Animal News 1999 A reading room for relevant newspaper and magazine articles. In case you're wondering: these news items are not always discovered in chronological order, but are still made available if the news is particularly important. Wildlife and conservation Domestic animals Science and Agriculture People and Organisations Archives 1998 1997 and before Don't know your flags? Tsk, tsk.

Wildlife and conservation

• Cape tortoise 'exiles' to get mercy flight home May 31, 1999

• Baboon abattoir impossible May 28, 1999

• Warmbaths abattoir plan to harvest baboons 'impossible', say researchers May 28, 1999

• Teen pays price for baboon's life May 27, 1999

• Wildlife decimated May 26, 1999

• Setbacks hit whaling nations at key talks May 25, 1999

• 'Modified' crops are killing off butterflies May 25, 1999

• Fatal twist in zoo's chimp love mystery May 24, 1999

• Baboon abattoir put on hold May 24, 1999

• No to baboon abattoir May 23, 1999

• Monkey business on the menu May 22, 1999

• N Province blocks baboon butchers May 21, 1999

• Animal rights outcry over baboon abattoir May 20, 1999

• KwaZulu-Natal Game Auction 1999 May 19, 1999

• Whales under new threat May 17, 1999

• The great ape massacre May 14, 1999

• Protecting the porpoises May 13, 1999

• Beverly Hills Voters KO Fur Labels May 12, 1999

• Mozambique may allow elephant and buffalo safaris in reserves May 10, 1999

• Sad elephant starves to death in zoo May 6, 1999

• Fuji Safari Park cancels planned import of baby elephants May 6, 1999

• Uncharmed python strangles its handler May 5, 1999

• Frogs at risk from parasites May 3, 1999

• Light in the jungle as Pretoria zoo revamps to lead the world May 3, 1999

• Pour iron on oiled feathers April 30, 1999

• Jumbo feat for new Klein Karoo game reserve April 29, 1999

• Demand for chiru wool keeps rare antelope on course for extinction March 28, 1999

• Dressed to kill, with labels to prove it March 25, 1999

• Hold the beer when it comes to baboons March 24, 1999

• Kindly motorist saves buck March 18, 1999

• Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia battle to value ivory for auction to Japanese March 16, 1999

• Remaining Thuli elephants to remain in SA February 11, 1999

• One-off elephant ivory trade experiment approved by CITES February 10, 1999

• Elephants shot in Harare suburb January 27, 1999

• Save South African baboons from slaughter May 22, 1999

• Blow for French hunters April 30, 1999

• Anti-rat campaign succeeds April 29, 1999

• Airline bans animals April 29, 1999

• Bye-bye birdies April 24, 1999

• Baby on way for ibis couple April 24, 1999

• Jumbo session at the dentist April 23, 1999

• Lions triumph April 20, 1999

• Smuggled snakes seized April 13, 1999

• Fatal clash of heavyweights April 13, 1999

• Comeback of 1-horn rhino April 13, 1999

• Chimps chip off human block April 12, 1999

• Animal lovers want 40-year-old killer jumbo April 12, 1999

• Circus Case Sentence April 9, 1999

• Farmers jailed for panda killing April 8, 1999

• Alphie's amazing journey is over April 4, 1999

• Zoo animals have mad cow disease April 1, 1999

• We don't know what ivory is worth, says Botswana April 1, 1999

• Joy at last as Ronel the cheetah comes 'home' April 1, 1999

• Orphan ape Alphie gets an airlift home March 25, 1999

• Burnt genet finds love in new world March 23, 1999

• Battery farm bears milked for medicine March 23, 1999

• Safe haven for Boulders penguins March 18, 1999

• 50 grey whales found dead March 15, 1999

• Panda's ordeal trapped in tree March 12, 1999

• Search on for oiled penguins March 10, 1999

• Mystery 'oil' threatens penguins March 10, 1999

• Japan cancels Brits elephant sale March 9, 1999

• Stampede to aid 'tuskless one' March 5, 1999

• Bird girl's chicks home to roost March 3, 1999

• Seals face death in bid to save gannets February 26, 1999

• Sprint record disappears in cheetah's trail of dust February 25, 1999

• 13 penguins die as dogs run amok at Boulders February 24, 1999

• Court hears tale of stressed-out gorilla February 23, 1999

• Asia urged to save its rhinos February 23, 1999

• The cockroach is nature's finest acrobat February 20, 1999

• Birds chased off from acid spill February 20, 1999

• Abandoned chick finds a new home February 18, 1999

• Endangered parrot stolen from zoo February 18, 1999

• UN backs ivory sale from Zim, Namibia to Japan February 11, 1999

• Elephants slain for their tails February 9, 1999

• Mandela faces protest on wildlife exports January 28, 1999

• Exported SA giraffes die in China January 22, 1999

• Rare sea creature beached January 21, 1999

• Baby chimp beaten till it screamed January 21, 1999

• Venice pigeons get the bird January 14, 1999

• Baboons evicted from tree homes January 14, 1999

• Baby elephants off to new life in Europe January 14, 1999

• Jumbos off to Europe as row continues January 14, 1999

• Vets put down day-old elephant January 13, 1999

• Baby elephant put in coma January 12, 1999

• Zoo animals' TV craze January 11, 1999

• Speeders mow down 'mermaids' January 8, 1999

• Birds unruffled by Spoornet rescue January 3, 1999

• South African baboons to be slaughtered for tinned food and sex stimulants May 19, 1999

• Environmentalists condemn Nagoya's orca capture plan March 19, 1999

• SPCA planning to act against mobs February 17, 1999

• Botswana faces ivory trade check February 17, 1999

• Monkey business ends in baby talk February 3, 1999

• Abused baby chimp Trudy on film as court convicts circus family January 29, 1999

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Domestic animals

• Scrapping dog tax 'ill-considered' June 4, 1999

• TLC too late for some troubled pets - study June 3, 1999

• Dogs, cats illegal UK aliens May 29, 1999

• Team effort saves mother and filly May 28, 1999

• W Cape horse sickness toll reaches 32 May 25, 1999

• Disease pushes racing stable to the brink May 25, 1999

• Dog tax scrapped as it takes too big a budget bite May 25, 1999

• Stamp out abuse of pit-bulls for financial gain May 21, 1999

• Girls ensure Daisy's grassy future May 20, 1999

• Eliza alive and purring thanks to Red Cross surgeons. May 20, 1999

• Stand-off in battle over pitbull's plight May 17, 1999

• State reins in offenders as horse death toll mounts May 7, 1999

• Runaway rottweiler savages woman in city centre May 7, 1999

• Underdog Ben makes it out on top May 6, 1999

• Dog and Cat fur bill introduced May 5, 1999

• A rescue operation for the birds May 5, 1999

• Banning of dogs 'un-Islamic' May 3, 1999

• Another six die in quarantine area April 30, 1999

• Disease claims lives of 28 horses April 29, 1999

• Pit bull terriers kill young girl in Colombia April 28, 1999

• Soldier 'ironed hamster to death' April 22, 1999

• More horses dead April 20, 1999

• Pit bulls banned in Rio April 14, 1999

• Horse deaths rock riding set April 4, 1999

• Champion stud stabbed to death April 1, 1999

• Man's 'best friend' in chains March 27, 1999

• Britain plans to scrap quarantine rules for pets March 27, 1999

• Owners to blame, say pit bull lovers March 25, 1999

• Owner mystified as top dog is stabbed to death March 24, 1999

• Daisy found hanging from a balcony March 17, 1999

• I am ashamed of my (human) race March 11, 1999

• Tapping cats' deepest desires February 1, 1999

• Elderly pets bring joy to lonely lives May 8, 1999

• Cat attacks burglar April 29, 1999

• Cooked hamster horror April 28, 1999

• No more sneak cancer treatments - pets get their own care centre April 22, 1999

• Iran bans 'walkies' for man's best friend April 22, 1999

• Pet subjects April 21, 1999

• Decent burial April 12, 1999

• Matching star-crossed dogs and their owners April 4, 1999

• Cruelty row over kennel dogs March 23, 1999

• Are there any regulations to protect animals in pet shops? March 15, 1999

• The plight of abandoned pets March 12, 1999

• How much is that UN doggie? March 10, 1999

• Moggie in motor 'miracle' February 22, 1999

• Dogs hung in trees, butchered February 5, 1999

• Filipino police seize dog meat shipment February 26, 1999

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Science and Agriculture

• Crisis over tainted EU meat deepens June 4, 1999

• Dolly looking swell, but ageing early May 27, 1999

• Study links clones to fatal flaws May 25, 1999

• Now pop music helps pigs pork up May 23, 1999

• Cows cloned from a drop of milk May 8, 1999

• 'Mouse massacre' in labs May 6, 1999

• EU health experts say hormone in U.S. beef is cancer-causing May 3, 1999

• Frankenstein food: growing concerns April 30, 1999

• Cloning may damage long-term health April 30, 1999

• Too hot for passion April 30, 1999

• Triplicate bleating has some in a spin April 29, 1999

• 'Frankenstein food' alert April 28, 1999

• Big boys with soft hearts dig 10 hours to save mother sheep's twins from badger burrow April 28, 1999

• Milk from cloned goats to treat victims of strokes April 28, 1999

• Cloning 'leads to defective genes' April 30, 1999

• 'Bionic' organs a step closer April 28, 1999

• Malaysia to kill goats as well April 20, 1999

• Malayasia trebles pig slaughter March 29, 1999

• Infected pigs to be gassed March 26, 1999

• Pig virus scare as hundreds quit homes March 25, 1999

• A million animals for slaughter in Mecca March 25, 1999

• 65,000 pigs to die as slaughter continues to stop disease March 19, 1999

• Mice and men March 17, 1999

• Animal growth drugs threat to health, claim US groups March 11, 1999

• Matadors on horns of mad cow dilemma February 26, 1999

• Cattle rescued after 20-hour ordeal on broken-down truck February 20, 1999

• Chimps 'the source of HIV' February 11, 1999

• Time for SA to join move to ban battery cages for hens February 2, 1999

• Liberty bell sounds for EU's caged chicks February 13/14, 1999

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People and Organisations

• Therapist calms jumbo anxieties May 29, 1999

• Human and animal cruelty linked April 29, 1999

• It's a dog's life for many animals in UK, says RSPCA April 22, 1999

• Dog-lover Liz blasts Britain's quarantine law April 10, 1999

• Animal ads draw roar of anger April 1, 1999

• Favourable spin-off for endangered animals March 25, 1999

• Baywatch babe 'saves' animals February 2, 1999

• Milk of human kindness April 26, 1999

• New party aims to grow green logic in Parliament April 12, 1999

• 'McLibel' activists have damages reduced April 1, 1999

• The 'army' with animals as a cause March 26, 1999

• Greenpeace stops 'supertrawler' March 9, 1999

• Student vets to do compulsory service February 24, 1999

• Letter on the "One City, One Culture" Project February 15, 1999

• Gorilla shooting trial on hold again January 6, 1999

• Animals rights were ignored February 18, 1999

• Escape of gorilla shooter foiled February 17, 1999

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