Category: Asia

Dalai Lama hits sport hunting

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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.

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New lions for Kabul

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

BEIJING–The Badaling Wildlife Park, of Beijing, announced
on March 19 that in May it will donate two handreared lions, Zhuang
Zhuang and Canny, to the Kabul Zoo, to replace Marjan, the
one-eyed lion who died on January 26, and his mate, killed in the
1993 grenade attack that injured Marjan. Abdul Basir Hotak, Afghan
interim government charge d-affaires in Beijing, accepted the gift
in person.
The Badaling Wildlife Park, with 84 lions at present, was
formerly notorious for feeding live calves to lions to thrill
visitors. Chinese President Jiang Zemin banned the practice in
August 1999, at request of French activist Brigitte Bardot, but
live feeding is believed to continue at some other Chinese wildlife
parks.

Japan, Norway defy IWC whaling moratorium

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

TOKYO–With just a month left before the International
Whaling Commission is to meet in the Japanese whaling village of
Shimonoseki to decide whether to continue the 1986 global moratorium
on commercial whaling, Norway and Japan are racheting up the
pressure to end it through a series of gestures of defiance.
Many moratorium defenders fear that if Japan and Norway
decide to completely ignore it, the regulatory authority of the IWC
will collapse.

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Korea to crack down on Moran Market during World Cup

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:

SEOUL, South Korea– Trying to reduce visitor awareness of
dog-and-cat-eating during the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament,
starting in May, the government of South Korea on February 19 asked
the 22 dog meat vendors who sell at the Moran Market in Sungnam City
for “a voluntary discontinuation of all illegal sales and practices.”

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Care for bears in China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2002:
BEIJING, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI–China cares about bears.
That was clear from nationwide outrage erupting in February
2002 after a 21-year-old engineering student poured sulfuric acid and
caustic soda over five bears at the Beijing Zoo “to see if bears are
really stupid.”
International Fund for Animal Welfare representative Zhang Li
offered help to the zoo in treating the bears, who repeatedly all
suffered vision loss, mouth injuries, and badly burned paws. Zhang
Li also appealed for a national law on animal welfare. An existing
law protecting wildlife may not apply to zoo animals.

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Dogs & monkeys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

After three years of nonstop effort, the Visakha SPCA has
sterilized about 80% of the street dogs in Visakhapatnam, we
believe. We are now making special efforts to catch the remaining
20%, who inhabit the beaches and other open areas where they can
quickly run away from the dogcatchers. Our Animal Birth Control
program has now extended our services to adjacent communities and
nearby rural areas.

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Korean activists remind that it’s about cats, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

DAEGU, South Korea–“Please ask our President to make a
strong law banning dog and cat meat,” Korea Animal Protection
Society founder Sunnan Kum begged U.S. President George W. Bush in an
open letter on the eve of his February 20-21 visit to South Korea.
Sunnan Kum knew there was little chance that her letter would
reach Bush–but she has learned to try to leave no Bush unshaken in
her lifelong struggle against the customs of torturing dogs to death
to get adrenalin-soaked meat with reputed aphrodisiacal qualities for
men, and boiling cats alive to make a tonic for aging women.

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More “Loki” elephant case

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:

NEW DELHI–A three-judge panel from the Supreme Court of
India on February 12 directed the Tamil Nadu forest department to
allow James Mahoney, DVM, to resume treating a tuskless bull
elephant on behalf of the India Project for Animals and Nature.
Mahoney had begun regular visits to the elephant in January, but was
later barred by forest department officials.
Known to IPAN donors as “Loki,” but called either Murthy or
Makhna in Tamil Nadu, the elephant was captured in July 1998, after
killing 18 people in a series of rampages. He is believed to be an
ex-logging elephant who also killed 18 people in earlier incidents.

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Gas in Pakistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2002:
 
KARACHI, Pakistan–Natural gas exploration and extraction in
Kirthar National Park is apparently proceeding quietly, five months
after the Sindh High Court on October 4 dismissed a petition against
it brought by a coalition of nine Pakistani nonprofit organizations.
The verdict came as U.S. President George W. Bush pressured Pakistan
to crack down on public displays of anti-Americanism, but it crushed
an unusually American-like expression of dissent, in a nation with
little history of activism on behalf of animals and habitat.

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