Category: Asia

Net-cutting claimed by German activists fails to free dolphins from “The Cove”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
TAIJI, Japan–Japanese authorities, coastal whalers,
longtime opponent of coastal dolphin-killing and capture Ric O’Barry,
and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society observers at the Taiji
dolphin-killing cove Scott and Elora West all appeared surprised on
September 28, 2010 by a web-posted announcement that “Divers from
the European conservation organisation Black Fish last night swam out
and cut the nets of six holding pens in Taiji, Japan, that were
holding dolphins caught during a dolphin drive hunt a few days
earlier.

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Street dogs, trains, & Indian elephants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
DELHI–Longtime animal welfare concerns flared into public view
in September 2010 in connection with two symbols of Indian national
pride–Indian Railways and the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Animal advocates worried ever since India agreed to host the
two-week Commonwealth Games in 2006 that the games would be preceded
by an illegal but nonetheless officially encouraged dog massacre, to
rid the streets of perceived “dog menace” before the arrival of
thousands of foreign visitors. Under activist pressure, the city
of Delhi increased the pace of dog sterilizations under the federally
subsidized Animal Birth Control program, but was nonetheless
embarrassed by dogs roaming the athletes’ village at the start of the
games. The animal charity Friendicoes SECA agreed to hold the dogs
in temporary quarters for the duration of the games.

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Looking the wrong way for causes of bushmeat poaching and predator loss

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
NAIROBI–Often exposed involvement of Asian financiers in
rhino horn and elephant ivory poaching fueled a ubiquitous belief
among frustrated animal defenders attending the early September 2010
African Animal Welfare Action conference in Nairobi, Kenya that
Asian workers in Africa are also implicated in out-of-control
bushmeat poaching and catastrophic crashes of predator populations.
African Animal Welfare Action conference attendees
guesstimated that Chinese workers alone were involved in from 20% to
80% of all the bushmeat poaching in Africa.

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Alleged rhino poaching gang served trophy hunters as well as Asian medicinal demand

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

 

JOHANNESBURG–Startling photos of the
September 22, 2010 arraignment of 11 alleged
members of an international rhino poaching
syndicate reached the world despite the
officially unexplained efforts of police to keep
photographers out.
News photographers Werner Beukes of the
South African Press Agency, Herman Verwey of
Beeld, and Lewellyn Carstens of the South
African Broadcasting Corporation were detained
for 45 minutes and one of them was roughed up by
police, according to the South African National
Editors’ Forum. No motive for the police action
was offered.

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Avocados & ivory

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
NAIROBI–Inspectors at the Jomo Kenyata Inter-national
Airport in Nairobi thought there was something odd about a two-ton
cargo of “avocados” that were to be flown to Malaysia on August 21,
2010.
Avocados, after all, are among the major exports of Sabah
state, Malaysia.
Opening the boxes, the inspectors found 317 pieces of ivory
and five rhino horns. Two suspects were arrested.

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NACA & Philippines move against gassing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

KANSAS CITY, MANILA–Gassing homeless animals moved closer
toward abolition worldwide on September 15, 2010 when the U.S.
National Animal Control Association withdrew approval of gassing,
three weeks after Philippine Department of Agriculture secretary
Proceso Alcala deleted gassing with automotive exhaust fumes from the
Philippine Revised Rules & Regulations on the Euthanasia of Animals.
Alcala referred the proposed administrative rule that would have
authorized gassing with exhaust back to the departmental committee on
animal welfare for reconsideration. Philippine animal control
agencies are still allowed to kill animals with bottled carbon
monoxide or carbon dioxide.

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Greenpeacers sentenced

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
TOKYO–Greenpeace Japan anti-whaling campaigners Junichi Sato,
33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, were on September 6, 2010 convicted of
stealing more than 20 kilograms of whale meat from a warehouse in
April 2008, and were sentenced to a year in jail each, suspended
for three years. Sato and Suzuki contended that they took the whale
meat as evidence that members of the crew of the whaling ship Nissan
Maru were illegally selling meat from whales who had been killed in
the name of scientific research. The case, the award-winning film
The Cove, and the July 2010 deportation of Sea Shepherd
Conserv-ation Society activist Pete Betheune, whose boat the Ady Gil
was sunk by a Japanese whaler in January 2010, have greatly raised
Japanese awareness of the nation’s involvement in whaling.

What the Sea Shepherds did during the summer in the Galapagos, Faroe Islands, and Tokyo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:

 

FRIDAY HARBOR– The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
celebrated but pledged to remain involved in the Galapagos Islands on
July 28, 2010, after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organiz-ation’s World Heritage Committee voted 14-5 to drop
the Galapagos from the UNESCO list of endangered World Heritage
sites. Added to the list in 2007, the Galapagos were downlisted in
recognition of improved environmental protection by the government of
Ecuador– including restraining alleged economic exploitation by
senior officers in the Ecuadoran navy.
The Sea Shepherds began helping the Galapagos National Park
Service to patrol the Galapagos Marine Reserve in late 2000. In
early 2001 one of the first Sea Shepherd missions undertaken with the
park service exposed the involvement of Ecuadoran navy vessels in
support of shark poaching. The Sea Shepherds later donated the
patrol boat Sirenian to the Galapagos National Park Service, and
established a permanent office in the Galapagos in support of ongoing
anti-poaching efforts.

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Ingesting bear bile can kill, warns top Vietnamese traditional doctor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010:

HANOI– People’s Doctor Nguyen Xuan Huong, chair of the
Traditional Medicine Association of Vietnam, on July 21, 2010
warned that consuming bear bile products can cause potentially fatal
liver and kidney damage.
Huong, who served two terms in the Vietnamese National
Assembly, “joined Animals Asia’s campaign to end bear bile farming
after seeing the shocking effects of bile consumption on some of his
patients, including two government officials who died after taking
bear bile tonics,” said Animals Asia Foundation senior writer Angela
Leary. “Huong has treated 10 patients for bear bile poisoning since
1985, including two he couldn’t save,” Leary said.

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