The “Carnivore crowd” licks chops at chance to repeal Kenya no-hunting policy

July 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

NAIROBI–Roars are often audible at the
Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters on the fringe
of Nairobi National Park–and not just from the
dwindling numbers of resident lions, fast being
poached to extirpation by Masai who see the park
as not only a buffer between their grazing land
and urban sprawl but also a source of grass for
their cattle and firewood now that drought and
overgrazing has turned their commons into
semi-desert.
Losing in competition for fodder, wild
ungulates have migrated from Nairobi National
Park into the distant hills. Hungry lions have
turned to hunting Masai cattle. Now the Masai
are hunting the lions.

Latest U.S. data shows shelter killing down to 4.2 million/year

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Continued rapid progress against pet overpopulation in some
of the fastest-growing parts of the South, the Sunbelt and the
Midwest combined with continued low shelter killing volume in the
Northeast and Northwest to bring estimated total U.S. shelter killing
in 2002 down to 4.2 million–a record low.
Our 2002 estimate is projected from 2000-2002 data covering
every major shelter in cities and states including 39% of the current
U.S. human population of 281 million.
If 1999 data is included to get better representation from
the South, Sunbelt, and Midwest, the projection edges up to 4.3
million. The ANIMAL PEOPLE projected toll in 2001 was 4.4 million,
and the tolls in 1999 and 2000 were almost identical, rounding off
to 4.5 million and 4.6 million.

Greek street animals — Olympic organizers go for hearts of gold

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

ATHENS–Fears among Greek animal advocates that street dogs
and feral cats might be poisoned en masse before the 2004 Olympic
Games eased on June 26 when Athens 2004 Organizing Committee
president Gianna Angelopoulou Daskalaki endorsed a plan to sterilize,
vaccinate, tattoo, and return to their neighborhoods as many as
20,000 animals, beginning in September 2003.
Greek deputy agrculture minister Fotis Hatzimichalis
announced that the project would begin with a budget of one million
euros. Local municipalities are to provide animal capture vehicles
and surgical workspace. The actual capturing is to be done by
volunteers or staff of nonprofit animal welfare societies.

Humans, whales, and the ghosts of high seas drifters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the
Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling, by Kieran
Mulvaney
Island Press (1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite
300, Washington, DC 20009), 2003. 349 pages,
hardcover. $26.00.

Between Species: Celebrating the Dolphin-Human
Bond, edited by Toni Frohoff & Brenda Peterson
Sierra Club Books (85 Second St., San Francisco,
CA 94105), 2003. 361 pages, hardcover. $24.95.

From the title, and from the longtime
role of author Kieran Mulvaney as the main
Greenpeace media liaison at annual meetings of
the International Whaling Commission, one might
guess that The Whaling Season: An Inside Account
of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling is an
exposé or defense of backroom politics.

Nonlethal bison and pigeon population control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

“The Santa Catalina Island Conservancy has given In Defense
of Animals the opportunity to adopt and relocate 100-150 bison to the
mainland,” IDA regional director Bill Dyer announced on June 20.
“Fourteen bison were introduced to Catalina for the filming of The
Vanishing American, starring Richard Dix, in 1924. The population
has grown beyond what the island can sustain. It is imperative that
the relocation take place by August 1, 2003. A managed colony of
100-150 bison will remain on the island.” Dyer welcomes offers of
care-for-life homes for the bison at 310-301-7730 or
<Bill@idausa.org>.

Editorial: An extra special thanks

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

An extra special thanks is in order to all of the respondents
to the June 2003 ANIMAL PEOPLE appeal for help in meeting the
extraordinary cost of our ultimately successful defense against the
libel suit brought against us in July 2002 by direct mail fundraiser
Bruce Eberle and one of his companies, Fund Raising Strategies, Inc.
Eberle’s response to our June 2003 news coverage of the
judicially imposed settlement, discussion of his response, and a
small sampling of reader comments appear on page 4 of this edition.

Chimp sanctuaries save evidence of human origin

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

CHINGOLA, Zambia–Humane education and
conservation through rescue are the commonly
cited goals of great ape sanctuaries in Africa,
but another could be added: genetic research is
increasingly demonstrating that in saving the
scattered remnants of isolated and soon to be
extinct wild chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla
bands, the sanctuaries are becoming
conservatories of the history of human evolution.
David C. Page of the Whitehead Institute
in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts, in the June 19,
2003 edition of Nature erased yet another of the
presumed distinctions between humans and chimps.
Summarized New York Times science writer Nicholas
Wade, “The genomes of humans and chimpanzees are
98.5% identical, when each of their three
billion DNA units are compared. But what of men
and women, who have different chromosomes?
Men and women differ by one to two percent of
their genomes, Dr. Page said, which is the same
as the difference between a male human and a male
chimpanzee or between a woman and a female
chimpanzee.”

How no-kill dog control came to Kolkata, India

June 19, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

How no-kill dog control came to Kolkata, India
by Debasis Chakrabarti, founder, Compassionate Crusaders Trust

Kolkata (Calcutta) is the largest truly no-kill city in the
world. It grieves me beyond measure to think of the possibility of a
resumption of slaughter of street dogs. I would like to share our
experience with everyone involved in this work, because I believe
that the method we use is largely contributory to our success.
The first and perhaps most important precaution we took, was
to send letters to the municipal councillors, informing them that we
have taken up this program, explaining the benefits of it, and
seeking their cooperation in calling us when they see an injured or
troublesome stray dog. This won for us their instant approval and
smoothed the way considerably.

Hancock still fighting for animals

June 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

SACRAMENTO–Loni Hancock (D-Berk-eley) on May 1 withdrew a
Farm Sanctuary bill to ban the use of gestation crates for pregnant
sows. Opposed by the California Farm Bureau Federation, the bill
was three votes short of clearing the California assembly Agriculture
Committee.
The “Chronology of Humane Progress” published in the May
edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE stated that in 1976 the San Francisco SPCA
became the first U.S. animal control agency to halt killing animals
by decompression. The precedent actually came in Berkeley, across
San Francisco Bay, on a 1972 motion by then-city councillor Loni
Hancock, backed by fellow councillor Ron Dellums, who has since had
a staunchly pro-animal record in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The history of the Berkeley bill was recounted by Lara Diana
Sukol in The Politics of Dogs in Berkeley, 1968-1972, an M.A.
thesis presented to the history faculty at the University of Vermont
in March 2000. Hancock moved to abolish the decompression chamber at
urging of a group called The Dog Responsibility Committee, formed by
Myrna Walton, Julie Stitt, and Sukol’s parents, George and Diana
Sukol.

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