For latest news from the ice go to: Ultimas noticias del hielo:

http://catcahelpanimals.org/MEPs2008.html

Check this blog live from the hunt from March 28,2008

http://www.antisealingcoalition.ca/blog/sealhunt2008.php

Check this HSUS video of the seal hunt

http://video.hsus.org/?fr_story=b0c34245a3b8d23b35989849e917af0ebb539d55&rf=bm

Click on the pic to view these HSI videos of the seal hunt 2007

Haz click en la foto para ver video de la caza de 2007

Favor firmar esta peticion:                                                        Pls, sign this petition:

 
 
 
 
 
Check this page to view the Vancouver Protest 2007
 
Go to the "store" web page, to buy our anti seal hunt shirt !
 

Check this very creative anti seal hunt website:

www.touringnewfoundland.com 

The seal hunt started today Friday 28th of March 2008 at 6:00AM.
 
275,000 baby harp seals will be killed for fur.
 
If you want to help stop this atrocity, check our new pages:
 
La caza de focas bebe comenzo hoy Viernes 28 de Marzo 2008.
Si quieres ayudar a parar la matanza de mas de un cuarto de millon de focas de poco mas de 12 dias de nacidas, por su piel, anda a los enlaces aca arriba. Gracias !
 
In 2007, the DFO  authorized to kill 270,000 baby harp seals ( plus 8,200 hooded seals and 9,000 grey seals!), despite the pleas of animal welfare organizations worldwide and countries to not have the seal cull last year !
 
During the early spring 2007, over 260,000  Harp seal pups  drowned in the Gulf of St. Lawrence due to lack of ice. On the Atlantic side  "The Front" (the waters off New Foundland and Labrador), the ice conditions were a bit better, but thousands of baby seals perished too.
 
This unethical action of the Canadian Government, only convinced more country members of the European Union, to join the ban of all Canadian seal products.
 
 
STOP THE SEAL HUNT IN CANADA !

Every Spring on the Eastern coast of Canada, the hunters, armed with clubs and hagapiks, beat to death hundreds of thousands baby harp seals, but also hooded and grey pup seals. 
 
 A 98 % of the baby seals killed are between 14 days to 12 weeks old.
 

The most shocking evidence comes from 2001, when an international team of Veterinarians who witnessed the hunt, perfomed post-mortem examinations among some carcasses chosen randomly and proved that a 42% of those seals were skinned alive !!!
 
(Pls, check this link for the full report info: http://infurmation.com/pdf/fielder01.pdf )

This is the largest mammal killing in the world and there is no excuse for such a massacre and torture of these beautiful living beings. It only gives Canada a bad name as a primitive nation profiting from the fur of baby seals.

This year, by late March or early April, the Canadian seal killers armed with clubs and rifles will go again to the nursery floes of the harp and hood seal, to massacre them in the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals on this planet! 

 
Over a MILLION seals have been killed within 4 years (and not counting the baby seals, struck and lost...).
 
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO STOP THIS SEAL HUNT, GO TO SEAL BAN + the eight following webpages:
http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/BanCanadiansealsproducts.html  English
http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/Fok.html  Polish
 
http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/listsealban2008.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/sealban2.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/lsban3.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/sbeu4.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/sbleu5.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/EUSB6.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/EUSBL7.html

http://www.catcahelpanimals.org/EUsbl8.html

 

 

Copy / paste and write the politicians e-mails urging them to consider implementing the ban of all Canadian seal products (and even better from ALL seal products). This is an URGENT CAMPAIGN. We need you to act now before the end of February 2008.

 

URGENTISIMO:

Copia y escribe a estos contactos de los politicos de estas 8 paginas de internet con correos electronicos de contactos a quienes escribirles AHORA MISMO, para que pase la prohibicion de todos los productos de partes de focas Canadienses (y mejor todavia, de TODAS las focas), en estos paises

de la Union Europea que no han hecho nada al respecto. Es urgentisimo tomaraccion ahora antes de que se acabe Febrero 2008, ya que entonces el Parlamento Europeo decidira si pasa una prohibicion en toda la Union Europea prohibiendo los productos de focas Canadienses y esa es la mejor manera de acabar con la masacre mas grande a mamiferos en el mundo.

 

THANK YOU, GRACIAS, DZIEKUJE, HVALA, TAKK, GRAZIE, DANKE, TACK, MERCI 

 

 

 

Write a letter or petition and send it by mail to:

The Right Honourable Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Canada
Constituency Tel (for Canadians): 613-992-4211
Fax: 613-941-6900
E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
 
For a letter writting campaign, send petitions or organiza a protest near you, go to: 
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/embassies/cra-en.asp
 
Letter sample /Ejemplo de carta:
 
"Dear PM and Min. of F and O,
I am horrified that this year over 325,000 babyseal were kill for their fur. Last year The Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans exceeded their quota by 32,000 animals and their estimate of a "sustainable" hunt by more than 50,000.

How it can be legal that  hunters, armed with clubs and other weapons, beat to death the baby hooded and harp seals in front their mothers, who often die trying to save their pups?. What about the male adults often are left to bleed to death after have their penises brutally removed to export to countries such as Japan where they are used as aphrodisiacs?

42 % of the babies are skin alive! !!!.  How  do you allow this to happen here in our so call "civilized" Canada?
 
It is barbaric and inhuman and I urge you to stop this slaughter now.
 
Sincerely: ........."

Please ask your local health food store and pharmacy not to stock nutritional supplements made from seal oil and promote alternative products instead :

 Pide en tus tiendas locales de productos naturales y farmacias que no vendan productos hechos de aceite de focas y que promuevan productos alternativos en su lugar :.

Terra Nova, Canomega, and Omegavite are brands of omega-3 fatty acid capsules made from seal oil. These products are illegal in the USA under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. There are many excellent alternatives to seal oil as a nutritional supplement, including flax seed oil and hemp seed oil.

Write letters to companies that sell seal pelts / Escribe a companias que vendan productos de piel de focas:

Send a letter, e-mail, or fax to companies that sell products made from the fur and skin of seals. These fashion houses use seal pelts: Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Birger Christensen, New Vogue, and Vogue Furriers. They are participating in the annual seal hunt by giving the Canadian government and the sealers the economic incentive they need to continue the hunt. Send a letter to these companies and politely request that they make their fashion more compassionate by ending the use of seal fur.

The Odette Leblanc Collection: They say the following about their products: "Composed of a complete line of very unique seal fur products. Ranging from small accessories to full length coats, you will surely find the ideally suited item you've been looking for or even been dreaming about owning!"

Odette Leblanc
022 de l'école Rd.
Pointe-aux-Loups,

Îles de la Madeleine, PQ G4T 8B1
Company website: http://www.ilesdelamadeleine.com/odette/index2.htm
Tel: (418)-969-9385 E-mail: oleblan@sympatico.ca

PRADA
Prada S.P.A.
Via Andrea Maffei, 2
20154 Milan, Italy
Phone: 39 02 54 67 01

Prada (U.S. office)
Katherine Ross, V.P. of Communications
610 W. 52nd St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212 307 9300

Dolce & Gabbana
Via Goldoni, 10,
20129 Milano, Italy.
+39 02 774271
Fax +39 02 76020600

Gucci
685 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-750-5220
clientservice-europe@gucci.it

Versace
Donatella Versace
Versace S.P.A. Headquarters
Via Manzoni, 38
Milan ITALY 20121
Phone: 39 02 76 09 31
Fax: 39 02 76 00 41 22

Petit Nord: They sell children's seal fur hats, boots, mittens. You can send a letter to them directly from their website at: http://www.base-1.com/petit.html

Pajar: Makes/sells sealskin boots.
4509 Coloniale Avenue
Montreal, Quebec H2T 1V8
Company website: www.pajar.com

Tel: (514)-844-3067, Toll free: 1-888-667-2527
Fax: 514-844-3066, E-mail: pajar@pajar.com

BOYCOTT CANADIAN SEAFOOD PRODUCTS and
help us to get more countries to ban ALL Canadian Seal Products !
 
Please, go to our "latest news" section for updates and "FUR/pieles" for more addresses/e-mails where to write...
 
Por favor, anda a la seccion "ultimas noticias" y "focas espanol", para mas detalles en Espanol...para mas direcciones y correos elec. anda a: "fur/pieles"...