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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
NAIROBI, Kenya––Four days of shooting at the Westgate Mall in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya introduced the world to yet another poaching threat to elephants. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
BANGKOK, Thailand; THIRUVANATHAPURAM, India––Unscrupulous owners of working elephants are increasingly often deciding that the rising cost of elephant care and soaring prices paid by speculators for ivory mean their elephants are worth more dead than alive––and are resisting legislation to protect the elephants, who have often been illegally captured from the wild. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
HARARE––Sentencing three convicted elephant poachers to long prison terms and a game ranger to hang for shooting an alleged poacher, Zimbabwe courts appeared to send mixed messages about protecting elephants in late September 2013––but the facts leading to the death sentence may have been more nuanced than headlines that touched off a flurry of online petitions and activist alerts on behalf of ranger Maxwell Bowa, 53. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
In 1989 I drove from Illinois to Montauk Point, New York to indulge in shark fishing, then my favorite pastime. I had no idea that a detour to the small town of Hegins, Pennsylvania would change my world forever. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
Jairo Mora Sandoval, 26, was killed early on May 31, 2013 by suspected sea turtle egg poachers on Moin Beach, near Limon, Costa Rica. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––”A recent unexpected delay” has indefinitely postponed the anticipated removal of gray wolves in the Lower 48 states from U.S. endangered species list protection, Associated Press reported on May 21, 2013, citing only “a court filing” by “government attorneys.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
MILWAUKEE, LONDON, JOHANNESBURG––As the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sees it, the critical issue in rhinoceros conservation is not rhinos are being killed in record numbers, but rather, who gets the money from killing them. Anyhow, this was the reasoning that emerged from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service explanations of why trophy hunter David K. Reinke, 52, of Madison, Wisconsin, was recently allowed to become the first American to legally import the remains of a black rhino since the species was federally listed as endangered in 1980. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
Guns, Excise Taxes, & Wildlife Restoration by M. Lynne Corn & Jane G. Gravelle Congressional Research Service Free download from <www.crs.gov>
“As result of the recent debate over guns, gun rights, and gun-related violence, there has been a marked increase in sales of many weapons as well as ammunition,” opens this succinct five-page resumé of the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Program. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
BALTIMORE, RALEIGH––Hunter, trapper, and fisher William Edward Small, 20, who died of an undiagnosed rabies infection in September 2011, transmitted rabies as an organ donor to a Maryland man who died of rabies in early March 2013––the first human rabies death in Maryland since 1976, and one of just a very few cases on record in which rabies was transmitted from human to human. There is only one other known case of rabies being transmitted in the U.S. via organ transplants. Read more