‘How I became first an animal lover and second a politician’ – U.S. Congressman Sam Farr
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Animal Advocacy, Companion Animals, Entertainment and Sport Animals, Farmed Animals, Laboratory Animals, Puppy mills, Wildlife, Wildlife in Captivity | Tags: APHIS, Great Ape Protection Act, Rep. Sam Farr, Taking Action for Animals, The Humane Society of the United States 6 Comments »
U.S. Congressman Sam Farr in action on the floor of Congress / Photo: Congressman Sam Farr
While covering The Humane Society of the United States Taking Action for Animals (TAFA) conference recently, Animal Issues Reporter.org’s correspondent Catherine Cowan heard an impassioned speech by U.S. Congressman Sam Farr, a Democrat from California. TAFA and Rep. Farr’s staff members kindly provided the following transcript.
Speech at TAFA conference by Rep. Sam Farr:
You’ve asked a politician to say a few words tonight to a group of prominent animal lovers.
I thought it would be interesting to relate how I became first an animal lover and second a politician. Read the rest of this entry »
Cheetahs taken from Namibia to Cuban zoo ‘will be OK,’ says animal protection group
Posted: August 1, 2012 Filed under: Wildlife, Wildlife in Captivity | Tags: Cheetah Conservation Fund, cheetahs, Namibia wildlife, Namibia wildlife capture, Namibian seal cull, Noah's Ark 2, Noah's Ark II Leave a comment »
Cheetah protection group is ‘happy that Namibia’s incredible natural wealth will be shared with the Cuban people’ / Photo: BigStock
By Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
Namibia, already the target of heated criticism for the annual slaughter of desert seals on its Atlantic Coast (Cpt. Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd calls it “the world’s largest and cruelest marine mammal slaughter”), has drawn more outrage from animal advocates for a program now in progress to capture some 150 native wild animals and send them across the world to the Cuban national zoo.
However one animal protection group operating in Namibia, Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), supports the Namibian-Cuban “Noah’s Ark II” project, as it’s known.
CCF assistant director of international programs Patricia Tricorache recently explained the group’s views in the following email interview with Animal Issues Reporter (AIR). Read the rest of this entry »
Drugs and high stress could kill wildlife captured and exported by Namibia, says NSPCA
Posted: August 1, 2012 Filed under: Wildlife, Wildlife in Captivity | Tags: Namibia seal cull, Namibia wildlife capture, Noah's Ark II, South Africa NSPCA Leave a comment »
Namibian government might select younger animals as it traps and transfers wildlife to Cuban zoo, says NSPCA / Photo: BigStock
By Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
“Disgust” was the word an animal welfare organization used to describe its view of the Namibian government’s trap and transfer about 150 wild animals of a variety of species to the Cuban national zoo—the “Noah’s Ark II” project now in progress.
“These are captured from a large reserve and sent into small holding pens or bomas for a few months and then crated, exposed to noise and handling, long travelling times and extreme stress associated with all these processes,” a spokesperson for South Africa’s National Council of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) told Animal Issues Reporter in an email interview. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The capture has started’: Namibia traps wildlife for export to Cuba
Posted: July 31, 2012 Filed under: Companion Animals, Wildlife, Wildlife in Captivity | Tags: cheetahs, Cuba zoo, Cuban national zoo, Namibia seal cull, Namibia wildlife capture, Noah's Ark II, Parque Zoologico Nacional de Cuba 1 Comment »
Namibia plans to trap and send some 150 wild animals, possibly including cheetahs, to Cuba / Photo: BigStock
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
“The earth is not ours,” the Namibian Minister of Environment and Tourism told a group assembled at a country club earlier this month. “It is a treasure we hold in trust for future generations.”
During the same speech given at the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s Gala Dinner, Hon. Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said, “As you may all know by now, Namibia has decided to donate some game to the Republic of Cuba and the process of capture has started.”
According to the National Council of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) in neighboring South Africa, Namibia will take some 150 animals of a variety of species from the wild and transport them across the Atlantic to El Parque Zoológico Nacional de Cuba, the Cuban national zoo. Read the rest of this entry »
