BOOKS: More Than a Meal

April 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

More Than A Meal:
The Turkey in History,
Myth, Ritual, and Reality
by Karen Davis, Ph.D.
Lantern Books (One Union Square West,
Suite 201, New York, NY 10003), 2001.
192 pages, paperback. $20.00

This review appears on the same page as the conclusion of the
first installment of my “Chronology of Humane Progress,” an attempt
to put into context the major ideas and events that over the past
3,300 years have often falteringly coalesced into the global animal
protection cause of today.
The second installment ends with the major events of 1998, to give
current and recent developments at least five years to settle before
trying to decide what really made a difference and what was just part
of the flow.

BOOKS: Heaven and Earth and I

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

Heaven and Earth and I: Ethics of Nature Conservation in Asia
Edited by Vivek Menon & Masayuki Sakamoto
Penguin Enterprise (c/o Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson St., New
York, NY 10014), 2002.
Published in association with the Wildlife Trust of India,
International Fund for Animal Welfare, and Asian Conservation
Alliance.
223 pages, paperback. No U.S. price listed.

Eighteen essayists contribute to Heaven and Earth and I,
including the Dalai Lama, Queen Noor of Jordan, the Prince
Sadruddin Aga Khan, Maneka Gandhi, and King Gyanendra Bir Bikram
Dev of Nepal–but the famous names discuss the ethics of nature
conservation only in broad and general terms, for the most part,
with only People for Animals founder Mrs. Gandhi having much to say
about animals.

BOOKS: For the Love of Wildlife

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

For The Love Of Wildlife
by Chris Mercer & Beverly Pervan
Kalahari Raptor Centre (P.O. Box 1386, Kathu, 8446 Northern Cape,
South Africa), 2000. 252 pages, hardcover.
For current ordering info, e-mail to <enquiries@bookpro.co.za>.

Chris Mercer and Beverly Pervan educated themselves about
wildlife sanctuary management, before making the Kalahari Raptor
Centre their fulltime “retirement” pursuit, by closely observing the
operations of the Harnas Lion Farm in Namibia.
Not everything was done there as it should have been done.

China wants Olympic tourists to come for tigers too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

BEIJING–A camera trap set up by staff of the Hunchan Nature
Reserve in early February captured the first known photo of a wild
Amur tiger in northeastern China.
Members of the nature reserve staff positioned the camera
after hearing from a local farmer that an unknown large predator had
killed a mule that morning. The tiger tripped the electric eye that
operates the camera upon returning to the carcass late at night.
The photo provides “strong evidence that tigers are crossing
from the Russian Far East to repopulate previous tiger strongholds,”
said the Wildlife Conservation Society, whose equipment the Hunchan
team used.

Is Malaysia big and wild enough to keep wild tigers?

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

SUNGAI PETANI, Kedah, Malaysia–The mid-January 2003
disappearance of Malaysian oil palm plantation owner Haji Zaitun
Arshad, his family, and the pet tiger he allegedly imported from
Thailand combined into one case the dilemmas surrounding both private
tiger-keeping and wild tiger survival.
Zaitun was photographed a few days earlier in the act of
giving the tiger a jeep ride. Possessing the tiger exposed him to a
fine of up to $4,000 plus four years in jail.

India loves leopards (with some reservations)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

MUMBAI–India still has about 6,000 wild leopards,
approximately half of all the leopards of all species left in Asia,
because much of the public is concerned about their survival–and
might even be said to be fond of leopards despite their penchant for
getting into serious trouble.
Since January 1999, when ANIMAL PEOPLE began keeping track,
at least 111 leopards are known to have been poached or otherwise
illegally killed.

United Arab Emirates try to save the Arabian leopard

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

SHARJAH, UAE–Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Quasimi of
Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates in mid-February 2003 hosted an
international conference on saving the Arabian leopard, which was
considered extinct until a goatherd shot one in 1992. Experts now
think 150 to 250 Arabian leopards persist in the UAE, Yemen,
Oman, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.
About three times larger than a domestic housecat, the
Arabian leopard normally hunts Nubian ibex, the Arabian gazelle,
and wild or feral goats. The Animal Management Consultancy, funded
by Al Quasimi, has a wild population of 10 Arabian leopards, has
bred eight in captivity, and in January purchased a wild-caught
leopard named Al Wadei from a roadside zoo in Yemen, where according
to Severin Carrell of the London Independent he was kept in
“appalling” conditions.

Earth Island again tries to save dolphins

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

SAN FRANCISCO–Earth Island Institute and six other
environmental and animal protection groups on February 12 applied for
a federal injunction against a December 31 rule change by the
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration which would allow U.S.
firms to market tuna netted “on dolphin” as “dolphin-safe,” if no
dolphins are known to have been killed during the netting.
The injunction application takes the “dolphin-safe” issue
back into the same court where chief judge Thelton Henderson in May
1990 banned imports of yellowfin tuna from Mexico, Venezuela, and
Vanuatu, under a set of 1988 amendments to the 1972 Marine Mammal
Protection Act, and in January 1992 invoked the same law to ban $266
million worth of tuna imports from 30 nations.

Orangutans in Kalimantan coal smoke & heated dispute

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

DENVER–Underground coal fires beneath Kalimantan province,
Indonesia, could exterminate the island’s orangutans and sun bears,
Indonesian Ministry of Energy coalfield fire project chief Alfred
Whitehouse and East Georgia College professor Glenn Stracher told the
American Association for the Advancement of Science annual conference
in Denver on February 15, 2003.
Of the 20,000 remaining wild orangutans, about 15,000 live
in Kalimantan, Wbitehouse and Stracher said. Already imperiled by
habitat loss due to logging and slash-and-burn agriculture,
orangutans have now lost about half of Kutain National Park due to
underground fires and lethal smoke, according to Whitehouse and
Stracher.

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