Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

The Commiossioners Court of Harris
County, Texas, voted 3-2 on March 31 to stop
selling animals to biomedical research, on a
motion by Commissioner Steve Radack.
Commissioner Jerry Eversole and County
Judge Robert Eckels also favored the resolution,
ending a 25-year-plus history of rejecting such
motions, as offered from the floor, 5-0.
Euthanizing as many as 80,000 animals a year,
Harris County sold 791 animals in 1996, less than
half as many as it 1994, earning $32,000.
The trustees of the Bernice Barbour
Foundation, a major funder of humane society
special projects, voted in March “to fund only
programs of organizations which spay/neuter animals
before adopting them out. We feel it is most
important that animals being recycled by shelters
and humane groups,” sccretary/treasurer E v e
Lloyd Thompson told ANIMAL PEOPLE, “or
being shipped into eastern humane societies to fill
requests by the public for puppies for adoption,
do not have the opportunity to reproduce.”

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Ed Sayres leaves the American Humane Association

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.––Ed Sayres, director of the American
Humane Association’s animal protection division since August 1995,
“resigned his position to seek new opportunities,” AHA executive director
Robert F.X. Hart announced in an April 16 prepared statement.
Personally serving as interim director of the animal protection division,
Hart got an immediate baptism by flood, coordinating the AHA relief
effort in the vicinity of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
ANIMAL PEOPLE reported in April that Sayres was a leading candidate
for the top job at the New York Center for Animal Care and Control,
vacated on January 21 by the resignation under fire of founding director Marty
Kurtz. Sayres confirmed on April 20 that he was interviewed for the CACC
job two days earlier, but said he had not yet been told if he would be hired.

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ORGANIZATIONS & ISSUES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

The daily electronic news bulletin
GREENlines, founded as ESA Today, on March 31
announced the departure of lead author Jim Jontz after
nearly 500 editions to become executive director of the
Western Ancient Forest Campaign. Roger
Featherstone remains GREENlines editor and webmaster,
assisted by former Northwest Ecosystem
Alliance staffer Eric Wingerter and outreach coordinator
Megan Delany. GREENlines is a project of the
Grassroots Environmental Effectiveness Network,
a division of Defenders of Wildlife.
The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting,
founded as a branch of Friends of Animals and then
taken independent in 1975 by the late Luke Dommer,
has again been absorbed by another group, this time
Wildlife Watch Inc., also incorporating the Coalition
to Prevent the Destruction of Canada Geese. All
three are led by Anne and Peter Muller, POB 562,
New Paltz, NY 12561; telephone 914-255-4227; fax
914-256-9113; e-mail >>wildwatch@worldnet.alt.net;
web >>http://www.icu.com/geese/ coalition.html.<<

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Wise-use wiseguys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

Alleging trademark violation, the National
Parks and Conservation Association has forced the
Property Rights Alliance, of Washington state, to restructure
the “National Park Watch Homepage,” which NPCA
counsel Libby Fayad contends “sought to sidetrack people
seeking legitimate park information” via ParkWatcher, an
NPCA web page designation, “and expose them to paranoid
fears about the National Park Service and those of us who
work to maintain the parks.” The PRA site reportedly
accused the NPCA, Audubon Society, Sierra Club,
Wilderness Society, and other groups of promoting paganism
and trying to turn over U.S. parks to the United Nations.

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The Summit and the top of the heap

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

SACRAMENTO––Belton Mouras, founder of both
the Animal Protection Institute and United Animal Nations,
resigned the UAN presidency on March 26 in a seeming replay
of his exit from API almost exactly ten years before.
Mouras founded API in 1968, after about six years as
California representative for the Humane Society of the U.S.,
and went on to found UAN later in 1987.
Former UAN staffer Jeane Westin now chairs the
UAN board, while former vice president Deanna Soares has
become executive director. Mouras almost immediately
accepted a job as development officer for the Performing
Animal Welfare Society, while former UAN program director
Vernon Weir resigned separately to take a similar post with the
Association of Sanctuaries (TAOS).
Mouras told ANIMAL PEOPLE that push came to
shove after UAN received two major bequests and enjoyed an
unusually successful direct mail appeal on behalf of the UANsponsored
Emergency Animal Rescue Service. By fluke, the
appeal reached recipients just as the late January flooding in
California put EARS in the news.

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CHARITY BUREAU REPORTS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

The Cancer Fund of America, purporting to fund
no animal research, and apparently funding little or no
research of any kind, has again flunked the standards of both
the Council of Better Business Bureaus Philanthropic
Advisory Service and the National Charities Information
Bureau. Both agencies reported that the Cancer Fund failed
to provide sufficient information about itself in financial
statements. The NCIB added that the Cancer Fund does not
meet standards requiring “that promotional, fundraising, and
public information should describe accurately the organization’s
identity, purpose, programs, and financial needs; that
the organization spend at least 60% of annual expenses on
program activities; that the organization insure that fundraising
expenses, in relation to fundraising results, are reasonable
over time; and that the organization not have a persistent
deficit in net current assets.”

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USFWS’ albatross

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

MIDWAY––If anyone wants a courtroom Second
Battle of Midway, the short-tailed albatross could become a
mighty obstacle to tourism development. Owned by the U.S.
Navy since 1903, Midway was deeded over to the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service on April 5, which intends to open the
newly created refuge to the public soon, for the first time
since before World War II.
The problem isn’t that the uniquely all-white shorttailed
albatross is on the Endangered Species List: it’s that it
isn’t. Because it isn’t, critical habitat has not been designated.
Yet the short-tailed albatross drew protection from Japan
more than 60 years ago, when the population dipped to just
100, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has treated the
short-tailed albatross as endangered since 1969, four years
before the present Endangered Species Act was passed.

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OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

R. Reeves co-edited the Sierra Club
Handbook of Whales and Dolphins (1983 and
updates), died January 25 of lymphoma.
Formerly senior research biologist for the
Hubbs Marine Research Institute,
Leatherwood spent his last years with the
Ocean Park Conservation Foundation in Hong
Kong, as representative of the Cetacean
Specialist Group within the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature. His
special project was seeking the survival of the
baiji, or Chinese river dolphin. “There are no
truly reliable numbers on the size of baiji populations,”
Leatherwood warned in November
1995. “Published estimates indicate a decline
from 400 or so in the late 1970s, to 300 or so
in the mid-1980s, to 120 or so in 1993.

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BOOKS: The Lost History of the Canine Race

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

The Lost History of the Canine Race:
Our 15,000-Year Love Affair With Dogs
by Mary Elizabeth Thurston
Andrews and McMeel (c/o Universal Press Syndicate,
4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111), 1996.
301 pages, indexed, glossary, bibliography, photos; $24.95.

Mary Thurston has seemingly tracked downevery bit of history
of human interactions with the dog and included it in Lost History.
From educated speculation on how ancient humans and dogs got
together, to the sometimes disastrous outcomes of modern attitudes to dog
ownership, this book is interesting reading for dog lovers.
”Drawing on archival documents, artifacts, engravings,” etc.,
Thurston has put together an informative book not in the usual genre of
dog treatises.

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