Category: Activists & Organizations

Turkey lacks humane fundraising tradition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

ISTANBUL, Turkey–“Although Perihan Agnelli is only
scratching at the surface of the stray dog problem on the south
coast, she is doing a very good job of self-promotion and of winning
governmental endorsement. She is showing a lot of initiative and
business sense in soliciting donations,” British garment
manufacturer Robert Smith wrote in a September 17 e-mail to the
Society for the Protection of Stray Animals (SHKD), whose Natural
Dog Shelter at the sprawling Kemerburgaz Rubbish Dump Project outside
Istanbul he has sponsored for nearly three years.

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Poaching & Zimbabwe turmoil may halt CITES bid to sell ivory

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

SANTIAGO, BONN–The ivory and whaling industries will go
into the 12th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species on November 3 as
determined as ever to reopen legal global commerce in the body parts
of elephants and whales.
The ivory merchants and whalers are not considered likely to
get what they want.

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Suit seeks to end pheasant stocking by Park Service

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November 2002:

BOSTON–The Fund for Animals,  Humane Society of the U.S.,
Massachusetts SPCA,  and individual Cape Cod residents on September
20 filed suit against the National Park Service for collaborating
with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife to release
hundreds of captive-bred pheasants each year for hunters to shoot at
the ecologically fragile Cape Cod National Seashore.
“The National Park Service is exterminating black rats on
Anacapa Island,  California,  and evicting wild burros from the
Mojave desert because they are not native,”  pointed out Fund for
Animals executive vice president president Mike Markarian,  whose
organization has also contested those actions,  “but is purposely
introducing exotic species for use as targets,”
Markarian was promoted to the presidency of The Fund on
September 24.  Marian Probst,  assistant to Fund founder Cleveland
Amory from the 1967 start of the organization until Amory died in
1998,  and president since then,  became chairperson,  continuing as
chief financial officer and administrator.

Grizzly mama mauls deadbeat dad

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November 2002:

WEST YELLOWSTONE,  Montana–Buffalo Field Campaign staff
protesting against round-ups and slaughters of bison who leave
Yellowstone National Park quickly disassociated themselves from
Jeffrey Scheu,  36,  who joined the campaign as a volunteer on August
26,  identifying himself as “Jesshua Amun,”  and suffered a broken
nose,  facial cuts,  and an injured knee two days later after he and
three other volunteers accidentally approached a grizzly bear sow
with two cubs.
The other volunteers either froze or dropped to the ground to
avoid posing a threatening appearance,  but said Scheu tried to run.
Airlifted to Idaho Falls for medical treatment,  Scheu turned
out to be wanted in Butler County,  Ohio,  for nonpayment of child
support.  The Buffalo Field Campaign learned his actual identity from
news media.

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Action Down Under on 20th World Farm Animals Day

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

WASHINGTON D.C.–The 20th annual observance of World Farm
Animals Day was perhaps most effectively marked by Australian and
Philippine officials who probably never heard of it. The occasion
honors and mourns the 47 billion animals raised and killed for food
each year, 10 billion of them in the U.S.
Meant to be celebrated each year on Mohandas Gandhi’s
birthday, October 2, which this year fell on a Wednesday, World
Farm Animals Day was actually observed on both the preceding and
following weekend, as well as in midweek.

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Korean animal advocacy after the soccer World Cup–and looking toward China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

SEOUL–What came out of four years of
escalating protest against South Korean
torture-killing of dogs and cats for human
consumption, focused on the 2002 World Cup
soccer tournament?
Exactly as predicted by International Aid
for Korean Animals founder Kyenan Kum and her
sister Sunnan Kum, founder of the Korean Animal
Protection Society, pro-dog meat legislators
waited until after the World Cup was over and
most western visitors and news media left Korea.
Then the legislators dusted off and again began
touting a bill promoted several times previously,
which seeks to repeal the weak 1991 South Korean
ban on the sale of dog meat and cat meat. The
bill would authorize the establishment of
commercial dog-slaughtering plants, on the
pretext that such facilities could be inspected
by the agriculture ministry, and would therefore
be “humane.”

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Editorial: 10 years and still flying for the animals!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

Ten years ago this month, they said
ANIMAL PEOPLE would never take off. The runway
was too short, too shaky, we were hauling too
much weight, and we would be flying blind,
dodging flak all the way.
No one had ever before done what we set
out to do–to independently report about animal
protection, for a global audience, with a
proactive and self-starting approach to getting
things done.
We started out flat broke, hopeful, yet
lacking even a tangible promise that help would
come from anyone.

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Pakistan conference

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

“A great peaceful gathering was organized in Multan,
Pakistan, on 19th July, 2002, under the leadership of Khalid
Mahmood Qureshi, chief editor of The Tension weekly newspaper,”
reported Shahzad Ahmed Khan in an e-mail to ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Topics of concern, according to Khan, included “the safety
and survival of rare animals and birds which are on the verge of
extinction”; the weakness and nonenforcement of Pakistan’s 1890
animal protection act; and animal fighting for entertainment,
involving cocks, quail, pheasants, bulls, camels, dogs, and
dogs set against tethered bears.
Participants in the gathering including Supreme Court
advocate Nafees Ansari and Arif Mahmood Qureshi, managing trustee of
Animal Rights International/Pakistan, raised banners bearing slogans
such as “Animals are the beauty of our earth,” and “Love the
animals–don’t tease or torture them,” Khan said.
“Banners also protested,” Khan wrote, “that the District
Court Bar of Multan and the Municipal Corporation of Multan recently
poisoned street dogs and feral cats.”

Dickson out at WSPA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

LONDON–Andrew Dickson, chief executive of the World Society
for the Protection of Animals since 1992, either resigned or was
dismissed in early September 2002, informed sources told ANIMAL
PEOPLE at deadline.
Further details were unavailable.
Dickson had survived many public controversies, including a
1995 rift with primatologist Jane Goodall, several splits with Latin
American donors and affiliates, and allegations of extensive
mismanagement of the WSPA bear sanctuary program raised from several
different directions in 2001.

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