaling, U.S. IWC commissioner James Baker on September
12 formally protested the killing of two critically endangered
bowhead whales under a native subsistence quota unilaterally
assigned by Canada. U.S. aboriginals are allowed to kill 204
bowheads under a 1995 IWC quota running until 1998.

Oceanariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The Utrish dolphinarium of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Krasnodar, North Caucasus, on
September 5 released two dolphins into the Black Sea in an
experiment to see how well one of them, a 14-year-old male
named Dicky, would readapt to the wild after six years in
captivity. Dicky, captive for six years, was prepared for
release by capturing the other dolphin, Bella; introducing
them to each other; allowing them to bond; and then freeing
them together, in hopes they will remain together for as long
as Dicky needs help.
Ukrainian officials have refused to allow the
capture of 20 dolphins from the Black Sea this fall, for
exhibition in Turkey, which now has no captive dolphins.
Hopes of saving highly endangered Chinese river
d o l p h i n s by captive breeding were dashed on June 23, the
state-run Xinua news agency announced a month later, when
the first dolphin captured after a three-year search, a 10-yearold
female, drowned after becoming tangled in the protective
netting around her lagoon at the Tian’erzhou Natural Reserve.

HERPETOLOGY

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Letters endorsing the addition of
alligator snapping turtles, American softshell
turtles, map turtles, timber rattlesnakes,
eastern diamondback rattlesnakes,
and sailfin lizards to the list of
animals protected under Appendix II of the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species, and supporting the
move of gila monsters and beaded lizards
from Appendix II to Appendix I, must by
October 11 be received by the Chief, Office
of Scientific Authority, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive,
Room 750, Arlington, VA 22203; fax 703-
358-2276. All three turtle species and both
snake species are jeopardized by export to
Asian meat and traditional medicine markets.
Recorded exports of map turtles, for instance,

Recreational animal-killing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Six percent of all Ohio
traffic accidents, 1989-1994, were
deer/car collisons. The Ohio
Division of Wildlife says the deer/
car crash peaks reflect “increased
deer movement associated with
breeding.” Fifty-two percent of all
deer/car crashes came in October,
November, and December, coinciding
with the hunting season; 25%
occurred in November alone, the
peak month for hunting. The peak
hours for deer/car accidents were 5
a.m. to 7 a.m., when the most
hunters were in the woods, and as
many deer were hit then as in the
seven hours from 5 p.m. to midnight.
At least 33 states are
holding special youth hunts this
f a l l. In New Jersey, the National
Rifle Association and Friends of the
NRA will stock seven wildlife areas
with pheasants on November 2 for
its second annual Take A Kid
Hunting Day. Arkansas is offering
hunting opportunities for six-yearolds.
Pennsylvania is holding a twoday
squirrel hunt on October 12 and
14––targeting squirrels, a spokesperson
said, because “they are easy
to find” and “not impossible to hit.”

Be Kind To Animals Kids

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

DENVER––Kendra Thirlwell, age
nine, of Louisville, Kentucky, was on
August 21 named the American Humane
Association “Be Kind To Animals Kid” for
1996. Volunteering for two years at the
Enviro Pet adoption shelter operated by the
Kentucky Humane Society, Thirlwell one
year ago began broadcasting a three-minute
pet-of-the-week spot on Creature Feature, a
Louisville-based radio talk show. She also
organized an aluminum can drive at her
school that brought in 15,000 cans, netting
$500 toward the cost of a new KHS shelter.
Other finalists included Kayla
Capper, 11, of San Anselmo, California,
founder of an activist group called Preventing
Animal Testing, Cruelty, and Hunting;

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