ANIMAL CONTROL

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Thailand is stepping up a six-year
drive to eradicate rabies. In 1998, says the
Thai government, 3.3 million of the estimated
5.2 million Thai dogs were vaccinated,
700,000 were sterilized by injection (method
not specified), and 165,000 were surgically
sterilized. Only 200,000 free vaccinations
were done, but this year 1.5 million dogs will
be vaccinated without charge, while one million
are to receive the injection sterilant and
238,650 are to be surgically sterilized.

Rabies update

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

The World Health Organization
in April credited Switzerland with becoming
the first non-island nation to eradicate rabies.
Explained Swiss Rabies Center
director Reto Zanoni, “The European fox
rabies epizootic reached Switzerland in March
1967. Rabies spread over large parts of the
country until 1977, when it caused three
human deaths. In 1978 Switzerland conducted
the first field trial worldwide of oral immunization
of foxes” with the vaccine now
known as Raboral. “Expanding the vaccination
area led to a rapid reduction in rabies
cases,” Zanoni continued. “After 1984, all
neighboring countries adopted the method of
orally immunizing foxes successfully. The
last endemic case of rabies in Switzerland was
diagnosed in 1997. Rabies-free status will
likely be reached by the neighboring countries
in the near future.”

People & Organizations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Carol Moulton, heading the
American Humane Association animal protection
division for two years and an AHA
staffer for 15 years, has resigned effective
May 19 but will continue to assist AHA as a
consultant, AHA president Robert Hart told
ANIMAL PEOPLE. Added Hart, “Connie
H o w a r d, our director of shelter operations,
will handle all functions dealing with shelters
and companion animals. At this time, we are
not announcing a search for a director, but
want to examine a range of options that could
involve some restructuring.” Hart is believed
to be seeking ways of more closely integrating
the work of the AHA animal protection
and child protection divisions. Competition
between the divisions over funding priorities
and board influence has been involved in several
other recent departures of both senior
personnel and longtime board members.

Activists & Organizations

U.S. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS TWO VERDICTS FOR ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

ALDF v. Glickman stands
WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S.
Supreme Court on April 19 upheld without
comment appeals of two landmark appellate
verdicts favoring citizen lawsuits seeking
stronger enforcement of the federal Animal
Welfare Act and Endangered Species Act.
The September 1998 verdict of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Glickman now
stands as precedent establishing the standing
of concerned individuals and animal advocacy
organizations to sue the USDA for allegedly
failing to fulfill the intent of Congress in
adopting the AWA.
In the specific case at hand, New
York activist Marc Jurnove contends that the
USDA has been negligent of duty in failing to
issue AWA enforcement regulations strong
enough to ensure the psychological well-being
of captive nonhuman primates.

Yellowstone bison defense arrests

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Arrested for allegedly interfering
with the April 14 bison captures
(see article at left) were James
Blakely, 19; Molly Karp, 17;
Allison Lovejoy, 21; Jeremy O’Day,
22; and Robert Laitman, age not
stated.
Jamie Blakely, 19, of
Georgia, was arrested on March 31 for
allegedly locking herself to a cattle
guard to block trucks hauling bison
from the Horse Butte corral to a site
near Duck Creek where the brucellosis
testing is done. Steven Shaffer, 37,
of Minnesota, was arrested the same
day for allegedly trying to lock the
gates of the Duck Creek holding pen.

SHOWDOWN AT THE HORSE BUTTE CORRAL

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

WEST YELLOWSTONE––A month after
U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell refused to reimpose
the 1997-1998 limit of 100 on the number of
Yellowstone bison the Montana Department of
Livestock may kill without specific reauthorization,
the 1998-1999 toll zoomed from 17 to 94, with no
end in sight.
Lovell held that the limit and reauthorization
requirement did not seem necessary because the
bison toll was likely to be insignificant.
The Montana Department of Livestock evidently
took that to mean Lovell had declared an open
season, building a bison trap at Horse Butte over
ongoing protest and herding bison into it with snowmobiles.

Hunted animals win a few rounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

EAGLE, Colorado– –
USDA Wildlife Services, on April
8 withdrew a Bureau of Land
Management-approved plan to
strafe coyotes for five months at
the Castle Peaks Wilderness Study
Area near Eagle, Colorado.
USDA Wildlife Services,
formerly called Animal
Damage Control, proposed the
coyote killing on behalf of a
rancher who claims to have lost
2,000 lambs to coyotes since 1991.
But the agency backed off when
the Aspen Wilderness Workshop,
the Colorado Wilderness Network,
and the activist group Sinapu
pointed out that federal rules
require USDA Wildlife Services to
identify specific animals when
doing predator control in designated
wilderness research zones.

Malaysian pig crisis waning

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

KUALA LUMPUR––The previously
unidentified Hendra-like virus
ravaging the Malaysian pig industry for
the past six months was on April 10,
1999 formally named the Nipah virus,
after the village of Baru Sungai Nipah in
Negri Sembilan, the district where it was
first isolated by virologist Chan Kaw
Bing, MD.
The Hendra virus was named
after Hendra, Australia, where a similar
disease killed 15 horses and three humans
who worked with horses in 1994.

Our search for the Bishnois by Bonny Shah

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Texas-based animal advocates
Bonny and Ratilal Shah on Christmas Day
1998 took time out from working on other
humane projects in India to visit two Bishnois
villages in the Rajasthan desert.
Valmik Thapar, executive director
of the Ranthambore Foundation, described
the Bishnoi in his 1997 book Land of the Tiger
as “the primary reason that desert wildlife still
exists on the subcontinent. The women of the
community have been known to breastfeed
black buck fawns and save insect life, while
many of the men have died in their efforts to
counter armed poaching gangs.

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