AR-NEWS Digest 372

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Double standards
     by Andrew Gach 
  2) (US) International ocean summit loaded with warnings 
     by allen schubert 
  3) (MY) Coconut prices climbing because monkeys are not
     by vadivu 
  4) Fish keeps the heart ticking over
     by vadivu 
  5) (US) Oklahoma Youth Squirral Hunting Camp
     by JanaWilson@aol.com
  6) (US) Deer wander into downtown Washington D.C. 
     by allen schubert 
  7) Upcoming Scientific Meetings
     by chris.p.carrot@juno.com (Christophe P Carotte)
  8) LA Zoo elephants
     by igor@earthlink.net (Elephant Advocates)
  9) (US) USDA's ADC publicity/propaganda
     by allen schubert 
 10) (US) ADC--first two parts
     by allen schubert 
 11) Lori Gauthier, animal rescuer
     by BHGazette@aol.com
 12) action alert-dolphin capture
     by ScottVanValkenburg 
 13) FEDERAL SUIT FILED FOR TONY WONG
     by nnetwork@cwnet.com
 14) Fwd: APHIS Press Release ADC Helps Solve Maryland's Problems Be
     by 
 15) (US) APHIS press releases
     by allen schubert 
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:10:15 -0700
>From: Andrew Gach 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Double standards
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Before donors die, transplant organs are removed, '60 Minutes' says 

Reuter Information Service 

NEW YORK (April 10, 1997 9:19 p.m. EDT) - A six-month investigation by
CBS's "60 Minutes" partially released Thursday reports that doctors in
some U.S. hospitals are using a controversial protocol that may result
in doctors removing organs from living patients.

The programme, which will air its full report Sunday, said the practice
was not widespread and that medical ethicists have questioned its
morality.

Under the protocol, life support is withdrawn from seriously
brain-damaged but not brain-dead people whose families consent. A doctor
not involved in transplants pronounces the patient dead if no heartbeat
is heard for two minutes, "60 Minutes" said.

Then the organs are "harvested" by a waiting transplant team.

Several doctors told "60 Minutes" that they had serious reservations
about the technique because the method of declaring death was less
precise than waiting for brain death.

"You can be wrong. You can think the heart has stopped and it hasn't,"
Dr. Norman Paradis, an emergency medicine researcher, told the
programme.

"60 Minutes" said that at some hospitals patients while still alive were
given massive doses of drugs aimed solely at transplantion and these
drugs may hasten a person's death.

One drug blocked the body's ability to release adrenaline and can harm
certain seriously ill patients.  Another drug prevents blood clotting
and can be harmful to brain-damaged patients.

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The medical establishment is dead set against physician assisted
suicide, but they use an entirely different set of standards when it
comes to "harvesting" valuable organs.

Andy
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:08:49 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) International ocean summit loaded with warnings 
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(discusses the effect of environment on animals)
from Mercury Center web page:
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Posted at 8:04 p.m. PDT Thursday, April 10, 1997     

International ocean summit loaded with warnings          

BY SALLY D. SWARTZ
Austin American-Statesman

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Don't eat the tomalley (the
``green stuff'' some lobster lovers adore) of
lobsters caught from Montauk Point, N.Y., to Cape
May, N.J. And when dining in Hong Kong, eschew
mussels and the livers of farm-reared fish.

Ordering Gulf of Mexico oysters off the southern
Mexico coast could be a problem: they're dying of a
virus, or pollution, or both. And some Taiwan fish
have wavy bones from swimming in the hot water
discharge of a nuclear plant.

The third International Ocean Pollution Symposium
is loaded with information warning what's happening
to the world's water and the creatures that live in
it.

More than 120 scientists from a dozen countries are
at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution this
week sharing what they've learned.

In 15-minute presentations, experts from the United
States, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Mexico,
Venezuela, Germany, Thailand, Taiwan and Norway are
telling all -- the good, the bad and the
interesting.

The New York lobster's claws and tail still are
delicious and safe, but its pancreas stores
pollutants humans shouldn't eat. Same with the Hong
Kong fish. The jury's still out on the Mexican
oysters. Scientists aren't sure if they're dying of
a virus that's also killed many in U.S. waters, or
pollution caused by government-owned oil
production.

The good news about Taiwan's deformed fish: They're
not radioactive, and they're only showing up in the
hot water discharge of one of the nation's six
nuclear power plants.

More good news: A study of frozen tissue samples of
dead manatees found throughout Florida shows low
levels of pesticides -- though one found in Martin
County had Lindane and one in Okeechobee had DDT.
(Since manatees travel long distances, they may not
have ingested the pesticides where they died.)

Audra Ames(CQ), a University of South Florida
graduate student, suggests three possibilities:
manatees aren't being exposed to pesticides or
their diet of aquatic plants isn't contaminated.

Or, she said, perhaps they are being exposed to
pesticides, but enzymes in their bodies break down
the poisons.

A fish farm in Fort Pierce is studying the use of
giant clams to clean up the effluent from
aquaculture, said Junda Lin, a Florida Institute of
Technology professor. The farm rears dolphin fish,
also known as mahi-mahi, and isn't allowed to dump
untreated waste -- fish feces, uneaten food, and
ammonia-related waste byproducts -- back into the
environment.

They're testing a method using aquatic plants and
giant clams to clean the dirty water, which then
could be reused or safely discharged.

The giant clams, however, will remain in the
laboratory.

``We would not put them out in the water,'' Lin
said. ``Oh, no. We don't know what would happen
then.''

The scientists wrap up their symposium this morning
with presentations on pollution in regional seas,
including oil spills and what happens to coastal
waters under the influence of the oil industry.

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:10:34 +0800 (SST)
>From: vadivu 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (MY) Coconut prices climbing because monkeys are not
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>The Straits Times, 11 Apr 97
Coconut prices climbing because monkeys are not


KUALA TERENGGANU -- Coconuts in Terengganu are getting
     expensive these days because of a shortage of coconut climbers
     and the problem posed by reluctant monkeys.

        Fama, the agency marketing agricultural products, warned that
     the coconut shortage would become acute next week when
     Muslims celebrate Hari Raya Haji.

        Terengganu Fama development officer Alias Jusoh said: "The
     coconut climbers we have today are mostly old people and no
     longer active."

        He told Bernama on Wednesday that because of the shortage, the
     fruit is left to fall to the ground by itself. They were thus either
     no longer edible or left to dry in the sun.

        Youths also had no interest in plucking coconuts when they could
     get better-paying jobs elsewhere, he said.

        He added that monkey handlers were reluctant to let their
     charges pluck coconuts because of poor returns -- two coconuts
     for every 10 fruits plucked. -- Bernama.

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:10:39 +0800 (SST)
>From: vadivu 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Fish keeps the heart ticking over
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>The Straits Times - World News
APR 11 1997
Medical Notes


Fish keeps the heart
     ticking over
     NEW YORK -- A new report offers more evidence that eating
     fish can boost your health.

       In the 30-year study of 1,822 men, those who ate about two
     servings of fish a week at the beginning of the survey were 42 per
     cent less likely to die from a heart attack than those who
     consumed none, according to the Chicago Northwestern
     University Medical School study, reported in yesterday's New
     England Journal of Medicine.

        Previous studies suggested that substances in fish called
     omega-3 fatty acids may lower a person's risk of death by
     reducing the triglyceride levels in the blood. -- NYT.


Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:12:41 -0400 (EDT)
>From: JanaWilson@aol.com
To: Ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Oklahoma Youth Squirral Hunting Camp
Message-ID: <970411111142_906111301@emout18.mail.aol.com>


The third annual Oklahoma Squirral Hunt and Hunter Education
Clinic will be held May 1 thru the 30th of June for 25 young
people at Spavinaw Wildlife Management Area in northeastern
Oklahoma.  Tuesday is the deadline entry.  Children must be
at least 10 and haven't reached 16 by the entry date to be 
eligible to apply.  An adult must accompany each participant,
but neither the youth or the adult is required to have hunting
experience.  There is no charge to apply.  Twentyfive permits
will be awarded in a random drawing and will be notified by 1 May.
  Applicants with little or no experience are encouraged to attend.
Oklahoma Wildlife Department employees, which includes
game biologists and game wardens, will assist during the hunt and
can accompany inexperienced hunters in the field.
  There will be camping available at Spavinaw WMA and participants
must provide their own camping equipment and food.  They can
arrive at the area on May 29 to set up their camp.
   Friday will be spent in a 10-hour hunter-education course that will
include hands-on instruction in safe firearms handling and shooting.
All participants, including the adult companions, who pass the
exam at the end of the course will receive a hunter safety certificate
authorizing them to buy hunting licenses in any state where hunter
training is required.  
   Saturday will be spent hunting squirrals.  Adult companions can hunt,
but each youth-adult team will carry only one firearm.  A wildgame
dinner is scheduled on Saturday.  Participants will learn how to
clean and cook squirrals and other wild game.
   Participants can hunt on Sunday, Father's Day, or they can take part
in one or more other optional activities, including fishing for small
mouth and spotted bass in Spavinaw Creek, exploring an outlaw's
hideout cave, and more.
     For more information contact the Oklahoma Wildlife Dept.
at their Tulsa office at (918) 744-1039.

                                                  For the Animals,

                                                  Jana, OKC

Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 11:46:05 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Deer wander into downtown Washington D.C. 
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from Mercury Center web page:
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Posted at 7:50 a.m. PDT Friday, April 11, 1997     

Deer wander into downtown Washington D.C.            

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A trio of deer surprised
Washington commuters and White House guards today,
wandering busy city streets before being corralled
near the executive mansion.

At least two of the animals were euthanized because
of injuries suffered, according to officials of the
Washington Humane Society and U.S. Park Police. One
became stuck in the White House fence and the
second was hurt jumping into the courtyard at the
nearby Treasury Department.

Police corralled the third animal at the adjacent
Old Executive Office Building, where it was being
tranquilized.

A uniformed Secret Service officer, after trying to
calm one deer by placing a blanket over its head,
watched a vet give it an injection, then shook his
head sadly and said: ``We lost him.''

The animals were first spotted early in the morning
on the city's busy streets, with one driver
commented that she's seen nothing like it in her 36
years of commuting. There they were -- three deer,
crossing busy Constitution Avenue and heading
toward the White House.

U.S. Park Police don't know where the deer came
from, possibly nearby Rock Creek Park.

``It's very rare to see them mixing with city
traffic. Normally they wind up as somebody's dinner
if they do that,'' observed Lt. Rick Watts of the
Park Police.

Pam Chapman of Humane Society said the deer may
have been looking for food.

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:37:10 EDT
>From: chris.p.carrot@juno.com (Christophe P Carotte)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: ar-views@envirolink.org
Subject: Upcoming Scientific Meetings
Message-ID: <19970411.113659.4799.2.chris.p.carrot@juno.com>

MAY

AUSTRALIA:
4-9:     The Australian Veterinary Association's Annual Conference is in
Brisbane, Australia.  Contact Doreen Culliver, Conference Manager, AVA
Conference Organizing Service, 7 Phipps Place, Deakin ACT 2600 Australia,
tel (06) 285 3600; fax (06) 285 3913; email:  avacos@ava.com.au;  
http//www.farmwide.com.au/nff/vetasscn/confer/conf1997.htm.

MARYLAND, USA:
5-6:     Microbiological Associates (MA) is holding its 11th Annual
Gentic and Molecular Toxicology Workshop, "Short Term Tests: Theoretical
Basis, Protocol Design, Data Analysis and Regulatory Requirements," in
Bethesda, MD.  Contact Pat Mulligan, tel: (301) 251-2911; fax: (301)
251-0437.

KENTUCKY, USA:
7-9:     The District Five Animal Meeting, "Lab Animal Science in the
21st Century," is being hosted by the Kentucky Branch AALAS in Lexington,
KY at the Campbell House Inn and Suites.  Contact: Richard S. Cluck, tel:
(606) 281-4927.

ALABAMA, USA:
11-14:  The American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine Forum will be
in Perdido Beach, AL.  Contact: Chuck McPherson, tel: (919) 859-5985.

FLORIDA, USA:
12-13:   Safe Capture International, Inc. is sponsoring "Chemical
Immobilization of Animals and Sedation and Immobilization and Anesthesia
of Non-Human Primates" in Orlando, FL.  Contact: Safe Capture
International, P.O. Box 206, Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin 53572, tel: (608)
767-3071.

OHIO, USA:
15-16:   Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Ohio
Scientific Education and Research Association, and the National
Institutes of Health Office for Protection from Research Risks are
sponsoring "Development of Institutional Disaster Plans" at Case Western
Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.  The workshop will
explore steps institutions may take in preparation for, and in response
to, a variety of natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, snow emergencies,
etc.) and human activities (vandalism, arson, etc.).  Contact: Margaret
Duber Snyder, PhD, Executive Director, Ohio Scientific Education and
Research Association, P.O. Box 14424, Columbus, OH 43214-0424, tel: (614)
784-1961; fax: (614) 784-1962; email:  director@osera.org.

GEORGIA, USA:
15-17: The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine is giving
the workshop "Web-Based Learning Tools" at the Geogia Center for
Continuing Education, Athens, GA, tel: (706) 542-2134 or 1-800-884-1381; 
fax: (706) 542-6596 or 1-800-884-1419; email: register@gactr.uga.edu.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 09:22:28 -0700
>From: igor@earthlink.net (Elephant Advocates)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: LA Zoo elephants
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Deborah Famiglietti
ELEPHANT ADVOCATES
Los Angeles, CA  90036

Manuel Mollinedo, Director
SENT VIA FAX
Los Angeles Zoo
April 7, 1997
5333 Zoo Drive
Los Angeles, CA  90027

Re:     Los Angeles Zoo elephants:  BILLY, GITA, RUBY, TARA & ANNIE (deceased)
        San Diego Wild Animal Park elephant:  SABU (deceased)

Dear  Manuel:

On March 26, 1997, for one hour, I observed the following problems with
elephants who are "living" at the LA Zoo; TARA, RUBY, GITA and BILLY.

I observed TARA and GITA, standing in the sun with no water to wade in,
just a stagnant foul hole of water in the pit where they were held.  Maybe
that is where ANNIE got the supposed Salmonella -- from stagnant water.
TARA looks very ill, weak, dehydrated and emaciated.  She lost 860 pounds
in three weeks time.  I suspect TARA has tuberculosis.  Is this true?  If
so, what experts have you brought in and what program has been implemented
to help her?   The LA Zoo is not capable of caring for her.  Please call in
Dr. Perry from Thousand Oaks as an elephant consultant.

I observed RUBY, now exhibited alone, constantly rocking and swaying from
side to side.  She was housed with ANNIE who was "found dead" on March
22nd.  RUBY appeared neurotic, exhibiting classic stereotypic behavior.
She appeared distressed and bored, as if she doesn't know what to do with
herself.  She appeared to go in a trance as she rocked incessantly, in an
attempt to escape her suffering.

I observed BILLY, the isolated and irritated bull elephant, frantically
bobbing his head up and down, non stop.  He did not stop the fast head
bobbing the one hour I was there, except for a few moments here and there.
His penis was erect, maybe he is in musth.  I saw  him in November, his
penis was erect at that time also.  How degrading all this is!   High
levels of protein, such as a diet of oat hay, will prolong the musth
period.  Is the zoo prolonging BILLY'S musth?  What program is in place to
alleviate his discomfort?

The "zoo enrichment program" gave BILLY an obligatory rubber truck tire as
if this pathetic attempt of "environment enrichment" would ease his pain
and suffering.  He began to masturbate with the tire so the zoo took it
away.  An insane, lonely, bored, neurotic and masturbating elephant is not
the wholesome animal learning center that the zoo public relations
department insists it is.

The entire elephant exhibit is BARREN and completely void of stimulation or
anything natural for the elephants.  There are no trees, fresh drinking
water, mud or leaves for the elephants.  In the case of Billy and Ruby,
there aren't even other elephants for the elephants; who are herd animals.

I am not suggesting we make the exhibit bigger or better.  I suggest we
close this antiquated pit.  The zoo is not able to properly care for
elephants as evidenced by continual elephant health problems, disease,
suffering, neurotic behavior, and death.
Even though the LA Zoo press release states ANNIE died of Salmonella, I
suspect, ANNIE, who was "found dead," on March 22, on her cement slab
behind bars, had tuberculosis.  Is this true?

ANNIE'S medical records state she had diarrhea for at least eight days. She
had blood in her stool for 17 days, on and off, before she died. The zoo
press release merely states she had diarrhea for one week before she died.
She had "blood", "mucus"  and "tissue tags" in her diarrhea.  During that
critical and very painful time period:

        1)  She was not given an IV.
        2)  Water was not made available to her at night, except for the
night  she died.
        3)  She was left unattended and not put on 24 hour watch.
                The "barn closed at 4:00" and she was merely "found dead"
the next morning.
        4)  LA Zoo medical and/or elephant journal records state: (not a
complete synopsis)
                "3/06/97...Annie...slight amount of blood in stool...will
contact vet"
                "3/08/97...Annie...walked 2X around yard (seemed in pain)
Gary vet (checked)
                "3/10/97...Annie...she is walking real soare.  (sic)
                "3/12/97...Annie...loss of weight is again noted..."
                "3/14/97...Annie...has the runs..."
                "3/15/97...Annie - refused food, meds, water...blood taken
...Annie had squirts,
                        blood in feces (sent to H/C)... she had a B/M with
blood..."
                "3/17/97...Annie: Still not eating much, vet not worried
about it yet..."
                "3/18/97...A.M. Annie - still passing blood and mucsos
(sic) in semi solid
                        feces...still in p.m. liquid squirting out her
rectum...water is very important to get
                        down her..."
                "3/19/97...Annie -still discharging watery feces & tissue
no blood, layed (sic)
                        down for 1 hour, took 18 hot dog buns..."
                "3/20/97...Annie...very painful cramping..."
                "3/24/97...Vets came and got trash cans with Annie's
remains latter (sic) in
                        afternoon."


How did ANNIE contract Salmonella?  Was it from stagnant water or rotten
food?  I request an investigation into the cause of her death and
contracting Salmonella and/or tuberculosis.

Did Alan Roocroft, elephant consultant who is employed at both places,
transmit Salmonella or tuberculosis to or from the San Diego Wild Animal
Park and the Los Angeles Zoo?

I suspect SABU, the elephant who suddenly dropped dead at the San Diego
Wild Animal Park, on 3/24/97, died of Salmonella or tuberculosis.  On
3/25/97, when I asked Deborah Dunbar at the San Diego Wild Animal Park if
SABU had diarrhea or weight loss she told me "we have no idea why SABU
died... I know nothing... there were no signs of illness...it was sudden."
A follow-up conversation on 4/1/97 delivered the same reply.

Lastly, as available through the California Public Records Act, please send
me the elephant "barn" videotape of March 20 -24, which includes Annie's
death, the necropsy that was done in the barn and the hauling out of her
remains.

Please respond at your earliest convenience and make this letter part of
public record under the category "elephants."  If a category such as this
does not exist, please create one and tell me where this letter will be
filed for public inspection


For the elephants, I am,

(electronically sent, no signature)

Debbie Famiglietti


cc:     Wm. Ron De Haven, DVM, USDA Deputy Administrator,
                Regulatory Enforcement and Animal Care
        V. Wensley Koch, DVM, USDA Supervisory Animal Care Specialist
                Western Region, Animal Care
        Los Angeles Board of Recreation & Park Commissioners
        Senator Tom Hayden
        Mayor Richard Riordan
        LA City Council President John Ferraro
        LA City Councilman Mike Feuer

AR NOTE:  Alan Roocroft is the man who beat Dunda the elephant (Dunda was
at San Diego Wild Animal Park, now at Oakland Zoo) to a pulp.  He ordered
her beat over the head with ax handles while she screamed, rolled over and
peed blood.  He "stretched" out her four legs with "block and tackle"
(chains) and beat her over a period of days.  I have the State Humane
Officers Investigative Report if anyone wants it.  Dunda was beaten
repeatdly over the head with ax handles "with the force of a home run
swing."






Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:23:05 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) USDA's ADC publicity/propaganda
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from APHIS e-mail:
--------------------------------

                                   Mark Collinge       (208) 334-1440
                      
                                   Stuart McDonald  (303) 969-6560


USDA AGENCY HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN HUMANS AND
WILDLIFE

     BOISE, Idaho, April 11, 1997--There is a wildlife agency within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides help with everything from
woodpeckers drilling holes in houses to predators attacking cattle and
sheep.

     "When wild animals cause damage to property, threaten public health
and safety, feed on valuable crops, kill livestock and pets, or harm
endangered species, we're here to provide safe and responsible
assistance," said Mark Collinge, state director for the animal damage
control program in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a part
of USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area. 

     ADC assistance is available in every state from professional wildlife
biologists who are trained in handling a variety of situations.  Following is
a review of various ADC activities in Idaho.

     -- Grizzly bear kills sheep and ransacks camp:  Two Teton County
sheep producers notified ADC in August of 1996 that a bear had killed
three sheep and ransacked one of their sheepherder's camps.  The
incident took place in the Targhee National Forest near the
Idaho-Wyoming state line.  After receiving the complaint, ADC personnel
traveled to the site and learned that another three sheep had been killed. 
ADC examined the sheep carcasses and determined that a grizzly bear
was responsible.  Fearing the bear would return and kill additional sheep
or attack the sheepherder or visitors to the forest, ADC worked with the
Wyoming Game and Fish Department to radio-collar the bear and safely
relocate it to a remote area. 

     -- Bears and beehives:  During May, 1996, ADC responded to several
requests for assistance from farmers who complained that black bears
were destroying many of their beehives.  In one of these incidents, ADC
personnel were able to capture one of the bears in a live-culvert trap. 
With the help of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, the bear was
relocated to a site several miles away and released.

     -- Wolf management:  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has deemed
the reintroduction of gray wolves in Idaho a success, but concerns from
livestock producers about wolf predation on cattle and sheep have
resulted in requests for ADC assistance.  In one such case, a
sheep-grazing permittee in the Payette National Forest reported that a
pair of wolves were attacking his sheep.  ADC confirmed wolf predation,
and began efforts to live-capture and relocate the wolves.  A total of 27
sheep were injured or killed by wolves over a three-week period before
one of the pair was captured.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
relocated the wolf to a remote area in the Selway Bitteroot Wilderness,
and no further attacks on the sheep occurred. 

         -- Bear responsible for death of over 300 Sheep:  ADC was
requested to  investigate a reported "pile-up" of sheep in the Boise
National Forest.  Upon investigation, the sheepherder described how he
chased a "big bear" away from his herd of sheep.  When he went to
arouse the sheep the next day, he found bear tracks indicating that the
sheep were chased from their bed ground.  He continued to follow the
tracks and discovered many of the sheep had plunged 40-50 feet into a
large hollow at the head of a ravine.  The herder was not able to report
the incident until three days later.  Because of the delay, ADC personnel
were unable to make an actual account of the number of dead sheep
due to decomposition.  However, the herder immediately corralled the
remaining sheep and was short 333 ewes and 9 lambs from a count
conducted only two weeks earlier.

     An additional ewe was discovered a short distance below the pile-up
site where it apparently had been killed and fed upon by a black bear. 
ADC recommended that the sheep be moved out of the area as soon as
possible to prevent more damage.     

     -- Pigeons create problems near Pocatello:  An industrial facility near
Pocatello requested ADC's assistance in dealing with a chronic pigeon
problem.  Accumulations of pigeon droppings were a continuing
maintenance problem and plant managers were also concerned about
the health threat to their employees since pigeons are known to transmit
diseases to humans.  Limited pigeon control work had been carried out
by some of the plant's employees, but with only short-term results.  ADC
recommended an integrated approach using pigeon removal to address
the immediate problem, and exclusion, where practical, as part of a
long-term solution.  Over 500 pigeons were removed during a five week
period.

     For more information on the ADC program in Idaho, please call Mark
Collinge at (208) 334-1440. 
 
                               #
                                
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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 13:25:47 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) ADC--first two parts
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parts 1 and 2 (apologies for posting in the wrong order) from APHIS e-mail:
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                                   Doug Hall   (706) 546-2020
                                   Ed Curlett  (301) 734-3256 


USDA AGENCY HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN HUMANS AND
WILDLIFE

     ATHENS, Ga., April 11, 1997--There is a wildlife agency within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides help with everything from
beavers, Canada geese, and white-tailed deer to blackbirds, predators,
vultures, pigeons, or even bats in the belfry.

     "When wild animals cause damage to property, threaten public health
and safety, feed on valuable crops, kill livestock and pets, or harm
endangered species, we're here to provide safe and responsible
assistance," said Douglas Hall, state director for the animal damage
control program in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, part of
USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area. 

     ADC assistance is available in every state from professional wildlife
biologists who are trained in handling a variety of situations.  Following is
a review of recent ADC activities in Georgia.  

     -- Residential deer are adapting well:  In select areas where sport
hunting may no longer be the best option, the program in Georgia has
been assisting communities with deer management programs to help
maintain healthy herds, reduce property damage, and reduce deer-auto
collisions.

     -- Too many geese:  The nonmigratory Canada goose is a fairly new
wildlife species for Georgia, and they provide enjoyment through their
beauty and sport.  However, these birds end up in areas like public
parks, golf courses, airports, or residential areas where they create
unsanitary and/or unsafe conditions.  During 1996, the ADC program
successfully captured and relocated problem geese from more than 17
impacted areas and found more suitable habitats in which these birds
can live.  

     -- Speaking of airports:  Wildlife species are invading airports, and
their presence threatens the safety of air travel.  Just last year, in
Alaska, a jet collided with a flock of Canada geese.  The plane and all 26
passengers were lost.  In Georgia, ADC continually works with airport
officials to minimize the danger created by geese, deer, beaver, hogs,
pigeons, blackbirds or any other wild animals that cause problems at the
airport.

     -- Pigeons, pigeons everywhere:  For a bird that is not even from
America, this urban invader has grown in numbers and in the problems
they create.  Pigeons invade cities, towns, and industrial sites leaving
behind potential health and safety problems as well as property
destruction.  Through a professional management approach, Georgia
ADC employees continually provide assistance to reduce problems
caused by pigeons.
                                  
     -- Beaver busters:  The ADC program provides valuable service by
controlling a variety of problems created by the industrious, ever-busy
beaver.  Georgia beavers are responsible for an estimated $1 million in
losses annually created by flooding agriculture, pasture, timber,
roadways, and culverts.  Damage also occurs to structures, roadways,
pond dams, and to the individual landscape of homeowners and
neighborhood communities.  

     -- A partnership:  The ADC program has a cooperative, working
partnership with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and
together they work to resolve human-wildlife conflicts utilizing sound,
professional wildlife management principles.  ADC's goal is to strike a
balance between human interests and the needs of wildlife.  ADC
wildlife biologists also give presentations at schools, civic club meetings,
and landowner seminars to help educate the public in wildlife damage
management.

        For more information on the ADC program in Georgia, please call
Douglas Hall at (706) 546-2020.  
                            
*****************************
                                   Les Terry   (410) 269-0057
                                   Ed Curlett   (301) 734-3256


USDA AGENCY HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN HUMANS AND
WILDLIFE

     ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 11, 1997--There is a wildlife agency within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides help with everything from
bats in the belfry to vultures on the roof.

     "When wild animals cause damage to property, threaten public health
and safety, feed on valuable crops, kill livestock and pets, or harm
endangered species, we're here to provide safe and responsible
assistance," said Les Terry, state director for the animal damage control
program in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a part of
USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area. 

     ADC assistance is available in every state from professional wildlife
biologists who are trained in handling a variety of situations.

     -- Nuisance wildlife information line:  For the past six years, a
toll-free
phone line has assisted more than 48,500 Maryland residents with
wildlife-related problems.  The service, established in cooperation with
the Wildlife and Heritage Division of the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources, receives calls about animal-related problems.  Approximately
60 percent of the calls involve human health and safety problems caused
by wildlife.  The number is 1-800-442-0708.

     For more information on the ADC program in Maryland, please call Les
Terry at (410) 269-0057.

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
>From: BHGazette@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Lori Gauthier, animal rescuer
Message-ID: <970411141923_872586510@emout15.mail.aol.com>

Remember the Kentucky dog groomer who was rescuing dogs/cats from flood
waters in March?

I just spoke to her, and she's still hard at work trying to rescue, feed,
board and find treatment for the animals -- and also trying convince some
people she's not spending the money on a trip to Cancun or some such ...a
bogus charge:  she's got the endorsement of HART in California (I spoke to
them, too) and Terri Crisp of UAN.

And she still needs help....even though the local paper ran a front page
story about what she's doing all alone,  not one person has offered to help
her do anything.  Right now  she's in desperate need of flea/tick
treatments/collars.  Money, of course would be wonderful.  And she'll even be
grateful for dog food coupons and--of all things-- bottle caps from two-liter
bottles.

Send anything to:
Lori Gauthier
A Dog's Life
2342 US Hwy 68
Maysville, KY 41056
606-759-4600

(on checks, please indicate "Pet Relief/Flood Disaster" on Memo line)

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:22:13 -0700
>From: ScottVanValkenburg 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: action alert-dolphin capture
Message-ID: <13251317709.19.SCOTT@mathom.xkl.com>

The Dallas World Aquarium is planning to capture and display Amazon River 
Dolphins. Only one facility (Pittsburgh Zoo) currently has one of these 
endangered fresh-water dolphins in captivity. The animals are found in South
America.

Please help stop this capture. Fax notices to Daryl Richardson, President,
Dallas World Aquarium, and demand that he withdraw plans to capture and 
display Amazon River Dolphins (or any marine mammal!). Fax him at 214/720-
2242. Please act today.

Also, please send a POLITE letter (or cc the above fax) to the Mayor of 
Dallas, Honorable Ronald Kirk, by fax to 214/670-0646. Let him know that you
won't visit any facility that houses captive marine mammals, and that any 
city allowing capture and display will be viewed unfavorably by the public.

Thanks for acting to keep dolphins free.

scott
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
>From: nnetwork@cwnet.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: FEDERAL SUIT FILED FOR TONY WONG
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>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:44:23
>From: nnetwork@cwnet.com
>Subject: FEDERAL SUIT FILED FOR TONY WONG
>
>ALERT
>URGENT NEWS ADVISORY
>April 11, 1997
>
>
>
>
>Landmark Lawsuit to be Filed In Federal
>Court Friday to Force State To End
>Force-Feeding of HungerStriker
>
    >INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Lawyers for hunger-striking political activist Anthony
Wong early Friday morning sent a letter to the Indiana Dept. Of Corrections
and Indiana Boys School -- with copies to the governor and attorney general
-- demanding they immediately stop force-feeding the 16-year-old, or they
will be sued in federal court for violating the youth's civil rights.
>
    >Wong has been jailed since Feb. 24 and is on his 47th day of a hunger-strike.
>
    >The suit -- asking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for
physical and emotional pain and suffering -- will be filed later Friday in
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis
Division, according to documents prepared by Stephen Laudig, of the
Indianapolis law firm of Laudig George Rutherford & Sipes.
>
    >The suit charges that the state "conspired to force feed (Wong) and
force-feed him animal by-products," violating Wong's free exercise of
"deeply and sincerely held spiritual, moral and ethical beliefs under the
First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and under the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act." It further claims that Wong's rights under the 8th
Amendment have also been violated, specifically the right to not suffer
"cruel and unusual punishment."
>
    >Laudig is asking for a permanent injunction by the federal courts to the
force-feeding, and will file for a temporary restraining order if the school
doesn't cease its practice by 2 p.m. Friday.
>
    >"Force-feeding animal products, animal by-products and/or animal-tested
products to Anthony B. Wong is the spiritual, moral and ethical equivalent
of force-feeding pork to an adherent of the Jewish or Islamic faith or
force-feeding beef to an observant Catholic on Good Friday," Laudig said in
his demand letter issued Friday.
>
    >He went on to warn that: "I must insist upon an immediate statement from
you that this practice (force-feeding) be stopped. If a response is not
forthcoming prior to the next scheduled force-feeding (2 p.m. Friday), a
complaint will be filed."
>
    >The 5-count suit names Kevin Moore, Supt. of the Indiana Boys School in
Plainfield, Ed Cohn, Commissioner of the Indiana Dept. Of Corrections and
Larry Lovell, Dept. Of Corrections physician at the Indiana Boys School as
defendants.
>-30-
>(NOTE: For more information, or copies of the lawsuit, contact Cres
Vellucci (916) 452-7179 or Steve Laudig (317) 443-7194)
>
>
>Activist Civil Liberties Committee
>PO Box 19515, Sacramento, CA 95819 (916) 452-7179
>

Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 13:18:44 -0000
>From: 
To: "ar-news" 
Subject: Fwd: APHIS Press Release ADC Helps Solve Maryland's Problems Be
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I'm sorry, but I think I'm going to vomit...  This is just one of 
seventeen releases sent out for different states.

--David
----------------------

Subject:     APHIS Press Release ADC Helps Solve Maryland's Problems 
Between
Sent:        4/11/97 1:16 PM
Received:    4/11/97 8:38 AM
>From:        Questa Glenn, qglenn@aphis.usda.gov
To:          press_releases@info.aphis.usda.gov

                                                    
                                   
                                   Les Terry   (410) 269-0057
                                   Ed Curlett   (301) 734-3256


USDA AGENCY HELPS SOLVE PROBLEMS BETWEEN HUMANS AND
WILDLIFE

     ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 11, 1997--There is a wildlife agency within the
U.S. Department of Agriculture that provides help with everything from
bats in the belfry to vultures on the roof.

     "When wild animals cause damage to property, threaten public health
and safety, feed on valuable crops, kill livestock and pets, or harm
endangered species, we're here to provide safe and responsible
assistance," said Les Terry, state director for the animal damage control
program in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, a part of
USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area. 

     ADC assistance is available in every state from professional wildlife
biologists who are trained in handling a variety of situations.

     -- Nuisance wildlife information line:  For the past six years, a 
toll-free
phone line has assisted more than 48,500 Maryland residents with
wildlife-related problems.  The service, established in cooperation with
the Wildlife and Heritage Division of the Maryland Department of Natural
Resources, receives calls about animal-related problems.  Approximately
60 percent of the calls involve human health and safety problems caused
by wildlife.  The number is 1-800-442-0708.

     For more information on the ADC program in Maryland, please call Les
Terry at (410) 269-0057.

                               #

NOTE: USDA news releases, program announcements, and media
advisories are available on the Internet.  Access the APHIS Home Page
by pointing your Web browser to
http://www.aphis.usda.gov and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases." 
Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press
releases automatically.  Send an e-mail message to
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from David Meyer
Last Chance for Animals
lcanimal@ix.netcom.com
http://www.lcanimal.org
8033 Sunset Blvd., #35
Los Angeles, CA  90046
310/271-6096 office, 310/271-1890 fax

Read the new book "In Your Face, from Actor to Animal Activist",
the true story of Last Chance for Animals founder, Chris DeRose
Details available at http://www.lcanimal.org

Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 18:05:56 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) APHIS press releases
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To find the USDA Press Release concerning ADC for your particular state, go
to the website:  

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/press/1997/04/apr.html

These are the listings(states):

>
> Georgia Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Idaho Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Indiana Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Kansas Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Maine Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Massachusetts Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Maryland Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Minnesota Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Mississippi Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Montana Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> N.C. Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Nebraska Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Nevada Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Oklahoma Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Oregon Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> S.C. Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Utah Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> Wash. Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife
> W.Va. Wildlife Problems
>                                 USDA Agency Helps Solve Problems Between
Humans and Wildlife



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