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1972 Apr 16 |
The Republic of China presented two Pandas to the US National Zoo: Hsing-Hsing (d.1999) and Ling-Ling. Ling-Ling died in 1992. Links: USA, China, Animal 
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1972 Jul 10 |
During an extended drought a herd of stampeding elephants killed 24 in the Chandka Forest of India. Links: India, Animal, Drought
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1972 Aug 9 |
The pesticide Compound 1080, or sodium fluoroacetate, was banned as of this day by the EPA. It had been used against coyotes but other animals were dying from its use. It was reinstated in 1985 for use in livestock protection collars. DDT was banned. Links: USA, Environment, Chemistry, Animal
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1972 Oct 21 |
The US Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was enacted. Prof. Kenneth Norris (d.1998 at 74) helped write the legislation. Links: USA, Animal
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1972 Oct 23 |
The US Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 became law. Links: USA, Animal
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1972 |
India enacted a Wildlife Protection Act. It banned the hunting of tigers, the capture and sale of bears (dancing bears) as well as the catching of snakes. In 2001 animal performances on the streets were banned. Snake charmers felt their livelihood threatened. Links: India, Animal
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1973 |
The Alaskan 1,159 mile Iditarod dog-sled race was first run in commemoration of the 1925 dog-sled relay for diphtheria vaccine to Nome. Links: USA, Alaska, Animal
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1973 |
India began Project Tiger and established a network of tiger reserves. Under Indira Gandhi 9 national parks were set aside to protect tigers. 14 more were later added. By 2010 the tiger population dropped to 1,400 from 40,000 a century earlier. Links: India, Animal
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1973 |
In Uganda some 14,300 elephants were in the Murchison Falls National Park at this time. By 1980 only 1,400 were left. Links: Uganda, Animal
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1974 |
Cleveland Amory authored "Man Kind," a seminal book on his work with animals. Links: USA, Animal, Books
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1975 May 23 |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of turtles with shells that measured less than four inches in length. The turtles were identified as major carriers of salmonella bacterium and had been widely sold as pets for kids. Links: USA, Animal, FDA
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1975 Jul 28 |
The US Dept of Interior designated the grizzly bear a threatened species in the lower 48 states under the US Endangered Species Act. Most of the bears in the lower US lived in and around Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Links: USA, , Animal
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1975 |
Peter Singer authored "Animal Liberation," in which he argued that the life of a person is not necessarily more valuable than that of an animal. Links: USA, Animal, Books
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1975 |
The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Ca., began treating marine mammals rescued along the California coast. Links: USA, Animal, SF Bay Area
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1976 Nov 9 |
Smokey the Bear (26) died at the Washington DC National Zoo. Links: USA, Animal, DC
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1976 |
A.I. Dagg and J.B. Foster published "The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behavior and Ecology." Links: USA, Animal, Books
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1976 |
Rabbits were imported to Iceland from Spain about this time. Some were later released into the wild and began to compete with the native puffin birds, which breed in burrows. Links: Spain, Iceland, Animal
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1976 |
The wolves of Italy received official protection. Links: Italy, Animal
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1976 |
Malcolm Douglas (1941-2010), Australia's original TV crocodile hunter, shot to fame with the production of his first documentary, "Across The Top." He had trekked across Australia's harsh hinterland filming his encounters with poisonous snakes and ferocious reptiles. Links: Australia, TV, Animal
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1976 |
The UN Convention on Int’l. Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) imposed a ban on the trade of rhino horn. By the mid-1990s 90% of the world’s rhinos had disappeared. Links: UN, Animal
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1977 |
The Endangered Species Act (1973) listed the California sea otter as threatened. Their numbers increased slowly until 1995 and then dropped again. Links: USA, California, Animal
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1977 |
Kenya banned all hunting. Over the next 20 years a half to a third of the wildlife still disappeared. Links: Kenya, Animal
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1978 |
Peter Matthiessen wrote "The Snow Leopard." It was about the precarious status of the leopard and won a National Book Award. Links: USA, Writer, Animal, Books
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1978 |
Safari West began as a private wildlife sanctuary for breeding, education and research. In 1989 Peter Nancy Lang bought the 400-acre Sonoma, Ca., property and later introduced tours and small-group excursions. Links: USA, California, Animal
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1978 |
In California elk were reintroduced to Tomales Point with a herd of 10. Links: USA, California, Animal
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1979 Sep 19 |
The Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats was signed. It became effective as of June 1, 1982. Links: EU, Animal
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1979 |
In Namibia Nick (d.2001) and Marieta van der Merwe began taking in injured animals on their 100,000 acre cattle farm. They later turned the farm into a trust called the Harnas Wildlife Foundation (www.harnas.de/en). Links: Animal, Namibia
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1980 Aug 17 |
In Australia Lindy Chamberlain’s 9-week baby, Azaria, was allegedly dragged away from a family campsite at Uluru, or Ayers Rock, by a dingo. The body was never found and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton and ex-husband Michael Chamberlain were both convicted for the death but later exonerated in a case which made global headlines. She was released after 4 years and the Meryl Streep film "A Cry in the Dark" was based on her story. In 2012 a 4th coroner inquest ruled that a dingo was responsible for the infant’s death. Links: Australia, Tragedy, Animal, Film
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1980 |
Arab nations in the Persian Gulf set a minimum age of 15 for camel jockeys. Links: Qatar, Animal, Arab
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1980 |
In Namibia the Harnas Wild Animal Foundation was begun by Nick and Mariet van der Merwes. Links: Animal, Namibia
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1980 |
In Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, some 1,400 elephants were left from an estimated count of 14,300 in 1973. No rhinos were known to remain in the park. Links: Uganda, Animal
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1980 1989 |
During the 1980s American zoo elephants began to be trained to paint using acrylics on canvas. In 1998 Ruby in Phoenix generated over $100,000 for the zoo. Links: Artist, USA, Animal
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1980 1989 |
In Romania a huge building spree by Nicolae Ceausescu leveled entire neighborhoods in Bucharest and left a large number of stray dogs roaming the streets. Their number reached 100-200,000 in 1997. Links: Romania, Animal
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1982 Jan |
The cow named Ubre Blanca (10), crossed from a Holstein and a Zebu, produced 241 pounds of milk in a single day. The town of Nueva Geron, Cuba, erected a marble statue for her after her death in 1985. Links: Cuba, Food, Animal
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1982 Nov 25 |
Pike (Pee-ka) the polar bear was born at the SF Zoo on Thanksgiving. Links: USA, SF, Animal
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1982 |
Ten goats were abandoned on Ecuador’s Galapagos Isabella Island and by 2002 increased to over 100,000. Links: Ecuador, Animal
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1982 |
In Nepal Elephant polo began under the direction of Jim Edwards, a jungle safari organizer. Links: Nepal, Animal, Games
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1982 |
Zimbabwe granted landowners proprietorship over wildlife and allowed hunting. Since then the elephant population has increased from 40 to 50 thousand. Links: Zimbabwe, Animal
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1982 |
Efforts to breed captive oryx and release them back into the Arabian Peninsula, the only place this species is found, began in Oman in 1982, a decade after the last one was apparently shot in the wild. By 2011 about 1,000 of the wild Arabian or White Oryx thrived owing to nearly three decades of successful breeding. Links: Saudi Arabia, Animal, Oman
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1983 |
Zoo officials in Kazakhstan reportedly claimed that a teenage elephant named Batyr could reproduce Russian to utter 20 phrases, including "Batyr is good." But there was no scientific study on the claim. Links: Kazakhstan, Animal, Language
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1984 |
Rabbit Calicivirus Disease was 1st discovered among rabbits in China. It appeared in the US for the 1st time in 2000. Links: China, Microbiology, Animal
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1984 |
In Nepal authorities began to introduce 72 rhinos, also known as the Indian rhinoceros, in the Babai Valley, 320 km southwest of Kathmandu, as part of a conservation drive. By 2007 at least 23 had died due to poaching and other causes, and the rest were missing. Links: Nepal, Animal
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1984 |
Alpacas from Chile began arriving in the US after the US lifted a ban. Links: Chile, USA, Animal
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1985 |
Stanley J. Olsen, anthropologist, wrote the “Origins of the Domestic Dog.” Links: USA, Animal, Books
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1985 |
Douglas Prasher and colleagues at Woods Hole in Massachusetts used cloning technology to replicate the photoprotein found inside Aequorea victoria, a glowing species of jellyfish. The cloning of luciferase from fireflies also took place this year. Links: USA, Massachusetts, Animal, BioTech
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1986 |
In Florida the Sarasota Pigeon club began gathering on Fall weekends to race pigeons. Links: USA, Florida, Animal
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1987 Apr 19 |
The last free-flying condor in California, a 19-pound, 7-year-old male, was captured. He was released in 2002. Links: USA, California, Animal
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1987 Oct 22 |
The US Navy acknowledged that it had deployed 5 dolphins to the Persian Gulf to search for Iranian mines. Links: USA, Animal
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1987 |
Hawks Aloft Worldwide was conceived as a cooperative project by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, in Kempton, Pennsylvania. Links: USA, Pennsylvania, Animal
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1987 |
Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died from a morbillivirus infection and washed ashore in New Jersey. The disease spread to Florida in 1988 and more than 1,000 dolphins died. Another epidemic occurred in 1990 among striped dolphins in the Mediterranean. Links: Microbiology, Florida, New Jersey, Animal
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1987 |
Britain passed legislation governing animal experiments. Links: Britain, Animal
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1987 |
Giant pandas in China were down to about 35 isolated populations in the wild, most of them of fewer than 20 pandas each. They were confined to the wooded mountains of Sichuan province, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. Links: China, Animal
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1987 |
Chendra and Shanti, one-horned rhinos, were presented as a gift to the SF Zoo from Prine Gyanendra of Nepal. They came from the Royal Chitwan National park, one of only 3 places where the species survives in the wild. Links: Nepal, SF, Animal
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1988 Jul 9 |
Dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse died in Buckinghamshire, England, at age 78. Links: Britain, Animal
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1988 Oct 25 |
ABC News reported on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets. Links: USA, Animal, Journalism, Fad
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1988 |
"Caribou" by wildlife biologist Michio Hoshino was published. Links: USA, Animal, Books
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1988 |
The zebra mussel first appeared in the US. It is capable of laying up to 5 million eggs per year. Links: USA, Environment, Animal
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1988 |
Belgium passed a law that forbade the ritual execution of animals at home. Links: Belgium, Animal
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1989 May 11 |
Kenya announced that it would seek a worldwide ban on the trade of ivory -- a move intended to preserve its fast-dwindling elephant herds. Links: Kenya, Animal
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1989 |
The UN Convention on Int’l. Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) imposed a total ban on the trade of ivory and elephant hide. In 2007 the ban was extended for another 9 years. Links: UN, Animal
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