BOOKS: Animal Rescue: The Best Job There Is
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:
Animal Rescue: The Best Job There Is
by Susan E. Goodman
Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 2000. 48 pages, hardcover. $15.00
The generation who grew
up to form and lavishly fund the
animal rights movement first
encountered World Society for the
Protection of Animals international
programs director John Walsh in
1964, via L i f e magazine, the
Weekly Reader, and documentaries
shown in movie theatres between
the features. Animal lovers followed
the efforts of Walsh and a
handful of other intrepid rescuers as
they saved nearly 10,000 animals
who were stranded by rising water
behind a new dam in Suriname.
Many didn’t survive relocation,
biologists learned later.