I miss Linda every day. Her death was a profound loss.. From - TopicsExpress



          

I miss Linda every day. Her death was a profound loss.. From Animal People: MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2006 Human Obituaries Linda Howard, 39, unexpectedly shot herself on July 27, 2006, after a domestic dispute at her home in San Antonio, Texas. A computer systems analyst by trade, Howard was by avocation a humane investigator, animal rights organizer, and behind-the-scenes communicator and facilitator, who for more than 15 years helped to bring wildlife traffickers and abusers to justice, organized the coast-to-coast Primate Freedom Tour in 1999, brokered exotic animal rescues and relocations worldwide by telephone and Internet, and helped to research more than fifty articles for ANIMAL PEOPLE, mostly declining public credit for her contributions. Briefly employed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Friends of Animals, Howard preferred to volunteer, assisting dozens of organizations as opportunity permitted. Primates never had a better friend and primate abusers never had a more formidable foe, recalled International Primate Protection League founder Shirley McGreal. Despite her years of selfless struggle on behalf of our primate cousins, Linda had never seen a wild monkey. I invited her to come with me to the International Primatological Society Congress held in Entebbe, Uganda, in late June 2006, and to travel with me afterwards to Murchison Falls National Park in northern Uganda. On the drive up we saw many baboons and every time Linda would insist the driver stop and we would watch the troop until the baboons disappeared from view. We went on to Jacana Lodge in the forested area of Queen Elizabeth Park. The trees were full of exquisite colobus monkeys and the more elusive redtail guenons. One night I was in the lodge reception area and Linda stayed in the room. There was a knock on the door. Linda opened the door and there stood a mother and baby baboon. It was as if they somehow knew there was a friend behind that door. The baboons made no effort to enter. They just stood there briefly, and left. Linda was overjoyed.I miss her everyday.
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