WARFARE AND ANIMALS

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

The Bureau of Land
Management has asked the U.S. Air
Force to redesign a plan to create a new
target bombing range 25 miles southeast
of the Saylor Creek Training Range in
Idaho. The BLM wants the Air Force to
restrict low level flights over the Owyhee
Canyonlands to avoid disturbing either
bighorn sheep during lambing season, or
recreational visitors during peak use
times. The Air Force earlier agreed to
avoid the most critical lambing areas and
to restrict flights over two other parts of
the proposed range during the times most
favored by rafters and kayakers. The
current plan is the fourth expansion proposal
from the Air Force since the
Persian Gulf War showed the need to
train pilots for desert combat. Previous
plans were halted by opposition from
Native Americans, environmentalists,
hunters, and ranchers.

BOOKS: Indian Wildlife & The Book of Indian Birds

January 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Indian Wildlife
Second edition (revised)
Houghton Mifflin Co. (222 Berkeley St.,
Boston, MA 02116-3764), 1994.
367 pages, paperback, $20.00.

The Book of
Indian Birds
Bulbul Sharma
HarperCollins India (7/16 Ansari Rd.,
New Delhi 110 002), 1991.
48 pages, hardcover, 95 rupees.

REVIEWS: Tiger books

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Through The Tiger’s Eyes: A Chronicle of India’s Wildlife
by Stanley Breeden & Belinda Wright
Ten Speed Press (POB 7123, Berkeley, CA 94707), 1997. 193 pages, paperback, $24.95.

Fight For The Tiger:
One Man’s Battle To Save The Wild Tiger From Extinction
by Michael Day
Headline (Trafalgar Square, North Pomfret, VT 05053), 1998. 438 pages, paperback, $13.95.

Track Of The Tiger: Legend And Lore Of The Great Cat
Edited by Maurice Hornocker
Sierra Club Books (85 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105), 1997.
120 pages, 75 color photos, hardcover, $30.00.

Do they see pink humans?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

BENGAL––Cops, sociologists,
and commanders of troops know that males
without females may start fighting and
boozing––and that’s the problem among the
elephants of eastern Bengal, reports the
Wildlife Institute of India.
Normal Indian elephant herds,
they say, consist of one male to several
females, governed by the eldest female.
Adult males usually travel apart from the
main herd when no females are in estrus,
but remain under herd rule. Bachelor elephants
are normally just the grown but not
yet mated, and the very old or dispossessed.
Few and alone, they historically kept out of
trouble.

African elephants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Three years after “sustainable use” advocate
David Western replaced Richard Leakey as
head of the Kenya Wildlife Service, the service is
plagued by resignations, short funding, and poor
morale, Louise Tunbridge of the London Daily
Telegraph reported in early December––and elephants
in Tsavo National Park are under fire, while
Western’s own salary has tripled in two years.
“Glossy KWS brochures state that only 11 elephants
were killed by ivory poachers last year,” Tunbridge
wrote, “but security sources say the true figure is at
least 67.” At urging of elephant expert Daphne
Sheldrick, Tunbridge continued, the David
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust “paid for a tanker of petrol
to keep the Kenya Wildlife Service anti-poaching
teams going” until the new year, and “the British
charity Care for the Wild is paying to patch up the
park’s roads, which are in very poor repair.”

Marine ecology notes

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

The Emily B. Shane Award, a
$10,000 stipend, supports “conservation-oriented,
non-harmful research on free-ranging seals,
sea lions, and sea cows. Application deadline is
May 1. Get details c/o Carol Fairfield,
Awards/Scholarship Committee, Society for
Marine Mammalogy, NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC,
c/o University of California, EMS Bldg., Room
A319, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.
At least 16 manatees were killed by
red tide poisoning in southwestern Florida during
November, just as construction of a manatee
hospital at the Miami Seaquarium halted
when anticipated costs rose over $500,000,
more than three times initially estimate. On top
of that, the Miami Herald disclosed on
December 27, of 13 coastal Florida counties
that were to draft manatee protection plans
under a 1990 directive by then-governor Bob
Martinez, just three have actually done so.

SEALERS TO KILL 275,000

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland– –
Canadian fisheries minister David Anderson on
December 30 set the 1998 Atlantic Canada sealing
quota at 275,000, the same as in 1997, but
increased the number who may be hooded seals to
10,000, 2,000 more than last year.
The Seal Industry Advisory Council
requested a 1998 quota of 300,000 seals, but
Anderson said the Department of Fisheries and
Oceans would do a harp seal census this year
before making any further quota changes.
Anticipating continued high quotas,
Caboto Seafoods Ltd. of Newfoundland earlier in
December advanced plans to remodel a fish processing
plant into a sealing plant, to extract oil
from carcasses and tan pelts.
DFO scientists have leaked data publicized
by the International Fund for Animal
Welfare indicating that sealers actually kill two
seals for each carcass landed, keeping just males
because penises are by far the most lucrative part.

Whales & dolphins

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

The Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society on December 24 named
Stein Erik Bastesen, son of whaling and
sealing magnate Steinar Bastesen, “honorary
crew member of 1997,” for “admitting
that he ‘accidentally’ scuttled his
father’s notorious outlaw whaling vessel
Morild. We suggest, however, that the
insurers underwriting the Morild should
take a good look at the facts,” the
announcement continued. “We have
received confirmation that the Morild was
sunk by the Norwegian anti-whaling group
Agenda 21 on November 11, 1997, in
response to Norway walking out of the
International Whaling Commission
meeting in Monaco a few weeks before.
Stein Erik Bastesen originally denied that
he was responsible. Steinar Bastesen originally
claimed sabotage as the cause.

White House kills EU fur ban

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

BRUSSELS––Hope that the European Union would finally enforce
a ban promised since 1991 on imports of furs possibly taken by leghold trapping
died on December 1, 1997, when 12 hours after the EU threatened to
impose the ban against U.S. wild-caught furs within a week, it accepted a
non-binding deal that allows continued imports of leghold-trapped furs for at
least six more years while individual states set their own schedules for phasing
out or modifying leghold traps to meet so-called international standards developed
by the trapping industry.
The USDA is meanwhile spending $350,000 this year in experiments
to develop alternative trapping methods. Largely replicative of work
done in Canada for nearly 40 years without finding anything acceptable to
both trappers and humanitarians, the experiments call for trapping at least 186
foxes, 186 coyotes, and 1,080 raccoons.

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