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Thread-Index: AcpDf5mlb2kUznlsRJuWHpuSDrUV4A== From: "Member Societies" Sender: "Maggie Avison" To: "Member Societies" X-MC-Unique: 109100217442700602 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0087_01CA459F.0A11B650" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.6 (2005-12-07) on srv010118.webreus.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_NONELEMENT_20_30 autolearn=no version=3.0.6 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0087_01CA459F.0A11B650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="WINDOWS-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Member Society=20 =20 Welcome to the final issue of WSPA's Member Society Animal Welfare News Bulletin! =20 WSPA is working on a new website for member societies, which will include animal welfare news stories, so in future you will be able to read the stories there. More information about this to follow very shortly... =20 You will also receive a regular regional e-newsletter with stories and information relevant to your region.=20 =20 In the meantime, this is the last issue of the e-bulletin. As always, click on the link to read the full story. And please email any queries, suggestions or feedback to: membersocieties@wspa-international.org=20 =20 With best wishes from everyone at WSPA, =20 Maggie Avison Member Society Development Co-ordinator WSPA =20 =20 =20 MEMBER SOCIETY ANIMAL WELFARE NEWS BULLETIN =20 September 2009 =20 COMPANION ANIMALS =20 Article about the benefits of pets to human health (30 Sept)=20 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/pawprintpost/post/2009/10/pets-c an-help-keep-the-doctor-away/1=20 =20 Plan proposes to microchip all dogs in the UK (28 Sept)=20 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6237084/All-dogs-to-be-microchipp ed-with-owners-details-to-help-track-pets.html=20 =20 Beijing's mass dog cull looming (24 Sept)=20 http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/resources/news/dogs/beijing-s-mass-dog-cu ll-looming.htm=20 =20 Article about dog-waste composting (18 Sept)=20 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/ithacas-pioneers-of-dog-was te-composting/?hp=20 =20 USA: Article on dog-fighting in Chicago (17 Sept)=20 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8255660.stm=20 =20 'World's most expensive dog' - Tibetan Mastiff sold for $580,000 in China (11 Sept)=20 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6828862.ece=20 =20 Genetic analysis suggests dogs may have first been tamed in China, to be food (4 Sept)=20 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090904-dogs-tamed-china- food.html=20 =20 =20 ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT =20 USA: More than 1,200 horses killed at American racetracks in 2008 (6 Sept)=20 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2dhbdJZY6ocZiZ5xyjoQ7 8HYmzQD9AI2QN80=20 =20 =20 FARM ANIMALS =20 CIWF has done a blog chronicling the 39 day life of an average battery broiler chicken in the UK, complete with video http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html=20 =20 Brazil: World's largest meat exporter says no more Amazon deforestation beef (29 Sept)=20 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/worlds-largest-meat-exported-say s-no-amazon-deforestation-beef.php=20 =20 Kenya: Drought causes cattle deaths (17 Sept)=20 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/17/kenya-drought-cattle-deaths =20 USA: Article about contamination of water by agricultural run-off (17 Sept)=20 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=3D3=20 =20 Article about intensive frog farming (1 Sept)=20 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17717-intensive-frog-farming-takes -giant-leap-forward.html?DCMP=3DNLC-nletter&nsref=3Ddn17717# =20 =20 =20 WILDLIFE =20 BBC wildlife film archive goes online - hundreds of film clips from BBC Natural History Unit and background information on species made available on BBC's website=20 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gclaDEoIrRt7GcQmq Ec5nhZkFvTA=20 Watch it here, introduced by David Attenborough:=20 http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/=20 =20 Australia: Stress is pushing koala to extinction (30 Sept)=20 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/stress-is-pushing-the-ko ala-to-extinction-1795755.html=20 =20 Kenya seizes massive ivory haul (30 Sept)=20 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8283078.stm=20 =20 US may remove humpback whales from list of endangered species (29 Sept)=20 http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40533=20 =20 Unusual varieties of frogs are rapidly disappearing from Central America rainforests (29 Sept)=20 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/frogs-biodiversity-loss.html=20 =20 Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters (25 Sept)=20 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8272508.stm=20 =20 Iceland plans big whalemeat trade (25 Sept)=20 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8275732.stm=20 =20 EU drops demand for ban on commercial bluefin tuna fishing (22 Sept)=20 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-drops-demand-for-ban-o n-commercial-bluefin-tuna-fishing-1791167.html=20 =20 Hungry monkeys storm houses in Thailand (22 Sept)=20 http://en.rian.ru/strange/20090922/156218776.html=20 =20 Rwanda: Titus the famous gorilla has died (18 Sept)=20 http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/titus-the-gorilla-king-i s-dead-1789444.html=20 =20 Arctic geese skip migration as planet warms (16 Sept)=20 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html=20 =20 Monitoring illegal wildlife trade: DNA 'barcodes' for 25 hunted wildlife species sequenced (16 Sept)=20 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915113550.htm=20 =20 Nearly 50 pilot whales die after beaching in Argentina (15 Sept)=20 http://en.rian.ru/Environment/20090914/156122198.html=20 =20 Congo: Scale of gorilla poaching exposed (15 Sept)=20 http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8256000/8256464.stm=20 =20 Dolphin slaughter turns sea red as Japan hunting season returns (14 Sept) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/14/dolphin-slaughter-hunting-ja pan-taiji=20 =20 Plan to reintroduce cheetahs prompts conservation debate in India (14 Sept)=20 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6833186.ece=20 =20 Zimbabwe: Safari operators enraged as Zanu-PF rewards the faithful with stolen share of lucrative trade (14 Sept)=20 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/safari-operators-enraged- as-zanupf-rewards-the-faithful-with-stolen-share-of-lucrative-trade-1786 869.html=20 =20 Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discovered in Papua New Guinea (9 Sept)=20 http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40455=20 =20 Kenya: Poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100 elephants in the north of the country so far this year (9 Sept)=20 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32755115/ns/world_news-world_environment/=20 =20 Half of all fish consumed globally is now raised on farms, putting a significant strain on marine resources by consuming large amounts of feed made of wild fish harvested from the sea (9 Sept)=20 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090907162320.htm=20 =20 Iceland kills 150 whales including endangered fin whales (8 Sept)=20 http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/08/whale-slaughter-iceland-kills-150-whale s-including-endangered-fin-whales/=20 =20 Borneo: 46 rescued orangutans returned to the wild by helicopter (4 Sept)=20 http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0905-orangutans.html=20 =20 USA: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing (3 Sept)=20 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzTMcKelX74s55F7O6HAPE FYWTiAD9AFTKM00=20 =20 Fears for Indian tiger after Chinese green light for sale of animal products (3 Sept)=20 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6819403.ece=20 =20 =20 OTHER ANIMALS AND ISSUES =20 People who eat wild game shot by hunters have significantly higher levels of lead in their blood (29 Sept)=20 http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/lead-from-bullets- ends-up-in-wild-game-and-people=20 =20 Canada: Government won't ban imports of cat and dog fur because doing so might undermine Canada's support for the seal hunt (23 Sept)=20 http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/699762=20 =20 USA: Battle to save America's mustangs as government rounds up wild horses (12 Sept)=20 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article68315 71.ece=20 =20 Baby chimps show the same emotional range as human babies, but cry less (7 Sept)=20 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6 825441.ece=20 =20 South Africa weighs fate of 3,000 captive lions after canned hunting ban (1 Sept)=20 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=3D20601116&sid=3DapaWDVVdIoMk=20 =20 World Animal Day is on 4 October http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/index.asp=20 =20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- This email is from the World Society for the Protection of Animals and may = contain=20 information that is privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure.= 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Dear Member Society

 

Welcome to the final issue of WSPA’s Member Society Animal Welfare News Bulletin!

 

WSPA is working on a new website for member societies, which will include animal welfare news stories, so in future you will be able to read the stories there. More information about this to foll= ow very shortly…

 

You will also receive a regular regional e-newsle= tter with stories and information relevant to your region.

 

In the meantime, this is the last issue of the e-bulletin. As always, click on the link to read the full story. And please email any queries, suggestions or feedback to:

membersocieties@wspa= -international.org

 

With best wishes from everyone at WSPA,

 

Maggie Avison

Member Society Development Co-ordinator

WSPA  <= /o:p>

 =

 

MEMBER SOCIETY ANIMAL WELFARE NEWS BULLETIN

 

September 2009

 

COMPANION ANI= MALS

 

Article about the benefits of pets to human healt= h (30 Sept)

http://content.usatoday.com/communitie= s/pawprintpost/post/2009/10/pets-can-help-keep-the-doctor-away/1

 

Plan proposes to microchip all dogs in the UK (28 Sept)

http://www.telegraph.c= o.uk/news/uknews/6237084/All-dogs-to-be-microchipped-with-owners-details-to= -help-track-pets.html

 

Beijing’s mass dog cull looming (24 Sept)

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/resources/news/dogs/bei= jing-s-mass-dog-cull-looming.htm

 

Article about dog-waste composting (18 Sept)

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/ithaca= s-pioneers-of-dog-waste-composting/?hp

 

USA: Article on dog-fighting in Chi= cago (17 Sept)

http://news.= bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8255660.stm

 

‘World’s most expensive dog’ – Tibetan Mastiff sold for $580,000 in China (11 Sept)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6828862.ece

 

Genetic analysis suggests dogs may have first bee= n tamed in China, to be food (4 Sept)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090904-dogs= -tamed-china-food.html

 

 

ANIMALS IN ENTERTAINMENT

 

USA: More than 1,200 horses killed at American racetracks in 2008 (6 Sept) =

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2d= hbdJZY6ocZiZ5xyjoQ78HYmzQD9AI2QN80

 

 

FARM ANIMALS

 

CIWF has done a blog chronicling the 39 day life = of an average battery broiler chicken in the UK, complete with video<= /o:p>

http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html

 

Brazil: World’s largest meat exporter says no more Amazon deforestation beef = (29 Sept)

http://www.treehugger.com/files/20= 09/09/worlds-largest-meat-exported-says-no-amazon-deforestation-beef.php

 

Kenya: Drought causes cattle deaths (17 Sept)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/17/kenya-drought-cattle-deat= hs 

 

USA: Article about contamination of water by agricultural run-off (17 Sept)

http://ww= w.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=3D3

 

Article about intensive frog farming (1 Sept)

http:= //www.newscientist.com/article/dn17717-intensive-frog-farming-takes-giant-l= eap-forward.html?DCMP=3DNLC-nletter&nsref=3Ddn17717#

 

 

WILDLIFE=

 

BBC wildlife film archive goes online – hun= dreds of film clips from BBC Natural History Unit and background information on species made available on BBC’s website

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gc= laDEoIrRt7GcQmqEc5nhZkFvTA

Watch it here, introduced by David Attenborough: =

= http://www.bbc.co.uk/wildlifefinder/

 

Australia: Stress is pushing koala to extinction (30 Sept)

http://www.independent.co.uk/environme= nt/nature/stress-is-pushing-the-koala-to-extinction-1795755.html

 

Kenya seizes massive ivory haul (30 Sept)

http://news.bb= c.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8283078.stm

 

US may remove humpback whales from list of endang= ered species (29 Sept)

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40533

 

Unusual varieties of frogs are rapidly disappeari= ng from Central America rainforests (29 Sep= t)

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/29/frogs-biodiversity-loss.html

 

Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters (25 Sept) <= /p>

http://news.bbc.co= .uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8272508.stm

 

Iceland plans big whalemeat trade (25 Sept)

http://news.bbc.co= .uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8275732.stm

 

EU drops demand for ban on commercial bluefin tun= a fishing (22 Sept)

http://www.independent= .co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-drops-demand-for-ban-on-commercial-bluefin-tuna= -fishing-1791167.html

 

Hungry monkeys storm houses in Thailand (22 Sept)

http://en.rian.r= u/strange/20090922/156218776.html

 

Rwanda: Titus the famous gorilla has died (18 Sept)

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/t= itus-the-gorilla-king-is-dead-1789444.html

 

Arctic geese skip migration as planet warms (16 S= ept)

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/16/birds-migration-warming.html

 

Monitoring illegal wildlife trade: DNA 'barcodes'= for 25 hunted wildlife species sequenced (16 Sept)

http= ://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915113550.htm

 

Nearly 50 pilot whales die after beaching in Argentina<= /st1:place> (15 Sept)

http://en.ri= an.ru/Environment/20090914/156122198.html

 

Congo: Scale of gorilla poaching exposed (15 Sept)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8256000/8256464.stm

 

Dolphin slaughter turns sea red as Japan hunting season returns = (14 Sept)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/14/dolphin-slaught= er-hunting-japan-taiji

 

Plan to reintroduce cheetahs prompts conservation debate in India (14 Sept)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6833186.ece

 

Zimbabwe: Safari operators enraged as Zanu-PF rewards the faithful with stolen share = of lucrative trade (14 Sept)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/safari-operators= -enraged-as-zanupf-rewards-the-faithful-with-stolen-share-of-lucrative-trad= e-1786869.html

 

Lost world of fanged frogs and giant rats discove= red in Papua New Guinea<= /st1:country-region> (9 Sept)

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40455

 

Kenya: Poaching and drought-related hunger have killed more than 100 elephants in = the north of the country so far this year (9 Sept)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32755115/ns/world_news-world_environment/

 

Half of all fish consumed globally is now raised = on farms, putting a significant strain on marine resources by consuming large amounts of feed made of wild fish harvested from the sea (9 Sept)

http= ://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090907162320.htm

 

Iceland kills 150 whales including endangered fin whales (8 Sept)

http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/08/w= hale-slaughter-iceland-kills-150-whales-including-endangered-fin-whales/

 

Borneo: 46 rescued orangutans returned to the wild by helicopter (4 Sept)

http://news.mon= gabay.com/2009/0905-orangutans.html

 

USA: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing (3 Sept)

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gzT= McKelX74s55F7O6HAPEFYWTiAD9AFTKM00

 

Fears for Indian tiger after Chinese green light = for sale of animal products (3 Sept)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6819403.ece

 

 

OTHER ANIMALS= AND ISSUES

 

People who eat wild game shot by hunters have significantly higher levels of lead in their blood (29 Sept)

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.or= g/ehs/newscience/lead-from-bullets-ends-up-in-wild-game-and-people

 

Canada: Government won't ban imports of cat and dog fur because doing so might undermine Canada's support for the seal hunt (23 Sept)

http://www.thest= ar.com/news/canada/article/699762

 

USA: Battle to save America’s mustangs as government rounds up wild horses (12 Sept)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/ar= ticle6831571.ece

 

Baby chimps show the same emotional range as huma= n babies, but cry less (7 Sept)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evol= ution/article6825441.ece

 

South Africa weighs fate of 3= ,000 captive lions after canned hunting ban (1 Sept)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=3D20601116&sid=3DapaWDVVd= IoMk

 

World Animal Day is on 4 October

http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/index.asp

 



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