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API featured on FOX Sacramento story on keeping dogs out of hot cars this summer

Published 06/26/07

U.S. government-commissioned study recommends reducing, even ending, toxicity testing on animals

Published 06/19/07

A study by the National Research Council, commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency, has determined that toxicity testing on animals is inadequate and recommends changes “that will generate better data on the potential risks humans face from environmental agents, building a stronger scientific foundation ... and reducing the time, money, and animals needed for testing.”

Press release from The National Academies

Young Elephant Dies in Seattle Zoo

Published 06/14/07

API is quoted in this article about the death of a young zoo elephant at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Activists have long been pressuring the zoo to send its elephants to sanctuary, citing space (less than one acre for four elephants), care (bullhook use), and climate (well, it’s Seattle).

Kathy Mulady and Debera Carlton Harrell
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special Investigation: Dangerous Exotic Animals as Pets in Ohio

Published 05/25/07

In-depth investigation by Cincinnati ABC affiliate, WCPO, into the dangers of keeping wild animals as pets. API is sponsoring legislation in Ohio to ban the private ownership of dangerous wild animals.

Matt Miller
WCPO, Cincinnati

What's in your pet food

Published 05/23/07

API featured in a special report “What’s in your pet food” on WHDH TV, Boston’s respected NBC affiliate.

Anne Allred
WHDH, NBC Boston

Animals often pay the price when they become exotic pets

Published 05/10/07

API is quoted in this story about the treatment of exotic wild animals kept as “pets” and how unwanted animals are impacting sanctuaries in Arizona.

Samantha Novick
Cronkite News Service

I am an Elephant

Published 04/20/07

I am an elephant. Do you think I was born to be chained to a stake, when my spirit cries to cross vast savannas? Do you think I was made to be pushed into cramped circus railway cars, to be hauled around the country like furniture?

Stu Bykofsky
Philadelphia Daily News

API’s “What’s Really in Pet Food” report helps guide San Francisco guardians

Published 04/11/07

CBS 5, San Francisco, explores the pet recall issue and what’s really in pet food — including how small pet-supply business are being affected. If you haven’t already read API’s “What’s Really in Pet Food” report, be sure to do it now!

Jeanette Pavini
KPIX, CBS San Francisco

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