Less hunting in Iran, more in Pakistan

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

TEHRAN, KARACHI–The war in Afghanistan cut hunting pressure
on Iranian wildlife this winter, especially migratory birds, who
have been increasingly heavily targeted since 1997 by French and
Italian visitors–but the war has also contributed to expansions of
hunting in the Sindh district of southeastern Pakistan.
“Between 50% and 60% of the hunters” who were booked to shoot
birds in Iran during the winter of 2001-2002 “cancelled their tours
after Sepetember 11,” Iran Safari vice president Ali Jafari admitted
recently to the Agence France-Presse. Each cancellation cost Iran
about $4,000.

Muslim world

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Fears are growing that the combined effects of a multi-year
drought and the war in Afghanistan have severely hurt migratory
birds. None at all came to Rawal Lake, near Islamabad, Pakistan,
wildlife expert Masaud Anwar told BBC reporter Jill McGivering. The
lake usually hosts tens of thousands. World Wildlife Fund
representative Asheik Ahmed Khan said hunters told him that cranes
were seen in flights of no more than three, down from the usual
50-plus. Just 1,500 storks, cranes, egrets, herons, and
cormorants reached the Banganatittu Bird Sanctuary near Mysore,
India, wrote Shankar Bennur of the Deccan Herald, while duck
migrations from Siberia to Jammu-and-Kashmir, in northern India,
were down 90%, said Gharana Wetland wildlife warden Tahir Shawal.

BOOKS: Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Education Committee’s Humane Education Guidebook

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Education Committee’s
Humane Education Guidebook
American SPCA (424 East 92nd St., New York, NY 10128), 2000.
244 pages, 3-ring binder format. $59.95.

The Federated Humane Societies of Pennsylvania Humane
Education Guidebook came into being at the urging and direction of
Women’s Humane Society education director Janice Mininberg, who
recognized an “acute need for written guidelines that would aid all
humane educators in their quest to establish productive,
professional education programs at their respective SPCAs and humane
societies.”

Heart-jab killing illegal in Calif.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

SACRAMENTO–California attorney general Bill Lockyer and
deputy attorney general Gregory L. Gonot on January 2, 2002 wrote in
a joint opinion solicited by California senate president pro tempore
John Burton that, “It is a violation of the state’s animal cruelty
laws for an animal control officer or humane society officer to use
intercardiac administration of euthanasia on a conscious animal in an
animal shelter or humane society facility, if the animal may first
be rendered unconscious in a humane manner, or if, in light of all
the circumstances, the procedure is unjustifiable.”

“Dolphin-safe” tuna labeling law may go to top U.S. courts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

NEW YORK, N.Y.–The “dolphin-safe” tuna labeling issue may
be headed to the U.S. Court of Appeals and perhaps the U.S. Supreme
Court, after Court of International Trade judge Judith Barzilay on
December 7, 2001 ruled again–as she did in April 2000–that the
revised “dolphin-safe” tuna standard imposed by the 1997
International Dolphin Conservation Program Act has been correctly
followed by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The Barzilay verdicts conflict with an April 2000 ruling by
Thelton E. Henderson, chief judge of the Federal District Court in
San Francisco. Despite the April 2000 Henderson verdict, which came
shortly after Barzilay’s first ruling, the relaxed “dolphin-safe”
standard took effect one day later.

Wise Giving Alliance raises the standard for program spending

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

ARLINGTON, Va.–About one U.S.-based animal protection
charity in five would probably flunk strict new accountability
standards published for comment in January by the Better Business
Bureau Wise Giving Alliance.
The Wise Giving Alliance was formed by a merger of the
Council of Better Business Bureaus Philanthropic Advisory Service
with the National Charities Information Bureau. The 21 standards
published by the new organization mostly echo standards already in
effect, including two standards for board structure which have
proved particularly problematic for small animal protection charities.
Newly added is a strengthened standard for spending funds on
charitable service.

Activists & Organizations

Courts push zero tolerance for dangerous dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

AUGUSTA, OMAHA, LONDON, OTTAWA, CAPE TOWN, LOS ANGELES–Annette
Heggs, of Augusta, Georgia, spent three weeks in the hospital at
cost of $100,000 after she was attacked on a public sidewalk on
December 30 by Frederick Gardner’s two pit bull terriers. She will
continue to need skin grafts and physical therapy.
Gardner will spend the next 60 days in jail for failing to
vaccinate the pit bulls and keep them leashed, Richmond County
Magistrate Court chief judge William D. Jennings III ruled on January
24, imposing the maximum sentence on each count.
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Five-minute activist videos

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:
Crying Shame
The Fur-Bearers
(3727 Renfrew St., Vancouver, B.C., Canada V5M 3L7;
<furbearers@banlegholdtraps.com>), 2001.

Dolphin Hunting in Japan
The Elsa Nature Conservancy
(P.O Box 2, Tukuba-Gakuen P.O., Tukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-8691;
<risa@surfline.ne.jp>), 2000.

Mobile
Spay/Neutering
on Half A Shoe String Budget
Barlieb/Wallace Ltd.
(1680 Minesite Road,
Allentown, PA 18103;
<barwalprod@aol.com>), 2001.

Serial & rampage dog attack data

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2002:

Pit bull terriers and Rottweilers together appear to commit
about two-thirds of the reported serial attacks on humans (65%), and
more than three-fourths of the rampage attacks (79%), ANIMAL PEOPLE
has learned, in a review of files on approximately 1,500 dog attacks
in cases in which a person was killed or maimed, or police shot the
dog.
Serial attacks are defined as instances of a dog injuring
someone after having injured a person or an animal on a previous
occasion. ANIMAL PEOPLE found that about 5% of the dogs involved in
life-threatening or fatal attacks on humans, or shot by police while
attacking, had attacked a person or killed a pet on an earlier
occasion.

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