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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance co-chairs Sarah Baeckler and Jen Feuerstein on August 21, 2011 announced the choice of Mark Twyford to become alliance manager. Twyford formerly headed the Humane Society of Allen County, in Lima Ohio, and the Chequamegon Humane Association in Ashland, Wisconsin.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
LOS ANGELES–What did the American Humane Association do while Irene became the first hurricane to hit New Jersey since 1903, and did more damage in Vermont than any disaster since the Flood of 1927?
On August 26, 2011, six days after Irene hit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, but one day before Irene struck North Carolina, the AHA announced that “Even as the Red Star 82-foot truck drives toward North Carolina from its Denver home base, AHA President Dr. Robin R. Ganzert waits out the hurricane on her North Carolina farm.”
Said Ganzert, “It’s very important that families, and especially children, know that we will help keep their animals safe and sound.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
TRIPOLI–Veterinarian Amir Khalil of the Austrian-based international animal charity Vier Pfoten on September 9, 2011 led a rescue team to the aid of the 700 animals at the Tripoli Zoo. Vier Pfoten is believed to be the first animal charity allowed to work in Libya in more than 40 years.
North Carolina Zoo director David Jones and the International Fund for Animal Welfare had raised $10,000 to help the rescue, Jones said on the North Carolina Zoo web site. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
WUXI, China–Tipped off at 10 p.m. on August 3, 2011 that
truckers planned to illegally haul a load of cats to live markets in
Guangzhou, Guangdong at dawn, disguised as a cargo of furniture,
members of the Wuxi Animal Protection Association in Jiangsu province
mobilized overnight to intercept the truck at a toll booth at about
5:00 a.m. on August 4.
The truckers had nearly convinced the first authorities on
the scene that the load was only furniture, but “Conveniently,
right at that very moment, one little cat stuck her small head and
shoulders out of one of the cages at the top of the truck, looking
around curiously,” said a WAPA media release, translated by
volunteer Joy Gao.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
DES MOINES–Still housing seven bonobos and two orangutans,
after making deep program budget cuts, the Great Ape Trust “has
launched a fundraising campaign in a fight to stay open after founder
and sole funder Ted Townsend informed the staff his financial support
will cease at the end of the year,” reported Perry Beeman of the
Des Moines Register on August 25, 2011.
Founded by primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 2002 as the
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, opened in 2004 after two years of
construction, the Great Ape Trust “has conducted landmark cognitive
and social research on bonobos,” recalled Beeman. “But most of its
orangutans have already been shipped out to the Indianapolis Zoo, it
is ending contracts with some of its researchers, and its budget,”
according to Savage-Rumbaugh, “is now a fourth of what it once was.”
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
HAMBURG, Pa.–Fredrick K. Campbell, 58, of Lower Alsace
Township, Pennsylvania, was on September 3, 2011 cited by state
police for driving at an unsafe speed after striking Showing Animals
Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi with his mini-van near the
entrance of the Wing Pointe Gun Club. Hindi, present to protest a
pigeon shoot, sought hospital treatment for knee and hand injuries.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
NEW YORK CITY–Trouble, 12, the Maltese dog to whom hotel
heiress Leona Helmsley left $12 million in 2007, died in December
2010, “following a series of health setbacks that left her blind
and infirm,” Joanna Malloy and Barbara Ross of the New York Daily
News revealed on June 9, 2011. Trouble’s death was not disclosed
while litigation continued over the Helmsley estate.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
LAS VEGAS–Humane societies, pro-animal
bloggers, and even individual Facebook users are
at risk of lawsuit for alleged copyright
violation if they post articles or images from
copyrighted media, warns Colleen Lynn of
Dogsbite.org.
A professional web designer who closely
monitors copyright issues, Lynn predicts that
infringement lawsuits may be filed by animal use
industry front groups using a legal model
developed by a Las Vegas entity called Righthaven
LLC.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2011:
WASHINGTON D.C.–“For years we’ve been clashing with the United Egg Producers over the treatment of laying hens,” e-mailed Humane Society of the U.S. factory farming campaign manager Paul Shapiro from a July 7, 2011 press conference. “If someone had told me that we’d be doing a joint press conference with the UEP, I’d have thought they’d eaten some bad egg replacer. But indeed, that’s exactly what’s happening right now. We’re announcing that both the UEP and HSUS will endorse federal legislation intended to improve the treatment of the 280 million laying hens used in the U.S. each year.” Read more