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- "This event illustrates the importance of intensive global influenza
- surveillance," he said.
-
- Mr Claas also ruled out the possibility of a carrier species passing the
- virus from chickens to
- humans.
-
- "If you look at the similarities of the two viruses it is very unlikely
- that there has been another species that could have acted as a mixing
- vessel," he said.
-
- The team of international virologists based at the WHO centre in Erasmus
- University, Rotterdam, compared the H5N1 virus, taken from the body of boy
- who died in the May outbreak of "bird flu" in Hong Kong, with the virus in
- a chicken.
-
- "Virus cannot spread among humans"
-
- What prevented the "bird flu" virus from escalating to the scale of a
- pandemic was its inability to spread between humans.
-
- No new cases of the virus have been reported in Hong Kong since the cull of
- all the former colony's chickens at the end of 1997.
-
- In all, 17 people contracted the disease and five have died.
-
- Mr Claas said: "The good thing about the virus is that it did not have the
- ability to spread from man to man. However, the potential danger, which is
- still present, is that it is very likely that the virus will still surface
- somewhere.
-
- "We're not sure whether it's going to happen now or in 10 years, but it is
- going to happen."
-
- Robert Belshe, of Saint Louis University Health Sciences Centre in the US,
- said in The Lancet's editorial that the research provided a stark warning
- to the governments of the world.
-
- "We need better vaccines. Recombinant protein vaccines and live attenuated
- vaccines each have their place in the control of influenza. These vaccines
- need to be studied and their manufacture regulated."
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-
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:55:17
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] New smog threat as Indonesia bush fires spread
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980214235517.357f45c0@dowco.com>
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-
- >From The BBC Website - Friday, February 13, 1998 Published at 23:04 GMT
-
- World: Asia-Pacific
-
- New smog threat as Indonesia bush fires spread
-
- Forest fires are reported to be spreading out of control once more, in
- Kalimantan in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo.
-
- The resurgence of the bush and forest fires has raised fears that
- South-east Asia could soon be blanketed by another smoke haze.
-
- International experts say the Indonesian government does not have the
- people and equipment to put the fires out, and only rain expected in May
- will be sufficient to do the job.
-
- If the fires continue in Kalimantan and hotspots flare up in Sumatra, then
- Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand and the Philippines could
- see a repeat of the severe air pollution which blotted out the sun at the
- end of last year.
-
- The smog, which is caused by fire, drought and wind, could be a disaster
- for a regional economy already battered by a currency and banking crisis,
- say economists.
-
- Three months of choking, yellow smog between September and November caused
- a dramatic fall in visitors to the region, official figures show, and the
- impact on the economies from lost working days from sickness is only just
- being calculated.
-
- "We could be in for a repeat of last year if the fires keep burning," said
- Steve Tamplin, from the World Health Organisation in Manila.
-
- Nearly 500 separate forest fires are reported to be burning in Kalimantan,
- many of them started by farmers clearing bush for crops.
-
- This process has been happening on a small scale for decades but over the
- past few years land clearance has accelerated.
-
- Drought, made worse by the recent El Nino weather pattern that has parched
- crops across Asia, has helped spread the fires.
-
- Most land clearance happens in Indonesia's dry season, which,
- unfortunately, is when the wind tends to blow north towards its south-east
- Asian neighbours.
-
- Woon Shih Lai, director of the Meteorological Service Singapore, says the
- air over Singapore,
- Malaysia and other south-east Asian states should be clear until the end of
- March, but air pollution will then worsen. Mr Woon said thin smoke might
- even reachá Australia.
-
- "At this stage the fires are affecting Indonesia itself," he said. "But if
- the fires continue and the
- wind changes, those down winds might be affected."
-
- Smog nightmare
-
- Criticism of a slow response by governments to the smog pollution last year
- prompted several regional initiatives which scientists say may speed up
- firefighting efforts.
-
- But controlling fires once they have taken hold is difficult, particularly
- if, as in 1997, the fires catch hold of underground seams of peat.
-
- "Firefighters couldn't do very much to contain the fires once they got
- started," said Mr Tamplin.
-
- A new pall of smog would be a nightmare for crisis-hit south-east Asia. The
- Singapore Tourist Board expects tourism to drop by up to10% this year even
- without air pollution.
-
- Prolonged smog would mean emptier hotels, shops, restaurants and aircraft,
- but full doctors' surgeries and fewer people at work if respiratory
- ailments soar.
-
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:09:00 +0100
- From: 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Fur coat to Juan Carlos I, King of spain
- Message-ID: <01ITM0WEY6FW00HW4Q@cc.uab.es>
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- >From EL PERIODICO DE CATALUNYA
-
- Almaty. -- the kings of Spain, Juan Carlos and Sofia, had supper last night
- in
- the Presidential Palace of Kazajsta'n invited by the Chief of State of that
- country, Nursulta'n Nazarbayev. The Spanish monarchs arrived at this capital
- in a technical scale in their trip of return from the Philippines. The King
- gave a book to Nazarbayev, that he flattered to the Monarch with a fur coat
- of
- leopard of snows and to queen with several made pieces of adornment in silver.
-
-
- My web against fur coats is:
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm>http://www.geoc
- ities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm
-
- Visiteu les meves pαgines / Visit my homepages
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506>http://www.geocities.com/ra
- inforest/vines/6506
- <http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128>http://www.geocities.com/colo
- sseum/loge/3128
- <http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855>http://www.geocities.com/h
- ollywood/academy/2855
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 14:18:23 +0100
- From: 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
- To: AR NEWS <ar-news@envirolink.org>
- Cc: Linda <Ritva.Degerth@occuphealth.fi>
- Message-ID: <01ITM182H1AA00HW4Q@cc.uab.es>
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- >From EL PERIODICO DE CATALUNYA
-
- TWO LYNGES APPEAR DEAD TO SHOTS IN THE PARK OF DO╤ANA
-
-
- Seville (Andalucia, Spain) -- Technicians of the Biological station of Do±ana
- found the died bodies of two lynges in two located property yesterday,
- respectively, in the national park and the natural park of Do±ana. All the
- indications aim that the causes have been firings of a firearm. The Iberian
- lynx, in spite of being in extinction danger, is the favorite prey of the
- furtive hunters who ronan Do±ana. -- R. B.
-
-
- If you would most information can write to enviromental spanish minister in:
-
-
- Or visit the oficial spanish governament website
-
- <http://www.la-moncloa.es/>http://www.la-moncloa.es (In spanish)
-
- My web against fur coats is:
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm>http://www.geoc
- ities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm
-
- Visiteu les meves pαgines / Visit my homepages
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506>http://www.geocities.com/ra
- inforest/vines/6506
- <http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128>http://www.geocities.com/colo
- sseum/loge/3128
- <http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855>http://www.geocities.com/h
- ollywood/academy/2855
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:10:04 -0800
- From: Ilene Rachford <irachfrd@erinet.com>
- To: chickadee-l@envirolink.org, ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Pork conference Demo
- Message-ID: <34E72F7C.3455@erinet.com>
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-
- To those in the Dayton, Oh area...
-
- People/Animals Network (P/AN) will hold our annual demonstration at the
- Pork Conference in Downtown Dayton, Ohio at the Convention Center on
- Friday, Feb. 20 at 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM.
-
- For more info: <mailto:irachfrd@erinet.com>mailto:irachfrd@erinet.com
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:38:25 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Wonders of sience - from mutant mice to legless humans
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- Mutant mice may hold secret to regenerating limbs
-
- Reuters News Service
- PHILADELPHIA, February 15, 1998
-
- Heber-Katz started an experiment on multiple sclerosis, she bought
- several dozen specially bred mice for her work. She never dreamed they
- would open up the possibility that injured people might regrow lost
- limbs.
-
- It started with standard laboratory housekeeping.
-
- "I asked an associate to ear punch, to number, the animals," she said
- Saturday. This involves punching a small hole in the ears of the mice.
-
- But three weeks later when she checked the mice, there were no holes. "I
- came down and said, 'What did you do?"' Heber-Katz told a news
- conference. The associate shook her head and helped Heber-Katz punch
- more holes in the ears of the mice.
-
- Again a few weeks later, they checked the mice, and the holes had nearly
- healed. It wasn't just ordinary healing, but one in which "you could not
- find where the wound had been," Heber-Katz said.
-
- Heber-Katz, an immunologist, knew she was onto something. She consulted
- other scientists and realized the mice were not experiencing normal
- healing, which involves scarring, but tissue regeneration.
-
- It looked just like what happens in amphibians such as frogs, which can
- grow back lost limbs.
-
- Heber-Katz is presenting her findings for the first time to the American
- Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting in
- Philadelphia.
-
- She is not sure how she will translate her findings into actual therapy,
- but she and colleagues at the Philadelphia-based Wistar Institute, a
- private research facility funded in part by the National Cancer
- Institute, are trying to do just that.
-
- There seems to have been an evolutionary trade-off in mammals like mice
- and humans. Their bodies defend against tumors, but the same process may
- prevent the ability to regenerate limbs, Heber-Katz said.
-
- She hopes to find a way to turn it back on. One trick will be to turn it
- on without causing tumor growth.
-
- In normal scarring, the body builds up a protein matrix in between the
- layers of skin. In the mice, this matrix was being broken down.
-
- Genetic tests have pointed to seven possible genes -- one of which might
- also be involved in embryonic wound healing. Doctors know unborn babies
- in early development can be operated on in the womb and no scars will
- show when they are born, but this regenerative ability is turned off
- after birth.
-
- Heber-Katz thinks immune response is somehow involved.
-
- "One of the things that is missing in amphibians is a complex immune
- system," she said.
-
- The mice she was using are specially inbred to have auto-immune
- responses -- their immune systems turn on themselves, mimicking the
- effects of diseases such as lupus and multiple sclerosis.
-
- Two different versions of these mice showed the same effects, so she is
- not sure how much is due to the immune cells, and how much to other
- genetic mutations.
-
- She could not say why no one discovered the ear healing before, since
- ear punching is a common practice with laboratory rodents.
-
- T-cells, immune cells that fight invaders and kill abnormal cells like
- those seen in tumors, seem to be involved. The mice that heal are
- missing some types of T-cells. "(But) you can't just eliminate
- T-cells. You have to have the right mixture of genes," she said.
-
- Perhaps a mixture of gene and immune therapy could be used to stimulate
- the process, she said.
-
- First she has to see just what is going on in the mice. She has not gone
- so far as to cut off a whole ear or limb to see if it comes back, but
- she did snip off a short bit of tail -- about a centimeter
- (half an inch). About 75 percent grew back.
-
- "The regrown tail looks normal but we have not sat down and done a
- study," she said.
-
- Chopping off longer pieces of tail did not work so well. The mice
- started bleeding too heavily and the tissue had to be cauterized. "It
- didn't grow back," Heber-Katz said.
-
- By MAGGIE FOX, Health and Science Correspondent
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:44:01 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Communication among apes
- Message-ID: <34E72961.5289@worldnet.att.net>
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- Communication skills among apes charted
-
- Reuters News Service
- PHILADELPHia, February 15, 1998
-
- Language is not the exclusive domain of the human race, say researchers
- who contend that apes are skilled enough in the art of communication to
- instruct their young and organize meetings among adults.
-
- Although linguists believe language skills reside solely in the
- structure of the human brain, anthropologists have found the ability to
- communicate may be one of the evolutionary links between humankind and
- our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, apes.
-
- "They look like us, they think like us, they feel like us. They are like
- us," Georgia State University researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh said
- Saturday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
- Science. Savage-Rumbaugh, one of the world's leading authorities on
- primate communication, studies chimpanzees and bonobos -- African pygmie
- chimpanzees -- at the Language Research Center in Atlanta, where
- communication between human and primate is conducted mainly though
- computer-generated images.
-
- She also has ventured out into the natural bonobo habitats in the
- jungles of central Africa.
-
- Apes in the wild smash plants as a way of marking trails between their
- feeding grounds and tree-top retreats, she said. There also is reason to
- suspect they use silent communication to decide when to leave the trees
- and where to gather afterwards.
-
- Meanwhile, results of studies at the research center suggest apes
- understand semantics and syntax so well that Savage-Rumbaugh wonders if
- they are unable to speak only because they lack a human voice tract.
-
- "When they can pour the milk into the juice, instead of pouring the
- juice into the milk, that's evidence for an understanding of language,"
- she told a news conference.
-
- As a scientist, Savage-Rumbaugh has been derided by colleagues who
- contend that language is produced by an asymmetrical brain structure
- found only in humans. They argue that animals' faculty is mere instinct.
-
- But that, she contended, may parallel early scientific prejudices which
- cast African hunter-gatherers and other aboriginal peoples as having
- less well-developed brains than whites.
-
- Recently, her ideas and those of like-minded researchers have been
- boosted by a study that shows chimpanzees to have the same structural
- asymmetry as humans in an area of the brain associated with language
- comprehension.
-
- Preliminary evidence also suggests that bonobo mothers physically
- interact with their young offspring in ways similar to the instructive
- interaction of human mothers and infants, said Barbara
- King, a biological anthropologist at William & Mary College in
- Williamsburg, Virginia.
-
- In King's preliminary study of a female ape called Matata and her young
- offspring Elikya, the pair appeared to communicate through patterned
- body movements. For example, the mother appeared to teach the infant to
- walk by leading it across the floor while walking backwards.
-
- "What this evidence suggests is that we can learn about language origins
- by looking at species other than our own," said King, who stopped short
- of describing the body communication as language.
-
- She also cited similar studies by other scientists.
-
- "There is at least one (bonobo) mother that is routinely teaching her
- infant signals for when she wants to move off and join her group," King
- said.
-
- "She flexes her knees and looks back at the infant. And by doing this
- repeatedly ... teaches her infant to jump on her back. She does this by
- placing the infant up on a rock and having a practice
- session."
-
- By DAVID MORGAN, Reuters
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:00:44 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Doctors fail to recommend lifestyle changes
- Message-ID: <34E72D4C.3AAE@worldnet.att.net>
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- Too few doctors warn of heart risks, health officials say
-
- Reuters News Service
- ATLANTA, February 15, 1998
-
- American doctors are failing to counsel their patients about ways to
- reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, which kills almost a million
- Americans each year, federal health officials said on Thursday.
-
- The American Heart Association said cardiovascular disease, which
- claimed 960,592 lives in 1995, is the leading cause of death in the
- United States.
-
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed almost 30,000
- visits to physicians and found fewer than one-fourth of the doctors
- counseled their patients about behaviors that could greatly reduce the
- risk of heart disease, the agency reported in its Morbidity and
- Mortality Weekly Report.
-
- "Only 19.1 percent of office visits included counseling for physical
- activity, only 22.8 percent included counseling about diet and only 10.4
- percent included counseling for weight reduction," CDC epidemiologist
- Dr. Wayne Giles said.
-
- He said doctors know the health benefits of changing patients' behavior,
- but they wrongly fear their advice will not make any difference.
-
- "Physicians often state that they feel that they are ill-prepared or
- lack the training to counsel patients," Giles said. "Patients often
- mention a physician's advice as a major motivating factor in
- changing their behavior."
-
- Fewer than half of the smokers who went to doctors' offices in 1995 were
- advised to stop smoking, even though health benefits occur during the
- first year of quitting.
-
- "Once someone stops smoking, the benefits for cardiovascular disease are
- achieved real quickly," Giles said.
-
- Obstetricians and gynecologists were approximately half as likely as
- cardiologists and family and general practitioners to counsel patients
- about the benefits of physical activity, diet and weight
- reduction in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, the CDC said.
-
- "We need to increase education in other physician specialties about
- cardiovascular disease prevention," Giles said.
-
- "Twenty percent of the total U.S. population has one or more different
- types of cardiovascular disease. That includes diseases such as high
- blood pressure, coronary heart disease, stroke,
- rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and other forms of heart
- disease," Giles said.
-
- By MIKE COOPER, Reuters
-
- ===========================================================
-
- "... fear their advice will not make any difference"
-
- Curiously, the fear that patients won't take their pills doesn't stop
- the physician from prescribing them.
-
- If students in medical schools were taught more about diet, exercise,
- etc. and less about genetics and molecular biology, fewer people would
- die of heart disease and no "pressing need" for animal-to-human organ
- transplantation.
-
- Andy
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:00:56 -0800
- From: Mesia Quartano <primates@usa.net>
- To: "ar-news@envirolink.org" <ar-news@envirolink.org>
- Subject: Getty reflects on unexpected side effect
- Message-ID: <34E75788.290E78CB@usa.net>
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- Getty reflects on unexpected side effect
- (UPI; 02/14/98)
-
- By MARA BOVSUN
- UPI Science News
-
- PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14 (UPI)áá The first man to receive a baboon bone
- marrow transplant says he wasn't prepared for one of the major side
- effects of the procedure jokes about bananas.
-
- AIDS activist Jeff Getty says right after the transplant, he started
- hearing a lot of bad jokes "about why I like to eat bananas," and about
- his animal friends at the zoo.
-
- He says the jibes were light-hearted at first. But, he says, "these
- things did not stop."
-
- When he started to talk to people about it, he says he found a deep-
- seated anxiety, that they were not quite ready for humans to become part
- animal.
-
- Getty, who received the baboon bone marrow in 1995, says that there is a
- deep seated psychological barrier against the practice. He believes that
- barrier, not a worry about unleashing new viruses, is what lies behind
- the controversy over moving ahead with experiments of animal-to- human
- transplantsá known as xenotransplantion.
-
- Suzanne Ildstad, the Allegheny University transplant surgeon who
- conducted the experimental procedure on Getty, says she is not currently
- working on the technique because she wants to work on other methods to
- make human-to-human
- transplants more successful.
-
- She says, however, she believes the threat of animal-to-human disease
- transmission are infinitesimal.
-
- Getty, of Oakland, Calif., and Ildstad, Philadelphia, made their
- comments today at the annual meeting also in Philadelphia, of the
- American Association for the Advancement of Science.
-
- He says now, the fear expressed by some scientists that using pigs,
- primates and other animals as sources for transplant organs will unleash
- a new plague like AIDS is really a smokescreen for an irrational worry
- that the procedure will somehow make us less than human.
-
- He says it is similar to some early fears about transplant surgery, like
- the idea a person who gets the heart of a killer will become a killer.
-
- Getty says after his bone marrow transplant scientists kept trying to
- find evidence of a baboor virus in his blood. He says, "every time they
- find a new baboon disease" they called him in for tests.
-
- He says he felt, "the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- really wanted to find the virus, and that the pressure from it caused
- anxiety so severe he had to see a psychiatrist.
-
- He says, "If they did find that virus, what were they going to do to
- me?"
-
- Getty believes the experiment achieved its goals of testing the safety
- of putting baboon bone marrow cells into a human body.
-
- Getty says, however, "I believe I survived because of the transplant."
-
- But he says his condition has started to decline again about a year ago,
- and he is desperately looking for any experimental treatment.
-
-
-
-
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 19:08:45 +0100
- From: 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CAT] Antifur protest in Barcelona
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- Barcelona: Yesterday, twenty AR activist distribute information about how
- make
- a fur coats. The activist went to the famous sites of Barcelona: Las Ramblas,
- Catalonian Square and Passeig de Gracia.
-
- Don't exist accidents and the protest was very still
-
- Jordi Ni±erola from Barcelona.
-
- My web against fur coats is:
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm>http://www.geoc
- ities.com/rainforest/vines/6506/pellcas.htm
-
- Visiteu les meves pαgines / Visit my homepages
-
- <http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506>http://www.geocities.com/ra
- inforest/vines/6506
- <http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128>http://www.geocities.com/colo
- sseum/loge/3128
- <http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855>http://www.geocities.com/h
- ollywood/academy/2855
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:24:22 EST
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: AR-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Oklahoma Weekly Hunting News
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-
- A/w Oklahoma City hunting news:
-
- Oklahoma will again host Quail Unlimited's National Dog of the
- Year Field trial on March 26th thru the 27th at the Red Rock
- Ranch 15 miles SE of Ponca City, Okla.á There is an evening
- banquet open to the public at the Marland Mansion in Ponca City.
- The winning dog will be featured on the cover of QU magazine,
- and have bragging rights as the best bird dog in the country.
- The field is limited to 64 entries, which will be selected by committee.
- To insure the best dogs will be competing for the top honor,
- priority will be given to dogs with field trial placements.
- Dogs must be handled by their owners, and the winner must be
- a member of QU and the entry fee is $175, with a cash purse of
- $5000.á Proceeds from the event will benefit quail research, Covey
- Camp for kids, and habitat improvement programs.
-
- Now that Bass'n Gal has folded, women anglers may be interested
- in the Women's Bass Fishing Ass., which is promoting women's bass
- tournaments. This organization is based in Pelham, Alabama.
-
- John Streich, Okla. Wildlife Dept. Law Enforcement Chief, told
- the Okla. Wildlife Commission that members of his division will host
- the state's first Youth Law Enforcement Camp in June at Camp
- McFadden near Ponca City, Okla.
- The conservation education camp will be open to youths ages 14 to
- 16, with registration limited to 35.á The camp will be sponsored by a
- no. of businesses and individuals, with Conoco Oil Co. contributing
- the cost of printing and distributing the brochures/application forms.
- The brochures will be available at all Conoco gas stations statewide.
- Participants will be selected based on short essays and letters of
- recommendation.
-
- áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá For the Animals,
-
- áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá Jana, OKC
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:24:29 EST
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: AR-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Oklahoma Coyote Bird Dog
- Message-ID: <9ef48bd8.34e732df@aol.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
- Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
-
-
- A/w local Okla. City hunting news:
-
- Max Montgomery can't honestly say Wylie is his best bird dog,
- but that's partly because Wylie isn't a dog.á Wylie is a coyote.
- Montgomery, a 50 year old rancher from Western Okla., adopted
- the coyote when it was only a pup soon after its mother was shot
- and killed by another man.á Montgomery hoped to raise it as a pet.
- Not only did that work out, but Wylie amazed his owner by quickly
- taking up with (and emulating) the six bird dogs on the ranch.
- Now, at younger than a year old, Wylie sometimes beats them at
- their own game.á With his blaze orange collar and his tail spray-painted
- the same color for safety in the field, he is becoming known as
- a bird-hunting coyote.
- "I've never penned him up and never had a rope or anything on him. He's
- free to go if he wants.á And I never dreamed you could hunt with him,"
- said Montgomery.
- When Wylie started tagging along on quail hunts, and proved not to be
- a bit gun shy, his onwer began encouraging the coyote to keep learning.
- "He catches on quick.á He's eight months old, and an eight-month-old
- bird dog ain't worth a flip.á He's got a lot better nose than a bird dog."
- When not hunting, the young coyote is pretty much like a dog on
- the place, eating, lazing about and occasionally snarling and romping
- with his more domesticated companions, but he sleeps outside at night
- regardless of the weather and hows and yips instead of barking.
- He's as friendly with most visitors, as he is with his owner, obviously
- enjoying being petted.á
- During the five times Wylie has taken afield during the past quail season,
- Montgomery said the coyote has helped find numerous coveys,
- pointed out three individual birds by himself and retrieved six dead birds.
- Montgomery rates his coyote "excellent" at retrieving.
- Well, almost.á Of those six birds, Mongomery got only four.
-
- áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá For the Animals,
-
- áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá Jana, OKC
-
- áááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:24:35 EST
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: AR-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Okla. Wildlife Dept. Financial Problems
- Message-ID: <65589241.34e732e6@aol.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
- Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
-
-
- A/w Oklahoma hunting news:
-
- The Oklahoma Wildlife Dept.'s financial situation is not rosy, which
- sooner or later is going to hit you - the hunting and fishing public -
- right in the pocket book.á For those who delve into widlife politics
- often remind themselves that the department is supported mainly thru
- the sales of hunting and fishing licenses (and a small fee on car tag
- renewals which we all pay).á That gives the agency immunity of
- sorts from political meddling, but it is a mixed blessing.
- When the Dept. falls on hard times, the folks who buy the hunting
- and fishing licenses must ante up.á The agency is not ready right
- now to ask the Okla. Legislature for another increase in license
- fees, but it is looking seriously at it the request.á The Okla. Legislature
- retains the right to approve license fees and the last one, on Jan. 1,
- 1995, hiked the cost of regular licenses by $2.25 each, and increased
- some others as well.
- The Legislature may dictate a pay raise of 7.5 percent for all state
- employees, an unanticipated expenditure that would quickly bring
- the impending crisis to a head. With a 1997-98 budget of $24.1
- million, the department is already failing to make ends meet thru
- regular means.á Since 1993, it has been using interest from the
- untouchable lifetime license fund to meet routine expenses.
- During the last fiscal year, revenue fell short by $3,491,089.
- Possible solutions to the problem include allowing the commission
- to invest in higher yield accounts, generating new revenues from
- nontraditional sources, a deeper budget cut or the inevitable license
- fee increase.
- The dept. has already cut last year's budget by 2% and is planning
- to do the same this year.á No funds have been budgeted for
- capital improvements or land acquisition.
- Other steps will be forthcoming during the commision's April
- meeting.
-
- ááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá For the Animals,
-
- ááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááááá Jana, OKC
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 11:33:43 -0800
- From: "Bob Schlesinger" <bob@arkonline.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org, Chibob44@aol.com, hillhaven@zephyr.net,
- ááááááá BuniHugR@aol.com, MJartisian@aol.com, vcr1187@ridgeview.org,
- ááááááá barthell@pacbell.net, dove@slip.net, bethel@cybrtyme.com,
- ááááááá Janetski@aol.com, Nyppsi@aol.com, JSLETTERS@aol.com,
- ááááááá animals@teleport.com, canyon@digisys.net, kupie_doll@email.msn.com,
- ááááááá deiziablue@hotmail.com, JFine@novatel.ca, animals@cyberstreet.com,
- ááááááá primates@usa.net, Judy231300@aol.com, rabbit@wantree.com.au,
- ááááááá Ekh1946@aol.com
- Subject: (US) Oregon's major newspaper as bad as elected officials
- Message-ID: <199802151133430410.010FA201@pcez.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
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-
- The following editorial appeared in today's Oregonian.á The Oregonian,
- published in Portland,á is the
- state's major daily newspaper.á To anyone outside of Oregon, it should now be
- even more clear
- why we have such problems with attitudes about animals in this state and what
- we are up against.
-
- The Oregonian has either ignored or trivialized the story of Nadas from the
- beginning.á However, now,
- after being upstaged by the LA times in their own backyard, the editorial
- staff
- feels a need
- to fight back.á They have refused to cover the issues of how the livestock law
- violates constitutional
- equal protection clauses and how it is implemented locally without fair and
- legal hearings.
-
- By the way, the Oregonian now insists on spelling Nadas' name N-A-T-A-S
- because
- that
- way it can make a big deal about it being satan spelled backwards, which seems
- to be of
- importance to this paper.
-
- You can write to the Oregonian and/or call the members of their editorial
- board:
-
- letters@news.oregonian.comááá (for letters to the editor)
-
- oped@news.oregonian.comááá (direct email to the editorial board)
-
- Or write to:
- Letters,
- The Oregonian
- 1320 SW Broadway
- Portland, ORá 97201
- FAX:á (503) 294-4193
-
- Or call:
- Robert J. Caldwell, Editorial Page Editorááá (503) 221-8197
-
- -Bob Schlesinger
- --------------------------------------------
- Reprinted from The Oregonian
- Editorial Page
- February 15, 1998
-
-
-
- PUT A MUZZLE ON IT
-
- All this woofing over Oregon's dog law is unnecessary;
- counties can write ordinances to quickly resolve disputes
-
-
-
- Natas lives, Jessie is outside running after sticks, and that cuddly
- Chase is in beagle heaven, a victim of epilepsy, not euthanasia.
- That's the latest word on Oregon's death-row dogs.
-
- And, if we're lucky, the last word.á Jackson County commissioners
- finally may have quelled an international barking chain set off by their
- decision to order the death of Natas, a dog caught chasing a horse
- in 1996.
-
- The commissioners were flooded with mail and phone calls after
- "Hard Copy" and "The National Enquirer" did sob stories on the
- condemned dog.á Death sentences for Chase and Jessie, two
- Deschutes County dogs that harassed a herd of sheep, prompted
- a similar outcry.
-
- The uproar prompted the Legislature to consider altering the state
- law requiring that dogs caught chasing livestock be put to death.
- But farm groups growled, and Legislators pitched the issue back
- to the counties where it belongs.
-
- One dog-livestock law can't fit all Oregon counties.á In urbanizing
- counties such as Jackson and Deschutes, where new subdivisions
- bump up against farms, it makes sense to allow some leniency in
- cases where dogs chase livestock.á In the farm country of Eastern
- Oregon, it's still goodbye dog.á If Natas had run a horse in Harney
- County, the dog wouldn't have lived long enough to become an
- Internet cause celebre.
-
- That's as it should be.á Oregon counties should craft their own dog
- ordinances, as Jackson and Deschutes have done, and then act
- quickly and humanely to enforce them.
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:59:25 -0500
- From: "Leslie Lindemann" <LDTBS@worldnet.att.net>
- To: "AR-news postings" <ar-news@envirolink.org>
- Subject: info request
- Message-ID: <19980215205921.AAB2648@oemcomputer>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
-
- Hello all!
- I'm looking for AR/Veg groups or people in Michigan. Anyone out there?
- Leslie
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 98 11:59:05 PST
- From: "cathy goeggel" <arh@pixi.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: protection for fish in Hawai'i nixed by legislators
- Message-ID: <MAPI.Id.0016.00726820202020203030303330303033@MAPI.to.RFC822>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT"
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-
- from the Maui News:
-
- Friday, February 13, 1998
-
- Panel moves to limit netting tropical fish
-
-
- By LISA MARINELLI
-
- The Associated Press
-
- HONOLULU -- A House committee took a first step Thursday toward limiting
- the capture of tropical fish in Big Island waters to supply pet shops
- and home aquariums around the country.
-
- After rejecting an outright ban along the Big Island's west coast, the
- Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources Committee adopted a plan setting
- aside a portion of that area as a sanctuary for tropical fish.
-
- In October 1999, part of that same area would become a no-capture
- sanctuary for all fish. The sanctuary would include waters up to 200
- meters deep.
-
- During Thursday's packed hearing, the survival of small business clashed
- with the importance of the Big Island's tourism industry.
-
- The state's $50 million dive tourism industry, which needs the fish to
- entertain snorkelers and scuba divers, disagreed with the $10 million
- tropical fish industry, which sends the neon-colored fish across the
- United States.
-
- Lawmakers cast their votes for tighter controls after rejecting an
- outright ban in waters from Kawaihae to Milolii, about a 60-mile
- stretch.
-
- ``Clearly both industries are very important,'' said committee Chairman
- Rep. David Tarnas, whose North Kona-South Kohala district would include
- the sanctuary. ``I'm trying to figure out a way that you can have
- both.''
-
- The compromise was reached after hours of testimony from the
- standing-room-only crowd, many of whom flew in from the Big Island. The
- measure now goes to the House Finance Committee for further review.
-
- The Lost Fish Coalition presented a petition with 3,725 signatures
- supporting an outright ban on collecting the fish. Those signatures were
- gathered over a six-month period.
-
- ``These fish collectors are merely whining that they can't work right in
- the waters off their own homes,'' said the coalition's Tina Owens. ``We
- don't feel this is a legitimate complaint.''
-
- Others said the tropical fish -- including yellow tang, blue-stripe
- butterflies and banded angels -- offer rare opportunities for tourists
- to view aquatic life in a natural setting.
-
- ``Tropical fish are a resource that belong to all the inhabitants,''
- said Colin Gould, captain for Westwind sailing charters in Kailua-Kona.
- ``If there are no tropical reef fish, there will be no tourism.''
-
- But Rep. Cynthia Henry Thielen, R-Oahu, said she could not support the
- ban.
-
- ``I think we have to reach a balance, and I don't think it's by
- squashing the aquarium fish collector,'' she said.
-
- Most of the fish collectors present said they favor a management plan
- but believe they should not be singled out as the source of fish
- depletion in that coastal region.
-
- ``The diving industry and we can be managed and still work together,''
- said Al Estencion of Kona, vice president of the Hawaii Tropical Fish
- Association.
-
- The collectors presented 300 signatures Wednesday to forward their
- cause.
-
- ****************************************************************************
- ****************************
- "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of
- extremists
- will we be."
-
- Dr. Martin Luther King
-
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 17:26:13 PST
- From: "Cari Gehl" <skyblew@hotmail.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Fwd: Re: (NY) Burned Kitten Dies
- Message-ID: <19980216012615.10161.qmail@hotmail.com>
- Content-Type: text/plain
-
- Hi everyone -
-
- Someone was kind enough to e-mail me regarding the post I made (see
- below) inquiring about the address of the web site that is mentioned in
- the article.á I was so upset when I initially read it, that I failed to
- even notice that it mentioned one (sorry)!á There was no address or link
- on the page that had the article but I did some searching and was able
- to come up with the address.á It's at:
-
- <http://www.localnet.com/~pijo/>http://www.localnet.com/~pijo/
-
- The web site includes a message board, updates on the case, and links to
- similar sites.á There is also a new alert posted.á It seems that one of
- their local radio d.j.'s saw fit to make fun of the situation.á The web
- site owner's posted this alert:
-
-
- from:
- <http://www.localnet.com/~pijo/radio.html----------------->http://www.localn
- et.com/~pijo/radio.html-----------------
-
- In order to be as accurate as possible, we are going to add an audio
- clip. It is in wav format, do you will need to be able to play .wav
- files to hear it.
-
- here is the clip of the fatman in his own words as to what happened:
-
- fatman "We discussed, Chris and I here on the show, about how it made
- for a funny picture in our minds, the thought, and the picture of a cat
- running down the
- street on fire."
-
- Lou Desantis spoke about how cruelty towards animals is perpetuated by a
- seeming apporval by society, and that while the fatman did say it was a
- terrible thing and felt bad that this happened, by saying it made a
- funny picture, he did perpetuate the problem.
- He went on to say that the fatman, being on mass media had a
- responsibilty to work against cruelty to animals. Chris and the fatman
- responded that they had no responsibility "for people who do stupid
- things"
-
- Lou asked what fatmans feelings were on animal abuse, and fatman
- responded that he thought it was wrong.
-
- The show quickly became an argument where fatman blasted animal rights
- activists, saying that animals were not as important as people, and that
- people were comparing his child and all children to animals.
- (editors note --- in dealing with abuse, both are just as wrong. This
- was the point being made by Lou Desantis. The fatman, took the stance
- that pain is unavoidable, and better the animals than people go through
- the suffering.)
-
- Again the address and numbers for the radio station, and the fatman are:
-
- KROCK
- P.O. BOX 100
- Syracuse NY 13217
-
- General Manager:
- Ed Levine
- <Above address>
-
- Phone:
- (315) 424-7625
- or:
- (315) 735-9490
-
- Web URL:
- <http://www.krock.com/>http://www.krock.com
-
- E-mail address of "fatman"
- fatman@krock.com
-
- end website info-----------------
-
- There is also info on the reward and vet care funds as follows:
-
- with the vet costs for Cindy,
- you can send donations to
-
- "Cindy's Fund"
- Fayetteville Veterinary Hospital
- 8122 E. Genesee St.
- Fayetteville, NY 13066
-
-
- A fund has also been established to help find and prosecute
- the person who set Cindy on fire, as well as other acts
- of animal cruelty.
- To donate to the SPCA PACT Fund
- (animal cruelty prosecution fund)
- send all donations to:
-
- SPCA PACT FUND
- 5878 E. Molloy Rd.
- Syracuse, NY 13211
-
- ---------------------------
-
- Please feel free to forward this to anyone that might be concerned.á
- Thanks and take care,
- Cari
-
-
-
- >
- >What's the URL for the Web site?
- >
- >
- >
- >Cari Gehl wrote:
- >>
- >> While looking for news articles on the Conrail oil spill, I ran into
- >> this article on the Syracuse Post-Standard web site.á Does anyone
- have
- >> any more info on this (addresses to write to, updates, etc.)?
- >>
- >> Thanks and take care,
- >> Cari Gehl
- >>
- >> -----------------------------------------
- >> Burned Kitten Dies
- >>
- >> Cruel act that killed Cindy prompted a reward offer and a site on the
- >> Worldwide Web.
- >>
- >> Published Feb. 11, 1998, in The Post-Standard.
- >>
- >> By PETER ORTIZ
- >>
- >> A kitten that galvanized supporters from around the world after it
- was
- >> set on fire last week in Syracuse died Tuesday morning.
- >>
- >> Cindy was about 6 months old when she was found engulfed in a ball of
- >> flames by a Syracuse man riding his bicycle in the 600 block of South
- >> Salina Street Feb. 4. Dr. Robert Putnam of the Fayetteville
- Veterinary
- >> Hospital said Cindy died of general organ failure due to toxins from
- the
- >> burns she suffered.
- >>
- >> "She certainly has touched a lot of people, and I just wished she
- could
- >> have pulled through," Putnam said.
- >>
- >> Cindy's story touched people in Canada and as far away as South
- Africa
- >> after a Syracuse couple created a Web page detailing her plight.
- Pilot
- >> Towers and Joan Conley said they decide to create the Web page to
- inform
- >> people and take pressure off the veterinarian staff who were
- bombarded
- >> with phone calls.
- >>
- >> A pet owner from South Africa said she would donate blankets and food
- to
- >> her local SPCA in honor of Cindy. Other Web browsers expressed
- sympathy
- >> and outrage. About 400 people had visited the Web page by Tuesday.
- >>
- >> "We have had private e-mail from people who want to adopt and from
- >> people who want to work on legislative measures" against animal
- cruelty,
- >> Conley said.
- >>
- >> Syracuse police say they have a possible suspect in the burning, but
- no
- >> arrest has been made yet.
- >>
- >> Betsie Puffer, animal cruelty investigator, said she hopes Cindy's
- death
- >> encourages people to report cases of animal cruelty.
- >>
- >> "Thankfully she is not suffering anymore," Puffer said.
- >>
- >> Cindy's killer can face a misdemeanor count of unjustifiable killing
- of
- >> an animal, Puffer said. The maximum penalty under the charge is one
- year
- >> in jail or a $1,000 fine, she said.
- >>
- >> The Central New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- >> has offered a $1,000 award to anyone with information that leads to
- an
- >> arrest in the kitten burning.
- >>
- >> Cindy suffered severe burns throughout her body and lost most of her
- >> hair.
- >>
- >> Donations that have been sent for Cindy's care will probably go
- toward
- >> her burial at Pet Haven Cemetery, Putnam said.
- >>
- >> Contributions in care of cruelty investigations for the SPCA's
- >> Prosecuting Animal Cruelty Together (PACT) program can be sent to the
- >> Central New York SPCA, 5878 E. Molloy Road, Syracuse 13211. The phone
- >> number is 454-3469 or 454-4479.
- >>
- >> Copyright (c) 1998 The Herald Company. All rights reserved. The
- material
- >> on this site may not be reproduced, except for personal,
- non-commercial
- >> use, and may not be distributed,
- >> transmitted or otherwise used, except with the prior written
- permission
- >> of Syracuse OnLine.
- >>
-
-
- ______________________________________________________
- Get Your Private, Free Email at
- <http://www.hotmail.com/>http://www.hotmail.com
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:57:44 -0600 (CST)
- From: bstagno@ix.netcom.com (Barbara Stagno)
- To: Chickadee-1@envirolink.org
- Subject: Pace U. Law Conference on Animals in Entertainment
- Message-ID: <199802160457.WAA16566@dfw-ix2.ix.netcom.com>
-
- Here is the official posting for the conference which was sent to me by
- the Suzan Porto, the conference coordinator.
-
- 1998 ANIMAL AND THE LAW CONFERENCE
-
- The 1998 Animals and the Law Conference, "That's Entertainment? - The
- Use of Nonhuman Animals for Human Amusement," will be held at Pace
- University School of Law in White Plains, NY on Saturday, March 21.
-
- Notable speakers including Valerie Stanley, Esq. (ALDF), Katie M.
- Brophy, Esq. (ALDF), Peggy Larson, DVM (rodeo specialist), Pat Derby
- (PAWS), Jane Garrison, (PETA), Naomi Rose (HSUS), Wayne Pacelle (HSUS),
- Gary Francione, and others, will explore the use of nonhuman animals in
- ciruses, zoos, marine mammal parks rodeos, Greyhound racing and for
- sport/trophy hunting.
-
- Please contact Adjunct Professor Suzan Porto ASAP at 914-937-5605 or
- write to her
- c/o Pace University School of Law
- 78 North Broadway
- White Plains, NY 10603
- to receive further information or a conference brochure.
-
-
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