Animals articles from December 2001

Animals archives from December 2001

250 Scientists call for protecting arctic refuge.(Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... As the Clinton administration winds down, 250 scientists are urging that special action be taken to protect the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil drilling. Signed by such luminaries as biologist Paul Ehrlich of...

Logging in the Sierra Nevada threatens species, sparks lawsuit.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... A federal-court judge will consider the request of conservationists to shut down logging in the Sierra Nevada until the federal government provides a plan to protect the California spotted owl and the Pacific fisher. The lawsuit, filed in...

Updates.(wildlife protection news)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Their taste for catfish may soon turn cormorants and pelicans into targets for agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), raising concerns among animal advocates. The USDA'S appropriation bill includes a directive to control the...

Arctic oil: black gold or fool's gold?(environmental issues involved in oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 22, 2001... A George W. Bush's administration prepares to govern, one wildlife issue is sure to spark intense debate: opening up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling and development. First set aside by...

Aloha: hello or goodbye?(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... I enjoyed reading the article "David versus Goliath" by Deborah Knight (Unsung Survivors, November/December 2000). It is important for Animals readers and others interested in conserving the shrinking biodiversity of the earth to recognize that...

Store-bought pup.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Concerning "Puppy Mills: Misery for Sale" (September/October 2000), it should be as simple as "never buy from a pet store or a dealer." Months of thought and consideration of our primarily indoor lifestyle preceded our decision to adopt a small...

On a wing and a prayer.(human-led migration of sandhill cranes to be expanded to include whooping cranes)
December 22, 2001... If a bold experiment succeeds, a second population of migrating whooping cranes may soon take take flight A few minutes before 9 A.M. on Saturday, November 11, 2000, 11 cranes arrived in central Florida after traveling more than 1,200 miles...

Joining the flock.(places to view migrating cranes)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Perhaps the best place to observe and learn about cranes is at the International Crane Foundation, located in south-central Wisconsin about Five miles north of Baraboo. ICF is open daily, 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., from May 1 to October 31. Contact ICF...

Rights and wrongs.(efforts to protect right whales)
December 22, 2001... More than a year has passed since their exhausting and emotionally wrenching struggle to save a rare North Atlantic right whale from the gill net wrapped around her body. But Charles "Stormy" Mayo and the other members of the rescue team from...

When love is blind.(adopting a blind dog)
December 22, 2001... Ed and Sue McDonough were thrilled when they learned they'd passed muster with the adoption coordinators at Yankee Golden Retriever rescue, a Massachusetts organization dedicated to helping the dogs for which it is named. There was just one...

Helpful hints.(caring for a blind dog)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... From negotiating the house to handling the community at large, Caroline D. Levin's Living with Blind Dogs is a primer on how to help a dog adjust to impaired vision. Here's a sampling of her tip's * Both indoors and in the backyard, to...

Mates in Peril.(primates in danger of extinction)
December 22, 2001... Only the oldest hunters could recall the red-cheeked monkeys that used to sit high in the rainforest canopy on the border of Ivory Coast and Ghana. But even they could not lead researchers to Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey. This summer,...

The biology of movement.(research on mammals' movements)
December 22, 2001... Biologists were perplexed. The two rabbit species looked nearly identical and seemed to inhabit identical habitats. But one--the eastern cottontail, an introduced interloper--was pushing out the native species, the New England cottontail. No...

Health watch.(pets and West Nile virus; seizures in dogs; vaccination of cats; other pet health issues)
December 22, 2001... Are my pets at risk of acquiring West Nile virus? Until recently, reports Jeff Bay, D.V.M., an internist at Rowley Memorial Animal Hospital in Springfield, a division of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...

Dispassionate books for compassionate readers.(Review)
December 22, 2001... The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The War Between Animal Research and Animal Protection. By Deborah Ruclacille. 390 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $25 hardcover. To some, the battle between vivisection supporters and detractors seems...