Ex-Ohio State University laboratory chimp dies on arrival at the Primarily Primates sanctuary

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

COLUMBUS, SAN ANTONIO–Kermit, 35, one of nine chimpanzees
sent by Ohio State University to the Primarily Primates sanctuary in
Leon Spring, Texas, died under sedation on March 2 as sanctuary
staff tried to move him from a transport cage to larger holding
quarters.
Ohio State has donated $324,000 to Primarily Primates to
build permanent facilities for the chimps that will be about five
times larger than their university housing, and to provide for their
maintenance.
“Veterinarian Thomas Vice had administered a shot of
anesthesia, followed by two smaller doses, when Kermit collapsed in
a sitting position,” reported Kevin Kidder of the Columbus Dispatch,
based on the account of Ohio State laboratory animal resources
director William Yonushonis.
A necrospy done at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical
Research in San Antonio found that the cause of death was a “heart
attack associated with pre-existing heart disease, pulmonary
congestion and tissue swelling associated with handling. The
necropsy did not address tranquilizers in Kermit’s body,” wrote Mike
Lafferty of the Columbus Dispatch.

Six SHAC suspects convicted–five for “animal enterprise terrorism”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

TRENTON, New Jersey–Six individuals
associated with “direct action” animal advocacy
and the organization Stop Huntingdon Animal
Cruelty were convicted on March 2, 2006 of
criminal acts against employees of Huntingdon
Life Sciences and companies that did business
with Huntingdon.
“Convicted of conspiracy to commit animal
enterprise terrorism and interstate stalking were
Joshua Harper of Seattle, Andrew Stepanian of
Huntington, New York, and Lauren Gazzola,
Jacob Conroy and Kevin Kjonaas, who lived
together in Pinole, California,” reported John
P. Martin and Brian T. Murray for the Newhouse
News Service. “A sixth defendant, Darius
Fullmer of Hamilton, New Jersey, was found
guilty only on the conspiracy charge,” Martin
and Murray added.
All six had previous arrests in connection with animal advocacy.
Harper, 31, and Conroy, 30, were arrested in
May 1999 for allegedly interfering with an
attempt by members of the Makah tribe to kill a
grey whale in Puget Sound.

U.S. government intensifies spying on animal advocates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

WASHINGTON D.C., NEW YORK CITY–Pending federal legislation
may intensify covert U.S. federal government surveillance of animal
advocacy.
The Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006 was introduced on
March 16, 2006 by Republican U.S. Senators Mike DeWine of Ohio,
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, and
Olympia Snowe of Maine.
Deemed likely to pass easily through the Republican-dominated
Senate and House of Representatives, and to be signed by President
George W. Bush, the bill was described by DeWine’s publicist, Mike
Dawson, as “a measure that would provide a statutory framework, with
Congressional and judicial oversight, for the President to conduct
electronic surveillance on the international communications of
suspected terrorists, while protecting the rights and liberties of
American citizens.”

Sealers charge HSUS observers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.–The 2006 Atlantic Canada harp seal
slaughter started on March 26 with a quota of 325,000 landed pelts,
5,000 more than in 2005.
Up to 91,000 seals are to be pelted in the Gulf of St.
Larence, in the first phase of the hunt. The remainder will be
pelted later along the Labrador Front, where the hunt will start
about April 10. The Canadian Depart-ment of Fisheries & Oceans does
not announce the exact dates for each phase of the hunt until just a
few days beforehand.
Violence by sealers against protesters flared in earnest on March 27.
“I normally observe the hunt on foot,” wrote Rebecca
Aldworth, a Newfoundlander who directs Canadian campaigns for the
Humane Society of the U.S. “The ice floes are usually strong enough
to support several helicopters,” Aldworth said. “This year the ice
was fragile, so we were forced to base ourselves on a larger vessel
and deploy small, inflatable boats.”

Letters [April 2006]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

Kite-fighting

Concerning your January/ February 2006
article “Kites vs. kite-birds & other species in
the skies of India & Pakistan,” kite-flying is
very popular in sub-continental Asia. But due to
kite-fighting, hundreds of thousands of birds
lose their lives. Kite-fighters use monofilament
“chemical” thread for flying kites. Countless
birds become entangled and injured, and often
die slowly from hunger, thirst, and infected
wounds.
The Animal Save Movement appeals to the
governments of Pakistan and India to immediately
ban monofilament thread for kite-flying.
–Khalid Mahmood Qurashi
President
Animal Save Movement
H.#1094/2, Hussain Agahi
Multan, Pakistan 60000
Phone: 92-61-549623
<thetension@hotmail.com>

Letters

Editorial: What cruelty to animals tells us about people

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

To behave unethically by the standards of
hare coursers is no easy feat. Hare coursing
consists of setting dogs, usually greyhounds,
on captive rabbits. Recently banned in Britain,
it continues in Ireland, and in parts of the
U.S. and other places where most people do not
yet realize that anyone is doing something so
depraved for kicks.
Vinnie Jones, however, is no ordinary
man. Playing for Wimbledon against Newcastle in
1987, Jones became “football’s most infamous
hardman,” according to Ben Hoyle of the London
Times, when photographed in the act of
backhandedly squeezing the testicles of opponent
Paul Gascoigne of Newcastle.
After Gascoigne protested, Jones sent
him a dozen roses, in an attempted further
insult to his manhood. Gascoigne told Jones that
if he wanted that kind of relationship, he could
do some chores, and sent him a toilet brush.

How many times must the ape traffic be exposed, before it is forever banned?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

CAIRO, KANO, NAIROBI–Ten years after the World Society for
the Protection of Animals exposed the Cairo connection in the
international live great ape traffic, five years after Egyptian
customs officials refocused attention on the traffic by drowning a
four-month-old gorilla and a baby chimpanzee in a vat of chemicals at
the Cairo airport after seizing the apes from smugglers, the alleged
perpetrators are still in business, charge independent investigator
Jason Mier and wildlife photographer Karl Amman.
Worse, Mier and Amman say, the alleged perpetrators still
appear to be protected by the apparent collusion, corruption,
indifference, and inefficiency of public officials and airline
personnel in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Cameroon.
Some of the same people and ports of entry are apparently
involved in clandestine ivory trafficking exposed by Esmond Martin
and Daniel Stiles in four reports published since 2000.
Mier and Amman recently completed a year-long investigation
of a “group of smugglers I am convinced is the largest operating in
Africa,” Mier told ANIMAL PEOPLE. A zoologist by training, Mier has
worked in Africa since 2000. Amman has investigated African wildlife
trafficking since 1990.

Breed bans hit court opposition; anti-tethering laws gain favor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

TOLEDO, TIPTON (Pa.)–A three-judge panel of the Ohio Sixth
District Court of Appeals on March 3, 2006 struck down as
unconstitutional both the Toledo ban on pit bull terriers, in effect
for more than 20 years, and the parts of the Ohio Revised Code on
which the ban was based.
The 2-1 opinion, written by Judge William Skow with assent
from Judge Arlene Singer, reversed a 2004 ruling by Toledo Municipal
Court Judge Francis Gorman.
Lucas County dog warden Tom Skeldon reluctantly instructed
his staff to stop citing Toledo residents for possession of multiple
pit bulls, not carrying dog bite liability insurance, and not
keeping pit bulls under close control.
“We’re not in the pit bull business any more. We’re not in
the vicious-dog business any more,” Skeldon told Erica Blake of the
Toledo Blade. “They’ve taken away our ability to enforce
containment, whether of a German shepherd or a pit bull, whether
the dog has bitten someone or not.”

BOOKS: Ivory Markets of Europe

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2006:

Ivory Markets of Europe:
A survey in France, Germany, Italy, Spain & the U.K.
by Esmond Martin & Daniel Stiles

Save the Elephants (P.O. Box 54667, 00200
Nairobi, Kenya), 2005. 104 pages, paperback.
No price listed.

Ivory Markets of Europe is the fourth and
perhaps most startling in a series of regional
reports on the elephant tusk ivory trade produced
by geographer Esmond Martin and anthropologist
Daniel Stiles since 2000.
Martin and Stiles began by looking at Africa, where most ivory originates.
They found that ivory artifacts are still
readily available at leading tourist
destinations, despite the 1989 ivory trade
moratorium imposed by the United Nations
Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species. The source of most of the ivory still
available in Africa appears to be elephant
poaching.

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