Dalai Lama hits sport hunting

May 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

DHARAMSALA, India–Making perhaps his strongest statement
yet on behalf of animals, the Dalai Lama on March 29 reminded
Buddhists that sport hunting is contrary to the teachings of the
Buddhist religion.
The Dalai Lama had been asked to address the growth of trophy
hunting in Mongolia by Fund for Animals spiritual outreach director
Norm Phelps, who practices Tibetan Buddhism. Phelps outlined the
recent heavy investment of trophy hunting outfitters in promoting
safaris to kill argali sheep, snow leopards, Bactrian camels and
other species, many of which may not be legally hunted anywhere else.

SHARK files conspiracy suit vs. Wauconda

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

CHICAGO–The activist group SHARK on April 24 sued Illinois
associate judge for the 19th Judicial Circuit John T. Phillips,
state’s attorney Michael Waller, assistant state’s attorney Daniel
Shanes, the Wauconda County Chamber of Commerce, Wauconda police
chief Daniel Quick, and three current and former members of the
Wauconda County Sheriff’s Department, alleging that for nine years
they engaged in a criminal conspiracy to deprive SHARK members of
their civil liberties in connection with protests against the annual
Wauconda Chamber of Commerce rodeo.

Rats, mice, birds amendment, Jesse Helms & Johns Hopkins

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

CHAPEL HILL, NC.; baltimore, Md.–With a joint U.S.
Senate/House of Representatives conference committee expected to
decide any day on whether or not to include in the final reconciled
version of the 2002 Farm Bill a late amendment by Senator Jesse Helms
(R-North Carolina) to permanently exclude rats, mice, and birds
from protection under the Animal Welfare Act, PETA on April 18
disclosed dramatic and gruesome undercover video of technicians at
the laboratories of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
allegedly handling and killing rats and mice in an inhumane manner.
The video footage was obtained by PETA investigator Kate
Turlington, 24, a North Carolina State University graduate who
worked for six months as a technician in the Thurston Bowles animal
research building, near the University of North Carolina Hospitals
complex.

Fixing dog & cat overpopulation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

Ed Boks, director of the Mari-copa County Animal Care &
Control department in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 16 introduced
differential incentives to encourage residents to sterilize and
release feral cats instead of turning them in to be killed. The
county will now charge $61 to kill a cat–or $20 to sterilize the cat
and send him or her “home.” The Arizona Humane Society, which
requests a $15 donation to kill a cat, reports an increase in cat
intake, as have smaller local shelters. However, said Maricopa
County Animal Care & Control spokesperson Julie Bank, “We’ve spent
30 years trying to control feral cats the traditional way, and the
problem is not stopping, ” with feral cat turn-ins averaging a
steady 10,000 a year. “We hope in the next three to five years to
see a decrease,” Bank added.

New Mexico pound worker breeds pit bulls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

AZTEC, New Mexico–Among the more incongruous personal
histories of which ANIMAL PEOPLE has lately heard in the animal
control field is that of Aztec Animal Shelter employee Kristen
Valencia.
On October 10, 2001, Valencia was reportedly one of two
witnesses who affirmed an anonymous written allegaton to Animal
Protection of New Mexico cruelty inspector Michele Rokke that Aztec
Animal Shelter personnel improperly killed animals with
inanesthetized intracardiac injections.

Busting an abuser? Get a warrant!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2002:

RALEIGH, N.C.–The North Carolina Court of Appeals on April
16 threw out six cruelty convictions against Carolyn Nance of Rowan
County because county animal control officers seized her six horses
in December 1998 without a warrant.
The county contended that no warrant was necessary because
the horses were in imminent jeopardy and were clearly visible from
public property. However, three days elapsed between when the
horses were first seen and when they were taken.

Fundraising & the Kabul Zoo

April 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

As anticipated, the March 2002 ANIMAL PEOPLE investigative
feature “Plight of Kabul Zoo brings dubious fundraising claims”
brought prompt response from Brian Werner, founder of Tiger Missing
Link and cofounder of Great Cats In Crisis, and Bruce Eberle, the
fundraiser who produced an appeal soliciting funds on behalf of Great
Cats In Crisis, purportedly to aid Marjan, the Kabul Zoo lion who
was already dead two weeks before the appeal reached any of the
ANIMAL PEOPLE readers who brought it to our attention.

Wildlife Federation holds huge killing contest

April 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

SASKATOON, WASHINGTON D.C.–From April 1, when fools
reputedly follow groundhogs out of winter hiding, until June 23,
the Saskatoon Wildlife Federation is sponsoring reputedly the biggest
wildlife killing contest in Canadian history.
More animals are expected to be massacred in the Ken Turcot
Memorial Gopher Derby than in the Atlantic Canada offshore seal
hunt–which has a quota this year of 275,000 harp seals and 10,000
hooded seals.

The Pope is asked to help save sea turtles

April 1, 2002 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

LOS ANGELES, HONG KONG –The Sea Turtle Conservation Network
of the Californias on March 13, 2002 appealed to Pope John Paul II
to clarify to Roman Catholics that sea turtles are not “fish,” and
should not be poached and eaten at Lent.
Mexican poachers alone kill as many as 5,000 endangered sea
turtles a year during Lent, Wildcoast founder Serge Dedina said at a
Los Angeles press conference, out of an estimated annual toll of
35,000 turtles poached. Seconding Dedina was Homero Aridjis,
founder of the Mexican environmental protection organization Grupo de
100.

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