Help IDA Rescue 150 Auction-Bound Catalina Island Buffalo

Santa Catalina Island is a beautiful slice of paradise in the Pacific Ocean, 23 miles from the coast of California. Fourteen buffalo were brought to Catalina for a 1925 film, and they were never returned to the mainland. Their population soon grew, and they've been enchanting visitors to the island ever since.

Because the buffalo are non-native to the island, and they reproduce at a steady pace, some have periodically been sent to auction. But, thanks to caring members like you, IDA is changing that! In 2003, we staged our first buffalo relocation, transporting 105 buffalo from the island to protected Native American land in South Dakota, where they graze happily to this day. Now we have the opportunity to rescue another 150. Click here to read the full story, and see how you can help. 

IDA Report: Health Care Reform Must Fix Research Funding System

IDA announced in an August 25 news release that the debate over health care reform is missing a vital component. This missing element - reform of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant award funding system - was addressed in a hard-hitting report released last week.
 
IDA sent its report, “A Grand Opportunity to Support 21st Century Science,” to the NIH peer review Advisory Councils, who are responsible for reviewing grants submitted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which allocated to the NIH over $8 billion in taxpayer-funded research money. Click here to learn more and read the report.

Tina And Jewel Safe; New Hope For Queenie?

When we first heard the news that the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) was finally confiscating Tina and Jewel from circus handler Will Davenport but sending them to a zoo, our hearts sank. We had not worked so hard for these elephants over the past two years just to see them end up in a zoo.

But the situation is not so simple. Please click here to read more, and see what you can do. 

Time Magazine Gets Real About The High Price Of Cheap Food

From author Bryan Walsh: "Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. ... When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he'll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population. And when the rains come, the excess fertilizer that coaxed so much corn from the ground will be washed into the Mississippi River and down into the Gulf of Mexico, where it will help kill fish for miles and miles around. That's the state of your bacon — circa 2009." Read the rest of the story in Time Magazine here.

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