A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
LIMERICK, Ireland––“Some of you who have been to our show over the last few days may have noticed that we no longer have lions and tigers in the show,” Tom Duffy’s Circus owner David Duffy posted to Facebook on June 21, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DOVER, U.K.––Protests failed to stop the May 3, 2013 resumption of live animal exports from Dover. Currently just one ship, the MV Jolie, hauls animals once a week from Dover to Calais, France. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DOVER, U.K.––Protests failed to stop the May 3, 2013 resumption of live animal exports from Dover. Currently just one ship, the MV Jolie, hauls animals once a week from Dover to Calais, France. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
LONDON––Though culling predators has come to be recognized as one of the larger ecological mistakes of the Romans, the Normans, the Georgians in the 18th century, and 20th century British governments, British environment secretary Owen Paterson on February 27, 2013 announced that badgers will be culled this summer in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
MADRID––Defying Parliamentary efforts to re-establish bullfighting nationwide, the largely Basque city of San Sebastian in March 2013 adopted new rules for leasing the municipal bullring which exclude bullfights. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
PARIS––At least 28 companies in 13 European nations plus
Hong Kong have been involved in marketing horsemeat as beef, French
government investigators assessed in mid-February 2013, predicting that
more alleged perpetrators would be exposed by ongoing investigations.
Entrepreneurs seeking to resume horse slaughter in the U.S. have
argued that they would market to an upscale clientele in nations
including Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Japan, who would
demand that horses were transported and killed humanely. But the
horsemeat-as-beef scandal has revealed just the opposite: by far the
greater portion of the European horsemeat trade involves the lowest
priced meat products, in which the ingredients are most easily
disguised, and about which consumers and regulators tend to ask the
fewest questions.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2012:
LONDON–Pole Pole Foundation founder and former Kahuzi-Biega National Park chief ranger John Kahekwa was to accept the first annual £1,000 MarjanMarsh conservation award on October 29, 2012 from the Marjan Centre for the Study of Conflict and Conservation at King’s College, London, but Kahekwa never got there.
The award was presented in recognition of Pole Pole’s 20 years of work to promote community involvement in protecting eastern lowland gorillas and other animals who share the gorillas’ habitat near Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)