WHO GETS THE MONEY?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

(Late filings; see December issue

for data on 60 other groups)

COMPENSATION

Individual Position Group Pay Note

ANDREW DICKSON CEO WSPA $91,474

MARY MARGARET CUNNIFF CEO NAVS $82,000 1

John Walsh Proj. dir. WSPA $69,750

John Sherry dir. dev. WSPA $62,000

K. Cooper Mkt. dir. WSPA $61,668

MARTINE COLETTE Chair WildWay $60,000

Woofs and Growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Greenpeace and the Doris Day Animal League are

among the major clients of Electronic Banking System Inc., target

of a December 1 Wall Street Journal expose as an especially notori-

ous example of an “electronic sweatshop,” a term coined by inves-

tigative writer Barbara Garson in a book by that title, indicating low

wage work under intensive electronic supervision. EBS recently

settled several complaints filed by the National Labor Relations

Board pertaining to alleged union-busting.

Storm in a seapen

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

Three of five ex-Navy dolphins scheduled for return to the

sea in a deal arranged by the Humane Society of the U.S. arrived

November 30 at the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary near Key West,

Florida, after an all-day flight from San Diego. Two more dolphins

were to be flown to Sugarloaf after recovering from minor ailments.

But jubilation was short-lived. Within two weeks,

Sugarloaf owner Lloyd Good III fired director of husbandry Rick

Trout and dolphin trainer Lynne Stringer, reportedly due to conflicts

with director of rehabilitation and release Ric O’Barry of the

Dolphin Project. Trout and Stringer responded by asking the USDA

to investigate the sanctuary.

Objected Stringer, “Volunteer staff and onlookers were

hovering over the dolphins, petting and rubbing them, and encour-

aging the very behaviors that they had come to the sanctuary to

extinguish.” Various accounts indicated at least eight different peo-

ple were working with the dolphins.

Dirty Pool III: Keiko

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

ANIMAL PEOPLE hadn’t scheduled a third part

of our “Dirty Pool” series on propaganda interfering with

marine mammal protection, but as the second part went to

press on November 22, Warner Brothers and New Regency

Productions donated $2 million to a new Free Willy/Keiko

Foundation formed by Earth Island Institute, the purpose of

which is to raise $10 million to buy Keiko, the orca star of

both the 1993 film Free Willy! and a forthcoming sequel

made with out-takes; fly him to a yet-to-be-built rehabilita-

tion site in Newport, Oregon; and prepare him for eventual

release. But Keiko’s owner, the Reino Aventura amuse-

ment park in Mexico City, is apparently not yet commited.

The Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor,

Washington, made the matter look a bit like a re-run with a

November bulletin headlined “How is Keiko, and what can

be done to help?” CWR claims to have struck a verbal deal

in August 1993 with Reino Aventura, to fly him to a reha-

bilitation center in the Bahamas and prepare him for release.

However, the story goes, the Alliance of Marine Mammal

Parks and Aquariums got wind of it and dispatched execu-

tives to Mexico City in the Sea World jet to keep it from

happening. CWR gave up on the deal in May 1994.

Everybody must get stoned, even Wildlife W aystation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST, California––

Wildlife Waystation, founded by former Hollywood costume

designer Martine Colette, is the biggest wildlife rehabilitation

center and sanctuary in the U.S.––and perhaps the world.

Forty of the most recognized names in show business help

Colette raise the annual budget of circa $1.5 million.

Occupying 160 acres in Tujunga Canyon, Wildlife

Waystation has 14 paid staffers, 32 volunteers who live on

the premises, and 175 commuting volunteers, of whom

about 35 are active regulars. It answers 50,000 telephone

calls a year, handling more than 4,000 animals annually,

including wildlife and exotics picked up by many local and

regional animal control departments. The biggest of these is

the Los Angeles Board of Animal Regulation, serving the

third largest human population of any animal control depart-

ment in the country.

“If God gives you something on this earth, it’s up to you to be responsible for it.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

SHARON, Wisconsin––The JES Exotics

Sanctuary isn’t a member of the Association of Sanctuaries,

Jill Shumak explains, because after attending one TAOS

meeting as a guest, Jill and her husband E.J. were “not con-

vinced that it had anything to offer us.”

Explains E.J., “They were coming on like another

regulatory body, and we already have regulators up to here,

with the state, county, local, and federal. Any time you

have a sanctuary, you have everybody looking over your

shoulder.”

The Shumaks had no objection to the TAOS

accreditation requirements, but they weren’t interested in any

more red tape. They would have been interested, E.J. says,

if TAOS had appeared as if it would develop the clout for

membership and accreditation to be meaningful in reducing

governmental hassles.

Can Wild Animal Orphanage be brought up to par?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

SAN ANTONIO, Texas––Keeping perhaps the

biggest collection of former crackhouse guard-cats in Texas,

Carol Azvestus’ Wild Animal Orphanage lies beside a nar-

row, lightly traveled road on the extreme northwestern edge

of the city, just down a low grade from an old-fashioned

Pentecostal church that still holds Sunday picnics. Scrub oaks

and grazing horses across the road complete a superficially

tranquil vista. In fact, WAO is only minutes from a major

shopping center, Sea World San Antonio, and several trans-

portation arteries, some of them being widened in anticipa-

tion of rapid development.

Already Azvestus has used almost all the land she

has. A quarantine area is going up in one of the few vacant

corners. Yet her menagerie is still rapidly growing. In addi-

tion to the 150-odd animals on site when ANIMAL PEOPLE

paid an incognito visit, another 13 big cats were to arrive

within a week from a defunct roadside zoo in North Carolina.

Primarily Primates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

LEON SPRING, Texas–– Wally

Swett of Primarily Primates president Wally

Swett was among the first to advocate form-

ing the Association of Sanctuaries, and par-

ticipated in many of the founding discus-

sions, with the proviso that he not have to

attend meetings or be elected to any office

due to lack of time to perform the duties.

Pressured to attend meetings and take an

office anyway, he recalls, he withdrew

instead.

Swett’s non-participation still hurts

TAOS. Few sanctuarians in the world have

more credibility with peers than Swett, who

is considered the pioneer of the art of reso-

cialing institutionalized primates. Long

before Zoo Atlanta rehabilitated Willie B.,

the gorilla who spent 27 years in solitary con-

finement and is now Exhibit A for the suc-

cess of resocialization, Swett was routinely

taking monkeys who had spent a decade or

more caged, alone, in homes, roadside

zoos, and laboratories, and successfully

reintroducing them to family groups––some-

thing other experts had believed impossible.

When Swett backed away from TAOS, other

sanctuarians held back too.

She began with a bobcat

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1995:

BOERNE, Texas––Association of Sanctuaries president-

elect Lynn Cuny started Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation in 1977

incorporating one year later. She knew from childhood that she wanted

to work with animals. “My brother worked at the zoo and I couldn’t

wait to be old enough to follow him into zoo work,” she

remembers––but that was the steel-and-concrete era, when zoos were

more like dungeons than natural habitat. “When I got there,” she con-

tinues, “it broke my heart. I decided to found an organization that

would serve the needs of wild animals in free-roaming and captive situ-

ations, because there was simply no assistance available for such ani-

mals” when they became sick or injured.

Cuny began by distributing business cards “to any individual

or agency that might come in contact with any animals in need of help.

The very first call was from a woman who had seen a skunk with a

mayonaise jar stuck on his head, stumbling through a neighborhood on

the far northeast side of San Antonio. A well-placed nail with a tap

from a hammer, and the little guy was free.”

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