Date
Oct. 28, 2002
Contact
Elliot Katz, DVM
415-388-9641, ext. 25
In Defense of Animals
131 Camino Alto
Mill Valley
CA 94941
IDA is an international, California-based animal advocacy organization dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by defending their rights, welfare and habitats.
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Mill Valley, CA (October 29, 2002) – In Defense of Animals (IDA) has been honored with a special award created specifically for its historic victory in shutting down the notorious Coulston Foundation primate testing lab last month after an unprecedented eight-year campaign.
In a congratulatory letter, Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) Executive Director Lisa Jennings said that her group had created the Milagro Spirit of the Mission Award this year to “to recognize the truly extraordinary accomplishment of IDA in spearheading the campaign to close The Coulston Foundation.”
Ms. Jennings, whose group has worked closely with IDA over the past two years on the Coulston campaign, went on to say that the Spirit of the Mission Award “is unique in that it also recognizes actions that bring about precedent-setting change with a national impact that advances the animal rights movement.”
The Spirit of the Mission Award, as well as other APNM Milagro awards that recognize individual and collaborative humanitarian acts on behalf of animals, will be distributed with a ceremony and dinner scheduled for Saturday, November 9, 2002 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
“IDA is deeply honored to be receiving this special award. Our total victory over the Coulston Foundation only became a reality with the help of determined organizations such as Animal Protection of New Mexico,” stated IDA president Elliot Katz, DVM.
“I would like to thank APNM for this wonderful honor and for its hard work on the Coulston campaign,” said IDA Research Director Eric Kleiman. “IDA’s unprecedented victory in shutting down Coulston also would not have been possible without the key efforts on Capitol Hill of the Animal Welfare Institute and the Doris Day Animal League. IDA thanks all of these groups for their crucial help.”