Wolf hunting is suspended in Sweden under EU pressure, but resumes in Montana and Idaho

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

MISSOULA,  BOISE,  STOCKHOLM–Facing possible legal action by the European Union,  Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren on August 16,  2011 halted wolf hunting,  eight months after wolves were legally hunted in Sweden for the first time since 1966.

But a year-long reprieve from hunting ended on August 25 for wolves in Montana and Idaho,  after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request for an emergency injunction sought by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies,  Friends of the Clearwater,  and WildEarth Guardians.  The injunction would have kept wolves under federal Endangered Species Act coverage pending the outcome of an appeal contesting the constitutionality of the April 2011 federal budget rider that removed them from protection in the northern Rockies. Read more

Ocean Park will not import wild belugas

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

HONG KONG--Ocean Park chair Allan Zeman on August 29,  2011 announced that the Hong Kong exhibition facility had decided against importing six wild-caught beluga whales from Russia for inclusion in a Polar Adventure attraction scheduled to open in 2012.  “Everyone can rest assured no belugas from the wild will be imported into Ocean Park–not from Russia or from anywhere else,”  Zeman told media. Read more

$330,000 jury verdict in cops-shot-dog case

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

CHICAGO–A federal jury on August 18,  2011 awarded $330,000 in damages to brothers Thomas and Darren Russell and their parents for the February 2009 police shooting of their 9-year-old black Labrador retriever during a drug raid that hit the wrong side of a duplex.  Thomas Russell–who was earlier acquitted of obstructing police–had asked if he could lock up the dog before the police entered. Read more

Pierce County to appeal $2 million award to dog attack victim

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

TACOMA,  EUREKA,  EVANSVILLE--Pierce County,  Washington,  on August 24,  2011 filed notice of intent to appeal an August 12 jury award of $2.2 million to pit bull terrier attack victim Sue Gorman, 63,  of Gig Harbor.

The jury directed Pierce County to pay damages of $924,000 to Gorman for alleged negligence in responding to many previous complaints about the pit bulls who burst through an open sliding glass door late the night of August 21,  2007,  mauling her service dog and killing a Jack Russell terrier whom Gorman was keeping for a friend.  Awakened by the attack,  Gorman was injured when she tried to intervene. Read more

Starved dogs eat Indonesian dog meat dealer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

 

MANADO,  Indonesia–-Dog meat dealer Andre Lumboga,  50,  was killed and eaten by five of his dogs on September 1,  2011,  police said,  after Lumboga left the dogs unfed while he went on a two-week holiday.  His dismembered remains were found after a neighborhood guard wondered why his luggage remained in front of his house five days after his return.  The dogs apparently cannibalized two other dogs earlier.  Four of the dogs were shot by police.  One dog escaped.

AHA brass shown at meatfest while Hurricane Irene devastates the Northeast

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

LOS ANGELES–What did the American Humane Association do while  Irene became the first hurricane to hit New Jersey since 1903,  and did more damage in Vermont than any disaster since the Flood of 1927?

On August 26,  2011,  six days after Irene hit the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, but one day before Irene struck North Carolina, the AHA announced that “Even as the Red Star 82-foot truck drives toward North Carolina from its Denver home base,  AHA President Dr. Robin R. Ganzert waits out the hurricane on her North Carolina farm.”
Said Ganzert,  “It’s very important that families, and especially children,  know that we will help keep their animals safe and sound.” Read more

A new day dawns for cats and dogs in southern China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:

WUXI, China–Tipped off at 10 p.m. on August 3, 2011 that
truckers planned to illegally haul a load of cats to live markets in
Guangzhou, Guangdong at dawn, disguised as a cargo of furniture,
members of the Wuxi Animal Protection Association in Jiangsu province
mobilized overnight to intercept the truck at a toll booth at about
5:00 a.m. on August 4.
The truckers had nearly convinced the first authorities on
the scene that the load was only furniture, but “Conveniently,
right at that very moment, one little cat stuck her small head and
shoulders out of one of the cages at the top of the truck, looking
around curiously,” said a WAPA media release, translated by
volunteer Joy Gao.

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Great Ape Trust turns to public fundraising after losing only major sponsor

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2011:
DES MOINES–Still housing seven bonobos and two orangutans,
after making deep program budget cuts, the Great Ape Trust “has
launched a fundraising campaign in a fight to stay open after founder
and sole funder Ted Townsend informed the staff his financial support
will cease at the end of the year,” reported Perry Beeman of the
Des Moines Register on August 25, 2011.
Founded by primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in 2002 as the
Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, opened in 2004 after two years of
construction, the Great Ape Trust “has conducted landmark cognitive
and social research on bonobos,” recalled Beeman. “But most of its
orangutans have already been shipped out to the Indianapolis Zoo, it
is ending contracts with some of its researchers, and its budget,”
according to Savage-Rumbaugh, “is now a fourth of what it once was.”

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