Category: North America

Low-frequency sonar killed whales, U.S. Navy and NMFS admit

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

WASHINGTON, D.C.–A joint report by the U.S. Navy and
National Marine Fisheries Service confirms the February 2001
allegation of Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb that
sound waves from Navy sonar exercises caused 16 small toothed whales
and a spotted dolphin to beach themselves in the Bahamas in mid-March
2000.
Seven of the animals died. The other 10 were pushed back out
to sea by would-be rescuers, but are also believed to have died.

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B.C. grizzly hunt is “difficult to defend,” warns biologist hired by the Safari Club

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

VANCOUVER, B.C.–Animal rights groups, a European Union
scientific panel, and a top bear biologist hired by Safari Club
International are agreed: British Columbia grizzly bears could
disappear if hunters keep killing them at the current rate.
But, aligned with the hunting and guiding industry, the
governments of Canada and British Columbia are still determined to
keep grizzly bear hunting open.
The European Union suspended issuing import permits for B.C.
grizzly bear trophies in November 2001.

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Pet theft cases plummeted in 2001

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

ALLENTOWN, Pa.–Allegedly smashing a stolen van through the
door of a local pet shop at 5 a.m., grabbing two Chihuahuas and two
exotic birds, and attempting escape with police in hot pursuit,
Luis Antonio Bracero, 24, and Ramon Alberto Maldonado-Cruz, 20,
of Allentown, Pennsyl-vania, on January 12, 2002 apparently
exemplified most of the current trends in pet theft: they took both
birds and dogs, took only animals of high resale value, and got
caught.

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Bulldogging the Olympic Rodeo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY–“The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the
forthcoming Winter Olympic Games was expected to drop the scheduled
February 9-11 Command Performance Rodeo from the Cultural Olympiad
at a January 3 meeting with rodeo foes,” ANIMAL PEOPLE reported in
our December edition, citing coverage from both the Salt Lake
Tribune and the Deseret News, and quoting rodeo protest leader Steve
Hindi, who flew to Salt Lake City in anticipation of the
announcement.

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War on Terror may draft Health Canada monkeys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

OTTAWA–Health Canada, trying to reduce monkey inventory
since 1997 and permitting no breeding since 1998, but balking at
releasing monkeys to sanctuaries, may sell some to the U.S. Army
Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Dietrich, Maryland,
reported Margaret Munro of The National Post on January 21, 2002.
“The first Canadian casualties of bioterror could be Health
Canada monkeys used in lethal smallpox experiments,” Munro wrote.
Munro said that U.S. Army smallpox research chief Peter
Jahrling, M.D., told her that he now uses mostly wild-caught
monkeys from Indonesia and the Philippines.
Said Jahrling, “The Canadian colony could prove a much more
reliable source of animals.”

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Heart-jab killing illegal in Calif.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
 
SACRAMENTO–California attorney general Bill Lockyer and
deputy attorney general Gregory L. Gonot on January 2, 2002 wrote in
a joint opinion solicited by California senate president pro tempore
John Burton that, “It is a violation of the state’s animal cruelty
laws for an animal control officer or humane society officer to use
intercardiac administration of euthanasia on a conscious animal in an
animal shelter or humane society facility, if the animal may first
be rendered unconscious in a humane manner, or if, in light of all
the circumstances, the procedure is unjustifiable.”

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“Dolphin-safe” tuna labeling law may go to top U.S. courts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

NEW YORK, N.Y.–The “dolphin-safe” tuna labeling issue may
be headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals and perhaps the U.S. Supreme
Court, after Court of International Trade judge Judith Barzilay on
December 7, 2001 ruled again–as she did in April 2000–that the
revised “dolphin-safe” tuna standard imposed by the 1997
International Dolphin Conservation Program Act has been correctly
followed by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The Barzilay verdicts conflict with an April 2000 ruling by
Thelton E. Henderson, chief judge of the Federal District Court in
San Francisco. Despite the April 2000 Henderson verdict, which came
shortly after Barzilay’s first ruling, the relaxed “dolphin-safe”
standard took effect one day later.

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Courts push zero tolerance for dangerous dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

AUGUSTA, OMAHA, LONDON, OTTAWA, CAPE TOWN, LOS ANGELES–Annette
Heggs, of Augusta, Georgia, spent three weeks in the hospital at
cost of $100,000 after she was attacked on a public sidewalk on
December 30 by Frederick Gardner’s two pit bull terriers. She will
continue to need skin grafts and physical therapy.
Gardner will spend the next 60 days in jail for failing to
vaccinate the pit bulls and keep them leashed, Richmond County
Magistrate Court chief judge William D. Jennings III ruled on January
24, imposing the maximum sentence on each count.
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67 of 120 counties flout law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
 
WEBBVILLE, Ky.–Trixie Foundation founder and no-kill
shelter operator Randy Skaggs set out in 1996 to investigate county
compliance with state anti-rabies vaccination and dog pound
requirements, dating respectively to 1955 and 1958.
After obtaining and tabulating three years worth of data–and
suing 70 counties to get it, with the help of In Defense of Animals
and the Animal Protection Institute– Skaggs in late January 2002
published a report that seems to tell as much about the state of
civic concern and participatory democracy in Kentucky as about the
plight of dogs.

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