Category: Middle East

HORSES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals is to rule soon on whether the
National Park Service can remove about 20
feral horses from the Ozark National Scenic
Riverways park, 150 miles southwest of St.
Louis, Missouri. The horses are feral
descendents of a herd released during the
Great Depression. A three-judge panel is to
decide whether they are protected by the
same laws as western mustangs––whose
own protection is currently in dispute.
More than 60,000 Americans
needed emergency treatment for head
injuries suffered while riding horses in
1991, reports the Johns Hopkins Injury
Prevention Center. Children under 15 were
the most frequent victims. The center rec-
ommends that riders wear helmets.

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Wildlife in no-man’s-land: Are war zones safer than refuges?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1993:

When the Persian Gulf War erupted in February
1991, ecologists shuddered at the probable fate of the wet-
lands at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The region, where Kuwait meets Iraq, is among the world’s
busiest corridors for migratory birds––both songbirds and
waterfowl, coming and going from Europe, Africa, Asia,
and the Indian subcontinent. The bird populations were
already in trouble. Intensive sheep-grazing had desertified
thousands of acres of vegetation. Oil-rich Kuwaiti
thrillseekers compounded the damage with reckless use of
offroad vehicles and contests to see who could shotgun the
most birds, without regard for either endangered species or
bag limits.

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CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Israel on September 10
banned six British women from giving
birth in the Red Sea at a dolphin sanctu-
ary, under supervision of obstetrician
Gowri Motha. Motha told reporters she
wanted to see whether the dolphins
could communicate with the fetuses
through ultrasonic waves. “We hope to
make these children more in tune with
nature,” she said. Israeli authorities
believed the experiment might jeopar-
dize the survival of the newborns.

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Hunting––

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Michigan Public Broadcast-
ing System on September 24 aired the final
episode of Michigan Outdoors, a weekly
hook-and-bullet show that had an audience
of 200,000. The show died after host Fred
Trost said in a product review that Buck Stop
Lure Co. used cow urine in a deer scent, lost
a $4 million defamation suit the firm filed
against him, and declared bankruptcy. Trost
was also forced to suspend a magazine he
published, Michigan Outdoor Digest, circu-
lation 40,000. The latter had also been in
trouble, having been sued for copyright
infringement at one point by the Michigan
United Conservation Clubs, whose in-house
magazine is called Michigan Out-of-Doors.
Buck Stop said Trost’s attack on its product
caused sales to drop 65%. Trost, mean-
while, pledged to regroup, find backers,
and get back on the air.

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