Where horse rescue gets hot by Sharon Cregier

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

AMMAN, Jordan –– The sound of a stick on

hide summons Chris Larter to her second-story balcony.

“It’s the donkey-beaters,” Larter explains. Below, a

mare, foal at foot, plows a stony verge. Sheep and shep-

herd dodge four-lane traffic to graze the edges of con-

struction projects. And of course there are boys driving

donkeys. “Last time they were trying to cut a donkey’s

ears off,” Larter continues. She recalls braving a hail of

stones to take photos, locating the parents of the donkey-

boys, and pleading for the donkey’s welfare.

Today, courage requires police reinforcement.

Obtaining backup, Larter partially unloads a staggering

donkey, obliging the donkey-boys to make multiple trips

to finish moving their cargo.

Larter is field supervisor, publicity officer, and

photographer for the Jordanian Society for the Protection

of Animals, sponsored by the 70-year-old Society for the

Protection of Animals in North Africa. Based in England,

SPANA is among the last and most popular remnants of

the British occupation of Jordan, 1920-1946.

Wildlife

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill contin-

ues to kill Alaskan wildlife, researchers revealed

February 5 at a symposium hosted by the

University of Alaska and the American Fisheries

Society. Among the victims are 14 orcas, who dis-

appeared and are presumed dead; 300,000 murres,

a bird species that hasn’t nested successfully since

the spill; and sea otters and ducks, who are still

being poisoned by mussels who in turn have been

poisoned by oil.

Zimbabwe is trying to raise $2 million

to spend on culling 5,000 elephants from a nation-

al herd officially estimated at 80,000.

HUNTING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1992-1993 hunting season

closed with a spate of killings by hunters

apparently desperate to shoot anything.

Victims included three rare trumpeter swans,

shotgunned January 1 on the Winterthur

Museum grounds in Wilmington, Delaware; a

tame deer slain at the St. Clair County

Humane Society in Port Huron, Michigan,

January 4; 13 cows killed in Clay County,

Missouri, between Christmas and New Year’s

Day; and three dairy cows killed near

Warsaw, Ohio, on January 16. Michael

Adamson, 20, of Barberton, Ohio, and a 17-

year-old companion face charges in the latter

case. Ronald Smith, 30, and his infant

daughter escaped injury December 30 when

hunters trying to jacklight rabbits––after mid-

night–– sprayed the baby’s bedroom with gun-

fire. Charles W. Tipton, 44, of Lorain,

Woofs and growls…

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

Fed up with nonprofit executives who hide the size of

their salaries by dividing them among related groups who file sepa-

rate returns, the Internal Revenue Service asks on the 1992 Form

990, “Did any officer, director, trustee, or key employee receive

aggregate compensation of more than $100,000 from your organiza-

tion and all related organizations, of which more than $10,000 was

provided by the related organization?” If the answer is yes, detailed

explanations are required.

The Senate Select Committee on Prisoners of War and

Missing In Action Affairs has recommended that the IRS should

crack down on charities who report fundraising costs as “educational”

program expenses. This would affect many animal-related charities;

see the notes accompanying the financial tables on over 60 national

groups published in the December 1992 and January/February issues

of ANIMAL PEOPLE. (Copies are still available at $2.00 each.)

Zoos & Aquariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The American Association of

Zoological Parks and Aquariums

announced November 6 that it would rein-

state the accreditation of the Columbus Zoo

in Columbus, Ohio, effective January 1.

The zoo and former director Jack Hanna

were suspended in April for violating the

AAZPA code of ethics by importing two

pandas from China for an exhibit that closed

in September after attracting 925,000 of the

zoo’s 1.5 million visitors. AAZPA con-

tends––along with most other wildlife pro-

tection advocates––that China’s panda

rentals are not in the best interest of either

the species or the individual animals. A

week after the AAZPA announcement, the

Columbus Zoo executive committee named

Hanna “director emeritus” and replaced him

with longtime general manager Gerald

Borin.

BOOKS BRIEFLY NOTED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Myth of Wild Africa:

Conservation Without Illusion,

by Jonathan Adams and Thomas

McShane. W.W. Norton & Co., 1992.

266 pages; hardback; $21.95.

Adams and McShane, both offi-

cials of the World Wildlife Fund, advance

the WWF view that only hunting and

“culling” marketable species can provide

impoverished African nations with suffi-

cient economic incentive to insure that the

animals will otherwise be protected. The

case of the African elephant demonstrates,

however, that the presence of a legal market

for wildlife parts in one nation only stimu-

lates poaching in others where there is no

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