The Fund for Animals quantifies decline in number of hunters.  By checking wildlife agency data, they found the number of hunters over the age of 16 had declined from 14 million in 1991 to 13 million in 2001.  The ten states with the biggest drops were Rhode Island with a 59.1% decline followed by Massachusetts (38.9%), California (38.6%), Delaware (38.5%), Illinois (31%), Iowa (26%), North Carolina (25.9%), Connecticut (21.1%), Ohio (20.3%) and New Mexico (19.3%).

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is sending the Farley Mowat to the Galapagos to resupply the Sirenian and assist the Equadorian government in protecting the islands from illegal commercial exploitation which threatens this unique habitat and its non-human residents.  The timing of maintenance repairs has prevented sending a ship to the infamous Canadian sea slaughter this year, but the
organization will ferry in observers by helicopter to document the proceedings.

The International Primate Protection League has exposed Ibadan Zoo's illegal gorilla trading.  In spite of harboring only one aging female gorilla, Nigeria's Ibadan Zoo has been certifying numerous wildcaught infant gorillas as born in captivity so they could be sold to other zoos.  Baby gorillas are caught by killing their mothers and have a very low survival rate.

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