As my colleague Jeffrey Gettleman reported last year, Gabon's government, blessed with billions of dollars of oil money, has made many of the right moves to protect its animals, setting aside chunks of land for national parks, and even lighting a pyramid of 4,535 kilograms, or 10,000 pounds, of ivory on fire to make the point that the trade was reprehensible.
While there is no specific rule stipulating that certain bulls must be used for bull runs and others for bullfights, generally the biggest and fiercest animals are set aside to square off against matadors.
The Rev. Michael Delaney, rector of the Episcopal parish in the Richmond Town section, said that room for about 600 animals was being set aside in the church's nearly 300-year old cemetery.
The law is necessary, she said in written answers to questions, because the general regulations on slaughter, including stunning the animals before killing, "are set aside when it comes to ritual slaughter".
In the late 1980s, animal shelters started to set aside black cats around Halloween in order to prevent people from adopting them.
It's as though we have a deep well of attention set aside for animals, a powerful but uncategorized interest waiting to be channeled into more cogent feelings, like fascination or fear.
"Whatever the debate is about trophy hunting, it needs to be set aside while animals are disappearing," Joubert says, pointing out the other obvious truth about trophy-hunting -- the rarer the species, the more desirable it becomes.
Even vegetarians will find prices of staples rising as more land is set aside for animal feed.
Human studies were used for this review, and animal asthma model studies were set aside for a separate review [ 20].
Plants differ from animals because they lack a germline set aside early in embryogenesis.
