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38 Animal Welfare Inst. Q. 1 (1989-1990)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0038 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY P.O. BOX 3650 WASHINGTON, DC 20007 SPRING 1989 VOL. 38, NO. 1 The African elephant must be declared endangered Thirty-eight animal welfare and conserva- tion groups submitted a formal petition to Secretary of the Interior Lujan on February 16th requesting him to list the African ele- phantas an endangered species, pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The petition cites poaching and smuggling by the commercial ivory trade as the pri- mary cause of the precipitous de- cline of elephant populations throughout Africa. Interior listed the African elephant as 'threatened' in 1978 having decided to de- pend on the Convention for International Trade in Endan- gered Species to regulate the 4 ivory trade, in hopes that ille- gal ivory exports would disap- pear. However, a report sub- mitted to CITES by the United 3 Nations EnvironmentProgram recognized that in 1987 'legal - exports accounted for only 22% of the trade.' Illegal, or 2 poached, ivory is the norm to- day. In 1986 alone, approxi- mately 89,000 elephants are estimated to have died, pri- marily as a result of poaching, to supply the world ivory trade. Stop Press May 15,1989 The United States has joined Tanzania, Hungary, Austria, Kenya, and Gambia in pro- posing Appendix I listing for the African elephant. Somalia, Chad, Niger and Senegal are expected to join. O- Elephant population in millions (estimates) It is estima elephants ro Today, ther 500,000 rem The African elephant is experiencing a population crash in at least 90% of its range. The African Elephant and Rhino Specialist Group estimated in 1987 that 11 African nations had elephant populations numbering less than 1,000 animals, and another eight had fewer than 5,000 ele- phants. The African elephant is without a doubt in danger of ex- tinction in virtually all of its his- toric range. The petition cites 1) the increased availability of automatic weapons to poachers as a result of wars and civil unrest and 2) the rapidly rising price of ivory, 1970 as basic causes for the mas- sive poaching and quotes from R. Barnes' contribu- tion to the African Elephant Database Project: . . . it is no surprise that whole vil- lages should have aban- doned their normal farming activities in order to turn to full-time ivory poaching. Professor Colin W. Clark of the University 1 1 of British Columbia's Institute of Applied Mathematics is 1989 quoted in the peti- tion. An authority on economics af- fecting endangered species, he writes: It is a fact of eco- nomic life that the ted that 5 million over-exploitation of amed Africa in 1970. species, even to the e may be less than (Continued on aining. page 8) Cloak and dagger at US Surgical A commercial laboratory, US Surgical of Norwalk, Connecticut, has gained notori- ety from increasingly suspicious circum- stances surrounding the case of a woman who allegedly sought to kill its president and founder, Leon C. Hirsch. When the news first broke that Fran Trutt had been arrested by Norwalk police as she was placing a pipe bomb filled with nails near Leon Hirsch's reserved parking place at US Surgical, some New York papers devoted their whole first page to the news. Huge headlines, Bow Wow Bomber and Puppy Love, carried what appeared to be at the time a simple message; an enraged animal lover had tried to murder the head of a laboratory. But local Connecticut newspapers had, from the start, asked more questions. The company eventually admitted using spies, according to The New York Times, (January 26, 1989) to infiltrate animal- rights organizations since the early 1980's. (Continued on page 2) *Immuno loses in libel suit ............................ 5 * Fur prices fall .................... 7 * Ambassador fired for smuggling..............8 * Prince William Sound: A grisly graveyard...........9 * Astrid Lindgren wins Schweitzer Medal ..........10 * Murder in the Amazon ...................... 14 * Books ...............................16 ,377)

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