Muslim world

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Fears are growing that the combined effects of a multi-year
drought and the war in Afghanistan have severely hurt migratory
birds. None at all came to Rawal Lake, near Islamabad, Pakistan,
wildlife expert Masaud Anwar told BBC reporter Jill McGivering. The
lake usually hosts tens of thousands. World Wildlife Fund
representative Asheik Ahmed Khan said hunters told him that cranes
were seen in flights of no more than three, down from the usual
50-plus. Just 1,500 storks, cranes, egrets, herons, and
cormorants reached the Banganatittu Bird Sanctuary near Mysore,
India, wrote Shankar Bennur of the Deccan Herald, while duck
migrations from Siberia to Jammu-and-Kashmir, in northern India,
were down 90%, said Gharana Wetland wildlife warden Tahir Shawal.

BOOKS: Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Education Committee’s Humane Education Guidebook

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Education Committee’s
Humane Education Guidebook
American SPCA (424 East 92nd St., New York, NY 10128), 2000.
244 pages, 3-ring binder format. $59.95.

The Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Humane
Education Guidebook came into being at the urging and direction of
Women’s Humane Society education director Janice Mininberg, who
recognized an “acute need for written guidelines that would aid all
humane educators in their quest to establish productive,
professional education programs at their respective SPCAs and humane
societies.”

Wise Giving Alliance raises the standard for program spending

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

ARLINGTON, Va.–About one U.S.-based animal protection
charity in five would probably flunk strict new accountability
standards published for comment in January by the Better Business
Bureau Wise Giving Alliance.
The Wise Giving Alliance was formed by a merger of the
Council of Better Business Bureaus Philanthropic Advisory Service
with the National Charities Information Bureau. The 21 standards
published by the new organization mostly echo standards already in
effect, including two standards for board structure which have
proved particularly problematic for small animal protection charities.
Newly added is a strengthened standard for spending funds on
charitable service.

Activists & Organizations

Five-minute activist videos

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Crying Shame
The Fur-Bearers
(3727 Renfrew St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5M 3L7;
<furbearers@banlegholdtraps.com>), 2001.

Dolphin Hunting in Japan
The Elsa Nature Conservancy
(P.O Box 2, Tukuba-Gakuen P.O., Tukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-8691;
<risa@surfline.ne.jp>), 2000.

Mobile
Spay/Neutering
on Half A Shoe String Budget
Barlieb/Wallace Ltd.
(1680 Minesite Road,
Allentown, PA 18103;
<barwalprod@aol.com>), 2001.

Making social change requires a political animal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Making social change requires a political animal by Julie Lewin

Doing Democracy:
The MAP Model for Organizing
Social Movements
by Bill Moyer
with JoAnn McAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steven Soifer
New Society Publishers (P.O. Box 189, Gabriola Island, B.C.,
Canada, V0R 1X0), 2001. 229 pages. $16.95.

Organizing for Social Change:
Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
(Third Edition)
by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendell & Steve Max
Seven Locks Press (3100 W. Warner Ave. #8, Santa Ana, CA 92704),
2001. 429 pages, $23.95.
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67 of 120 counties flout law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

WEBBVILLE, Ky.–Trixie Foundation founder and no-kill
shelter operator Randy Skaggs set out in 1996 to investigate county
compliance with state anti-rabies vaccination and dog pound
requirements, dating respectively to 1955 and 1958.
After obtaining and tabulating three years worth of data–and
suing 70 counties to get it, with the help of In Defense of Animals
and the Animal Protection Institute– Skaggs in late January 2002
published a report that seems to tell as much about the state of
civic concern and participatory democracy in Kentucky as about the
plight of dogs.

Feral cat news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Feral cats and dogs on U.S. Navy bases have just a year to
live, under a “Policy Letter Preventing Feral Cat and Dog
Populations on Navy Property” issued on January 10, 2002 by Admiral
Vern Clark, Chief of Naval Operations, says Alley Cat Allies
president Becky Robinson. “The policy expressly prohibits feeding
feral animals and/or implementing trap/neuter/return programs,” and
requires “humane capture and removal of all free roaming cats and
dogs” by January 1, 2003, said Robinson. Alley Cat Allies has been
using neuter/return to control feral cats at the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, under contract with the Navy.

Japanese mobilize to save whales their government wants to kill

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

TOKYO–Thousands of Japanese volunteers worked around the
clock from the morning of January 22 into mid-day on January 24 in a
futile effort to save 14 whales who ran aground near the town of
Ouracho on the southern island of Kyushu. Thirteen whales suffocated
before they could be towed back to sea, but the newspaper Yomiuri
Shumbun reported that one whale survived.
Yomiuri Shumbun identified the victims as Bryde’s whales,
but BBC News reported that they were sperm whales. Either way, they
were among the species that the Japanese “research” whaling fleet
killed during 2001 in the north Pacific.

Chimp Haven or NIH holding facility?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SAN ANTONIO–A year after a heavily amended version of the
Chimpanzee Health Improvement, Maintenance and Protection Act was
rushed to passage in the final days of the 106th Congress and signed
into law by former U.S. President Bill Clinton almost as he walked
out the White House door, sanctuarians and antivivisectionists
remain deeply divided over just what it means and how to respond.
Almost all concerned are agreed that the CHIMP Act was
critically flawed by amendments allowing the National Institutes of
Health to retain ownership of chimps who are to be “retired” from lab
use, and to permit the NIH to yank them back into research use at
any time, along with any offspring born to them.

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