South African National SPCA fights crocodile farming

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:

PONGOLA, KZN, South Africa––Fined the equivalent of $33,000 U.S. dollars by the South African Department of Agriculture & Environment for housing crocodiles in single pens shorter than the length of their bodies, Metroc Broedery owner Coen Labuscagne of Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, “nevertheless has applied for permission to expand his operation to incarcerate 1,500 crocodiles,” South African National SPCA information officer Chris Kuch e-mailed to media on January 17, 2013. Read more

Biotech firm allegedly hid goats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:

SANTA CRUZ, California––The Animal Legal Defense Fund and Stop Animal Experimentation Now on January 17, 2013 asked Santa Cruz County Court for a permanent injunction ordering Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc. to cease violating the federal Animal Welfare Act by allegedly neglecting goats used to produce antibodies. The lawsuit was filed three days after the Animal Welfare Institute asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to revoke the Santa Cruz Biotech permits to deal in live animals, and asked National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins to require Santa Cruz Biotech to submit a statement of compliance with the Animal Welfare Act as a condition for supplying antibodies to NIH-funded researchers. Read more

West Virginia Supreme Court upholds pit bull law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:

CHARLESTON, West Virginia––The West Virginia Supreme Court on January 14, 2013 affirmed the constitutionality of an ordinance prohibiting keeping pit bulls within the Town of Ceredo.

The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld the November 2009 convictions of pit bull keepers Steve Hardwick, Sharon Nalley, and Glenna Pelfrey, who were each fined $162 plus court costs. Pelfrey did not appear for an appellate hearing, but Hardwick and Nalley pursued an appeal aimed at overturning the Ceredo ordinance as “unconstitutional in that it is arbitrary and unreasonable.” Read more

Bangalore court rules that “menace or nuisance” can be cause to kill a dog, regardless of ABC status

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:

BANGALORE––The Karnataka High Court on December 7, 2012 ruled that dogs who “are a menace or cause nuisance, irrespective of whether there is evidence of them having mauled or bitten children or adults, could be exterminated.”

Problem dogs may be killed “even if they are vaccinated, sterilized and free from diseases,” summarized The Hindu. Read more

American Humane Association is sued by former set animal supervisor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:

WASHINGTON D.C.––American Humane Association board chair Eric Bruner “is no longer serving on the board, and we thank him for his six years of service,” the AHA said in a January 9, 2013 statement.

Bruner’s departure was announced 10 days after the AHA was sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by 13-year employee Barbara Casey for alleged wrongful dismissal. Read more

Three nations move against hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica; GABORONE, Botswana; LUSAKA, Zambia––The national legislature of Costa Rica on December 10, 2012 finalized a national ban on sport hunting, provisionally approved in October by a vote of 41-5. The hunting ban, the first Costa Rican law passed by voter initiative, was submitted to the legislature after more than 177,000 Costa Ricans signed petitions favoring it. Read more

Anti-fur legislation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:

If you’re wondering what this “waste pile” is made of, the answer is simple: the carcasses of the animals who died so that humans could take their skins for money. This photo comes from a Russian fur farm but the horrors are the same in all latitudes. —P. Greanville [Photo redacted]

TAIPEI, DEN HAGUE––Taiwan on January 8, 2013 became the first Asian nation to ban the import of seal pelts and products, by amendment to the national Wildlife Conservation Act, while the Dutch senate on December 18, 2012 ratified a ban on mink farming, to take effect in 2024. Both measures undercut fur trade hopes of economic recovery.

ASPCA pays Ringling $9.3 million to end litigation after losing bid to = halt use of elephants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE Jan-Feb 2013

NEW YORK CITY —The American SPCA on December 28, 2012 announced that it has paid $9.3 million to Feld Entertainment Inc., producer of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, to settle two federal court cases originating from allegations that Ringling abuses elephants, thereby violating the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Read more

Thousands of dogs seized from Thai meat traffickers have no safe place to go

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2012:

NAKHON PHANOM, Thailand— Police Colonel Sakchai Sadmarerng, chief of Ban Phaeng station in Nakhon Phanom province, Thailand, on November 7, 2012 described to media the seizure of yet another truckload of dogs from smugglers hauling them to Laos across the Mekong River. From Laos, most would have been trafficked on to markets in Vietnam and southern China. Read more

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