Fall 2001
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Anti-Logging Conviction Rodolfo Montiel has been jailed for two years for blockading logging trucks in the Mexican state of Guerrero, according to an article by Tim Weiner in the July/August issue of Mother Jones. The conviction, upheld in October, "came despite findings by the Mexican government's National Human... more...
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A Broken Promise Threatens Canada's Bears In February, grizzly bear hunting in British Columbia (BC), Canada was suspended. With as few as 4-6000 grizzlies left in the Province-the heart of the grizzly's remaining range-the hunting moratorium was designed to allow completion of research needed to secure a future for... more...
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Veterans of the Space Program Arrive in Florida When astronaut and former US Senator John Glenn returned from space for the second time in 1998 and was again hailed as a great American hero, many of the chimpanzees who helped make his first trip around the Earth possible were languishing in small cages at a biomedical... more...
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An Update from Coulston's Killing Fields Sadly, no one should be surprised that another chimpanzee has died from neglect at The Coulston Foundation (TCF). On June 6, 2001, a whistleblower at TCF reported that Gina, a young female, died after being "locked outside in searing heat for hours" according to Eric Kleiman... more...
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Vietnam's Vanishing Wildlife The word "Vietnam" conjures images of war for most of us, but the conflict that has evolved since foreign troops pulled out of the Southeast Asian nation decades ago is not about North versus South and competing political ideologies-it is a war waging poachers against forest... more...
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Ned and Daisy are Snatched Back from Death's Door The Society for Protection of Animals in North Africa (SPANA) , recently notified AWI of the following: The donkey they called Ned was found collapsed gasping for breath on a remote desert road. His owner was berating the poor animal who was not able to stand. The severely... more...
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Amazing Whiskers Did you ever wonder how a seal finds food in the dark and even in murky water? Two harbor seals have given Dr. Guido Dehnhardt of Ruhr University in Germany the answer: It's their whiskers! According to The Washington Post's "Science Notebook," July 9, 2001, the two seals... more...
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Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies By Ginger Kathrens BowTie Press, Irvine, CA 160 Pages, 80 full color photographs, $24.95, ISBN 1889540706 For years Ginger Kathrens, Emmy award winning cinematographer, producer and co-founder of the Wild Horse and Burro Freedom Alliance, has been beautifully documenting the lives... more...
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We told you it was fraud... Now the Court agrees We told you it was fraud… Now the Court agrees By Ben White On July 23rd, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco unanimously ruled that the Secretary of Commerce abused his discretion in 1999 when he declared that setting nets on dolphins to catch tuna did not... more...
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Reckless Abandon By Ben White The Animal Welfare Institute's (AWI) leadership in the fight against the Navy's Low Frequency Active sonar (LFA) is now in its fourth year. Ever since we organized volunteers to swim alongside the Navy test ship in February 1998 and block its blasting of humpback... more...
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Speaking Out For Animals - True Stories about Real People Who Rescue Edited by Kim W. Stallwood Lantern Books, New York 2001, 242 Pages, $18, ISBN 1930051344 By Adam M. Roberts I became conscious of animal suffering in 1987 when I saw a film depicting livestock cruelty in corporate slaughterhouses. Most of us probably had our own epiphany... more...
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Thailand's Lax Tiger Protection Exposed June saw EIA's Tiger Campaign team in Bangkok for the release of a new report exposing the failure of the Thai authorities to protect the tiger. The EIA report, Thailand's Tiger Economy, documents how Thailand continues to be a major tiger consumer. Shocking new evidence... more...
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Transatlantic Victories for Pigs! In Poland… Andrzej Lepper, leader of Poland's Samoobrona ("Self-Defense"), has won a substantial place for his rural union in the Polish Parliament. Reuters called his third place finish with ten percent of the vote "stunning." According to The Financial Times, September... more...
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Statement by Senator Byrd on Cruelty to Animals On July 9th, 2001 Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) (at left with Mrs. Byrd and their dog, Billy Byrd) presented what may be the most profound oratory for animals ever delivered in the US Congress. He turned his considerable influence and skill to address... more...
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Six Farm Animal Stories On July 31, 2001 the Senate passed by unanimous consent Senator Peter Fitzgerald's (R, IL) excellent Resolution, S. Con. Res. 45, calling on the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the Humane Slaughter Act (see AWI Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3 ). According to the Resolution,... more...
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Storks Love Poland Did you know that every fourth stork in the world is Polish? Attesting to Poland's numerous wetlands and free-flowing rivers, the storks choose Poland over every other European country to build their nests. A favorite nesting place for storks is at the tops of the poles that convey... more...
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The London IWC Meeting By Ben White Every year, hundreds of well-educated, well-dressed, and well-paid government officials from about forty countries convene for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and clash over how much whaling the world will allow. The group voted in 1982 to enact a... more...
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Right Move for Right Whales On August 3, 2001, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings introduced S. 1380, the "North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery Act of 2001." Senator Kerry noted, "Right whales are at risk of extinction from a number of sources. These include, ship strikes, the number... more...
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Operation Orangutan Iris, a teen-age orangutan at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, DC, has been the object of concerted efforts by vets to ease her pain. She has been under the weather for some time in spite of the dedicated care by the veterinary staff who have been unable to... more...
