Fall 2006
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Responding to the Effects of Oiled Wildlife In early August, the tanker Solar I sank off the coast of Guimaras Island in the Philippines. The outflow of 50,000 gallons of oil engulfed over 125 miles of the once pristine coastline with a thick sludge, damaging more than 1,000 acres of mangrove forests and seaweed... more...
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Hawaiian Marine Life Needs Effective, Not Selective, Stewardship Promising "140,000 square miles of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to receive our nation's highest form of marine environmental protection," President Bush announced on June 15 the establishment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument. If properly enforced, this... more...
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Contract Farming: The New Serfdom "Quite early one morning," wrote the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, "I heard the cock's crow from hidden farmyards." For thousands of years, in innumerable cultures, the cock's crow has been synonymous with first light of morning. In the rural America of 50 years ago, the silver of a... more...
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Wildlife Trade Case Study: Zimbabwe What do the Chinese, American trophy hunters, hunger, corruption and economic instability have in common? They are all causes of the decimation of Zimbabwe's wildlife heritage. Under the corrupt rule of President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's economy has been in a free fall, resulting in... more...
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Trade, Trophies and Trust: What's Wrong with CITES At the Los Angeles International Airport in July, a man from Japan was arrested for attempting to illegally smuggle Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterflies—one of the largest butterfly species in the world—into the United States. In Singapore in 2002, customs agents discovered a... more...
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Beijing Olympics 2008: Can We Stop the Abuse Before the Games Begin? Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) will again be the call to the world's best athletes as they compete in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. From its politics to the pageantry of the Olympics and its culture to the intense athletic competition,... more...
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News in Brief Ringling Eliminates Tigers from Show For the first time in 50 years, the Ringling Bros.and Barnum & Bailey Circus has modified a touring unit, and one of the biggest changes is its elimination of an act featuring tigers. The company denies they were... more...
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Transport Cruelty Charges Bolster Anti-Horse Slaughter Fight In a tragic twist, while representatives of the horse slaughter industry testified before Congress on July 27, an incident involving a truck packed with horses in appalling conditions belied their statements. Thirteen of the 19 horses crammed into the trailer were stallions--an... more...
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One Step Closer: The US House of Representatives Makes a Key Move to Stop Horse Slaughter Sept. 7 was a landmark day for America's horses. In perhaps the biggest legislative move of the decade to protect animals, the House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 503, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (AHSPA), to end the slaughter of horses for... more...
