Sea Shepherds give thanks for stormy seas

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

NEAH BAY, Wash.; TOKYO– –
Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society celebrated Thanksgiving
ashore, tied at dockside in Friday Harbor.
A three-month symbolic blockade of
Neah Bay by his big blue boat, the Sea
Shepherd III, and his little black boat, The
Sirenian, kept the would-be whale-killers of
the Makah Tribal Commission bottled up in
port until after winter seas made just rowing a
hand-hewn wooden canoe life-threatening, let
alone trying to harpoon a gray whale from it.
The Sea Shepherd vessels didn’t
actually keep anyone from coming in or going
out of the harbor, but just knowing they were
there visibly grated the Makah would-be
whalers’ nerves.

Views from Malaysia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

Hot water
Following is a letter which was
published by both the Malaysia Star and the
Straits Times:
I was halfway through my plate of
chicken rice the other day at a roadside stall
near a school in Jalan Sentul, Kuala Lumpur,
when a young, clean-looking, half-starved
stray dog approached my table, wagging his
tail. Without a moment’s hesitation, I
offered the dog some of my food. Then, to
my horror, a woman whom I found out later
was the shop assistant suddenly appeared
with a bucket of boiling hot water and doused
it all over the unsuspecting animal. Fuming, I
turned to the woman and ticked her off in the
strongest possible terms. The other customers,
who had kept quiet until I stood up,
echoed their disapproval as well. The woman
remained nonchalant about the whole affair.
She tried to justify herself by saying that she
was bothered by the dog’s fur––though she
has three cats as pets––and then claimed the
water in her bucket was only half hot.

Asia
Letters

Trapped in deep muck

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – – Margaret
Kolar, manager of the San Francisco Bay National
Wildlife Refuge at Redwood City, California, told
Marilee Enge of the San Jose Mercury-News i n
November that due to the November 3 passage of
the California Anti-Trapping Initiative, she has
indefinitely postponed a scheduled trapping program
which was supposed to protect endangered species at
the refuge––even though one of the framers of the
initiative question, Humane Society of the U.S. vice
president Wayne Pacelle, said the program wasn’t
affected.
“If [leghold trapping] is the only option, it
is appropriate for the protection of endangered
species,” Pacelle said.

WHO GETS THE MONEY? –– NINTH ANNUAL EDITION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

This is our ninth annual report on the budgets, assets,
and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related charities,
listed on the following pages, together with a handful of local
activist groups and humane societies, and some prominent
organizations abroad, whose data we offer for comparative
purposes. Statistics from foreign organizations are stated in
U.S. dollars, at 1997 average exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat
via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting
(either for “wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation,
N for neutering, P for publication, R for animal rights, S
for shelter/sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection
issues, and W for animal welfare. The R and W designations
are used only if a group makes a point of being one or the other.

AWARDS & HONORS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

The Texas Department of Health has honored
Primarily Primates for having “the best-landscaped
facility” under TDH jurisdiction. Primarily
Primates is recognized as a TDH facility because it
houses some retired laboratory primates under contract
from TDH.
The San Francisco Zoo has recognized the
late Carroll Soo-Hoo, who died in June at age 84,
with a plaque at the zoo’s gorilla exhibit. Beginning in
1958, Soo-Hoo and his wife Violet donated more than
40 animals to the zoo, including the founding members
of the gorilla colony.

Primarily feeling like Noah

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

SAN ANTONIO– – What
happened to Primarily Primates during
the recent Texas flooding?
Secretary Stephen Rene
Tello’s first recollection was that so
many pipes were unearthed and broken
by a flash flood that the sanctuary
had no potable water for a day.
That meant Tello and
Primarily Primates president Wally
Swett had more than 800 thirsty monkeys,
great apes, lemurs, tropical
birds, a wallaby, and assorted other
creatures to haul buckets for.
“It sounds strange that the
animals had no water, when we had
just experienced a two-foot wave
rolling over half the sanctuary, but it
just came through so fast,” Tello
said. “Many of the monkey cages
were inundated with six inches of
packed mud and rocks. The chimp
enclosures nearest our flood control
dam,” which broke, “had a foot and
a half of rock and clay from the dam.

1998 Initiative spending (Most recent reports received.)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

State Pro-animals Anti-animals
Alaska $ 185,600 $ 225,000
Arizona $ unavailable
California
Horses $ 500,000 unavailable
Trapping $ 899,409 $ 316,085
Minnesota $ 25,000 $ 200,000
Missouri $ Unavailable
Ohio $ 521,680 $ 2,400,000
South Dakota $ 67,315 $ 111,646
Utah $ 56,662 $ 596,646
TOTALS $ 2,037,609 $3 ,849,377

Former Animal Protective Association of
St. Louis County director Nancy Grove made personally
sure that the successful campaign to ban cockfighting
in Missouri was adequately funded by contributing
$57,000 to Missourians Against
Cockfighting, and loaning MAC $250,000 more.

Will Louisiana join the civilized world?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

NEW ORLEANS––“While five states once
clung to the barbaric practice of legalized cockfighting,”
the New Orleans Times-Picayune editorialized on
November 23, saluting the referendum bans of cockfighting
passed on November 3 by the voters of Arizona
and Missouri, “now there are only three. Let New
Mexico and Oklahoma carry the stigma themselves,”
the writers continued. “It’s time for us to join the civilized
world.”
But, the Times-Picayune acknowledged,
“That’s obviously a challenge in a state where lawmakers
have defined parakeets and cocatiels as animals, but
have steadfastly refused to include chickens. That defiance
of common sense and biology prevents cockfighting
from falling under animal cruelty laws,” and
also––as the Times-Picayune did not mention––protects
factory farmers.

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not 10,000 Alaskan schoolchildren

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1998:

ANCHORAGE––The pro-snaring
side won the November voting on a referendum
which sought to ban snaring wolves, but
the anti-snaring side won 53% approval from
10,000 students in grades 4-12 who took part
in a “Kids Voting” civic education exercise.
Within the six-year span of one U.S.
Senate term, those students could tip the
Alaskan electoral balance––as hook-and-bullet
columnists were quick to decry.
Both sides were heavily funded
from outside Alaska. Pro-snaring drew
$95,000 in outside contributions, while antisnaring
drew $117,000.

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