Why did BLM reject Madeline Pickens’ Nevada wild horse sanctuary proposal?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

PHOENIX–A two-day Bureau of Land Management consultation
meeting on wild horse and burro management strategy, to be held on
March 10-11, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona, is likely to focus on why
the BLM on January 21 rejected a proposal from philanthropist
Madeline Pickens to accommodate 1,000 wild horses on 18,000 acres of
Nevada ranch land she purchased in 2010–and then began removing
about 2,000 wild horses from nearby public land.
“The Elko County ranches, which Pickens renamed the Mustang
Monument preserve, come with grazing rights on roughly 564,000 acres
of public land,” noted Martin Griffith of Associated Press.

Meat biz barks for puppy mills

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.–Rural Missouri lawmakers backed by
agribusiness hope to overturn the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act,
approved by almost a million voters in November 2010–52% of the
electorate–as Proposition B on the state ballot.
Leading the lobbying effort against the Puppy Mill Cruelty
Prevention Act is Missourians for Animal Care, a coalition including
the Missouri Agribusiness Associ-ation, Missouri Cattlemen’s
Association, Missouri Corn Growers Association, Missouri Dairy
Association, Missouri Egg Producers, Missouri Equine Council,
Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Federation of Animal Owners,
Missouri Livestock Marketing Association, Missouri Pet Breeders
Association, Missouri Pork Associ-ation, Missouri Soybean
Association, the Poultry Federation, the Professional Pet
Association, and two financial institutions.

Manuel Mollinedo to direct Honolulu Zoo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

HONOLULU–-Former Los Angeles and San Francisco Zoo director Manuel Mollinedo, 64, was on December 16, 2010 introduced as the new director of the Honolulu Zoo.

Mollinedo, then heading the Los Angeles Parks & Recreation Department, with no background in zoo work, was in September 1995 drafted to run the Los Angeles Zoo on an interim basis. Several of the animal exhibits were frequent targets of protest. The American Zoo Association had given the zoo a year to make improvements or lose accreditation. By year’s end Mollinedo was credited by the AZA and the Los Angeles city council with achieving an unexpectedly quick turnaround, winning over some of the zoo’s leading critics. Made zoo director on a permanent basis, Mollinedo introduced a series of ambitious upgrades to most of the major Los Angeles Zoo exhbits, but came under criticism after a Komodo dragon bit a celebrity guess in 2001. Read more

"Summit for the Horse" promotes slaughtering wild horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

LAS VEGAS--Intended to promote horse slaughter in general, and slaughtering wild horses in specific, the Summit for the Horse held in Las Vegas during the first week of January 2011 heard messages from Bureau of Land Management director Bob Abbey and slaughterhouse design consultant Temple Grandin that were not what most of the reportedly sparse audience wanted to hear.

Not more than 200 people converged on the Southpoint Casino to attend the Summit for the Horse, according to a variety of crowd counts. Most counts placed the plenary attendance at 100-150, including 42 speakers.

Speaking for allied animal use industries were National Cattlemen’s Beef Association vice president J.D. Alexander, Masters of Fox Hounds Association executive director Dennis Foster, and Mindy Patterson, who led breeder opposition to Missouri Proposition B, a ballot initiative to increase regulation of puppy breeders that was approved by voters in November 2010. Read more

Ex-lab caretaker hopes to save what remains of Wild Animal Orphanage

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

SAN ANTONIO–Wild Animal Orphanage is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but maybe, Primates Incorporated founder Amy Kerwin hopes, the million dollars worth of real estate, two million dollars worth of facilities, and 160 animals who remain at the 17-year-old sanctuary can be kept within the sanctuary community. Read more

Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

BEIJING, HALIFAX--Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea on January 12, 2011 announced to news media by teleconference call from Beijing that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision have reached an agreement which will allow Canadian sealers to export seal meat and oil to China for human consumption. Read more

U.S. whaling negotiator hinted to Japan that IRS might pull Sea Shepherd Conservation Society nonprofit status

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

MADRID--U.S. State Department messages published on January 3, 2011 by WikiLeaks and the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais disclose that U.S. diplomats in negotiation with senior Japanese officials entertained the possibility of asking the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the nonprofit status of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

The State Department messages also confirm the belief widespread among whale conservationists that current White House policy seeks as a first priority to lower the profile of confrontation with Japan over whaling. Read more

U.S. retail fur industry didn’t get big holiday bounce–& did get Truth in Fur Labeling Act

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

WASHINGTON D.C.-– Experiencing sales declines of 15.5% in 2008 and 7% in 2009, U.S. retail furriers ballyhooed hopes for a big comeback during the 2010 holiday season. But the first available sales data suggests they didn’t get it.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that apparel sales were up 2.7%. But the increase came mostly at department stores, whose sales were up 2.8%, not at high-end luxury boutiques.

The department store contribution to the U.S. retail fur trade consists chiefly of selling inexpensive fur-trimmed garments, mostly made abroad.

The biggest news for that branch of the fur trade during the 2010 holiday season was that U.S. President Barack Obama on December 18 signed into law the Truth in Fur Labeling Act.

Taking effect in March 2011, the Truth in Fur Labeling Act “finally closes a loophole in federal law that currently allows some animal fur garments to go unlabeled if the value of the fur is $150 or less, leaving consumers in the dark as to whether they are buying faux or animal fur,” explained Humane Society Legislative Fund president Mike Markarian. Read more

Montana Large Animal Sanctuary becomes largest-ever sanctuary failure

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

HOT SPRINGS, Montana–The 400-acre Montana Large Animal Sanctuary, among the largest in the world, once regarded as a showplace, is finishing a 15-year existence as the subject of the largest sanctuary evacuation ever undertaken.

Starting with almost 1,000 animals in urgent need of care and better homes, AniMeals founder Karyn Moltzen, the on-site rescue coordinator, had only 249 of 603 llamas left to place after almost a month of camping on site. Herds of horses, goats, sheep, donkeys, two bison, two camels, and 11 emus were all either moved out to other sanctuaries or were “spoken for,” Moltzen told ANIMAL PEOPLE. Read more

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