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About the Cover Sighted off the Azores in the North Atlantic, an extremely rare 13-foot-long white sperm whale calf swims with his mother. Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales - adult males can be fifty feet long and weigh forty tons. Photographer Flip Nicklin could not determine whether this real-life baby “Moby Dick’s” eyes were pink, but the calf appears to be a pure albino. Despite his dolphin smile he’s in grave danger from his mother’s milk, which may be contaminated by absorbed chemicals, heavy metals, and other noxious substances, as a result of ocean pollution. Other threats come from ship strikes, being caught in entangling fishing nets, and whaling. The Japanese kill sperm whales today under the guise of “scientific research,” but whale meat and oil end up for sale in Japan. In May 2002, Japan hosted a remarkably contentious meeting of the International Whaling Commission, established in 1946 to regulate commercial whaling. (See story pages 4-5.) Directors Officers Scientific
Committee International
Committee Staff
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Table of Contents MARINE ANIMALS Take a Bite Out of the Toothfish Trade Japan Stymied on Home Turf: IWC 2002, New Book by Whaler Exposes Cheating
WILDLIFE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Environmental Crime - the Globe’s Second Largest Illegal Enterprise Australia Serves up Increased Kangaroo Exports The Killing Fields of
Loliondo, Elephants Still Under the Gun, Jose Lutzenberger, a Man of Principle and Wisdom LABORATORY ANIMALS NABR’s
Misinformation Cripples Animal Welfare and Scientific Integrity,
FARM ANIMALS AWI’s Pig Husbandry Program Sets a National Standard Considering Cruel Chicken Confinement Animal Factories Don’t Want You to See Their Cruelty Congress Wants the Humane Slaughter Act Enforced 15,500,000 Laying Hens at Stake A SPECIAL CHIMPANZEE Moja the Artist, AWI PUBLICATIONS Comfortable Quarters for Laboratory Animals
BOOK REVIEWS Wild Orphans, My Fine
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