BOOKS: Hunt Club Management Guide

November 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2003:

Hunt Club Management Guide
by J. Wayne Fears
Stoeger Publ. (17603 Indian Head Hwy, Suite 200, Accokeek, MD
20607), 2003. 144 pages, hardcover, $24.95.

Deer Diary
by Thomas Lee Boles
Xlibris Corp. (<Orders@Xlibris.com>), 2002. 286 pages, paperback, $18.69.

J. Wayne Fears, involved in leasing land for hunt clubs for
more than 20 years, gives the impression that he lives to kill deer.
Thomas Lee Boles, a vegetarian animal rights activist, has
handreared orphaned deer and befriended deer both in captivity and in
the wild.

British fox hunting ban is near

July 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

LONDON–The British House of Commons on July 9, 2003 voted
317-145 in favor of a national ban on fox hunting, a week after
voting 363-154 to enact a total ban instead of a compromise that
would allow some hunting to continue for predator control.
The votes brought close to fulfillment the 1997 election
promise of Prime Minister Tony Blair to ban fox hunting if the Labour
Party won the Parliamentary majority. Blair and Labour have led the
government ever since, but have put other matters ahead of the
proposed hunting ban, while anti-hunting private members’ bills have
cleared the Commons only to die in the House of Lords.
The Hunting Bill, now presented with the full support of the
Blair government, is scheduled for second reading by the Lords on
September 17, followed by detailed review in October. The Lords,
who hold their seats by heredity rather than election, can amend and
delay legislation. The anti-fox hunting Commons majority, however,
has become strong enough to override the Lords.

Canada cancels help for whales, dolphins caught by accident–308,000 worldwide

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

CAPE BROYLE, Newfoundland; BERLIN, Germany; LIMA,
Peru–Environment Canada has ceased funding Whale Release &
Stranding, a nonprofit organization that frees trapped whales and
other marine mammals from fishing gear, and the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans and Parks Canada have not picked up the slack,
Dene Moore of Canadian Press reported on June 15.
Whale release & Stranding received 55 reports of marine
mammals caught in fishing gear during 2001-2002, director Wayne
Ledwell told Moore. Ledwell and assistant Julie Huntington are the
only two paid employees of the group, which was partially funded by
the Canadian Coat guard until 2000, when Environment Canada took
over.

The “Carnivore crowd” licks chops at chance to repeal Kenya no-hunting policy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

NAIROBI–Roars are often audible at the
Kenya Wildlife Service headquarters on the fringe
of Nairobi National Park–and not just from the
dwindling numbers of resident lions, fast being
poached to extirpation by Masai who see the park
as not only a buffer between their grazing land
and urban sprawl but also a source of grass for
their cattle and firewood now that drought and
overgrazing has turned their commons into
semi-desert.
Losing in competition for fodder, wild
ungulates have migrated from Nairobi National
Park into the distant hills. Hungry lions have
turned to hunting Masai cattle. Now the Masai
are hunting the lions.

Legislative Calendar

July 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

Reviewing proposed amendments to the Fiscal Year 2004
Agriculture Appropriations Act, the House of Representatives on July
14 added $800,000 to the USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection
Service budget to support enforcement of legislation banning the
interstate transport of gamecocks and fighting dogs, by a vote of
222-179, but voted 202-199 against an amendment by Representatives
Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Steve Latourette (R-Ohio) that would have
forbidden processing non-ambulatory livestock for human consumption.
This was the closest that Ackerman has come yet in many attempts to
pass “anti-downer” legislation.

Humans, whales, and the ghosts of high seas drifters

July 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2003:

The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the
Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling, by Kieran
Mulvaney
Island Press (1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite
300, Washington, DC 20009), 2003. 349 pages,
hardcover. $26.00.

Between Species: Celebrating the Dolphin-Human
Bond, edited by Toni Frohoff & Brenda Peterson
Sierra Club Books (85 Second St., San Francisco,
CA 94105), 2003. 361 pages, hardcover. $24.95.

From the title, and from the longtime
role of author Kieran Mulvaney as the main
Greenpeace media liaison at annual meetings of
the International Whaling Commission, one might
guess that The Whaling Season: An Inside Account
of the Struggle to Stop Commercial Whaling is an
exposé or defense of backroom politics.

Finding the sentience of fish

June 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

Credit scientific discovery. Credit
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Credit Finding Nemo, the latest pro-animal
animated production in a 64-year string from Walt
Disney Productions.
Whatever the reason, humans around the
world are suddenly talking about the suffering of
fish as never before.

Elephant captures & rampages spotlight habitat encroachment

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

PRETORIA, NEW DELHI, NAIROBI, SAN DIEGO, BANGKOK,
COLOMBO–Pretoria Regional Court magistrate Adriaan Bekker on April 7
found African Game Services owner Riccardo Ghiazza of Brits, South
Africa, guilty of cruelty to 30 young elephants in 1998-1999. The
verdict reportedly took Bekker four hours to read.
Convicted with Ghiazza, but on just two cruelty counts, was
student elephant handler Henry Wayne Stockigt.
Charges were dismissed against another handler, Craig
Saunders, and another company, African Game Properties Inc.
Captured in the Tuli district of Botswana during July 1998,
the elephants were transported to Brits for training and sale to
overseas zoos.

Legal action against ocean fishing

May 1, 2003 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson on April 10 held for
the fourth time in 13 years that 1988 amendments to the 1972 Marine
Mammal Protection Act oblige the U.S. to exclude imports of tuna
netted “on dolphin,” a method often used by foreign fleets because
dolphins and tuna feed on the same fish species and often swim
together. Surrounding feeding dolphins with nets therefore usually
captures tuna–as well as dolphins who do not escape before the nets
close. Henderson in May 1990 banned imports of yellowfin tuna from
Mexico, Venezuela, and Vanuatu. After Congress reinforced the 1990
verdict by introducing “dolphin-safe” labeling, Henderson in January
1992 banned $266 million worth of tuna imports from 30 nations.

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