Throwing wolves and sharks to the tourists: ALASKA AND HAWAII PLAN PREDATOR MASSACRES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

JUNEAU, ALASKA––Hoping
to hype tourism, the Alaska Board of
Game on November 17 announced plans
to kill up to 80% of the 700 wolves who
inhabit the 43,000-square-mile region
between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The
same day, for essentially the same rea-
son, the Hawaii Shark Task Force
nnounced it would begin killing tiger
sharks on sight.
The Alaskan massacre is to
commence as early as January, while
shark-killing off the coast of Hawaii may
already be underway. In each case, state
officials called the killing necessary to
boost the tourist industry, but in each
case and especially vis-a-vis Alaska, the
immediate result was a wildcat (sponta-
neous) boycott by potential visitors,
which within 10 days seemed likely to
become an international campaign by
animal protection and environmental
groups.

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Election Roundup: ANIMALS WIN! Apparent Gains at Every Level

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

WASHINGTON D.C. –– Outgoing U.S. president George Bush bought a hunting
license on Election Day. Both U.S. president elect Bill Clinton and vice president elect Albert
Gore claimed to be hunters during the election campaign––but they went jogging. Whether they
actually hunt or not, indications are that the next four years should be politically much more
favorable toward animal and habitat protection than the preceding twelve years. Neither Clinton,
a reputed wild turkey hunter, nor Gore, a one-time deer hunter, has ever been known to shoot

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Who Gets The $$$? Read this before you donate!

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

You’re getting more begging letters than Christmas
cards. Some of the begging letters come disguised as
Christmas cards––only when you open them, out topple not
snapshots of friends and relatives, but instead photographs
you wish were from Halloween and fake, depicting every
kind of animal abuse.
Every begging letter describes a heartrending situ-
ation. Every sender claims credit for dramatic compassion-
ate actions. Each claims to be making the very best possible
use of your money.

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Israel on September 10
banned six British women from giving
birth in the Red Sea at a dolphin sanctu-
ary, under supervision of obstetrician
Gowri Motha. Motha told reporters she
wanted to see whether the dolphins
could communicate with the fetuses
through ultrasonic waves. “We hope to
make these children more in tune with
nature,” she said. Israeli authorities
believed the experiment might jeopar-
dize the survival of the newborns.

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Religion & Animals

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Rev. Andrew Linzey has been
appointed to the first-ever chair for the study
of animal welfare at Oxford University. The
International Fund for Animal Welfare invest-
ed approximately $500,000 to establish the
chair for a five-year period. Linzey, an
Anglican, was formerly chaplain and director
of studies at the University of Essex Center for
the Study of Theology. He left that post in
mid-1992, shortly after refusing to conduct
services while university staff were killing
“nuisance” rabbits outside the chapel. Linzey
is author of numerous books, including
Christianity and the Rights of Animals
(Crossroad, 1987).

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Guest Column: An Avoidable Conflict by Dan Namowitz

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Would you fly in an airplane if upon boarding you beheld a
sign proclaiming, “Notice: the flight crew is trained to cope with nor-
mal operations only. The management is not responsible for the per-
formance of the pilots under emergency conditions.”?
Would you ride aboard a train or an ocean liner, if the engi-
neer or captain had received no emergency training?
What kind of emergency training should the driver of an
automobile undergo? With all the loss-of-control accidents that occur
on icy roads at the beginning of each new winter, and all the
animal/automobile collisions that occur each spring and summer, it is
obvious that drivers whose normal operating environments involve
certain predictable hazards are doing a poor job of dealing with emer-
gencies, resulting in unnecessary death and injury.

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Canadian government crackdown: Animal Defense League loses charitable status; RETALIATION FOR ANTIFUR EFFORTS?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

OTTAWA, Ontario–– The
Animal Defense League of Canada has
been stripped of the charitable status it has
enjoyed since 1967 by Revenue Canada,
the Canadian equivalent of the Internal
Revenue Service,
Although the ADLC retains non-
profit status, donations to the group are no
longer tax deductible.
“For several years now,” the
group told members in late September,
“Revenue Canada has been reviewing the
charitable status of animal rights organiza-
tions and taking a very narrow view of what
they will accept as being ‘charitable.’ We
believe this position is being taken in
response to the complaints and pressure
from factory farmers, the fur industry,
vivisectors, the hunters’ lobby, and oth-
ers.”

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Pressure from Shedd aquarium squelches expose

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

CHICAGO, Illinois––The sched-
uled October 10 debut of Modern Animal
News TV on WGBO-TV Channel 66 was
twice postponed and then cancelled by station
management under pressure from the Shedd
Aquarium. The program was to focus on the
capture of two beluga whales in northern
Manitoba, Canada, last August, and their
subsequent death at the Shedd on September
25, apparently from overdoses of worm med-
icine.

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Who Shot Those Pigeons?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

HARRISBURG, Pa.––The Sept-
ember 9 edition of the Valley View Citizen
Standard took a few weeks to reach partici-
pants in the Labor Day protest against the
59th annual Fred Coleman Memorial Pigeon
Shoot, but when it did, it ignited a furor.
The hometown paper of Hegins,
Pa., where the pigeon shoot is held, pub-
lished the names and scores of all pigeon
shoot registrants. Among those listed as
scoring, a euphemism for killing pigeons,
were seven protesters who paid the $75 reg-
istration fee in order to let pigeons escape
by intentionally shooting high, low, or
wide when the traps were opened. Twenty
pigeons were released for each registrant to
shoot at, one at a time, on command.

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