Category: Wild Animals

Vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The winter 1992/1993 edition of
National Boycott News, a well-reputed
annual directory of boycotts, includes
detailed coverage of the ongoing boycott of
Carme Inc., a cruelty-free cosmetics manu-
facturer acquired by International Research
and Development Corp. in 1989. The boy-
cott, called but not recently promoted by
PETA, might be forgotten by now except
that attorneys for IRDC, a major animal-
testing laboratory, have threatened numer-
ous protesters and media who have covered
the situation with lawsuits––including
National Boycott News, when the editors
offered them the opportunity to respond to
various allegations made by boycott litera-
ture. IRDC did sue two cruelty-free dis-
tributors who dropped the Carme product
line. The case was settled out of court by
the firms’ insurance companies.

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Wildlife

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The World Wildlife Fund and
the National Wildlife Federation on
November 13 asked Interior Secretary
Manuel Lujan to impose trade sanctions on
China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Yemen
for permitting traffic in rhinocerous horns.
The wild black rhino population has plunged
from 65,000 to 2,000 since 1970.
The California condor who was
found dead October 8 suffered kidney fail-
ure from drinking antifreeze, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service has determined. The
condor was one of the first two to be
released into the wild after an intensive cap-
tive breeding program. Sixty-two California
condors remain in captivity, six of whom
are scheduled for release this month.

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Hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

HUNTER CHARGED WITH HOMOSEXUAL RAPE
Fourteen million Americans hunted
in 1991, according to newly released U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service statistics; 34.5
million fished; and more than 76 million
watched, photographed, or fed wildlife
without feeling the need to kill.
Or rape.
Hunting critics who equate the
lethal pursuit with perversely sublimated
sexuality got an apparent case in point
November 4 when police charged hunter
Antone Mendes Jr., 40, of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, with open and gross lewd-
ness, lewd and lascivious speech or behav-
ior, assault and battery, assault with a dead-
ly weapon, attempted kidnapping, and leav-
ing a firearm in a motor vehicle unattended.
The charges allege that Mendes
sexually assaulted his hunting partner, an
unidentified 23-year-old man.

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ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Montgomery County, Virginia, on November
10 became the first East Coast community to enact a
comprehensive anti-pet breeding ordinance. Similar to
ordinances recently passed in San Mateo County,
California, and King County, Washington, the ordinance
cleared the county council by a 6-0 vote after language
requiring private breeders to license each animal individual-
ly was removed. Anyone who allows pets to reproduce now
must buy a breeder’s permit, the permit number must be
listed in ads offering to sell or give away the offspring, and
the newborn animals must receive vaccinations. The licens-
ing fee for unaltered dogs and cats will be increased by an
unspecified but substantial amount, while the licensing fee
for animals who have been altered will remain $6.00. Each
license is good for three years. The ordinance also enables
the county to sterilize any dog or cat found roaming at large
at least three times in a calendar year. Whether the ordi-
nance can be enforced is still a matter of debate. A compli-
cating factor is that Montgomery County veterinarians
reportedly charge some of the highest prices for spay/neuter
found anywhere in the U.S.––$200 and up––and even dis-
count coupons available through the county humane society
cost as much as $70. Free coupons are available to low-
income pet keepers.

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Animal Damage Control thrown out of New Mexico: WOULDN’T CHECK TRAPS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

ALBUQUERQUE – –Living up to an old
promise, State Land Commissioner James Baca on
November 16 evicted the federal Animal Damage
Control program from New Mexico because the adminis-
trators wouldn’t agree to make ADC coyote trappers
check their traps at least once every 48 hours.
The eviction order covers six to eight million
acres of state-owned land, much of which is leased to
sheep and cattle ranchers. As environmental and animal
protection groups applauded, ranching groups called for
Baca’s ouster.

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Guest Column: Wildlife Ballot Initiatives And Why They Fail by Dena Jones Jolma

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The initiative process is the most difficult and expensive approach to reforming
wildlife management at the state level. Opponents of wildlife management reform,
including the powerful National Rifle Association and Wildlife Legislative Fund of
America, are willing and able to spend in excess of one million dollars to defeat individ-
ual state initiatives. These groups have been successful in turning around public opinion
on issues such as banning steel-jawed leghold traps by financing intense media cam-
paigns.
Not since 1930 in Massachusetts have voters approved a trapping ban in a
statewide election. On this past Election Day, the voters of Arizona turned down a ban
on use of steel-jawed traps on public lands by a three-to-two margin. With that vote,
Arizona joined Oregon (1980) and Ohio (1977) as states where trapping bans have failed
in recent years.

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Throwing wolves and sharks to the tourists: ALASKA AND HAWAII PLAN PREDATOR MASSACRES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

JUNEAU, ALASKA––Hoping
to hype tourism, the Alaska Board of
Game on November 17 announced plans
to kill up to 80% of the 700 wolves who
inhabit the 43,000-square-mile region
between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The
same day, for essentially the same rea-
son, the Hawaii Shark Task Force
nnounced it would begin killing tiger
sharks on sight.
The Alaskan massacre is to
commence as early as January, while
shark-killing off the coast of Hawaii may
already be underway. In each case, state
officials called the killing necessary to
boost the tourist industry, but in each
case and especially vis-a-vis Alaska, the
immediate result was a wildcat (sponta-
neous) boycott by potential visitors,
which within 10 days seemed likely to
become an international campaign by
animal protection and environmental
groups.

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Election Roundup: ANIMALS WIN! Apparent Gains at Every Level

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

WASHINGTON D.C. –– Outgoing U.S. president George Bush bought a hunting
license on Election Day. Both U.S. president elect Bill Clinton and vice president elect Albert
Gore claimed to be hunters during the election campaign––but they went jogging. Whether they
actually hunt or not, indications are that the next four years should be politically much more
favorable toward animal and habitat protection than the preceding twelve years. Neither Clinton,
a reputed wild turkey hunter, nor Gore, a one-time deer hunter, has ever been known to shoot

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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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