Fall 2002
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Overconsumption of Turtles Contributes to Their Demise By Dr.Teresa Telecky, Humane Society of the United States This rare big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) at a rescue center in Vietnam was spared the Asian food market. Adam M. Roberts/AWI They have survived for more than 200 million years on... more...
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The New SPANA Story
Easing the burden of working animals abroa By Bridget Bouch SPANA 2000; ISBN 095064501X; 79 pages; $7.00 In the early 1920s Kate Hosali and her daughter, Nina, traveled through remote regions in North Africa, and along the way they observed terrible treatment of working donkeys and mules. Many of the... more... -
Texas Attorney General's Opinion Results In Horse Slaughter Investigation The last two U.S. horse slaughter facilities, both located in Texas, appear to be operating in violation of Texas law, according to an opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn. In 1949 the Texas Legislature amended the State's Agriculture Code... more...
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Life on Ooh-Mah-Nee Farm Two residents taking time to stop by one of the day's lectures. On one hundred acres of rolling farmland in western Pennsylvania, more than one thousand cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and turkeys call Ooh-Mah-Nee Farm their home... more...
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It's Still a Bear Market Wild bears, notably in Asia and North America, are slaughtered for their gallbladders and paws, the carcasses left behind since they are of no great value to the poachers who peddle these animal parts on the black market. In Asia, bears are crammed into barren cages barely big enough for their... more...
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Japan Remains Determined to Kill Whales In a predictable move that would bring CITES directly into conflict with the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan has proposed that most of the northern hemisphere population of Minke whales ( Baleanoptera acutorostrata ) and the western North Pacific population of Bryde's whales (... more...
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Captures Tip the Balance for the Black Sea Dolphins COP 12, CITES, Santiago, Chile, November 3-15, 2002 Widely exploited for meat and oil for decades, the Black Sea subspecies of bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ponticus ) has been proposed for increased protection by the former Soviet state of... more...
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Vigilance Needed to Save the Rhino Worldwide, rhinos find little protective cover from the trade in their horns and destruction of their habitat. (Nigel Dennis/africaimagery.com) Rhinoceros populations across the globe hover at alarmingly low levels as rhino poaching... more...
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Keiko's Long Journey to Freedom Keiko, probably the most famous whale in the world, is in the headlines again. You know the story: ripped from his family in Iceland's waters at the age of two by the greedy marine circus industry, Keiko spent the next 17 years in prison-like concrete tanks in Canada and Mexico until he... more...
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A Framework for the Future? By Adam M. Roberts More than one billion people-one-sixth the total world population-live in extreme poverty (earning less than one dollar a day). Roughly 900 million of these impoverished people live in rural areas depending on the natural land for their meager... more...
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Their Plight is Desperate Current rates of habitat loss may eliminate orangutans from Southeast Asia within 30 years. (Born Free Foundation) 'It becomes a moral responsibility to save these amazing beings from extinction," asserted Dr. Jane Goodall at the WSSD.... more...
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USDA's Primate Policy is Scuttled by Research Industry The typical caging system for laboratory primates is... more...
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Loving Whales to Death? If you want to buy a sweatshirt with an orca whale on it, Friday Harbor, Washington is the place. Or an orca drink holder, wind chime, beer, hat, pair of socks, flag, blanket, wine glass, towel, pair of tennis shoes, or belly bag. Every summer the population of San Juan Island more than doubles... more...
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Coulston's Cruel Reign Comes to a Close After an eight year campaign led by Eric Kleiman of In Defense of Animals, The Coulston Foundation, a notorious biomedical research facility and Animal Welfare Act violator has finally gone out of business. Facing an ever gloomier financial future and unable to provide the basic care to his... more...
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Saving Emily By Nicholas Read Illustrated by Ellen Klem Prometheus Books, Publishers 2001; ISBN 1573928976; 150 pages; $14.00 Nicholas Read has focused his story-telling talents on farm animals for this book, which will appeal to readers age ten and older.... more...
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Nine Countries Meet to Save Sea Turtles By Ben White With a pace as deliberate as that of the creatures it is aiming to protect, the Inter-American Convention for the Conservation and Protection of Sea Turtles (IAC) was launched from August 6-8 in San José, Costa Rica. Eight countries in Latin America plus the United States... more...
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Farm Animal Health and Well-Being Paper Now Available AWI's Farm Animal Economic Advisor Marlene Halverson wrote a Technical Working Paper (TWP) on Farm Animal Health and Well-Being for the State of Minnesota. She prepared her paper in consultation with seven international animal welfare scientists, and it is part of... more...
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Tail Docking Dairy Cattle By Marlene Halverson Tail docking of dairy cattle, or amputating half or more of the cow's tail, first became a routine practice among dairy farmers in New Zealand. Today, it is also practiced in Australia and Ireland and is becoming routine on an increasing... more...
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Low Frequency Active Sonar NMFS Gives Permission to Navy to Deploy Low Frequency Active Sonar On July 14, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) granted the Navy its long sought exemption to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) moratorium on the harassment and killing of marine mammals. This "small take... more...
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A Family Affair A Family Affair Bird Smugglers Busted and Sentenced Father Mike, mother Johanne, and son Harold: the Flikkema family of Flikkema Aviaries in Ontario, Canada have all been investigated, arrested, and now sentenced for their collective roles in an international wild... more...
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The Garrett Files At http://www.awionline.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/11561/pid/2516 read Tom Garrett's ongoing evocative accounts of cruelty, environmental degradation, and corruption brought to Poland by Smithfield Foods as it seeks the notorious distinction of being Europe's largest pork producer. Also... more...
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Hawksbill Sea Turtles Granted a Reprieve CITES Takes Center Stage in Chile Just a few months before the start of the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), AWI has learned that one critically endangered species already has been... more...
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Parrot Smuggling Still a Global Problem Blue-headed macaws are smuggled into the European pet trade. (©2001 jdgilardi, WPT) By Ann Michels, Species Survival Network Each year, thousands of parrots are taken from the wild to be sold as pets in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. CITES... more...
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Green Turtle Farm Seeks Registration as Captive Breeder At Cayman Turtle Farm, green turtles live packed cheek-to-jowl. Peter Bennett and Ursula Keuper-Bennett/turtles.org Bucking the international trend toward increasing protection for sea turtles and infuriating their own citizens, the Government of the United Kingdom... more...
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Localizing Animal Agriculture Small scale animal agriculture benefits local people without the hazards of intensive animal factories. During the WSSD, AWI's Adam Roberts participated in a presentation on "The Livestock Revolution: Problems for the Environment, Development, Human Health and... more...
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Fishing Runs Afoul of Right Whales The year 2002 has been a bad one for the North Atlantic right whale, the most endangered great whale living off the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada. Once targeted as the "right" whale to kill because of its valuable oil and tendency to float once harpooned,... more...
