Spring 2001
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AWI Offers Educational Brochures The Animal Welfare Institute is pleased to announce the availability of three fact-filled color leaflets on Endangered Species, Humane Education and Whales & Dolphins. Each of the brochures includes a section on how "you can make a difference." Production of... more...
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Transit Fowl Up Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the bus stop, of course. When a Transit Authority bus driver discovered an early morning rider who had not paid her fare was a hen, he enlisted the help of a handy kennel worker to deliver her to a most desirable destination, the... more...
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Wildlife Extinction: Homo Sapiens, Both Witnesses and Executioners By Werner Fornos Thousands of visitors to the nation's capital this spring and summer will queue up at the National Zoo to delight in the antics of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, those furry, roly-poly, black and white, recent arrivals from China. But few of the joyous, admiring... more...
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Wildlife Refuge or Oil Industry Haven By Adam M. Roberts The United States Fish & Wildlife Service's (USFWS) brochure on Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) notes that it "is a vast and beautiful wilderness" that is unique "because the systems are whole and undisturbed, functioning as they have for... more...
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Drug Kingpin Returns to Animal Dealing Mario Tabraue is a convicted felon who is supposed to be in prison. In 1989, a federal judge gave Tabraue a 100-year prison sentence. The government agents who worked on the case thought he would be in the penitentiary for the rest of his life. Not so. Tabraue is out of prison.... more...
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The War in the Woods — A Personal Journey By Ben White Most of my work with AWI involves the protection of whales and dolphins, but for over twenty-five years I was a professional tree climber and arborist. Recently I was asked to help out some kids in Humboldt County, California who are trying to stop the cutting of... more...
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AWI Helps Consumers Reject the Products of Pig Factories By Diane By Diane Halverson It is spring on a farm in Iowa. The pigs have left behind their winter quarters in bedded barns and snow-covered yards. Now they are relishing fields of fresh grass and alfalfa and earth that is still moist from ample winter snows and spring rains. At my post... more...
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Dolphins Win in Virginia Beach The plan to expand the Virginia Marine Science Museum to include a new 55 million dollar dolphin tank has been pulled by the Virginia Beach City Council after a firestorm of protest over the last year. AWI international coordinator Ben White and friend MacDonald Hawley traveled to... more...
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Creature Choirs Dangerously Disappearing Biophonies of the Natural Bernie Krause's autobiography, Into a Wild Sanctuary, A Life in Music and Natural Sound, is a fascinating account of his musical life, his precocious attraction to bird song and insect voices, his family's love of classical music, and his ability at age 3 to play a violin... more...
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Courts Release 73-year0old Forest Defender on Time Served On January 25, 2001, "Grandma K," Betty Krawczyk, was freed after serving four months of a year-long sentence imposed upon her for her actions in blockading logging roads in the Elaho Valley of Canada. Her trial judge justified the lengthy sentence because of "criminal... more...
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Good News: No Movement on Resumption of Commercial Whaling An intercessional meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Monaco from February 6-8 failed to act on a "revised management scheme" (RMS) that would allow the resumption of commercial whaling. In fact, the three day long wrangle in the palatial setting of the... more...
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It's the Population It's the Population From people per square mile to square miles per person By Lance Olsen If you were in pain, and went to a doctor who told you that your pain is caused by a deadly but curable problem, and then gave you only medication to ease your pain, but nothing to cure... more...
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Caroline Lucas: "…politicians treat globalization like a god." The greed and indifference to animal welfare of the transnational agribusiness corporations has been strikingly revealed in Great Britain. The epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, says The Independent , "is officially out of control—all because Whitehall's [the British government] priority has... more...
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Uncovering Hidden Treasures By Adam M. Roberts An international scientific team in Madagascar, the large island off the southeastern coast of Africa, reportedly has uncovered three previously nameless mouse lemur species there. Thousands of miles away, near Tibet, a new camel species may have been... more...
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British Columbia Grizzly Hunt Suspended for the First Time Ever By Martin By Martin Powell, EIA For the first time in Canadian history, grizzly bears in the Province of British Columbia (BC) will not face hunters' bullets when they emerge from hibernation this spring. Since the arrival of Europeans, grizzlies have been driven from 99 percent of... more...
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America's Horses Are Ending Up in Europe's Restaurants Many owners are unaware that the horses they have sold will end up being sent to slaughterhouses for their meat and other uses. While horsemeat consumption is on the rise throughout Europe, few if any, are willing to admit they are eating animals such as... more...
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Present Medal to Andrzej Lepper The Albert Schweitzer Medal, given by AWI to a person who has made a significant contribution to the protection of animals, will be presented this year on June 11th to Andrzej Lepper. The charismatic President of Samoobrona ("self-defense" in Polish), a major Polish... more...
