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20 Info. Rep.: Animal Welfare Inst. 1 (1971)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0020 and id is 1 raw text is: Jan.-Feb.-March, 1971 AWI URGES MORATORIUM 0 KILLING OF WHALES At the annual convention of the Nationa, Teachers Association, Washington, 1.C., M 29, 1971, the Animal Welfare luistitute pre booth exhibit to To-cus attention on the plig whales Many species of whales are headin, tinction. Included in the exhibit was the g produced on page 3 which demonstrates the ward so-called commercial extinction on th one species of baleen whale after another. The Humpback Whale, whose voice has been heard nationwide, including audiences at York Philharmonic and folk concerts alike, become the best known species because of t sea recordings made by Dr. Roger Payne of th feller University. Yet it has been hunted to that there is a question as to whether this sp survive even if no further HIumnpacks are A recording of The Song of the Humpbac played throughout the duration of the Nati ence Teachers Association convention at th Welfare Institute booth where earphones w able for six listeners at one time. A Moratorium on the killing of whales has posed by the Animal Welfare Institute, the tional Society for the Protection of Animals Society for Animal Protective Legislation. A r of at least ten yea-is is needed to save whales. Whaling ships are catching more smll now because of the scarcity of the large or ever, when lIrge ones can be had, they, too, even in som,' instances members of species theoretically protected by agreement of the tional Wh aling ( Coninvission. Tis June the International Vhaling Co is scheduled to meet in XVashington. D)C, 1 mission was at med in 1 37 and sets quota killing of whales each year; how evcr, the committees recommendations air regularly ws1hei the miemhers of the CO rOinnssioin vo closed doors. The rcsult is the, steady declii whales, with disastrous losses in the popi many species. T major whale-protective actions have b by the United States government in iecent first, the inclusion of the speii and baleen the Endangered Species List by then Sec the Interior, Malter Hlickcl; second, an orde reta N of Conrineice, Maurice Stans which ends whaling by United States concerns. T order carried out the intent of the Hickel issuing the order Seci etary Stans said, In thoughtlessness and irrespotnsibility have rei fewer than 120 different species of wild life planet. The United States is now in the possible position' to urge the needed rorat (Continued on page 3) BASIC CARE OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS PUBLISHED IN GREEK Through the efforts of Dr. T. G. Antika AWI manual, Basic Care of Experimental has been translated and published in the C guage. It is now being distributed in resea tutions and hospitals in Greece where ex animals are used. The manual has previously been translated lished in Japanese, adapted and published in and translated into Spanish. Funds are needed to print the Spanish ed readers of the Information Report are urged with this badly needed project by making tions to the Animal Welfare Institute for th Donations are deductible in computing incon ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE P.O. Box 3492, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10017 Vol. 20, No. I 'N SENATOR PERCY PRESENTS SCHWEITZER MEDAL TO I Science BOB CROMIE arch 26- Bob Cmmie, 1070 Schweitzer Medallist, had writien 'ented a 25 cuns ag init cruelly to aiiils ht of the g of e when Se ntor Charles Peicy, J1li n. ervor Senator, raph e- presented the mcdal to hm December sixteenth at move to- the annual meeting of the Animal Welfare Institute. e to- A powerful writer, Mr. Cromie's ofdignation is e pat ofexpressed in terms which fr equently get; results, The recently week before the Schweitzer ceremony, The Chicago thecen Tribune was running a Cromie column beginning has nw The Indianapolis Jaycees have qut shooting that he now town's pigeons. Instead, with the approval of Humane e Rocke- Society officers and the cooperation of GD. Searle the point & Co. of Skokie, they will feed te pigeons corn i- tee poin pregnated with a chemlosterilant that inhibits the lay- ecies can killed. ing of fertile eggs but does not harm the adult birds. k Whale This happy ending came after a series of columns on onal Sci- the subject. e Animal Most impressive is Mr. Croiie's masterful criticism of cruel experiments on animials by high school stu- ere avail- dents. Unless you have a toleranc, an indifference been pro- to suffering and the iiaiility to iecognize idiocy Interna- solemnly posing as research, I suggest that you stay and the away from the so-called science fairs which seem to est period have proliferated in the past few years. After listing the great some of the projects displayed in the 1970 Interia- all whales tional Science Faii he ended with thc question: Do es; how- you suppose they now give high school crdits in are killed, beginning and advanced sadism? (The 1971 Inter- which are iational Science Faii will be held May 10-15, in Kan- Iteina - sas City,Missouri)o immissioli the columns Mi Coiiic wrote ciitieiziog ruelty by 'he Corn contebtant' in the Westinghouse Talent Search. I ~y o Pie the end hie was r itto wki te: ''Ilce is a hit of in- s onT the scientific . viuition which w-'11 nterest all who wrote lrotest exceeded ing etters to the Westnghouse Elic corporaion te hilld after reading in this bolehm a find tionths ago aboot ne of the awaids made br aiial exeriiiie 'I lion by high ilation of school students ompetiig in the Webtiiigi(ise sc ece talent k-ach, eeri taken One ot those rotester s has fot waided a i yfirom months: a Westinghoise vice preet which says whales on 'Ii view of the concrn you expres -el to us re- retary of girding xp-riiientatioi involving annuals, you will tbe irterested to know that I have been advised by effect ivelv Science Service in Washington of its plan, to pro- 'he Stans hibit ie of atiials in xpvliments aii' projects for listing. In the Westinghouse Science T eit Search, beginning the past, with the 107071 competition. moved no Congratulationz to \Vestinghouse, ad thanks to from our all whose letters undoubtedly played a major ai in strongest this decision. orium on In a running battle against turkey shoots in which a fee is paid to shoot at tetherecd turkeys, Mr. Croinie noted: A man who identifies himself as a mlemiber of the Illinois State Rifb., association, the Loyal Qi'der of M'voose Rod and Gun club, the National Rifle as- sociation, and the Mcllenry Sportsmen's club, has writteii to defend the live turkey shoot held annually tzidcs, the by the Kwanis club of Kewaskum, Wis. Animals, His thesis is thi since turkeys sometimes are reek lan- killed by having their necks wrung or heads chopped rch insti- off with hatcneL it is folish to object to the Kiwani- perimental ans of Kewaskum tying then turkeys tl aid inviting the neighbors iii to have funl by shoot ing thent. and pub- My only reply is that my definition of spott and German, that of the writer, a resident of Park Ridge, some- how fail to coincide. 1 did iiot irealize it wvas sporting ition, and to shoot at a live target which was tied dowi. I am to assist happy to be enlightened in the matter. The Kewas- contribu- kui turkey shoot is now a thing of the past. e purpose. Mr. Cromic, who is host of two television shows, ne tax, entertained those pesent at the ceremoiy with a ready 3 7? I T -1, C li .1vVIATION

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