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Animal Cruelty
News Snippets
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
>> Waiau in New Zea-land was forced to cancel one of the annual highlights on its social calendar: a dead rabbit-
throwing contest. 400 people live in this rural town in South Island. The event was off after New Zealands chapter on the international non-profit Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got wind of it.
>> Journalists in Uganda are demanding a law to protect them from being compelled to reveal their sources of information. Under the law Uganda scribes have to reveal their sources if the state calls for it.
Shoot at sight order for cormorants
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Kerala district wants to cull 70,000 water birds to protect fish farms
Taiji is short of dolphin meat
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Residents of coastal Japanese town Taiji would have you believe they love dolphins. Murals depict cuddly cetaceans on buildings and dolphinariums draw tourists every year.
News Snippets
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
>> The TV reality show Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao is in the midst of a controversy with animal rights activists writing to ministry of information and broadcasting not to telecast such a show as it was meting out cruelty to animals. The show on Sony TV has 10 celebrities roughing it out in jungles of Malaysia.
Dogs for dinner
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2009
In Mizoram and Nagaland dog meat is as regular as chicken and mutton, but activists want it outlawed
Brief
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2008
flood
Early monsoon hits India
Seal hunt kicks off amid protests
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2008
Canada's annual seal hunt, the world's largest marine mammal hunt, kicked off on March 28. To curb international protests over the hunt, the Canadian government has come up with new rules, saying that more humane killing methods will be followed this year. Total catch limit of harp seals for the year is 275,000.
Protest over culling of kangaroos in Australia
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
As Australia's Defence Department contractors are preparing to cull about 400 kangaroos on a former naval site at Belconnen, in Canberra's north, animal rights activists are planning a last minute legal challenge to stop it.
Furry logic
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
A Dutch project management firm withdrew from the development of a new science park in the southern Netherlands saying its managers were consistently intimidated by animal rights protesters. Weert-based Van der Looy Project Management Bureau was involved in Science Link, a life-science industrial park commissioned by the local and regional authorities. The park was to be built in Venray, in southern Netherlands.
