Spring 2005
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Marc Bekoff Marc Bekoff, Professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309-0334 USA Homepage: http://literati.net/Bekoff ________________________________________________________... more...
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Inhumanity Disguised as Family Fun A hog dog rodeo fight is interrupted by the use of a breakstick. A pack of dogs attack a vulnerable hog as their... more...
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Missouri Trapper Shoots Dogs Caught in Leghold Traps Three-year-old Hagan Egea lounged at home with Bubba and Savannah. On the morning of Feb. 6,... more...
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Game Management or Just a Game? Wolves in the Arctic Refuge are currently threatened by aerial hunting, and oil drilling in their habitat could lead to further deaths. © Dennis... more...
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AWI Conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania Smithfield Foods Inc. expanded to the Romanian market last year by purchasing an intensive pig breeding farm and one of the country's biggest refrigerating storage companies. Smithfield is currently conducting advanced negotiations over the purchase of additional... more...
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A Humane Approach to Elephant Population Control story by Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Director of the Science and Conservation Center, Billings, MT A female African elephant in Kruger National Park is immobilized from a... more...
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An American Symbol Worth Saving The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) recently partnered with the Doris Day Animal League to produce Basic Guidelines for Operating an Equine Rescue or Retirement Facility with the aim of ensuring the proper care of horses in the growing number of rescue organizations... more...
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The End of the Beginning
A Patriot Victory in the Polish Sejm This effluent contaminates the water supply for a Polish city of 400,000 people. Edyta Sikora Outnumbered Poles routed an invading... more... -
Remembering Madeleine Bemelmans Paris, 1939; Ludwig and Madeleine at what is clearly not a working lunch. We sadly report that Madeleine Bemelmans died just after Christmas 2004. She was an... more...
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Thirty Years Later...Wild Horses Again Slated for Slaughter story and photos by Hope Ryden Author of AMERICA'S LAST WILD HORSES Member, AWI Scientific Committee Mother and foal run free on open range.... more...
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Animal Sentience and the Evolution of Emotion story by Tracy Basile pig (Niman Ranch) , hen (Dave DeNoma/OohMahNee) , dolphins (Jeff Pantukoff/Whaleman Foundation) , rat... more...
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Kangaroos Unsafe in the Outback Kangaroos Unsafe in the Outback Australia's own wildlife is killed in record numbers The kangaroo is the most famous symbol of the "land down under," but Australia is not doing its part to protect its greatest animal celebrity. Kangaroos are a mere... more...
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It's Not Happening at the Zoo story by Marc Bekoff Author and Professor at the University of Colorado If you dare look into the eyes of an animal in the zoo, you immediately know something isn't right. Last winter, I confirmed this when I was a reader for the "Review of the... more...
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Protections Down and Strandings Abound Marine mammal stranding incidents that coincide with the use of Navy sonar have been in the news yet again. Dozens of cetaceans from three species stranded off the North Carolina coast in January, and over 80 Steno's dolphins stranded off the Florida Keys in March. The... more...
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The Last of the Dancing Bears This dancing bear will soon be rescued from this gypsy village and taken to the sanctuary. story by Monica Minciu and... more...
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Endangered Species Act: Decades of Wildlife Protections Under Attack The Peregrine falcon benefited greatly from the Endangered Species Act. For over 30 years, the Endangered Species Act has been... more...
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Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The issue of whether to tap Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas has been highly debated for more than two decades. For years, legislation to allow such drilling has been blocked in the... more...
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Smithfield's Ludendorff Offensive In 1918, Imperial Germany was running out of time. It was being slowly strangled by the allied blockade. Its Austrian ally, bled white by... more...
