Spring 2004
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Wildlife Services Poses a Deadly Threat to Golden Eagles Above, a golden eagle in flight and below golden eagle nestlings huddled together. Doug Herr/wildlightphoto.com Carol McIntyre/National Park Service The golden eagle struggled to escape the... more...
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Bear Poachers Don't Hibernate in Winter Virginia's black bear population is stable at the moment, but poachers lurk in the same woods, preying on these innocent creatures. Bear gallbladders separated in plastic bags, recovered as part of Operation VIPER in the Shenandoah Mountains. Single galls can fetch... more...
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Stopping the Barco Asesino by Ben White manatees (USFWS) turtles (Ursula Keuper-Bennett/turtles.org) orcas (Center for Whale Research) whales (Center for Whale Research, Wes Graden) dolphins (Ingrid Visser/Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) The document I had... more...
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Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths By Nancy Lord Counterpoint Press, 2003; ISBN 1582431515 Hardcover, 242 pages; $25 Late in her book Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale's Truths , Nancy Lord describes her reaction to seeing 35 beluga whales beached and slaughtered during a... more...
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New Initiative for Global Animal Welfare In a traditional ceremony, villagers in Bali, Indonesia, kill 2,500 chickens in a huge bonfire intended to send off the evil spirits that they say brought on this year's massive bird flu outbreak. Suzanne Plunkett/AP This year a virulent bird... more...
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European Union Comes to Grizzly Bears' Aid by Wendy Elliot Environmental Investigation Agency Grizzly bears, the icon of all that is natural and wild, are under threat even in the heart of their remaining range—the Canadian province of British Columbia. Ian McAllister/raincoast.org Grizzly bears have been... more...
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Farrowing and Weaning Pigs in Deep Straw A roller over the threshold protects the sow's udder as she enters and leaves her farrowing pen. In May 2003, West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC), University of Minnesota, completed a new housing system for sows and piglets. Formerly a dark,... more...
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Animal Welfare Awards Granted The Animal Welfare Institute and the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) requested grant proposals for Animal Welfare Enhancement Awards for studies intended to improve housing, handling and/or experimental conditions for... more...
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Bo Derek Fights Horse Slaughter UPDATE : The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act has been introduced in the US Senate as S. 2352. For more information>> Film and television star, Bo Derek was recently on Capitol Hill in support of legislation to stop the slaughter of... more...
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Gail Eisnitz to Receive Albert Schweitzer Medal Gail Eisnitz, author of Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the US Meat Industry, will be the 2004 recipient of AWI's Albert Schweitzer Medal for outstanding achievement in the field of animal welfare. Gail's decades of... more...
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Government Report Confirms Slaughter is not Humane A cow being stunned with a mechanical captive bolt. FSIS, USDA... more...
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Looking After Animals Kept in Research Laboratories Dogs are especially dependent on positive human interaction; Providing a foraging opportunity for monkeys is a means of environmental enrichment (Natasha Down). Looking After Animals Kept in Research Laboratories The following discussion took place on AWI's Laboratory Animal... more...
