| Source: South China Morning Post 28 Apr 2000 [edited] The spread of the equine herpes-like virus appeared to be stabilizing at the Sha Tin training complex yesterday. Hong Kong Jockey Club director of racing Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges confirmed there were 15 or 16 new cases of inappetance but because some of those previously affected were now back in work, the numbers affected were the same - in the mid 60s. Engelbrecht-Bresges said: "We don't really see a change in the overall numbers. We're monitoring the situation closely but we're not really worried. For instance, declarations for Saturday are quite normal." Engelbrecht-Bresges added they were only speculating at this stage that the problem was an equine herpes virus. "The symptoms are inappetance and some are getting a bit of fever. We are speculating it is a herpes virus and our full vaccination program has kept it contained so only some horses showing only mild symptoms." Trainer Lawrie Fownes' stable was mentioned by Jockey Club officials during racing on Wednesday night as one of the main sufferers, along with Alex Wong Yu-on's yard. But Fownes was straight on the phone from his buying mission at the Sydney Easter Yearling Sales to categorically deny this was the case. Fownes said: "I was absolutely shocked when I heard that it had been on television and in the papers that we were one of the main sufferers. "It isn't the case at all. All we've had is a few horses not eating who are now OK." RSPCA SEEKS ROOT OF CRUELTY May 9, 2000 The British Times Valerie Elliott Countryside Editor http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timconcon01001.html THE RSPCA the animal welfare charity, has been cited as commissioning research to find out why people torture animals. This story explained that last year the charity received a call-out every 20 seconds from worried members of the public. The total number of call-outs was 1,572,344, up by nearly 20,000 from 1998. It has, according to this story, now asked academics at Manchester Metropolitan University to question young people who have abused animals to discover reasons for their behaviour. This story further explained that the study will take six months. The RSPCA is, this story explained, also to step up school visits to inculcate in children a responsibility towards animals and to show teachers how to introduce animal welfare issues in lessons. The new approach, this story says, coincides with today's release of a snapshot of problems faced nationwide. There were, according to this story, just under 3,000 convictions for animal abuse last year, with some 987 people found guilty of cruelty to dogs, the most common animal victim. For the sixth year running there are, this story says, more cases of animal cruelty in Yorkshire and the North East than in the rest of the country. ANIMAL CRUELTY ON THE RISE IN BRITAIN May 9, 2000 Reuters LONDON In this related story: the British may pride themselves on being a nation of animal lovers but cases of cruelty are on the rise, animal welfare officials said on Tuesday. This story explained that nearly 10,000 pets were rescued, a rise of 10 per cent on the 1998 figures. CAT SCALDER SENTENCED May 9, 2000 The Edmonton Journal City B1 / Front News; Brief; Crime Josephine Orgill, a suicidal woman who poured steaming-hot water on a neighbour's cat, was sentenced Monday to 60 hours of community service. She will also spend nine months on probation and continue the mental-health counselling she has been receiving after being convicted of animal cruelty. Provincial court Judge Edward Saddy was cited as rejecting the 38-year-old woman's claim that she was staying with relatives when Babes the cat was scalded. Babes was later treated by a veterinarian but disappeared some time after that and has not been seen since. CAMELS MAY HOLD KEY TO PREVENTING FAMINE CAUSED BY DROUGHT VETERINARY EXPERT SAYS ANIMAL'S MILK COULD ALLEVIATE HUNGER IN THE WORLD'S DESERTS May 9, 2000 The Globe and Mail Matthew Kalman http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/International/20000509/UCAMEN.html Negev Desert, Israel An Israeli veterinary expert is, according to this story, planning a camel farm in a joint venture with Jordan that he believes will prove that the animal can solve hunger problems in areas of the world plagued by drought. This story explained that Prof. Reuven Yagil of Ben-Gurion University Medical School in Beersheba has been working with camels for 30 years; travelling to places such as Kazakhstan, Kenya and China to help local farmers increase the milk yield of their camels. He was quoted as saying, "Camels are considered very primitive, but they thrive in areas where children are dying of hunger. I wanted to see if the camel could provide anything for humans in these areas." In a small experimental farm on the border between Jordan and Israel in the Negev desert, Prof. Yagil is, this story explained, breeding a herd of 40 camels for their milk. He has increased their production from the standard one litre to 15 litres a day, and was cited as saying that they could provide even more if he had the staff to milk them more often. S. AFRICA ANIMAL GROUP TO RESCUE PETS FROM ZIMBABWE FARMS May 9, 2000 Agence France Presse English International News PRETORIA A South African animal welfare group has launched a mission to rescue pets left behind by families fleeing farms in the unrest in neighbouring Zimbabwe, a news report said Monday. The Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre in Pretoria has permits to bring 100 cats and dogs from Zimbabwe, centre founder Tracey Forte said in the Pretoria News newspaper. "We will bring the animals here and will house them free of charge until the owners find a place for them to live," she said. The rescue operation will be carried out over the next two weeks, she said. Unrest linked to the invasion since February of about 1,200 white-owned farms in Zimbabwe by black veterans of the liberation war and government supporters has forced many families to abandon their properties with some vowing to leave the country. MORTIMER TELLS OF DEATH THREATS AFTER HUNT PLEA May 9, 2000 The Daily Telegraph Charles Clover Environment Editor Sir John Mortimer, the barrister and novelist, was cited as saying yesterday that he had received death threats after appealing in a newspaper for tolerance towards hunters. Sir John, creator of Rumpole of the Bailey and a bastion of the liberal literary establishment, was cited as telling the Government's inquiry into hunting that he had never hunted. But he was cited as saying that he and many others like him believed that it would be "repulsive" to criminalise a law-abiding minority of the population. Sir John was further quoted as telling the Burns inquiry's session on the social and cultural importance of hunting, "There is a feeling in rural communities that everything is being removed. The shop, the bus, the church and pub, and having hunting removed would be the final straw. There is a terrible feeling that we are told by other people how we should lead our lives. The test of democracy is that the majority should have their own way but that there is due respect paid to minorities. It was perfectly legitimate for people to have strong views about animal welfare but "what is not permissible is for one sector of the community buttressed by a statistical majority to criminalise an honest, honourable and decent section of the community who regard hunting as a perfectly legitimate way of life. The idea that things we dislike should be made a criminal offence is repulsive to many people, whether they live in the countryside or the town. The idea that we will handcuff masters of foxhounds and haul girls from pony clubs off to prison and tell police, who can't even stop murderers, to try to stop hunting is totally ludicrous." INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION; MEETINGS May 9, 2000 Federal Register (Volume 65, Number 90) [Notices] [Page 26815] [DOCID:fr09my00-34] AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of public meetings. SUMMARY: NOAA makes use of a public Interagency Committee to assist in preparing for meetings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).This notice defines guidelines for participating on the Committee and provides a tentative schedule of meetings and of important dates. DATES: The May 17, 2000, Interagency Meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. ADDRESSES: The May 17, 2000, meeting will be held in Room B841-B, Herbert C. Hoover Building, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 20230. ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS; FINAL DETERMINATION OF THREATENED STATUS FOR THE KOALA May 9, 2000 Federal Register: (Volume 65, Number 90) [Rules and Regulations] [Page 26762-26771] [DOCID:fr09my00-14] AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Service determines threatened status for the Australian koala under the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) as amended. The eucalyptus forest and woodland ecosystems on which this arboreal marsupial depends have been greatly reduced. Despite several conservation actions by the Government of Australia and State governments, the limited koala habitat continues to deteriorate. The species also is threatened by fragmentation of the habitat that remains, disease, loss of genetic variation, and death by dogs and motor vehicles due to development. Although differences occur in the health status of local populations, we are not able to designate either the current subspecies or the koalas of particular States as distinct vertebrate population segments. Koalas are no longer exploited for their fur, and it is habitat loss and its secondary effects that now threaten the species. This rule extends the Endangered Species Act's protection to koalas throughout Australia. DATES: Effective June 8, 2000. ADDRESSES: Please send correspondence concerning this rule to Chief, Office of Scientific Authority, ARLSQ 750; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Washington, DC 20240; fax number 703-358-2276. Express and messenger deliveries should be addressed to Chief, Office of Scientific Authority, Room 750; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 North Fairfax Drive; Arlington, Virginia 22203. ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES PERMIT APPLICATION FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE May 9, 2000 Federal Register: (Volume 65, Number 90) [Notices] [Page 26850] [DOCID:fr09my00-73] AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of receipt of application. The following applicant has applied for a permit amendment to conduct certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided pursuant to section 10© of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.). Permit Number TE 809227-13 Applicant: BHE Environmental, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. The applicant requests a permit to take (collect) 33 fish species and 68 mussel species throughout their ranges in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Regions 3, 4 and 5. Activities are proposed for studies to identify populations of listed fish and mussel species and to develop methods to minimize or avoid project related impacts to those populations. The scientific research is aimed at enhancement of survival of the species in the wild. Written data or comments should be submitted to the Regional Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111-4056, and must be received within 30 days of the date of this publication. Documents and other information submitted with this application are available for review by any party who submits a written request for a copy of such documents to the following office within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111-4056. Telephone: (612/713-5343); FAX: (612/713-5292). Dated: May 2, 2000. T.J. Miller, Acting Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Region 3, Fort Snelling, Minnesota. [FR Doc. 00-11542 Filed 5-8-00; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P ATLANTIC HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES; PELAGIC LONGLINE MANAGEMENT CORRECTION May 9, 2000 Federal Register (Volume 65, Number 90) [CORRECTIONS] [Page 26877] [DOCID:fr09my00-106] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 635 [I.D. 110499B] RIN 0648-AM79 In proposed rule document 00-10310 beginning on page 24440 in the issue of Wednesday, April 26, 2000, make the following correction: On page 24441, the table should appear as follows: No effortRedistribution of Discards and target speciesredistributioneffort model model (percent) (percent) Swordfish Discards............-5.31-4.09 Blue Marlin Discards..........-1.36 1.16 White Marlin Discards.........-1.84 1.07 Sailfish Discards.............-5.20-0.75 Large Coastal Shark Discards..-6.51-5.42 Swordfish Kept................-2.45-1.69 BAYS Tunas Kept...............-2.04 1.35 Dolphin (Mahi) Kept...........-3.69-1.37 Pelagic Sharks Kept...........-2.38-1.82 [FR Doc. C0-10310 Filed 5-8-00; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 1505-01-D IMPLANTATION OR INJECTABLE DOSAGE FORM NEW ANIMAL DRUGS; TRENBOLONE AND ESTRADIOL May 9, 2000 Federal Register (Volume 65, Number 90) [Rules and Regulations] [Page 26747-26748] [DOCID:fr09my00-7] AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug regulations to reflect approval of a supplemental abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) filed by Ivy Laboratories, Div. of Ivy Animal Health, Inc. The supplemental ANADA provides for subcutaneous use of a cattle ear implant containing trenbolone and estradiol for pasture cattle for increased rate of weight gain. Technical changes are also made. DATES: This rule is effective May 9, 2000. 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