Summer 2001
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Militants and Profiteers Wipe Out Wildlife in the DRC Illegal exploitation of the mineral and forest resources of the Democratic Republic of the Congo [DRC] is taking place at an alarming rate," according to a recent Panel of Experts Report issued at the request of the United Nations Security Council. Natural resource raiding... more...
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Killing Continues in Zimbabwe Following AWI's article in the Winter 2001 issue, "Animals Caught in Zimbabwe's Anarchical Land Grab," we received a letter from Karen Paolillo of the Turgwe Hippo Trust, Save Valley Conservancy, in Zimbabwe. An excerpt of her tellingly heartrending and personal letter... more...
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From Antigua and Barbuda to Venezuela, Another "Free" Trade Agreement By Adam M. Roberts Thanks to the multinational commercial take over of the global economy, Americans not versed in the lingo of international trade and foreign investment have been forced to learn a new vocabulary with terms such as "Government Procurement," "Sanitary and... more...
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What's at stake in Poland? This is what is at stake: Poland is the last oasis of traditional organic farming in Europe. Tens of millions of acres of enormously productive farmland are tilled without chemicals. Poland contains the last large, free flowing, unpolluted rivers in Europe, the Bug and the Narew. It has magnificent mountains,... more...
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Kennedy Presents Schweitzer Medal to Lepper On Monday, June 11th, 2001, in front of a packed Mansfield Room of the United States Capitol, the Albert Schweitzer Medal was awarded to Andrzej Lepper. Lepper, who has vowed to stop "concentration camps for animals" from taking root in Poland, is the charismatic President of... more...
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Consumers Can Save the Chilean Sea Bass In the Winter 2001 issue of the AWI Quarterly, we noted the conservation horror surrounding the fishing for Patagonian toothfish, sold commercially as "Chilean sea bass." The campaign is paying off. Whole Foods and Wild Oats markets have already... more...
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The Smile of a Dolphin The Smile of a Dolphin Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions Edited by Marc Bekoff Discovery Books, New York, October 2000 224 pages; 120 illustrations; $35 ISBN 1-563-31925-X Highly recommended Marc Bekoff, a professor of Organismic biology at the University of... more...
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Does BC Stand for "Bear Conservation?" The Government of British Columbia, Canada (BC), which recently instituted a moratorium on grizzly bear hunting, has now approved vital provisions of a framework agreement to protect critical valleys in the Great Bear Rainforest. Additional... more...
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Laboratory Animals Inadequately anesthetized mice were sliced open and had their organs cut out by a research assistant at a California-based laboratory, according to a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection report. The approved research protocol, which was ignored, stated... more...
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Saving Sharks from the Jaws of Greed The legendary image of sharks portrayed in movies such as Jaws perpetuates remarkable fear among humans. In fact, many species of sharks have experienced dramatic population declines as a result of cruel killing and poorly managed fisheries across the globe. A new report... more...
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Trendy Talbots Tied to Tasteless Sales The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has recently released a report revealing the link between Talbots clothing stores and the sale of whale, porpoise and dolphin products across Japan by their parent company JUSCO, one of Japan's largest supermarket operators. Talbots... more...
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Humane Slaughter Act Resolution Introduced In 1958, Senator Hubert Humphrey and Congressman W.R. Poage shepherded the Humane Slaughter Act through the national legislative process. Over forty years later, with great disappointment, it is increasingly evident that the law is being flouted at large slaughter plants... more...
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WTO and Sea Turtles Clash Again and Again Turtles symbolize the over-reaching impact of globalization and the corporate usurpation of "free trade." This, after the Animal Welfare Institute led protestors through the streets of Seattle, Washington and Washington, DC in public demonstration against the damaging... more...
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Caribbean Conservation Treaty Spawned By Adam M. Roberts Hundreds of species in the Wider Caribbean Region-including the American crocodile, Hawksbill sea turtle, Brown pelican, Cuba Sandhill crane, St. Lucia parrot, Spectacled bear, Giant armadillo, Cuvier's beaked... more...
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Tsukiji's Fish Market Japan's biggest fish market opens at dawn. Nick Haslam described it in The Financial Times 5 May 2001: "Tsukiji's daily turnover is in excess of $25 million....Those big fish at our feet had been caught in long lines in the South Pacific or the Mediterranean only days... more...
