July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003Fifty-Second Annual Report

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Our specific goals are:

• Humane treatment of laboratory animals and the development and use of non-animal testing methods.

• Preservation of species threatened with extinction and protection for wildlife in international trade.

• Reform of cruel treatment of farm animals intensively confined in factories and an end to inhumane slaughter.

• Regulation of transport conditions for all animals.

• Ban on steel jaw leghold traps and reform of other cruel methods for controlling wildlife populations.

• Encouragement of humane science teaching and prevention of painful experiments on animals by high school students.

In 1951, Dr. Albert Schweitzer gave his permission to the Animal Welfare Institute to strike a medal in his honor to be presented for outstanding achievement in the advancement of animal welfare.

In granting his permission, Dr. Schweitzer wrote, “I would never have believed that my philosophy, which incorporates in our ethics a compassionate attitude toward all creatures, would be noticed and recognized in my lifetime.”

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals by humans.

Cover photo by Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures

Nearly twenty-five years ago, while a student in college, I began

interning at the Animal Welfare Institute. I continue to work for AWI because

of my commitment to the organization’s objectives, an appreciation for AWI’s

common sense approach, and recognition of its ability to achieve so much

for the animals on a modest budget. I hope that you share my enthusiasm for

AWI and will help us continue our work.

This Annual Report shows the myriad ways in which AWI is fighting

against powerful commercial interests in America and across the globe who

harm or kill animals out of avarice. We are confronting corporate agriculture,

which treats animals as mere commodities, brutally slaughters horses to

satisfy a foreign market, and treats pigs, chickens and other farm animals

with no accommodation for their basic care and needs. We are battling the

wildlife dealers who want to kill threatened and endangered species to sell

their parts and products internationally. We are combating the international

trade bureaucrats who are determined to eviscerate hard-won animal

protection laws in the name of so-called “free trade.” We are continuing

our long-standing campaign to “Save the Whales” as the whaling nations,

Japan, Norway and Iceland, seek to increase the slaughter of these majestic

creatures of the sea.

Sadly, there is much to be done, as animals the world over are in

desperate need. Though we may seem to face insurmountable odds, and

at times heart-wrenching setbacks, with your kind and generous support,

we can continue to make a difference for the animals. We can ease their

suffering, and we will persevere until we prevail.

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AWI is at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife including threatened

and endangered species such as elephants, bears, tigers, chimpanzees, tur-

tles and myriad other animals. Significant decisions were taken this past year

for animals who are threatened with extinction but are traded internationally.

Some are destined to become pets or be put on public display; others killed for

clothing, jewelry, curios, trophies, medicines and food.

As we have for thirty years, AWI staff played a vital role in the delibera-

tions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild

Fauna and Flora (CITES), which had its twelfth meeting in Santiago, Chile,

in November 2002. AWI staff prepared influential documents encouraging

wise conservation decisions and distributed them to the delegates who repre-

sented more than one hundred and sixty nations. We strongly advocated the

increased protection for certain shark species, Black Sea bottlenose dolphins,

turtles and parrots. We also helped beat back efforts to weaken protection for

whales and hawksbill sea turtles. Our high profile on these life-or-death issues

facing the wildlife of the world will continue through the next CITES meeting in

Bangkok, Thailand, in October 2004 and beyond.

In the months following the CITES meeting, AWI’s Adam Roberts gave

guest lectures on CITES to graduate students at two schools on the East

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the practice insisting that the dolphins were only sent to educational facilities.

Concurrently, an investigation was begun within the U.S. government into

whether the purchase of Cuban dolphins by the American owners of Dolphin

Fantaseas (Caribbean) and Dolphin Discovery (Cancun, Mexico) violated fed-

eral prohibitions on trading with Cuba.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) held its annual meeting in

Berlin, Germany in June. Just before it opened, AWI participated in an event

at the Tempodrome that contrasted the piercing emissions of the U.S. Navy’s

Low Frequency Active Sonar with the lovely musical language of whales and

dolphins. The facility is unique—a large body temperature swimming pool/

concert hall where visitors can not only hear broadcast sounds but feel them.

At the IWC meeting, despite opposition from whaling countries and their sup-

porters, a Mexican proposal to set up a new major Conservation Committee

within the Commission to review environmental threats to whale populations

won broad support. AWI strongly backed the concept recognizing the threats

to marine mammals posed by toxic and sound pollution, climate change and

extensive incidental catch in commercial fishing operations.

Here at home, AWI continues to work for the protection of the beloved

Florida manatee, which remains under assault through a campaign of fear

and misinformation by developers and the boating industry. The most serious

threat is an attempt to downlist them from endangered to threatened by the

State of Florida. AWI continues to oppose this dangerous proposal.

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Coast: Tufts University and the University of Maryland. AWI’s international

presence on wildlife trade matters is ever-increasing.

AWI has also campaigned to keep threatened species free and protect

those threatened and endangered animals already in captivity. We fought

against the importation of eleven young elephants from Swaziland who were

targeted for importation to two enclosures in U.S. zoos where they would be

put on display. As well, we are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Ringling Bros. &

Barnum Bailey Circus for routine beatings of endangered Asian elephants.

The case against Ringling is proceeding well and we hope for a ruling in our

favor in the coming year.

In line with our mission to educate as many people in the U.S. and abroad

of the threats facing the world’s wildlife, AWI has undertaken an ambitious

project to publish a new edition of our incredibly popular Endangered Spe-

cies Handbook as an exclusive on-line web publication. The new volume will

explore the endemic species in Madagascar, threats to endangered species

including the fur trade, commercial whaling, and trade in bushmeat, and offer

in-depth analysis of what actions need to be taken to prevent the further decline

of the world’s most at risk species. We anticipate launch of the site in 2004.

In August, AWI traveled to Costa Rica and joined other wildlife advocates and

twelve countries to set up the Inter-American Convention for the Protection

and Conservation of Sea Turtles, the first regional conference to attempt a

comprehensive plan to stop the precipitous collapse of many species of tur-

tles. A position paper authored by AWI and others urging dramatic steps such

as a moratorium on pelagic long-lining in the Pacific, the stringent protection of

nesting beaches, a prohibition on chemical and sound pollution in turtle areas,

and a total ban on the trade in sea turtle parts, was welcomed by the parties.

In February, AWI began addressing Cuba’s captive dolphin trade. Over

the last decade, dozens of resident bottlenose dolphins have been captured

by the National Aquarium of Havana and exported to Mexico and the Carib-

bean to be used in the plethora of new exploitative swim-with-the-dolphin

programs aimed at tourists and dolphin-assisted-therapy facilities. Officials at

both the aquarium and at the capital building in Havana vigorously defended

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farm animalsThis year AWI increased public awareness about the plight of animals in food

factories and advocated humane alternatives. We are contacted daily by

people who want to know what they can do to help farm animals. In response

we send guidance materials, support community activists fighting proposed

and existing concentrated animal feeding operations and visit farmers

interested in joining AWI’s humane husbandry program.

To ensure diligent growth and success of our humane husbandry

program, staff continue to develop humane husbandry standards for veal

calves, dairy cows and ducks. We have already finished standards for pigs

and rabbits and anticipate work on standards for laying hens, chickens

and sheep early in 2004. We conducted farm visits to assist in ensuring

conformance with our standards, and since we are concerned about every

aspect of each animal’s life, we also visited slaughterhouses. These trips give

us the opportunity to constantly evaluate and improve our program.

AWI is working with a growing number of retailers who are committed to

the humane treatment of animals. Increasingly executives recognize that it

behooves them to respond to consumer pressure seeking proper treatment

of animals. In a country where the agricultural industry lobbies Congress to

the animals’ detriment, decent treatment of farm animals will come about

AWI reported on the inhumane practice of docking cows’ tails and created humane husbandry standards for dairy cows. Humane standards to improve the lives of cows raised for beef are in development.

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when consumers reject products from cruel animal factories. To this end, AWI

published new farm animal related educational materials and made it possible

for humane family farmers to be present in grocery stores to meet and better

educate customers.

AWI staff advocated the humane treatment of farm animals at scientific,

academic, government and industry-sponsored conferences. We describe

how animals are unable to express their natural behaviors in industrial

systems that rely on confinement and mutilations such as tail docking

of pigs and debeaking of laying hens. Of equal importance is our ability

to convey our firsthand knowledge about humane alternatives to these

brutal systems.

In the coming months, in addition to developing standards for all animals,

we will fiercely fight animal cloning on the grounds that it causes tremendous

suffering and oppose the subtheraputic use of antibiotics and the irradiation

of meat. Furthermore, as the American Veterinary Medical Association

reconsiders its stance on use of gestation crates for pregnant pigs, AWI will

express vehement opposition to this unnecessary cruelty.

How can stress reactions during the cage cleaning procedure be minimized?

How can aggression among males, especially male mice, be minimized or

avoided? Can baboons be housed safely in pairs? What is the cause of self-

mutilation, and how can this ethopathology be cured? What is the scientific

significance of stereotypical locomotion? What are the best ways to enrich

the living quarters of frogs kept in laboratories? These were among more than

100 questions posed for discussion during the past year on the Laboratory

Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum, an internet group, established in

October 2002 by Dr. Viktor Reinhardt, AWI’s Laboratory Animal Advisor, for the

exchange of information to improve the handling and housing of animals used

in research. Open to all laboratory personnel, this discussion seeks to promote

animal welfare and improve scientific methodology by avoiding, eliminating or

reducing husbandry-related stress.

To further assist animals used for experimentation, AWI set up a whistle-

blower web site for the reporting of any problems related to the care and treat-

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ment of animals in the laboratory. We have responded to complaints received

and have sought resolutions to the problems cited by the individuals, many of

whom chose to remain anonymous. Some of the situations necessitate long-

term scrutiny and investigation.

Frustrated with the long-standing failure of the U.S. Department of Agri-

culture (USDA) to adequately protect non-human primates who are used for

experimentation and exhibition, AWI joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund

and three individual plaintiffs in suing the federal government. Primates are

legally entitled to a physical environment that promotes their psychological

well-being under the Animal Welfare Act, but many are still maintained in sub-

standard facilities that ignore their fundamental needs including provision of

companions and a stimulating environment.

In 1999 USDA published a draft Primate Policy, acknowledging that this

document was critical to its compliance efforts. To date USDA has not finalized

this binding document, thus failing to fulfill its responsibility to the animals in

need. The Primate Policy, based on a thorough review of the scientific litera-

ture and extensive feedback from veterinarians, primatologists and USDA in-

spectors, inexplicably seems to have been lost in a bureaucratic morass. Our

lawsuit requires USDA to make a final decision on its Primate Policy. As we go

to press, we await the judge’s verdict.

AWI is devoting much effort to enrich the lives of non-human primates still confined alone in barren enclosures.

The AWI Quarterly is distributed to approximately 23,000 individuals and

organizations including public libraries, deans of medical and veterinary

schools, animal protective organizations, teachers, scientists and AWI mem-

bers. Following are summaries of some of the articles from the past year.

• A special section considers topics before the 2002 Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), in-cluding: the ongoing threats facing rhinos and bears, global parrot smuggling, and the problems associated with consuming turtles as food as well as the risks of al-lowing trade in green turtles from a farm in the Cayman Islands.

• AWI attended the massive World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Expectations were not met as global decision-makers failed to make concrete, substantive commitments to improve the lives of the poor while protecting the environment and its natural inhabitants. The final agreement, however, does mention the importance of family farming, biodiversity protection, and ecotourism. During the WSSD, the Great Apes Survival Project was relaunched to raise global awareness of the plight of the great apes whose populations are dwindling.

• Long-running problems associated with marine mammal protection are chronicled: The attempts to return Keiko from the movie Free Willy to the wild, risks posed to orcas as a result of unsound tourism, injuries and deaths to right whales from fishing nets and the Navy’s arm-twisting efforts to blow its deadly Low Frequency Active Sonar throughout the oceans.

• Ooh-Mah-Nee Farm in western Pennsylvania had a terrific open house, showing off its rescued cows, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, chickens and turkeys. Ooh-Mah-Nee provides a stark contrast to the world of intensive agriculture from which its residents came. No more confining crates and cages and cement floors for these lucky animals—it’s one hundred acres of peaceful land.

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• AWI mourns the passing of its Founder and President, Christine Stevens, detailing her more than five decades of tireless work on behalf of all animals. Christine edu-cated the public and policy-makers about the need to treat animals humanely. She also lobbied Congress and Presidential Administrations for laws and regulations to protect animals. A two page photo-mon-tage illustrates her far-reaching efforts.

• Not only did AWI have an incredibly success-ful CITES meeting in Santiago, Chile, but we, as always, led the effort to honor those wildlife law enforcement officers across the globe who work so diligently to protect wildlife from well-armed poachers. In coordination with the Species Survival Network, AWI presented the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards to individuals from Kenya, Costa Rica, Uganda, the U.S. and Canada. A new DVD film is also available about ef-forts to prevent poaching of Africa’s elephants called, “Wanted Dead or Alive?” The film is produced by the African Environmental Film Foundation.

• Sanctuaries are always hard pressed for two things: money and room. AWI has offered modest assistance to the “Siglo XXI” primate rescue center out-side Santiago, Chile, where roughly 100 primates, rescued from laboratories, circuses and the pet trade, reside. Elba Almazan and her family provide lov-ing care to all of the residents of the Center and, with our help, have pur-chased a bigger piece of land to construct a new sanctuary facility.

• The fight continues in Florida to make the state’s waterways safer for mana-tees. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has done its best over the years to avoid the designation and enforcement of new manatee protection zones there. But, as a result of a lawsuit that includes AWI among the plaintiffs, a new deadline has been imposed to establish these protected areas.

• After a long crusade, the remaining six polar bears suffering unbearably in the Suarez Brothers Circus were confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and placed in different U.S. zoos, more suitably equipped to meet the biological needs of these animals. In the circus, they were reportedly subjected to temperatures that reached above 100◦F and sometimes went without cool pools of water or air conditioned holding trailers.

• Dominion, thought by many to be the most influential book on the ethical treatment of non-human animals in years, was reviewed.

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• A campaign is in full swing in the Euro-pean Union to prohibit the importation of exotic birds, especially parrots. The U.S. successfully banned the importation of birds protected under CITES in 1992, but the E.U. has lagged behind in following our wise lead. The trade of wild birds is incredibly inhumane—birds suffer high levels of mortality during capture, holding and transport, which threatens the long-term viability of many fragile species.

• Russian orcas are threatened by the in-ternational live animal trade, where they may be caught cruelly in their frigid ocean homes, separated from their closely-bonded social pods and sent to marine parks and aquaria across the globe. AWI has sponsored an orca study in the waters of Kamchatka.

• Dolphins are under massive global attack. Not only are there still legislative and legal battles in the U.S. to keep dolphin-deadly tuna from being sold on the American market, but dolphins are killed in South America and the Far East. Hardy Jones reports on the thousands of dolphins slaughtered in a bloody massacre by Japanese fisherman in Futo. Meanwhile, Stefan Auster-mühle tells that at least 1,000 dolphins are killed every year off the coast of Peru for their coveted meat.

• AWI mourns the passing of a good friend, Dr. John Kullberg, who served as the President of AWI’s companion organization, the Society for Animal Protective Legislation, at the time of his death. Dr. Kullberg’s sister, Marjorie Cooke, remains on the AWI Board of Directors.

• The Government of the Republic of Slovenia may be playing “fast and loose” with its bear population figures in order to artificially inflate the number of do-mestic brown bears that may be available for hunters’ bullets and their desire for bear trophies. The Deliverance of Dancing Bears, a wonderful children’s book about the cruel practice of forcing bears to “dance” for money, is re-viewed.

• Opponents of intensive animal factories joined forces with Native Americans of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota to defeat Bell Farms’ efforts to exploit the tribe’s lands and build a confinement hog operation there. A com-plex and tortuous legal battle over the facility has been fought since 1998 and it looks as though the defense of the native lands is going to win out over corporate greed.

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• The burgeoning trade in exotic and increas-ingly dangerous pets must be stopped. People are no longer satisfied with dogs and cats and are seeking pets that are “bigger and badder” than everyone else’s: lions, jaguars, tigers, bears, baboons and boa constrictors. Not only do these animals pose a threat from their innate “wildness,” but they likely carry diseases that can be harmful if not deadly to humans: salmo-nella, SARS and monkeypox.

• AWI is launching a massive campaign in time for the Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). For the first time, we will have a representa-tive inside the meeting speaking to delegates about the need for enhanced attention to animal welfare issues during of the latest round of decisions. This is especially true with respect to agriculture issues, such as subsidies that may be paid to family farmers who raise their animals humanely. AWI is also organizing throngs of demonstrators in dolphin costumes outside the meeting, reminiscent of the popular sea turtles who marched in Seattle.

• AWI has launched two new brochures in its illustrative and informative series: one on Free Trade and another on Farm Animals.

• Willow Creek Farm in Wisconsin has been welcomed into the fold of farmers who meet AWI’s humane husbandry standards for pigs. Tony Renger is a fourth generation farmer and he and his wife, Sue, market their pig products directly to customers in the area.

• AWI has merged with its companion organization, the Society for Animal Pro-tective Legislation (SAPL), to better serve both of their constituencies. Three important bills highlighted: the Crane Conservation Act, the Marine Turtle Conservation Act and the bill to end the use of steel jaw leghold traps. As well, SAPL continues to work on legislation banning the transport and commercial-ization of horses for human consumption and the practices of random source dealers selling dogs and cats into biomedical research.

• Congressional efforts to undermine the vital protection afforded marine mam-mals by the Marine Mammal Protection Act are intense. The Department of Defense Authorization Bill and legislation to reauthorize the Marine Mammal Protection Act both contain provisions to make it easier to “harass” marine mammals and attain “incidental take” permits to kill large numbers of whales, dolphins and other precious mammals of the sea.

Summer 2003 Volume 52 Number 3 S p e e c h e s M a d e a n d M e e t i n g s Attended by AWI Representat ives

• “Antibiotic-Free Day” Press Conference, cosponsored with Sierra Club, Min-neapolis, MN, July 2

• Speeches by Adam M. Roberts, at the Animal Rights 2002 Conference, on “Wildlife Protection Laws,” July 2, and “Trade Issues,” July 3

• Up the River Endeavors Coalition, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, July 10-14

• Powder River Basin Resource Council Board Meeting, Barlow Ranch, Gillette, WY, July 13

• Presentation by Diane Halverson at The Holly Edison Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Woodstock, NY, July 13

• Speech by Ben White on the effect of globalization on animal protection at the San Juan Summer Celebration, San Juan Island, WA, July 21

• “Legislator Appreciation Day” and open house for alternative swine housing research and demonstration project, University of Minnesota, West Central Research and Outreach Center, Morris, MN, August 2

• Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 6-8

• Presentation by Viktor Reinhardt on “Training macaques to voluntarily co-op-erate during two common procedures: Blood collection and capture of group-housed animals,” XIXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Beijing, China, August 6

• Statement by Diane Halverson on factory farm reliance on antibiotics to com-pensate for poor housing and husbandry, Sierra Club press conference in front of Cargill, Inc. headquarters, Wayzata, MN, August 13

• Meeting with David Bayvel, Director, Animal Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Professor David Mellor, Director of Animal Welfare Science, Massey University, both of New Zealand, August 16

• Meeting with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s delegation to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to discuss agenda items for the upcoming meeting, August 20

• Ben White interviewed by “Rolling Thunder Review” during a presentation by Lori Wallach of Public Citizen, Renton, WA, August 24

• Land Stewardship Project 20th Anniversary Celebration and Member Meeting, Jordan, MN, August 24

• World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 26-September 4

• Second International Workshop, “Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and Group Level,” University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, September 2-5

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• Meeting with Yvan LaFleur, Director of the Environment Branch of the Cana-dian Wildlife Service, to discuss development of global wildlife law enforce-ment network, January 14

• Rice County Feedlot Front meeting, Northfield, MN, January 15 • Guest lecture by Adam M. Roberts on CITES and wildlife trade, Tufts Univer-

sity Center for Animals and Public Policy, Boston, MA, February 4• “Local Food Systems, Local Decisions – In Search of True Security,” Pennsyl-

vania Sustainable Agriculture Association Annual Conference, State College, PA, February 6-8

• Presentation by Diane Halverson and Marlene Halverson on AWI’s farm animal program developments and prohibition of tail docking, Niman Ranch Annual Winter Meeting, Ames, IA, February 10

• McDonald’s Animal Welfare Advisory Council meeting, Oak Brook, IL, February 13

• Meeting with Matthew Scully, author of Dominion, February 14• Meeting to discuss the vital role of the Animal Welfare Information Center with

Peter Young, Director, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, February 20• House and Senate Hearings on legislation to ban the gestation crate housing

of sows, Maryland State Legislature, Annapolis, MD, February 24-25• Meeting with Enrique Moret Hernandez, Director of International Cooperation

in the National Capital of Cuba, about dolphin trade and CITES, Havana, Cuba, February 24

• Meeting with assistant director of the National Aquarium of Havana concern-ing the dolphin trade, Havana, Cuba, February 24-25

• Niman Ranch “Farmer Appreciation Dinner,” Hotel Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, IA, September 14

• Presentation by Diane Halverson on AWI’s humane pig husbandry standards for the Future Trends in Animal Agriculture Symposium at the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture, September 18

• “Biotech in the Barnyard: Implications of Genetically Engineered Animals,” sponsored by Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and Center for Vet-erinary Medicine, Dallas, TX, September 24-25

• “Animal Cloning and the Production of Food Products,” sponsored by Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and Center for Veterinary Medicine and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dallas, TX, September 26

• Speech by Diane Halverson on cruelty of pig factory farming and humane alternatives at the White Dog Cafe forum, Philadelphia, PA, September 30

• Comments by Wendy Swann on the “Draft Guidance for Industry: Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regards to Their Micro-biological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern” at FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine public meeting, Rockville, MD, October 2

• Baum Forum “A Growing Concern,” New York, NY, October 5-6

• Speech by Ben White on problems with globalization at Tonasket Barter Fair, Tonasket, WA, October 16

• Agribusiness Accountability Initiative Forum, Chicago, IL, October 18-19

• Presentation by Marlene Halverson on current animal welfare issues to the Animal Welfare Committee, U.S. Animal Health Association, St. Louis, MO, October 21

• Public information meeting and feedback session on State progress in devel-oping policy regarding antibiotics in animal feeds, Minnesota Department of Public Health, St. Paul, MN, October 21

• Press Conference by the Species Survival Network (Adam M. Roberts, mod-erator) in advance of the Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, October 22

• Speech by Ben White on sustainable development at the Spring Street School forum, San Juan Island, WA, October 24

• Meeting of AWI’s Board of Directors, October 24 (conference call), November 18, April 2, 2003 and June 9, 2003 (Alexandria, VA)

• Presentation by Diane Halverson discussing how AWI’s pig husbandry stan-dards allow the animals to fulfill their natural behavior, North Carolina Agricul-tural, Technical and State University, Greensboro, NC, October 25

• Presentation by Diane Halverson on the relations between animal welfare and environmental protection, Sierra Club Conference, Franklin, KY, October 26

• Educational exhibit at the American Association for Laboratory Animal Sci-ence, San Antonio, TX, October 28-30

• Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Santiago, Chile, November 3-15

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• Meeting with Alexey Yablokov of AWI’s International Committee regarding marine mammal and environmental issues, November 5

• “Ecolabels and the Greening of the Food Market,” sponsored by Tufts Univer-sity, Boston, MA, November 7-8

• Greener Fields meeting on ecolabelling, Boston, MA, November 9-10

• Fauna Australis International Meeting about Wildlife Conservation, Santiago, Chile, November 9

• Speech by Wendy Swann at Public Citizen press event opposing food irradia-tion, November 14

• Presentation by Diane Halverson on the role of chefs in influencing the welfare of farm animals, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Conference, Boston, MA, November 18

• Presentation by Diane Halverson on providing primer on the ways animal fac-tories violate the natural behavior of farm animals to the Animal Grantmakers, Glaser Progress Foundation, Seattle, WA, November 19

• Hosted forum on whale watching and whales, San Juan Island, WA, December 6

• Sierra Club, North Star Chapter meeting, Cannon Falls, MN, December 14

• Rice County Feedlot Front meeting, Northfield, MN, December 12

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A r t i c l e s i n P r i n t• Strategy meeting on the tuna-dolphin issue, February 25• Marine Mammal Protection Coalition meeting, February 27• Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development meeting, March 4• Congressional hearing on nutria eradication in Maryland and Louisiana, March 6• Meeting regarding enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act with Chester

Gipson, Acting Deputy Administrator, Animal Care, USDA-APHIS, March 17• Meeting with partners involved in the United Nations Environment Program’s

Great Apes Survival Partnership, March 17• Guest lecture on CITES and wildlife trade by Adam M. Roberts for University

of Maryland graduate students, March 18• Speech by Ben White at a press conference and televised interviews against

confining dolphins in captivity, Las Vegas, NV, March 19- 20 • “Never Forgetting: Elephants and Ethics,” National Zoo’s Conservation and

Research Center, Front Royal, VA, March 19-20• Memorial Service for AWI founding president, Christine Stevens, April 2 • UFAW Symposium: “Science in the Service of Animal Welfare,” Edinburgh,

Scotland, April 2-4• Alternative Swine Systems Program Task Force meeting, University of Minne-

sota, West Central Research and Outreach Center, Morris, MN, April 10• “Tour de Manure,” bus tour of animal factories and sustainable farms, cospon-

sored with Sierra Club, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 12• Speech by Ben White on the ties between animal protection, saving the Earth

and democracy at Earth Day celebration, San Juan Island, WA, April 26• Presentation by Viktor Reinhardt on “Understanding Animals,” Butteville El-

ementary School, Weed, CA, May 14• USDA “Future Trends in Animal Agriculture: The Science and Ethics Behind

Animal Well-Being Assessment,” May 28• Presentation by Wendy Swann on humane treatment of animals at High

Bridge Elementary School career day, Bowie, MD, May 30• Presentation by Diane Halverson at Waterkeeper Alliance Summit for Sus-

tainable Pig Farming, Gettysburg, PA, June 7• Presentations by Cathy Liss to students at Mt. Vernon Community School on

being kind to animals, Alexandria, VA, June 11• Speech by Ben White against Low Frequency Active Sonar at the Liquid

Sound event, Berlin, Germany, June 14• International Whaling Commission, Berlin, Germany, June 16-19• National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee. Cathy Liss serves on the

Committee. Riverdale, MD, June 24-25• Regular CITES Strategy and Board Meetings of the Species Survival

Network

Meetings took place in Washington, DC unless otherwise noted.

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f o u n d e rChristine Stevens

d i r e c t o r sMarjorie CookeRoger Fouts, Ph.D.John GleiberFredrick Hutchison, Jr.Cathy LissCynthia Wilson, Chair

o f f i c e r sCathy Liss, PresidentCynthia Wilson, Vice PresidentFredrick Hutchison, Jr., C.P.A, TreasurerMarjorie Cooke, Secretary

s c i e n t i f i c c o m m i t t e eMarjorie Anchel, Ph.D.Gerard Bertrand, Ph.D.F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D.Roger Payne, Ph.D.Samuel Peacock, M.D.Hope RydenJohn Walsh, M.D.

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i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m m i t t e e Aline de Aluja, D.M.V., MexicoAmbassador Tabarak Husain, BangladeshAngela King, United KingdomGodofredo Stutzin, ChileAgnes Van Volkenburgh, D.V.M., PolandAlexey Yablokov, Ph.D., Russia

s t a f f a n d c o n s u l t a n t sAva Armendariz, Graphic DesignerTom Garrett, Consultant for Rural AffairsJohn Gleiber, Assistant to the OfficersDiane Halverson, Farm Animal AdvisorMarlene Halverson, Farm Animal Economic AdvisorChristopher J. Heyde, Research AssociateLynne Hutchison, Executive SecretaryNell Naughton, Mail Order SecretaryViktor Reinhardt, D.M.V., Ph.D., Laboratory Animal AdvisorJennifer Rinick, Research AssistantAdam M. Roberts, Senior Research AssociateWendy Swann, Research Associate Ben White, Special Projects Consultant

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