Category: Activists & Organizations

Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Starting on page 15 is our 14th annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related
charities, plus miscellaneous local activist groups, humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad. We offer their
data for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated in U.S.
dollars at average 2002 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by what
they do and stand for: A for advocacy, C for conservation of
habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting,
I for supporting the eradication of “invasive” feral or non-native
species, L for litigation, N for neutering, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance or sterilization project, U for
favoring either “sustainable” or aboriginal lethal use of wildlife,
and V for focus on vivisection.

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition, opposition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Budgets, Programs, Assets, & Overhead of Eight Opposition Organizations

Americans for Medical Progress
TYPE: AEV
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 493,932
EXPENDITURES: $ 495,541
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 329,150
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 166,391
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 34%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 34%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 91,980
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ 8,266
CASH & SECURITIES: $ 89,409

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Who Gets The Money? — 14th annual edition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2003:

Advocates for Animals (Scotland)
TYPE: AE
DONATED & EARNED INCOME: $ 506.092
EXPENDITURES: $ 199,426
PROGRAM SERVICE: $ 157,791
FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION: $ 41,635
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, AS DECLARED: 21%
% FUNDRAISING & ADMINISTRATION, OUR ANALYSIS: 21%
TOTAL ASSETS: $ 1,109,373
TANGIBLE (DEPRECIABLE) ASSETS: $ [none] CASH & SECURITIES: $ 1,109,373

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Judge imposes settlement of fundraiser Eberle’s libel suit, ANIMAL PEOPLE corrects error made by a source and two items never in the newspaper nor on our web site

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

FAIRFAX,  Virginia–Imposing the
“Correction & Statement of Regret” published
directly below,  Fairfax County Circuit Judge
Stanley Paul Klein on May 29,  2003 ended a
lawsuit brought against ANIMAL PEOPLE in July
2002 by direct mail fundraiser Bruce Eberle and
his firm Fund Raising Strategies.
Obtaining several specific corrections
and clarifications that ANIMAL PEOPLE had already
made,  to the extent that available information
allowed,  Eberle and FRS received no retractions
of main coverage,  no damages or costs,  no
admission of their allegations of libel and
tortious interference in business relationships,
and–in tacit recognition that Eberle and one of
his major clients contributed to whatever errors
were made through their own inaccurate
remarks–no apology.

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Eberle says he had nothing to do with MIA “skeleton in closet”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

Responding to the June 2003 ANIMAL PEOPLE
article “Judge imposes settlement of fundraiser
Eberle’s libel suit,”  Bruce Eberle of Fund
Raising Strategies Inc. both telephoned and wrote
in reference to four paragraphs quoted and
paraphrased from a Los Angeles Times exposé of
the activities of his former client Jack Bailey.
The complete exposé,  by Los Angeles
Times staff writer Scott Harris,  was originally
published on August 7,  1991,  and is accessible
at <www.latimes.com>.
Stated Eberle,  “Neither my company nor I
had anything whatsoever to do with a fund appeal
[discussed by Harris] that referred to Jack
Bailey bringing back a partial skeleton of a
supposed American POW.  If such a fund appeal
was,  in fact,  mailed,  my company and/or myself
did not create it,   mail it,  or have anything
to do with it.”

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Getting biodiversity backward

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

CANBERRA,  Australia–At least 1,595 Australian native plants
and animals are at risk of extinction,  2,900 regional ecosystems are
imperiled,  and the leading threats come from land clearing,  sheep
and cattle grazing,  drought,  and fires,  says a recently published
national Terrestrial Biodiversity Assessment.  Predation and
competition with native species by introduced species ranked as a
lesser threat in most parts of Australia.
Principally authored by ecologist Paul Sattler,  the
assessment was commissioned by the national government.  It was
presented to Parliament in late April 2003.
What,  three months later,  is Australia doing about the findings?

*  The Cooperative Research Centre for Pet Control has
applied for permission to send a genetically engineered mouse herpes
virus into field trials–in effect,  to begin yet another
introduction of a non-native species.
The Cooperative Research Centre “aims to spread the virus throughout
the exotic mouse population,”  reported the Brisbane Courier-Mail,
noting that mouse plagues annually “cost the nation’s grain farmers
about $150 million.”

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Editorial: Shelter killing & regional values

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

On page 17 of this edition ANIMAL PEOPLE presents our tenth
annual casualty count in the 131-year-old battle by humane societies
against dog and cat overpopulation.
For the first 100 years after the Women’s Humane Society of
Philadelphia became the first U.S. humane organization to take an
animal control contract,  there was no visible progress.  Even after
the numbers of dogs and cats killed in U.S. shelters and pounds began
to fall in the early 1970s,  there was little recognition of
improvement.  The numbers everywhere were still higher than almost
anyone could bear to study in any kind of depth.
As recently as 1993,  the American Humane Association,
Humane Society of the U.S.,  and PETA still erroneously asserted that
the shelter killing toll was going up.

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Canada cancels help for whales, dolphins caught by accident–308,000 worldwide

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

CAPE BROYLE,  Newfoundland;  BERLIN,  Germany;  LIMA,
Peru–Environment Canada has ceased funding  Whale Release &
Stranding,  a nonprofit organization that frees trapped whales and
other marine mammals from fishing gear,  and the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans and Parks Canada have not picked up the slack,
Dene Moore of Canadian Press reported on June 15.
Whale release & Stranding received 55 reports of marine
mammals caught in fishing gear during 2001-2002,  director Wayne
Ledwell told Moore.  Ledwell and assistant Julie Huntington are the
only two paid employees of the group,  which was partially funded by
the Canadian Coat guard until 2000,  when Environment Canada took
over.

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Creating positive images of animals in Turkey

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

Fethiye,  Turkey–Setting out in 2000 to end the annual
pre-tourist season poisoning of street dogs and feral cats by
sterilizing at least 70% within five years,  Fethiye Friends of
Animals reached the goal in just three years,  founder Perihan
Agnelli announced in June.
Agnelli celebrated by asking the students at 15 local schools
to create positive visual images of animals.  All 450 students who
sent drawings received commemorative t-shirts.  Sixty drawings were
selected for a four-day public show.  The April 19 opening was
attended by 6,000 Fethiye residents and was broadcast live on local
television.  An art jury presented gold-on-silver medals to the
artists in each of three age groups whose works were judged best;
silver medals went to the runners-up.
The art contest was sponsored by the Marchig Animal Welfare
Trust,   founded by Jeanne Marchig,  widow of Swiss painter Gustave
Marchig.
[Contact Fethiye Friends of Animals c/o Degirmenbasi Mevkii,
Orman Deposu Karsisi,  Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey;  90-252-613-5825;
<ragnelli@superonline.com>.]

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