Case vs. ALF flak dropped

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

VANCOUVER, B.C.– – The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police on
September 25 withdrew charges that frequent
Animal Liberation Front spokesperson
David Barbarash, 36, and his
longtime associate Darren Todd
Thurston, 30, sent more than 20 razor
blade-rigged letters to hunters, furriers,
and a newspaper columnist.
R C M P spokespersons told
media that they remain confident that
Barbarash and Thurston were rightly
accused, but felt an order from British
Columbia Supreme Court Justice
Kenneth Lysyk to fully disclose the evidence
against them would jeopardize
confidential sources and agreements
with other law enforcement agencies to
protect the other agencies’ sources.

New anti-live market abuse, rodeo shocking, and animal testing laws in Calif.––and more!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

SACRAMENTO––”After five years of
failed agreements, undercover investigations, and
heated public hearings,” San Francisco SPCA
Department of Law and Advocacy chief Nathan
Winograd announced on October 3, “animal welfare
advocates have passed a law protecting live
animals sold for food in California. Governor Gray
Davis has signed AB 2479, introduced by assembly
member Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica).
“The new law prohibits stores from skinning
and dismembering live animals, as well as
storing and displaying animals in ways likely to
result in injury, starvation, or suffocation. The law
applies to frogs, turtles, and birds sold for food,”
whom antiquated legal language previously
exempted from coverage by the California anti-cruelty
statutes.

The right whale stuff

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

While Japan was killing whales,
Brazilian president Fernando Henrique
Cardoso on September 19 designated an
offshore sanctuary for southern Atlantic
right whales in their “nursery” along the
lower coast of Santa Catarina state.
The decree rewarded 20 years of
work by Southern Right Whale Project
founder Jose Truda Palazzo Jr., who at
age 18 rediscovered the whales after they
were believed to have been hunted to extinction.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

A Faroe Islands court recently convicted
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
founder Paul Watson in absentia of alleged
illegal entry into Faroese waters, and ordered
him to pay a fine of $37,000 or serve 60 days
in jail, Watson and the Sea Shepherds learned
on September 27 from the Ritzau news agency
of Denmark. “Captain Watson has a clear
defense for all charges, but was not allowed to
present it,” said a Sea Shepherd release.
“Captain Watson did not choose to be tried in
absentia,” the release continued, adding that
Watson didn’t even know he had been charged
until after the trial.

Japanese whaling gives Clinton/Gore a chance to boost credentials

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

WASHINGTON D.C., TOKYO––
Aware that support of Norwegian and Native
American whaling is the one environmental
albatross around U.S. Vice President Albert
Gore’s neck in his Presidential bid, outgoing
President Bill Clinton gave anti-whaling sanctions
against Japan a high profile as the campaign
hit the home stretch.
The piece-de-resistance was a
September 13 announcement delivered by
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta that,
“The President is directing the Secretary of
State to inform the Japanese government that it
will be denied future access to fishing rights in
U.S. waters.”

EXOTICS & WOLF HYBRIDS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

Wolfsong Ranch moving, tests canine chemosterilant

WILLCOX, Az.––Art and Mary Bellis, cofonders of the Wolfsong Ranch sanctuary, intend to meet a January 1, 2001 deadline for disposing of the 160 resident wolf hybrids, set by the Cohise County Planning and Zoning Commission, by moving to a 440-acre site near Rodeo, New Mexico– 11 times larger than their present site outside Wilcox, Arizona.
Art and Mary Bellis began taking in wolf hybrids in 1988, Mary Bellis told ANIMAL PEOPLE. They incorporated the Wolfsong Ranch Sanctuary Foundation and deeded their property to it in 1996, but ran afoul of neighbors whom Mary Bellis describes as “primarily a family of local ranchers and their friends, employees, and members of the local ranchers’ association.

North Korean dictator hosts dog meat dinner for diplomats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

SEOUL, Korea––Hosting South Korean diplomats at the Pyongyang Tongogi dog meat restaurant on August 31, North Korean head of state Kim Jong-il on August 31 dashed any hope that his June trade of purebred hunting dogs with South Korean president Kim Dae-jung might elevate the status of ordinary dogs in the street.

Currently, two to three million Korean dogs per year are elevated by slow hanging, are flogged as they strangle, and are dehaired by blowtorch while still alive, to insure that their flesh is suffused with adrenalin before consumption.

Why Calgary has almost as many off-leash parks as dog bites

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

CALGARY––As an ex-cop, before
becoming director of Calgary Animal Services
back in 1975, soon-to-retire Jerry Aschenbrenner
believes strong laws and consistent
enforcement are the keys to his success.
And Aschenbrenner has been successful.
Since 1984, Calgary Animal Services
and the Calgary Humane Society have
between them never killed more than 12.8
dogs and cats per 1,000 human residents of
their service area––and that peak was reached
15 years ago, when the big-city norm was
more than twice as high. Even now the norm
is 16.6. Calgary comes in at 5.2.
Although the numbers compare well
to those of San Francisco and other no-kill
cities, Aschenbrenner and the Calgary
Humane Society don’t tout Calgary as having
achieved no-kill animal control. CHS, handling
cat impoundment under contract to CAS,
still kills about 4,000 cats per year, some of
whom might be saved with a Feral Cat
Assistance Program as vigorous as the one in
San Francisco. But Aschenbrenner sees that
on the agenda.

Campaigns & Organizations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2000:

The Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society, often pursued by law enforcement,
announced on August 21 that on August 19
its Brazilian affiliate, Instituto Sea
S h e p h e r d, had joined with “members of
Brazil’s environmental law enforcement
agency IBAMA and military police” to conduct
“a high-seas raid against four illegal
driftnetting vessels.” The Sea Shepherds
said they spotted the outlaw fishers from an
airplane, kept them under observation from a
helicopter, and used a speedboat to approach
and mark the vessels for identification and
possible confiscation by the Brazilian Navy.

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