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2004 News Release Archives
See also: 2007 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000

12/23/04 Miracle Dog Named Hope Looking For The Best Christmas Present: A Family Of Her Own 
12/14/04 Activists To City of Angels: Earn Halo, Close Elephant Exhibit Now
IDA Blames Zoo and City for Premature Death of Ailing Elephant 
12/14/04 IDA and APRL Make Foie Gras Flap at French Consulate
12/07/04 SF City To Establish 15 Acres Minimum Standards For Elephants at Zoo
12/03/04 Zoo Industry Trade Group Caves to Public Pressure: Okays Transfer of Elephants to Sanctuary
11/29/04 Activists Applaud Transfer of Elephant to Sanctuary
11/24/04 Activists Ask Zoo Association To Give Detroit Elephants Reasons To Be Thankful
11/24/04 Activists to Greet Rodeo Drive Shoppers with Fur-Free Message
11/24/04 Shoppers at Union Square Confronted With Grim Reality of Fur Trade
11/24/04 Cruelty on Michigan Fur Farm Shown to Holiday Shoppers
11/19/04 IDA Blasts Zoo Association For Axing Efforts to Give Detroit's Ailing Elephants Sanctuary
11/18/04 Activists at Japanese Consulate to urge end to cruel dolphin slaughter
11/17/04 Macy's holiday shoppers to get a fur-free message
11/17/04 "Bleeding Dolphin" protests cruel slaughter in Taiji
11/17/04 SF Zoo Grizzly Bears Cheated of Space, Activists Charge Zoo Saving Land To Bring in New Species 
11/16/04 Activists Hope Free "Dog Meat" Difficult for San Franciscans to Swallow. IDA Urges Action.
11/16/04 In Defense of Animals to Mayor Hahn: Be a Man of Your Word and Put Ruby First.
10/30/04 IDA-Africa Raises $72,000 for Great Ape Conservation
09/30/04 Barclay Prime Ruffles Feathers of Anti-Foie Gras Activists
10/26/04 In Defense of Animals Announces Guardian Award Recipients. Governor Schwarzenegger, Ellen DeGeneres and Others Will be Recognized At Hollywood Fundraiser on October 30th.
10/21/04 Union Square Cafe Ruffles Feathers of Anti-Cruelty Activists
10/19/04 Elephant Dumped By San Diego Zoo Dies in Cold, Windy Chicago
10/14/04 Caged Activists Protest Dog and Cat Consumption
10/04/04 IDA, ASPCA & Neighborhood Cats present National Feral Cat Summit
09/30/04 Horse Tragedy Shines Spotlight On Spate Of Ringling Animal Deaths
09/30/04 Governor Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Force-Feeding of Ducks and Geese
09/15/04 U.S. agency cites UCSF for abuses of animals 
09/28/04 Giant Dog To Korean Embassy: Dogs Are Friends Not Food
09/24/04 Acclaimed Calif. Restaurant Targeted to "Can" Cruel Foie Gras
09/16/04 National Animal Protection Organization Condemns AZA Decision on Detroit Elephants
08/26/04 IDA Supports Inmate's Request for Cancellation of Prison Rodeo
08/16/04 IDA to St. Louis City: Two Paws Up
08/16/04 IDA Urges Psychiatric Evaluation for Puppy Abusers
08/13/04 U.S. Organization Offers Additional $2,000 Reward for Cat Mutilation Case
08/11/04 St. Louis Missouri Recognizes Animal "Guardians"
06/23/04 Animal Protection Groups Praise City and Residents of SF for Support of Elephants as Zoo Announces Transfer of Pachyderms to California Sanctuary
06/07/04 Activists Converge to Dog Korea Over Animal Cruelty
06/01/04 SF Supervisors To Zoo: Resolution Passes Unanimously
06/01/04 Needy animals overwhelming sanctuaries: local sanctuaries pool resources for cougar
06/01/04 Six Flags Urged to Close Animal Exhibits in Wake of Marine World Elephant Goring
05/20/04 SF Board of Supervisors Committee Votes for Immediate Transfer of Elephants from San Francisco Zoo to CA Sanctuary
05/11/04 Wanaque, NJ, Joins National Trend Recognizing Animal "Guardians"
04/22/04 Second Elephant at SF Zoo Dies in Less Than Two Months
04/19/04 Animal Advocates call for tighter research oversight, blast "Intellectual Fraud" during "World Week for Animals in Labs"
04/09/04 SF Commission recommends transfer of zoo elephants to sanctuary
03/17/04 IDA exposes "intellectual fraud" of NIH-funded researcher
03/15/04 Activists call on school system to cancel donkey basketball
03/14/04 Television news anchor and sheriff to host Arizona gala for animals
03/02/04 Sonoma Foie Gras Fails in Motion to Remove Cruelty Case to Rural Town
02/24/04

Precedent-setting ruling recognizes animals' value

02/12/04

Woodstock, NY, becomes latest city to adopt "animal guardian" language

02/06/04 Free the 34 Monkeys being held by the University of Colorado
02/04/04

World's First Cataract Surgery Performed on Chimpanzee

01/14/04 National Animal Violence Prevention Program Kicks off Martin Luther King Holiday with Student Contest
01/08/04 Anti-Fur Advertisement Gives Fur Bearing Animals "Max"-imum Exposure;
World-Renowned artist Peter Max's Design to Run Nationwide
 

2004 Action Alert & News Links Archives
See also: 2007 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000

12/04 Concerns Of The Treatment Of Elephants At El Paso Zoo
12/22/04 December 22, 2004 Insight show from KXJZ FM devoted to the transfer of elephants from the Detroit and San Francisco Zoos to the Performing Animal Welfare Society. 
12/14/04 LA Zoo's longtime African elephant Tara dies unexpectedly 
12/13/04 Zoos not the place to breed elephants
12/09/04 Method of production is cruel 
12/05/04 Her Pet Cause
12/04/04 Calif. home found for zoo elephants: Detroit will transfer pair to sanctuary
12/02/04 Zoo Officials Clash Over Detroit Elephants
11/04 Victory for Ducks and Geese! 
11/09/04 Diners’ delicacy rankles activists 
10/04 Is Luxury Cruel? The Foie Gras Divide
10/23/04 Experimenting on Our Next of Kin?-2 Events in L.A. County
09/28 Group urges S Korea to protect dogs
09/04 IDA Interview with KQED on UCSF
09/21/04 Seeking a Home That Fits - Elephants' Case Highlights Limits of Zoos
09/04 Offer to take in elephants spurs dispute with zoo group, activists (pdf)
09/04 "The Heart Does Not Deceive" By Ed Duvin
04/01/04 Wild Animals in Zoos or Sanctuaries? Elephant's death should not be in vain
09 Prison Rodeo Protested
09 Bull Injured at Rodeo
09 USDA orders seizure of Hawthorn Corporation elephants
08 Investigation Reveals Horrific Conditions at Pseudo-Sanctuary 
08/08 USDA Investigates Death of Circus Lion: Activists Challenge Ringling Brothers' Account, Say They Notified Federal Officials
06/21 Living large with room to roam S.F. Zoo elephants ready to retire to one of two U.S. sanctuaries
08/16 Athens Poison 50,000 Dogs Prior To Olympic Games
08/16 RUBY: Remarks made by Bill Dyer before the L.A. Zoo Commission
05/04 SF Supervisors set to vote on relocation of zoo elephants to sanctuary
04/04 A great week for activism
03/04 Global Day of Action Against Procter & Gamble
03/04 Arkansas's big dog dealer faces USDA
04/04 Join WWAIL 2004!
04/04 Show Chattel in your area for WWAIL
03/19/04 Korean Dog campaign update
03/12/04 Article in Bridle & Bit highlights IDA's Arizona Gala
03/09/04

Let the training and fun begin

03/01/04

Update from IDA's Arizona Conquistador Horse Rescue Program

02/24/04 World Week for Animals in Laboratories scheduled for April 17-25
02/24/04 Don't monkey with CU grants: Daily Camera article
02/14/04

California lawmakers introduce bill to ban foie gras: SF Gate Article

02/14/04 Satya Magazine asks, "What's In A Word?"
01/14/04 Mountain Views: Animal Research Cruel, Unusual