Winter 2002
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Whistlestop Tour Unites Soldiers in the Fight Against Animal Factories Community buildings across the Midwest filled with farmers and concerned citizens in early December when Friends of Rural America and Illinois Stewardship Alliance organized a whistlestop tour through Iowa and Illinois for Waterkeeper Alliance Senior Attorney Nicolette Hahn... more...
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Lions on the Brink? "Raffi" was rescued (and photographed) by the Born Free Foundation from a cage atop a bar in the Canary Islands. He now lives happily on 5 acres at the Shamwari Private Game reserve in South Africa. If you want to be in the killing club then you've got to... more...
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Coexisting in Kenya The Human-Elephant Conflict By Meitamei Ole Dapash The Amboseli Maasai-elephant Dialogue is convened under a tree by the roadside to tap the inputs of passersby, who may not be residents of that location. The forum has no chairperson, master of ceremonies, or any form of authority figurehead.... more...
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An Elephantine Question: How Many Elephant Species are There? Arguably the biggest conservation debate concerning elephants in the last decade has been over the international ban on trade in elephant ivory. But a new debate may be arising over how many African elephant species actually exist. It is possible for the elephants of... more...
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Ducks-Yet Another Animal Factory Victim As the old adage puts it, ducks are not adapted to exist without access to water, but that is exactly what 24 million ducks being raised in deplorably inhumane conditions on duck factories throughout the US are being forced to do each year. Part of the ducks' sensitive upper bills are... more...
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Wildlife and Drug Smuggling: A Tangled Tale Customs officials warned Jeffrey Allen Doth, operator of the Texas-based International Exotic Wildlife, of the proper procedures for importing wildlife when, at age 25, he was caught smuggling wildlife into the US. A year later, in 1995, wearing a baggy shirt, Doth boarded a... more...
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UN Speaks Out Again on Illegal Exploitation in the DRC In a follow-up report on the state of illegal exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the United Nations Panel of Experts has recommended a moratorium on the purchasing and importing of various products from the region including coltan,... more...
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Not Just GRASPing at Straws Arguing that "every local extinction is a loss to humanity, a loss to the local community and a hole torn in the ecology of the planet," the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has undertaken an ambitious new venture to save great apes across the globe: the Great Apes... more...
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Putting an End to the Cruel Practice of Horse Slaughter Necessary Evil or Blind Eye? Putting an End to the Cruel Practice of Horse Slaughter By Christopher J. Heyde To most Americans the horse slaughter industry exists only in the phrase "to be taken to the glue factory," but this... more...
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Ebola Strikes in Gabon In the West African nations of Gabon and the Republic of Congo, at least 34 people have died in a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus. Gabon's border with the Republic of the Congo has been sealed off and similar restrictions are being placed on provinces within the country.... more...
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2002-The International Year of Ecotourism W e should all be lucky enough to experience the exhilaration of driving across the Maasai Mara land in Kenya and seeing a cheetah on the hunt; the surprise of seeing minke whales surface around a boat on a brisk afternoon whale-watching adventure off the coast of Maine; the... more...
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Saying Goodbye and a Profound Thank You to Astrid Lindgren Astrid Lindgren, an author of original genius whose appeal was worldwide, has died at 94. She will be mourned by all who seek to protect the billions of animals in animal factories. When she was awarded the Animal Welfare Institute's Albert Schweitzer Medal in 1988 Ambassador... more...
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Songbirds for food! Songbirds for food! Compared with this, making kindlings of pianos and violins would be pious economy.- Our National Parks by John Muir Trying to sneak legislation through Michigan's State Legislature repealing its 92 year-old ban on dove hunting has become more of an... more...
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Polar Bears Suffer In The Suarez Brothers Circus By Adam M. Roberts Amidst the cold Arctic snow and ice of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Russia massive polar bears travel hundreds of kilometers in search of food and mates every year. They swim in frigid waters, eat and sleep in the open, and hunt for their food... more...
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Two Bear Stories China Still Jails Bears Just months after being awarded the 2008 Olympics, two illegal bear bile factories in China were uncovered by undercover journalists for China's Central Television. Thousands of bears are still kept in cramped cages in China and elsewhere throughout... more...
