Summer 2007
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Beijing Olympics 2008 Part Three: The Deadly Fur Trade in China s the world eagerly gears up for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China’s record of animal cruelty is being revealed to all. At the country’s fur farms, foxes, rabbits, mink and other furbearing animals are exposed to extreme weather conditions and confined to small, barren wire mesh cages before... more...
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Just for Elephants By Carol Buckley Tilbury House Publishers, 2006 ISBN: 0884482839 32 pages, $16.95 The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. is a 100-acre refuge where "retired" captive pachyderms can roam free and recuperate from the stresses of their former lives. Known for their strong social... more...
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Tyger! Tyger! by Elizabeth Stanley Enchanted Lion Books, 2007 ISBN: 1592700683 32 pages,$16.95 In a story based on a real-life animal sanctuary located just outside of Bangkok, Thailand, author Elizabeth Stanley tells the tale of Buddhist monks who care for Indo-Chinese tigers. These animals are... more...
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Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs Animal Welfare Institute, 2007 ISBN: 0938414976 188 pages, $5.00 One free copy is available to all AWI Members, libraries and lab techs The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) just published Making Lives Easier for Animals in Research Labs , a new book of discussions that took place... more...
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BioSafaris: A Smart Dissection Alternative by Lynette Hart, University of California at Davis With primary startup funding from the Animal Welfare Institute, researchers from the University of California at Davis have developed BioSafaris , a project using the latest interactive learning technology to address the current gap in... more...
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Small Changes, Big Results University of Guelph researcher Allison Bechard examines how weaning age influences the welfare of laboratory mice. Laboratory mice are one of the most commonly used animals in biomedical research, meaning that relatively small changes to their early husbandry could have lasting effects on... more...
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Cooperation Counts Dr. Andrew Winterborn of the University of Rochester Medical Center trains rhesus macaques to take juice from syringes. Our study was conducted on caged animals during their semi-annual testing and physical exam for tuberculosis, with the goal of comparing the efficacy of two orally dosed... more...
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Call of the Wild Goes Unanswered Only minutes into the opening ceremony of the "Call of the Wild"-themed 14 th Conference of the Parties (CoP 14) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), it was clear that hopes of gaining trade protections for some of the world’s most... more...
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Breaking the Silence AWI looks back on Rachel Carson’s unprecedented environmental revolution here are all kinds of revolutions—political, cultural, historic and economic—but the most effective ones are unexpected. In 1962, this was proven by the earth-shattering uprising brought about by a woman working in quasi-anonymity for the US government. Rachel Carson that year published Silent... more...
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The Sociable Orcas of Kamchatka ...and the Russian Students Who Care for Them by the far east russia orca project Kawoof!" is the sound of an orca, or killer whale, spouting. It seems to echo off the big snow-capped Viluchinsky volcano in Avacha Gulf, southeast Kamchatka, Russia. Three researchers on our team, sitting in an inflatable boat, turn their heads. Where... more...
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US Court of Appeals Lets Illinois Plant Resume Horse Slaughter for Now Much to our chagrin, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted an emergency motion by Cavel International that allows the DeKalb, Ill.-based horse slaughter plant to recommence killing horses for sale as meat for human consumption overseas. As the only US horse slaughter plant... more...
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Brutal Leghold Traps Challenged Millions of furbearing animals each year suffer pain and fear when caught in highly destructive steel-jaw leghold traps, which are banned in 89 countries. Companion animals, birds, deer and other non-target animals fall victim to the indiscriminate trap as well. An animal caught in its grip... more...
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Provision Would Put Local Authority in Jeopardy This June, a dangerous provision entitled Section 123 was inserted quietly into the 2007 Farm Bill (H.R. 2419), putting at risk critical state and local authority to ensure food safety, fight against animal cruelty, and protect the environment. The measure sought to prevent a state or locality... more...
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Damaging Dams Can salmon runs be restored on the Pacific Coast without dam removal? n a victory for both salmon and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Bush Administration’s misguided strategy for making hydroelectric dams in the Columbia-Snake River Basin safe for salmon. Ruling against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... more...
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Drilling Debate The world’s most endangered whale species may face a new threat ight whales in the North Pacific have still not recovered from being ravaged by historic commercial whaling, and according to US government sources, fewer than 300 may exist—making them the most endangered whale species in the world. Unfortunately, a recently planned lease sale area in Alaska’s... more...
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Disappearing Act Where have North America’s honeybees gone? ach year, bees and their hives travel across the United States aboard tractor-trailers to pollinate vegetation on the West Coast. Because wild pollinators such as birds and bats are unable to keep up with the demand for pollination of the increasing dimensions of almond groves and over 90... more...
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Whales Prevail at IWC t the 59 th International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting held this May in Anchorage, Alaska, pro-whaling nations were expected to bristle with confidence gained from the simple majority they achieved briefly at last year’s meeting. But the 2007 gathering was anticipated anxiously by both... more...
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"Dolphin Safe" Label Remains Intact In late April, a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals refused to permit the Bush Administration to weaken the "Dolphin Safe" tuna label, criticizing the US Department of Commerce’s failure to base its findings on science. The Administration has been trying for years to... more...
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Pact Reached to Curb Bottom Trawling The European Union and the 20 nations party to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization have agreed to curb the practice of bottom trawling in the South Pacific. This huge step in marine conservation, reached at a meeting in Renaca, Chile, will take effect on September... more...
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Scientists Shed Light on South Korea’s Whaling Secret New research led by Oregon University’s Dr. Scott Baker confirms a long-held suspicion that South Korea is ignoring "unintended" whaling. Baker’s team used DNA fingerprinting of minke whale meat to determine how many individual whales were killed in recent years as the alleged bycatch of South... more...
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Fisheries Subsidies at Stake: US proposes cuts During recent World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, the United States submitted a proposal highlighting the need to cut worldwide destructive fisheries subsidies in order to stop the collapse of global fish species. The United States recommends that subsidies distorting... more...
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Protection for Cook Inlet Belugas? The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed in April to list the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), following a November 2006 Status Review and Extinction Assessment that found the population is now at a "26 percent probability of... more...
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Table of Contents animals in the oceans Fisheries Subsidies at Stake: US proposes cuts...4 Protection for Cook Inlet Belugas?...4 "Dolphin Safe" Label Remains Intact...5 Pact Reached to Curb Bottom Trawling...5 Scientists Shed Light on South Korea’s Whaling Secret...5 Whales Prevail at... more...
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Board Members Pass the Torch Marjorie Cooke, an esteemed member of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) Board of Directors since 1974, has stepped down from her post. AWI wishes to thank Mrs. Cook for her dedicated service to both AWI and the Society for Animal Protective Legislation (SAPL). The sister of the late John... more...
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Protecting Wildlife at any Cost On June 4, the Animal Welfare Institute selected eight outstanding honorees (listed below) to receive its Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards. The prestigious award is given to those who engage in exemplary law enforcement actions to protect species of wildlife listed in the... more...
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About the Cover The majestic humpback, shown breaching in Alaskan waters (photo by John Hyde), is one of many whale species whose protections were at stake at this year’s International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. Greenland’s Native population sought permission to kill humpbacks for... more...
