The people, this company, who has proposed to help Motola is probably doing
what it can to help her. This Lab company has nothing to do with UN anti
mine treaty it just wants to help this one elephant.
Just because the US won't cooperate with the treaty doesn't mean we can't
do what we can to help these victims, humans and animals.
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> From: Heather McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: U.S. co. offers to help elephant
> Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 2:25 PM
>
> OK, I feel really bad for this elephant and all, but people and animals
> are wounded/maimed/killed so often by these things, yet the US won't sign
> the anti-mine treaty the UN had on the table last year. So how come we
> all care so much about this one elephant? Could it be...hypocrisy?
>
> h
>
> --- Kimberly & Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > U.S. co. offers to help elephant
> >
> > BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A U.S. company has offered to make an
> > artificial
> > foot for an elephant injured after stepping on a land mine, a Thai
> > foreign
> > ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Carl Riecken, owner of Riecken's
> > Orthodic
> > Laboratory in Evansville, Ind., has offered to provide a ready-made
> > elephant foot or materials and expertise. The plan will be discussed
> > with
> > veterinarians taking care of the elephant, Motola, at the Hang Chat
> > Elephant Hospital in Lampang, about 300 miles north of Bangkok. A team
> > of
> > surgeons from Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand on Aug. 28
> > amputated Motola's left front foot, which was shredded by an
> > anti-personnel
> > land mine she stepped on a few weeks earlier while preparing for
logging
> > work at the Thai-Myanmar border. See full story
> > <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561051765-158>
> >
> >
>
> ===
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> and so it goes away. Puzzling.
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