From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2005:

Thanks

Thanks for sending ANIMAL PEOPLE and I must congratulate you
for investigating details and info.
Hardly any issue of yours does not have useful info, and we
maintain a separate clipping file for ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Your December 2004 edition gives a good analysis of funding
for animal welfare organisations. Every year your summary of funds
received by different organisations is also kept by us, and we also
disseminate these to many people and NGOs.
–Laxmi Narain Modi
Executive Director
Animal Rights Intl.
Ahimsa Bhawan F-125 Lado Sarai
New Delhi, India 110 030
Phone: 011-29523250
<shakahar@vsnl.net>

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2005:

Belgrade zoo

I am a concerned citizen asking for guidance on how to help
the animals who reside at the Belgrade city zoo. Built in 1936, on
six hectares of rocky fortress, this privately operated zoo is among
the oldest in Europe. It is located in the Belgrade city center, on
city property. It has approximately 2.000 animals of about 200
species. Many big animals are in very small cages. Many animals
look distressed. They often show signs of “stereotypic behavior,”
such as pacing, head-bobbing, neck-twisting, bar-biting and
sucking, coprophagia, over-grooming, and self-mutilation. Many
animals have been born who are not in the zoo, including tigers,
bears, and a hippo. What has become of them?
–Jelena Zaric
Belgrade, Serbia
<jelena.zaric@gmail.com>

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What can Bruce D. Patter-son himself add to more than 100
years of discussion?
Quite a lot, as it happens. Patterson and Dr. Samuel Kaseki
of the Kenya Wildlife Service have retraced every known step of the
stories of The Ghost and The Darkness, who hunted humans together
more avidly yet elusively than any other lions on record.
Discovering a compass error in Colonel John Patterson’s
description of the site, Bruce D. Patterson and Kaseki found and
explored the long-lost cave that the lions had supposedly filled with
human remains. Flooding long since emptied it, and it may have been
a tribal burial location, not a lion dining hall–but even if it was
a tribal burial chamber, the lions might have feasted there.
Looking into local history, Patterson established that the
attacks of The Ghost and The Darkness were not without precedent,
nor without subsequent parallel. Meat-hunting to feed the railway쵺࣐ఀ耀

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2005:

Just back from helping with post-tsunami animal relief work
in Sri Lanka, Noah’s Wish founder Terri Crisp has announced her 2005
disaster relief training schedule.
Eleven regional three-day workshops will offer interactive
training in animal intake, reclaim, and lost-and-found; shelter
management; emergency management; safety; search and rescue, the
emotional aspects of disaster response; and disaster preparedness.
“Participants will stay on-site the entire three days,”
spokes-person Shari Thompson said, “to give them a realistic
experience of the physical challenges of responding to a disaster.”
Workshop dates and locations include March 4-6 in
Charles-ton, South Carolina; March 18-20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma;
April 1-3 in Nashville, Tennessee; April 22-24 in Columbus, Ohio;
May 6-8 in Boston; May 20-22 in Flagstaff, Arizona; May 27-29 in
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2005:

NAIROBI–Used to fighting heavily armed Somali poachers who
strike Tsavo National Park from the northeast, Kenya Wildlife
Service wardens found themselves under fire from a different
direction near Lake Jipe on January 21 when they ordered a battered
blue Toyota pickup truck to stop.
Hauling two eland carcasses, the truck appeared to be
engaged in routine bush meat trafficking. Bush meat traffickers
rarely risk their lives in shootouts. They tend to try bribery
first, then pay a small fine and perhaps spend a few days in jail.
But this time the wardens’ vehicle was quickly disabled by a
.404 slug from an elephant gun. The wardens shot back.
“Two middle-aged poachers died on the spot. Three made a
hasty escape through the scrubland, leaving their bloody cargo and a
shotgun behind,” Kenya Wildlife Service deputy director for wildlife
security Peter L콸૒฀耀

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2005:

Miriam Rothschild, 96, died on January
20 in Northamptonshire, England, recalled by
The Times of London as “Beatrix Potter on
amphetamines.” Like Potter, Rothschild
performed dissections and vivisection early in
life, but became a strong animal advocate later
in life. The daughter of banker Charles
Rothschild, who as a hobby identified more than
500 flea species, Miriam Rothschild catalogued
more than 30,000 flea species between 1953 and
1973. Her uncle Lionel Walter Rothschild also
encouraged her interest in biology, collecting
more than 2.3 million butterflies, 300,000 bird
skins, 300,000 birds’ eggs, several pet
cassowaries, and 144 giant tortoises. Miriam
Rothschild followed them into entomology,
working with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Tadeus
Reichstein to decode the relationship between
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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2005:

Vaccine, poison

Israel is now cooperating with the
Palestinian Authority in distributing the oral
rabies vaccine in Palestinian areas, funded by
the European Union. Israel has permission to fly
planes over Palestinian territory to distribute
the vaccine. However, Israeli Veterinary
Serv-ices also sells strychnine to the
Palestinian Authority, and encourages them to
use it along the border to keep rabid dogs out of
Israel.
At long last all the steps have been
taken to get Fatal Plus into Israel, in powdered
form. The head of Veterinary Services has
repeatedly assured us that when the drug is in
stock and proves effective, he will ban
strychnine. The Veterinary Services official
responsible for distributing strychnine within
Israel told me that he hands out enough of it to
kill about 25,000 dogs per year. Municipal vets
in Jerusalem, Arad, the West Bank, and other
border areas use the most.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2004:

Mulesing

Re “PETA tells Aussies to back away from
sheep’s behinds,” from your November 2004
edition, Animal Liberation has campaigned to ban
mulesing since 1975.
When I went to the U.K. in l986 and asked
Members of Parliament to boycott Australian wool,
I was damned as “un-Australian,” and nothing
changed. Without PETA’s intervention, perhaps
mulesing would have continued without even debate.
If mulesing is banned, there will have
to be greatly improved animal welfare policing,
as graziers will leave sheep to die of
fly-strike, since it is quicker, easier and
cheaper to mules once, rather than to bring in
the sheep for insecticide application and to
shear the wool in fly-prone areas of the sheep,
mainly the under the tail but also sometimes
around the face.
It is not uncommon for one person to be in charge
of 10,000 sheep or more, hence it is impossible
for one person to properly care for all the
animals.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2004:

Dogs in trucks

Re “Reducing the vehicular accident risk
to dogs,” in the September 2004 edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE, back in the 1980s the Colorado
Federation of Animal Welfare Agencies found a
sponsor to introduce a state bill that would have
required dogs riding in the beds of pickup trucks
to be tethered. We had estimates of the number
of human and animal fatalities and traffic
accidents caused by unrestrained dogs; we had
the state police and the state sheriffs’
association on our side; we exempted working
ranch dogs; and the law would have applied only
in the urban counties along the Front Range, as
with the automobile emissions law.
The bill was soundly defeated by the
House Agriculture Committee because there was no
law in Colorado prohibiting children from riding
in the back of pickup trucks, and no legislator
wanted to have to explain to his constituents why
he favored dogs over kids.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2004:

Fallen stag

The impending merger of the Fund for Animals into the Humane
Society of the United States, unanimously approved by the Fund board
on October 6, 2004, may seem attractive in promising to create a
large, more powerful political voice for animals, but HSUS views on
hunting are in opposition to those of the Fund.
Some activists may remember when an HSUS director actually
supported and voted for a deer hunt in New Jersey, but there is a
more recent example of similar conduct.
Former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey defended his
decision to hold a black bear hunt in 2003 by saying that he was
working with HSUS on a birth control plan. Obviously he was using
HSUS for political cover. I asked Wayne Pacelle, then the HSUS vice
president for government affairs, now the HSUS president, to state
that if the Governor held the hunt, HSUS would not work with him on
reproductive control.
The response I got back was, “We do not want to burn any
bridges.” HSUS did not change their position, and neither did
McGreevey. Carnage followed. I do not know that if HSUS had done
what we asked, it would have changed anything, but to not risk
offending is to capitulate before the battle has begun.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2004:

Bali turtles

I appreciate animal people’s June 2004 coverage of sea turtle
conservation. I just returned from Bali, Indonesia, where the
trade in endangered turtles is alive and well. Hundreds of turtles
are caught off shore and brought into warehouses where, fins tied,
they languish without water until they are sold for slaughter. All
of this is against Indonesian law, but occurs anyway due to to
corrupt law enforcement and greed.
–Wayne Johnson, Ph.d
Honolulu, Hawaii
<Waynezorro@aol.com>

CHAMP International Forum

Thank you for enabliing me to show the video of the Animal
Balance work in the Galapagos at the international session of the
recent Conference on Homeless Animal Management & Policy. You have
helped me SO much and I will be forever grateful to Animal People.
I love meeting other folks from around the world and hearing
about their amazing work and how they find solutions to such awful
problems. We all become friends very quickly.
Thank you for providing us with a forum that gives us energy
to keep going and save more lives.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2004:

Anti-veggie ad?

The following ad ran this morning of WBIG/FM in Washing-ton D.C.:
“I’m a hypocrite. No, I’m not a vegetarian who wears
leather shoes. You see, I used to smoke pot, and when I found pot
in my kid’s room I confronted him about it.”
Why is the Office of National Drug Control Policy singling
out vegetarians for criticism?
I am an animal protection advocate, and a vegetarian, and I
don’t wear leather shoes. But I suspect that if everyone in the U.S.
stopped wearing leather, it wouldn’t save the life of a single
animal, given that millions of animals are slaughtered every year
for food production.
Picking a fight with vegetarians is a really poor method of
discouraging drug use.
–Frank Branchini
Edgewater, Maryland

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2004:

Whole Foods & Foie Gras

I wanted to share with you part of a
conversation I just had with an attorney friend,
a vegan. She mentioned to me how upsetting it
was to her to see foie gras sold at the Whole
Food stores in New York. I wanted to make
certain Whole Foods really sells foie gras before
I denounced it, so I took a cab over to Whole
Foods and what I found was a product called
Alexian Duck & Pork Liver Mousse with Cognac or
Alexian Duck w/cognac mousse pate. The words
foie gras were not on the package, but someone
in customer service told me this was foie gras
because it contains duck liver.
VEG News has on its current cover Whole
Foods CEO John Mackey, presenting him as a hero.
In the article Mackey states that he is a vegan,
lists the books he has read on this and related
issues, talks about his discussions with PETA
and other animal rights groups, and talks about
making farming more humane. Mackey says that he
is not the only person in charge of the company
and the company must listen to the demands of
customers who are now–as a result of the Atkins
diet and mad cow disease–demanding more high
quality meat.

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