OBITUARIES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Al-Hafiz Basheer Ahmad Masri,
78, who died July 12, 1992 in England, was
recently remembered by colleagues. The
leading authority on Islamic teachings about
animals, Masri retired as Imam of the Shah
Jehan Mosque in Woking, England, in
1968. He went on to write two influential
books, Islamic Concern for Animals and
Animals In Islam, demonstrating that the
Prophet Muhammed considered kindness to
animals a sacred duty, and opposed vivisec-
tion, factory farming, and ritual slaughter,
which Masri equated with animal sacrifice.
Masri also narrated a video, Creatures of
God, for the International Network for
Religion and Animals.

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Books In Brief

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Care of Reptiles and Amphibians in
Captivity, by Chris Mattison. 1992. 317 pages,
paperback. $17.95 ($23.95 Canadian). Blandford, distrib
uted by Sterling Publishing Co., 387 Park Ave. South, New
York, NY 10016-8810. If you run an animal shelter,
inspect pet stores, rehabilitate wildlife, or answer nuisance
animal complaints, you’re going to need this reference. You
may never pick it up until you find an unidentified lizard in
your overnight dropoff box, or get a call about a python in
a chimney. Then it’ll be a lifesaver, for you and the reptile.

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BOOKS: Felidae

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Felidae, by Akif Pirincci. 1993. 290 pages,
paperback, $19.00 ($24.00 Canadian). Villard Books
(a division of Random House), 201 East 50th St., New
York, NY 10022.
Felidae is a murder/detective story told from a
cat’s viewpoint. Francis has just moved into a new neigh-
borhood with his owner, and immediately begins finding
the corpses of other cats. Being an intelligent feline with a
taste for puzzle-solving, he embarks on his investigations
to find out who or what is dispatching the neighborhood
cats in such a gruesome manner.

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BOOKS: Animal Rights & Human Rights: Ecology, Economy and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Animal Rights Human Rights: Ecology,
Economy and Ideology in the Canadian
Arctic, by George Wenzel. 1991. 206 pages,
paperback. University of Toronto Press.
Animal Rights Human Rights author George
Wenzel, says the back cover, “is an anthropologist and geo-
grapher,” who has been working among the Inuit (Eskimos)
of Baffin Island since 1972. His book “is both a careful aca-
demic study and a disturbing comment on how environmen-
tal activity may oppress a whole society.” To wit, Wenzel
supposedly shows how anti-seal hunt protesters’ “own cul-
tural prejudices and questionable ecological imperatives
brought hardship, distress, and instability to an ecologically
balanced traditional culture.”

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Wildlife

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill contin-
ues to kill Alaskan wildlife, researchers revealed
February 5 at a symposium hosted by the
University of Alaska and the American Fisheries
Society. Among the victims are 14 orcas, who dis-
appeared and are presumed dead; 300,000 murres,
a bird species that hasn’t nested successfully since
the spill; and sea otters and ducks, who are still
being poisoned by mussels who in turn have been
poisoned by oil.
Zimbabwe is trying to raise $2 million
to spend on culling 5,000 elephants from a nation-
al herd officially estimated at 80,000.

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Reindeer wasted

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

While Alaskan officials pretend-
ed wolves had to be massacred so that
there would be enough caribou to feed
natives, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in December quietly massacred
790 reindeer on Hagemeister Island, a
wildlife refuge 300 miles south of
Anchorage. Introduced by an Eskimo
rancher in 1965, the reindeer were endan-
gering native lichen. Nome medical doc-
tor Donald Olson (also an Eskimo) hired a
team to fly another 120 reindeer to safety
at an abandoned dairy farm. Natives were
given 172 reindeer carcasses; the rest
were left to rot. “It’s the worst wanton
waste case since the buffalo,” said tribal
elder Moses Kritz. At deadline, another
193 reindeer were slated for killing.

Vivisection

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Physicians for Human Rights on February 6 asked the American Medical
Association to lead a probe of how German medical doctor Hans Joachim Sewering, 76,
became president elect of the World Medical Association. Sewering,a member of the Nazi SS
from 1933 until 1945, is accused of complicity in sending 203 people, including children, to
their deaths at Eglfing-Haar, a
euthanasia site for the disabled.
Ironically, the WMA was formed in
1947 in response to Nazi medical
abuses.

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HUNTING

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1992-1993 hunting season
closed with a spate of killings by hunters
apparently desperate to shoot anything.
Victims included three rare trumpeter swans,
shotgunned January 1 on the Winterthur
Museum grounds in Wilmington, Delaware; a
tame deer slain at the St. Clair County
Humane Society in Port Huron, Michigan,
January 4; 13 cows killed in Clay County,
Missouri, between Christmas and New Year’s
Day; and three dairy cows killed near
Warsaw, Ohio, on January 16. Michael
Adamson, 20, of Barberton, Ohio, and a 17-
year-old companion face charges in the latter
case. Ronald Smith, 30, and his infant
daughter escaped injury December 30 when
hunters trying to jacklight rabbits––after mid-
night–– sprayed the baby’s bedroom with gun-
fire. Charles W. Tipton, 44, of Lorain,

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Fur

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service has proposed to take red, western
gray, and eastern gray kangaroos off the
threatened species list, which would mean
their pelts could be imported in greater
numbers. Protected since 1974, the
Australian kangaroos now number about
18 million, up from 10 million in 1984,
and are killed for pelts at the rate of about
5.2 million a year. Public comments will
be received until March 22. Address
Office of Public Affairs, USFWS, Dept.
of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240.

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