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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0"> <html> <head> <title>AR-NEWS Digest</title> </head> <BODY bgcolor=fbfaea text=#211818 link="#190748" alink="#FFFFEF" vlink="#401C92"> <center> <IMG SRC="IMAGES/HEAD.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/head.gif" USEMAP="#toplinks" BORDER="0"><BR> <img src="IMAGES/YCBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/ycbar.gif"><a href="../INDEX~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/index.html"><img src="IMAGES/HOMEBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/homebar.gif" border=0></a><br></center> <map name="toplinks"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="345,27,393,54" href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#14" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="458,7,512,27" href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="401,7,446,26" href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="352,7,386,26" href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="298,7,337,25" href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="211,7,286,27" href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html"> </map> <center><TABLE cellspacing=15 border=0> <TR> <TD width=50 align=center> </TD> <TD width=400 align=left> <!-- PAGE CONTENT GOES BELOW --> <hr> <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 457 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) (AU) Making a conservation dollar, koala-style by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 2) [UK] Down's babies used in vaccine experiments by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 3) [CA[ West Edmonton Mall by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 4) (EG) Cairo Zoo conditions raise hackles of animal rights activists by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 5) (HK) Traders join cruelty-free campaign by jwed <jwed@hkstar.com> 6) [CA] Xenotransplatation conference by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 12:55:06 +0800 (SST) From: Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (AU) Making a conservation dollar, koala-style Message-ID: <199707060455.MAA21142@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Age Melbourne Online 6 July 97 Making a conservation dollar, koala-style By SUE HEWITT of the Sunday Age KOALAS are cute, cuddly and unquestionably commercial. While other native species are close to extinction, koala supporters are cashing in on the koala's appeal. Pot bellied, hanging on to a tree with one paw as the other stretches for another mouthful of gum leaves, the koala is the teddy bear of the Australian animal world. The Australian Conservation Foundation's Mr Peter Wright says other species aren't so lucky. The northern hairy-nosed wombat suffers, for example. There are only 67 snuffling around the forests in Queensland and few people realise this species is heading toward extinction. But the koala has friends. Lots of them. The Australian Koala Foundation is one, and tomorrow it launches Koala Week to raise funds for research. It also runs the Australian Koala Fund and Friends of the Australian Koala Foundation Inc. The foundation is not just a feel-good organisation. Australian Securities Commission records show that the Brisbane-based company had an accumulated profit at the end of the 1996 financial year of $1.04 million. In the same year it raised $938,062 and spent $1.2 million on payments to employees, researchers and suppliers. The foundation is big business, according to Ms Sue Arnold, of Australians for Animals, which raises about $20,000 a year. ``They don't acquire koala habitat, they don't fund koala carers, they don't fund koala hospitals, they don't mount legal challenges to protect koala habitat,'' she says. ``What do they do?'' The foundation's chairman and founder, Mr Barry Scott, says the organisation funds koala research projects. Its staff is also preparing a koala atlas for south-eastern Australia,, which will identify koala habitat the foundation believes must be protected. Mr Scott says criticisms of his organisation could be a case of jealousy. ``We compete with many other organisations in the marketplace for funds,'' he says. This week the foundation will sell koala badges and ``tattoos'' to raise money. Ms Arnold says the foundation gets most of the koala dollars. She says the koala, while vulnerable in some areas, is not endangered and there are other species that needed urgent protection. There are five critically endangered species, 17 endangered species and 31 vunerable species, according to Ms Felicity Faris, of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature Australia. ``The koala is considered as a species in the lower risk or nearly threatened. There are many species which need immediate and urgent attention before the koala,'' Ms Faris says. The public's perception of the koala's status is skewed. Some areas of the country are overpopulated with koalas while in other areas they are at risk, says Mr Graeme Coulson, a Melbourne University department of zoology ecologist. ``In some parts of NSW and south Queensland the koala is quite threatened and could die out,'' he says. On Phillip Island and French Island, koalas have reached high numbers and are degrading their own habitat. ``The koala is both endangered and not. There is no single solution,'' Mr Coulson says. Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 00:31:13 -0700 (PDT) From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [UK] Down's babies used in vaccine experiments Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970706003203.3cdfa0a2@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 
