Shooters Party tries to force hunting in parks of NSW, Australia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

SYDNEY–“We won’t be looking at hunting in national parks,”
New South Wales environment minister John Robertson told reporters on
October 28, 2009, but pledged to “do more to deal with feral
animals in our national parks.”
Robertson’s statement came a week after NSW prime minister
Nathan Rees suggested that the nominally governing Labor Party might
cut a deal with the two-seat Shooters Party to allow hunters to cull
“vermin and feral animals.”

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Injunction vs. SPCA Intl.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

MONTREAL –A Quebec Superior Court judge on October 12, 2009
allowed former Canadian SPCA executive director Pierre Barnoti to
continue using the “SPCA.com” web address, pending the outcome of a
lawsuit brought against him by the Canadian SPCA, but required that
donations received through the site by Barnoti’s new venture, SPCA
International, be deposited into a trust fund.
“Another $50,000 will be held in trust,” reported Jason
Magder of the Montreal Gazette. “Another trial will be held to
decide who owns the rights to the domain name.”
The “SPCA.com” domain name originally belonged to the
Canadian SPCA, also known as the Montreal SPCA, but Barnoti
transferred it to SPCA International, which he incorporated in
Delaware in 2006. Barnoti was suspended in March 2008 by the
Canadian SPCA board, and was fired in July 2008, after the Canadian
SPCA was unexpectedly found to be $4 million in debt.

Gangetic dolphins in zoo?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

NEW DELHI, PATNA–Created to protect the Ganga River and
tributaries, the Ganga River Basin Authority debuted on October 5,
2009 by declaring Gangetic dolphins the Indian national aquatic
animal, on a motion by Bijar chief minister Nitish Kumar. The
action gives Gangetic dolphins status equivalent to tigers, the
national animal, and peacocks, the national bird. As few as 1,500

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SeaWorld theme parks pass from brewery to entertainment group

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

SAN DIEGO–The private equity firm Blackstone Group and
Anheuser-Busch InBev jointly announced on October 7, 2009 that
Blackstone will buy the 10 theme parks belonging to the Busch
Entertainment Corporation for $2.7 billion–including the SeaWorld
marine mammal parks in San Diego, San Antonio, and Atlanta, the
Discovery Cove swim-with-dolphins attraction in Orlando, and the
Busch Gardens zoos in Florida and Virginia.

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No home on the range for wild horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 
WASHNGTON D.C.–If Interior Secretary Ken Salazar imagined
his plan for wild horses would please anyone for long, he guessed
wrong. Few wild horse advocates have had praise for any it, fiscal
conservatives have slammed the projected cost of it, and almost
nobody imagines that the Salazar plan will lastingly solve the
problem of the Bureau of Land Management holding almost as many
“surplus” wild horses in captivity as remain on the western range.

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Eyebrows raised over mink trade claims

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

HALIFAX–Photographers who have tried to focus on caged mink
know they are in constant motion, even within a wire box barely
bigger than they are. Anyone who ever handled a mink knows they are
slippery as a mammal can be, likely to wriggle in any direction and
inflict a deep bite to any exposed flesh. Fur farmers usually handle
live mink only to kill them, and wear heavy gloves when they do.

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Animal charities cut back programs in response to global recession

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

Downsizing to close a reported $32
million income shortfall in fiscal 2009, the
International Fund for Animal Welfare on October
18, 2009 closed the IFAW bear rescue center in
Pan Yu, China. The last five resident bears
were trucked 1,260 miles from southern Guangdong
province to the Animals Asia Foundation bear
sanctuary at Chengdu, in central Sichuan.
“We agreed that IFAW would pay for the
transfer, and that we would then take over all
expenses related to the care of the bears,”
Animals Asia Foundation founder Jill Robinson
told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “I have no idea what is
becoming of the vacated Pan Yu sanctuary,”
Robinson added.

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Dealing with deer–and appreciating them

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:

 

At this writing hunting seasons are open on Virginia
whitetailed deer in every state that has any. Whether the season is
“rifle” or “archery,” “buck” or “antlerless,” open or limited to a
specific locale, there is no state that has Virginia whitetailed
deer in which reducing and limiting the growth of the deer herd is
not a stated management goal, even where the management plan is
still likely to accelerate herd growth.
This happens whenever and wherever so many bucks are killed
that each adult doe has food enough over the winter to produce twin
fawns.

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