PEOPLE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The Green Party has
nominated Captain Paul Watson
of the Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society to run for mayor of
Vancouver. A legal resident of
Vancouver, Watson told ANIMAL
PEOPLE that he takes the nomination
as seriously as he ever takes
politics. Nominated for office on
previous occasions, Watson attended
press conferences with two hats,
one representing the nominating
party and the other representing the
Sea Shepherds, then deftly changed
hats as he cheerfully contradicted
himself on points of conflict.

Activists & Organizations

Sugarloaf fight goes on

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

MIAMI, Fla.––The troubled two-year-effort to rehabilitate
and free the former Ocean Reef Club dolphins Bogie,
Bacall, and Molly, along with the former Navy dolphins
Luther, Buck, and Jake, gained addenda in September, four
months after unknown vandals freed Bogie and Bacall from the
Welcome Home Project sea pen on the Indian River Lagoon,
while dolphin freedom advocate Ric O’Barry’s release of
Luther and Buck from the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary, in
defiance of federal permit requirements, ended with their
recapture, injured and allegedly malnourished.
On September 13, the USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service assigned permanent custody of
Molly, the oldest of the dolphins, to the Dolphin Research
Center, which is also keeping Buck; Luther and Jake are back
at the U.S. Navy marine mammal center in San Diego. The
APHIS order was contested by Rick Trout of the Key Largobased
Marine Mammal Conservancy, who worked with Molly
at both the Ocean Reef Club and the Sugarloaf Dolphin
Sanctuary, and claims to have legal title to her.

Whales

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Norwegian government marine mammal management
advisor Lars Wallxe will advise increasing the unilaterally
declared Norwegian minke whaling quota from 425, the current
level, to circa 800-900, the newspaper Nordlands Framtid
reported on September 11. Norway is the only nation that currently
assigns itself a commercial whaling quota, but Iceland is
reportedly considering doing likewise.
Continuing to ignore the Norwegian violation of the
International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial
whaling, U.S. IWC commissioner James Baker on September
12 formally protested the killing of two critically endangered
bowhead whales under a native subsistence quota unilaterally
assigned by Canada. U.S. aboriginals are allowed to kill 204
bowheads under a 1995 IWC quota running until 1998.

Oceanariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

The Utrish dolphinarium of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Krasnodar, North Caucasus, on
September 5 released two dolphins into the Black Sea in an
experiment to see how well one of them, a 14-year-old male
named Dicky, would readapt to the wild after six years in
captivity. Dicky, captive for six years, was prepared for
release by capturing the other dolphin, Bella; introducing
them to each other; allowing them to bond; and then freeing
them together, in hopes they will remain together for as long
as Dicky needs help.
Ukrainian officials have refused to allow the
capture of 20 dolphins from the Black Sea this fall, for
exhibition in Turkey, which now has no captive dolphins.
Hopes of saving highly endangered Chinese river
d o l p h i n s by captive breeding were dashed on June 23, the
state-run Xinua news agency announced a month later, when
the first dolphin captured after a three-year search, a 10-yearold
female, drowned after becoming tangled in the protective
netting around her lagoon at the Tian’erzhou Natural Reserve.

HERPETOLOGY

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Letters endorsing the addition of
alligator snapping turtles, American softshell
turtles, map turtles, timber rattlesnakes,
eastern diamondback rattlesnakes,
and sailfin lizards to the list of
animals protected under Appendix II of the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species, and supporting the
move of gila monsters and beaded lizards
from Appendix II to Appendix I, must by
October 11 be received by the Chief, Office
of Scientific Authority, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive,
Room 750, Arlington, VA 22203; fax 703-
358-2276. All three turtle species and both
snake species are jeopardized by export to
Asian meat and traditional medicine markets.
Recorded exports of map turtles, for instance,

Recreational animal-killing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Six percent of all Ohio
traffic accidents, 1989-1994, were
deer/car collisons. The Ohio
Division of Wildlife says the deer/
car crash peaks reflect “increased
deer movement associated with
breeding.” Fifty-two percent of all
deer/car crashes came in October,
November, and December, coinciding
with the hunting season; 25%
occurred in November alone, the
peak month for hunting. The peak
hours for deer/car accidents were 5
a.m. to 7 a.m., when the most
hunters were in the woods, and as
many deer were hit then as in the
seven hours from 5 p.m. to midnight.
At least 33 states are
holding special youth hunts this
f a l l. In New Jersey, the National
Rifle Association and Friends of the
NRA will stock seven wildlife areas
with pheasants on November 2 for
its second annual Take A Kid
Hunting Day. Arkansas is offering
hunting opportunities for six-yearolds.
Pennsylvania is holding a twoday
squirrel hunt on October 12 and
14––targeting squirrels, a spokesperson
said, because “they are easy
to find” and “not impossible to hit.”

Be Kind To Animals Kids

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

DENVER––Kendra Thirlwell, age
nine, of Louisville, Kentucky, was on
August 21 named the American Humane
Association “Be Kind To Animals Kid” for
1996. Volunteering for two years at the
Enviro Pet adoption shelter operated by the
Kentucky Humane Society, Thirlwell one
year ago began broadcasting a three-minute
pet-of-the-week spot on Creature Feature, a
Louisville-based radio talk show. She also
organized an aluminum can drive at her
school that brought in 15,000 cans, netting
$500 toward the cost of a new KHS shelter.
Other finalists included Kayla
Capper, 11, of San Anselmo, California,
founder of an activist group called Preventing
Animal Testing, Cruelty, and Hunting;

Predation vs. predators

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

Current USDA predation figures,
from fiscal year 1994, show that wild predators
kill almost exactly the same number of
cattle and calves as the Animal Damage
Control division kills predators; the difference
in stock losses shown below is the number
of bovines killed by domestic dogs, who
are dealt with by local animal control departments
or by ranchers themselves, rather than
by the ADC. The predation toll covers only
bovines; sheep data was not provided.

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1996:

A USDA proposal to allow schools
to substitute yogurt for meat in federally
subsidized lunches has the meat industry howling.
Other permitted meat substitutes include
cheese, beans, eggs, and peanut butter.
“The USDA should be promoting meat, not
pushing it under the counter,” said Senator
Larry Pressler (D-S.D.)
The 1996 edition of the American
Cancer Society’s dietary guidelines,
released September 17, recommend choosing
“most of the foods you eat from plant
sources,” and limiting “intake of high-fat
foods, particularly from animal sources.

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