Actors Join Sea Shepherd in Calling for End to Annual Baby Seal Slaughter
Ottawa — Brigitte Bardot, the legendary actress who became the first celebrity to use her influence to bring the plight of the harp seals to international media attention nearly three decades ago, is returning to Canada for the first time in 29 years to demand an end to the controversial commercial seal hunt, which resumed in 1995 after being shut down since 1984. Bardot will join her old friend, New Brunswick native and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) Founder and President Captain Paul Watson, and Girlfriends TV star and animal activist Persia White, at a press conference on March 22.
Captain Watson, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, helped organize and lead the first campaign to protect seals on the East Coast of Canada in 1976. During this campaign, Watson and the late Robert Hunter, also a co-founder of Greenpeace, (whose daughter Emily will also be attending the press conference), blocked a sealing ship by standing on the ice in its path. The following year, Watson led the second mission to oppose the seal hunt off the coast of Labrador, this time bringing Brigitte Bardot onto the ice floes with him to witness and help document the slaughter.
“The harp seal hunt is a big, bloody stain on Canada’s reputation,” says Watson. “There is absolutely no excuse for butchering helpless babies – it’s an international disgrace.”
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Morrissey boycotts Canada on his Tour March 27
I fully realize that the absence of any Morrissey concerts in Canada is unlikely to bring the Canadian economy to its knees, but it is our small protest against this horrific slaughter," the former Smiths front man wrote in a statement posted on his website.
"As the world knows, this slaughter is about one thing only: making money."
Morrissey is the latest celebrity to voice his dissent. Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills ignited a firestorm when they visited Atlantic Canada in early March urging officials to step in to stop the annual seal hunt.
Soon after, 1960s sex kitten Brigitte Bardot followed with a visit to Ottawa.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has defended the seal hunt saying that Canada is the "victim of a bit of an international propaganda campaign."
Said Harper: "We believe the country is acting responsibly and we'll make sure all rules are enforced."
Aside from not including Canada on his upcoming tour, Morrissey asked fans to boycott Canadian goods.
"It WILL make a difference. As things stand, Canada has placed itself alongside China as the cruelest and most self-serving nation," he wrote.
The hunt officially began last weekend in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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"Pamela Anderson asks PM Stephen Harper for a meeting after hosting duties at Juno".
TORONTO - Calling the seal hunt "barbaric," bombshell actress Pamela Anderson has asked for a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper following her hosting duties at Sunday's Juno Awards in Halifax.
"As a proud Canadian who frequently travels abroad, I am alarmed that people are starting to see Canada as a country more beholden to a pack of greedy hunters and to the seal-skin 'fashion' whims of a few countries than to the massive international outcry against the hunt," Anderson, a vocal member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said in a letter faxed to Harper's office.
"One of the biggest problems facing the U.S. government is appearing aloof about its own hostile behaviour; I'd hate to see that happen north of the border too."
The actor and model said she's collected thousands of signatures via an online PETA petition protesting the seal hunt.
Anderson, who is from Ladysmith, B.C., said she wants to visit Ottawa on Monday to meet with Harper.
The seal hunt, which started last weekend, has attracted plenty of celebrity protesters this year, including former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills. Brigitte Bardot visited Ottawa earlier this month asking for a meeting with government officials but was refused. Singer Morrissey has said he won't include Canada on any tours until the seal hunt ends.
Harper has repeatedly defended the seal hunt, saying that Canada is the "victim of a bit of an international propaganda campaign."
A call to his office Tuesday was not immediately returned.
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Photo Credit: IFAW
| | | | Toronto's observer returns home after witnessing the seal hunt - March 28 | | Toronto's Melissa Tkachyk, Canadian Campaigns Officer for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) returned to Toronto last night having witnessed the seal hunt first hand this weekend. "Like the sealers, we had difficulty finding the seals at first, so poor are the ice conditions this year in the Gulf," recounts Tkachyk. "From our vantage point in the helicopter, we could see for miles, but we saw little for the longest time apart from a few scattered blocks of ice. We spotted the sealing boats first, at least a dozen. Thin trails of blood could be seen in the water behind several of these boats as the sealers used their gaff hooks to drag seals aboard--hopefully dead, though we know from past accounts that this is sadly not always the case." In 2001, an independent veterinary study concluded that in 42% of the cases they examined, the seal did not show enough evidence of cranial injury to guarantee unconsciousness at the time of skinning, meaning that, in all likelihood, animals were skinned alive. WSPA has serious concerns about the animal welfare implications of the Canadian seal hunt given past eyewitness accounts of sealing regulations being flouted, animals being shot and wounded, clubbed but not rendered unconscious or even skinned alive. WSPA further objects to the commercial use of wildlife, particularly where the primary reason for the hunt is still fur, which the charity views as an unnecessary or frivolous reason to kill animals. Canada's annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world. More than a million seals have been killed during the past three years. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has set a quota for this year's hunt of 335,000. This year's hunt got underway last Saturday morning. Hampered by poor ice conditions, sealers are believed to have killed 3100 seals on the opening day of the hunt, much less than in previous years. Adds Tkachyk: "Most of the seals we saw being killed are young pups, just 2-3 weeks old, and most have yet to fully moult their fluffy white coats. Under Canadian law, the pups are fair game as soon as they moult their first white hairs at 12 days old. At this age, the pups are just learning how to swim. It was horrifying to see these little seals trying to stay afloat on small melting ice floes while the hunters were after them." ________________________________________________________ | |
Actreses se juntan a la campana del Sea Shepherd demandando un alto a la matanza annual de focas bebes
Ottawa, Canada- Brigitte Bardot,, la legendaria actress que se volvio la primera celebridad en usar su influencia en la lucha para traer a la atencion la matanza de harp seal a la atencion de la media internacional hace casi 3 decadas, esta retornando a Canada por la primera vez en 29 anos para demandar el final a la controvertida caza de focas, la cual se resumio en 1995 luego de ser abolida desde 1984.
BB se juntara con su viejo amigo, el Capitan Paul Watson, presidente y fundador del Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, y laactriz del show de TV "Girlfriends", estrella y activista Persia White, en una conferencia en Marzo 22.
El Capitan Watson,quien fue uno de los co-fundadores de Greenpeace, ayudo a organizar and estuvo como lider, en la primera campana para proteger a las focas de la costa Este de Canada een 1976. Durante esta campana, Paul Watson y el ya fallecido activista Paul Hunter (tambien co-fundador de Greenpeace), quien por cierto su hija Emily atendera la conferencia, bloquearon un barco llenos de cazadores de focas quedandose en medio del camino del barco en el hielo.
Al ano siguiente, Watson estuvo a cargo de la segunda mision para oponerse a la caza en la costa de Labrador al Este de Canada, esta vez trajendo a Brigitte Bardot al hielo con el para ser testigos y ayudar a documentar la brutal matanza.
"la caza de focas harp bebes es una gran, sangrienta mancha en la reputacion de Canada", dijo Watson. " No hay absolutamente ninguna excusa para masacrar bebes indefensos- es una desgracia internacional".
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Cantante Morrissey, boycotea a Canada en su Tour musical (Marzo 27)
El popular cantante, boycoteara Canada en su proximo Tour, debido a que apoya la campana internacional para boycotear a Canada, que empezo con el Sea Shepherd y decenas de otras organizaciones que le han seguido.
El no solo boycotea Canada, pero le pide a sus fans que no compren productos pesqueros ni productos canadienses y que no visiten Canada, lo que si afectaria al gobierno que apoya y patrocina la matanza de miles de bebes foca cada ano.
Morrisey, fue firme en sus palabras reiterando que no planeaba incluir a Canada en ningun concierto de ella, hasta que no se acabe esta brutal matanza.
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Pamela Anderson, pide una junta con el Primer Ministro Canadiense, luego de la entrega de los premios Juno-Marzo 28
TORONTO -Llamando la caza de focas "barbarico", la actriz y bomba rubia Pamela Anderson ha pedido una junta con el Primer Ministro Stephen Harper, luego de sus deberes de presentadora en el Juno Awards este Domingo en Halifax.
"Como una orgullosa Canadiense que a menudo viaja al extranjero, estoy alarmada que la gente esta viendo a canada como un pais que se aferra a un pequeno grupo de cazadores avaros y a la "moda" de pieles de foca que va a muy pocos paisess, en lugar de escuchar las suplicas masivas internacionales contra la matanza de focas", dijo Pamela, un miembro vocal de la Gente para Un Trato Etico A Los Animales [PETA].en una carta faxeada a la oficina del Primer Ministro.
"Uno de los grandes problemas de los estados Unidos, es el comportamiento hostil de su gobierno; Yo odiaria ver que eso pase en Canada tambien... "
La actriz y modelo dijo que ha colectado miles de firmas en Internet en una peticion de PETA protestando la caza de focas en Canada.
La caza de focas , que empezo hace unos dias, ha atarido varias celebridades a protestar este ano, incluyendo el ex Beatle Paul McCartney y su esposa Heather Mills. Brigitte Bardot visito Ottawa este mes, pidiendo una junta con officiales del gobierno, pero fue rechazada su propuesta.La cantante Alanis Morrissey ha dicho que no va incluir a Canada en ninguno de sus tours hasta que se prohiba la caza de focas.
Harper ha defendido la caza repetidamente, diciendo que Canada es la "victima de un poco de campana de propaganda internacional".
Un llamado a su oficina el Martes no fui inmediatamente retornada.
Protesta en Rusia/ Protesta en Russia March 15, 2006
Photo Credits: Friends of Animal Rights, Moscow
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Observadora de la matanza de focas retorna a Toronto- Marzo 28
Una observadora del WSPA (Sociedad Mundial Para la Proteccion de los Animales), regreso hoy a Toronto, luego de estar en el hielo en el Golfo reportando la matanza de indefensos bebes focas.
Ella reporto que al igual que los cazadores, tuvieron problemas en encontrar a los bebes focas por el hielo tan delgado, y a pesar de que ella y otros observadores estaban en helicoptero y podian ver kilometros de hielo, las focas estaban dispersadas en bloques de hielo, sin imaginarse el horrendo destino que les esperaba. Luego vieron a los barcos de cazadores llegar, y a traves de la distancia pudieron ver como hilos de sangre empezaban a manchar el hielo blanco. Con picos alzaban las focas que ojala estaban ya muertas a los botes, pero como se sabe, en el 2001 un grupo de veterinarios internacionales reporto que un 42% de las focas bebes, se les arranca la piel aun estando todavia vivas.
Fue horrendo ver que las focas que todava no saben nadar y las que estan empezando a hacerlo, tratando de huir de los cazadores.
A pesar de lo dispersas que estaban las focas bebes de 2 a 3 semanas de nacidos con sus madres, aun asi los cazadores mataron 3,100 focas en el Sabado pasado.
$16 Million US dollars offered as reward to the Canadian Government to stop seal hunt !- April 4
NEW CANAAN, Conn., April 4 - In a just-released letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Cathy Kangas, CEO and Founder of PRAI Beauty, a global beauty company, has offered to raise the $16 million that Canadian fishermen will realize from the sale of the pelts of slaughtered baby
seals.
Ms. Kangas wrote: "If you stop this year's hunt immediately, we will provide you with the $16 million to be distributed at your discretion." The Canadian government has stated repeatedly that the seal hunt provides needed off-season income to the fishermen in the communities of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence and Newfoundland.
Ms. Kangas also proposed working with the Canadian government to institute a program to buy back existing fishing licenses and launch a program of eco-tourism in Northeastern Canada to replace the seal hunt. "Canadian fishermen could earn more money serving as park rangers for high end tours to
Canada to see the beautiful spectacle of seals giving birth on the ice floes,"she noted. She said that whale-watching tours in Canada have been very successful attracting visitors.
"We are providing you with an alternative to what Paul McCartney called 'a stain on the character of the Canadian people.' If this is really simply an economic problem, then take our offer," Mrs. Kangas stated in her letter. The money, she pointed out, will be raised from private citizens and animal
protection groups worldwide which oppose the seal hunt including The Humane Society of the United States, which has more than nine million members.
Mrs. Kangas added: "With the worldwide boycott of Canadian seafood, the television coverage of baby seals being clubbed to death for their pelts, and the involvement of high-profile celebrities such as Heather and Paul McCartneyand Bridget Bardot, one would think that Stephen Harper would welcome an economic solution to the seal hunt. We are willing to negotiate in good faith. However, should he choose to ignore my letter and continue with the hunt, we need to ask the world what will it take for Canada to end this barbaric practice?"
Cathy Kangas has championed animal welfare issues for more than twenty years. She presently serves on the Regional Council of IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) and as an advisor to HSUS (Humane Society of the United States).
As CEO and Founder of PRAI Beauty, a global skin and beauty care company sold through the Internet and home shopping networks, she created "Beauty With A Cause." Under this program, her company contributes a portion of its proceeds every month to a different animal protection organization.
Among the many animal protection organizations supported by Ms. Kangas through PRAI Beauty are: Animals Asia, which seeks to end the slaughter of cats and dogs in China for food; IFAW for the campaign to save the whales; Save the Chimps, which provides a sanctuary for chimps formerly used by the USAir Force; The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the United Pegasus Foundation
for retired racehorses; the Wolf Conservation Center, Best Friends in Utah, the largest animal sanctuary in the world; and SPANA, which cares for working animals worldwide.
CATHY KANGAS
106 CLEARVIEW LANE
NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT 06840
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| DFO takes a pass on buyout offer to sealers ! il - April 5 |
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| The Canadian government is taking a pass on an American businesswoman's offer to pay sealers not to kill any more harp seals. Cathy Kangas, the founder and chief executive officer of Prai Beauty, has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper with an offer to raise $16 million, to replace the money sealers earn from the hunt. She said various groups opposed to the hunt could raise money to supplement sealers' incomes. Steve Outhouse, communications director for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said the federal government will not be taking Kangas up on her offer. "We're not interested," Outhouse told the St. John's Telegram. "This is another example of someone with lots of money trying to tell people how to live their lives." Outhouse said while $16 million would replace sealers' incomes, it is far less than the overall value of the industry. ______________________________________________________________________________ |
$16 Millones de dolares US, ofrecidos al Gobierno canadiense para parar caza de focas ! - Abril 4
NEW CANAAN, Conn., April 4 - En una carta recien enviada al Primer Ministro Stephen Harper, Cathy Kangas, CEOy Fundadora de PRAI Beauty, una compania de belleza mundial, ha ofrecido juntar $16 milliones que pescadores Canadienses obtendrian por la venta de pieles de bebes foca asesinados.
La Sra. Kangas escribio: "Si tu paras esta caza inmediatamente, nosotros te daremos $16 millones de dolares a ser distribuidos a tu discrecion". " El Gobierno Canadiense ha dicho repetidamente que la caza de focas provee necesario sueldo cuando no es la temporada de caza, en las comunidades de el Golfo de St.Lawrence and Newfoundland.
La Sra Kangas tambien propuso trabajar con el gobierno Canaddiense para instituir un programa para comprar de regreso existentes licencias de pesca y lanzar un programa de eco turismo en el Noroeste de Canada para replazar la caza de focas. "Pescadores Canadienses podrian ganar mas dinero trabajando como guarda parques para grupos "high end" (lujosos), a Canada, para ver el bellisimo espectaculo de focas dando a luz en el hielo". Ella dijo que que tours observates de ballenas han sido muy exitosos atrayendo turistas.
"Nosotros estamos proveyendote con una alternativa a lo que Paul McCartney llamo "una mancha enn el caracter de la gente Canadiense". Si esto es tan simplemente un problema economico, entonces toma nuestra oferta, dijo la Sra. Kangas en su carta. El dinero, ella punto, sera juntado de ciudadanos rivados y grupos protectores de animales en el mundo quienes oponen la caza de focas, incluyendo el HSUS (The Humane Society of the United States), la cual tiene mas de 9 millones de miembros.
La Kangas agrego : "Con el mundial boycot a mariscos y pescados Canadienses, la transmision de bebes foca golpeados hasta morir por sus pieles, el envolvimiento de Heather y Paul McCartney y de
Brigitte Bardot, uno pensaria que Stephen Harper que esta idea seria bienvenida como solucion economica a la caza de focas. Nosotros estamos tratando de negociar en buena fe, sin embargo, si el decidiera ignorar mi carta y continuar con la caza, necesitariamos pedir al mundo que se necesita para que Canada termine esta brutal y barbarica practica?".
Cathy Kangas ha ayudado en la proteccion de animales por mas de 20 anos. Ella esta actualmente en el grupo regional de IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) y como consultante del HSUS (Humane Society of the United States).
Entre las muchas organizaciones protectoras de animales que la Sra. Kangas y su compania de belleza ayuda estan: Animals Asia, la cual busca terminar con la caza de gatos y perros en China; IFAW para su campana de salvar las ballenas; Save the Chimps, cual provee sanctuario a chimpancees usados en experimentos de la Fuerza Aerea de los Estados Unidos; The Elephant Sanctuary (Santuario de Elefantes) en Tennessee; la United Pegasus Foundation para caballos de carrera retirados; the Wolf Conservation Center (Centro de Conservacion de Lobos) , Best Friends in Utah, el sanctuario de animales mas grande del mundo y SPANA, la cual trabaja por animales en el mundo.
| El DFO rechaza oferta de 22 millones de dolares Canadienses, Abril 5 |
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| El gobierno Canadiense ha decidido pasar en la oferta de Cathy Kangas, una Americana mujer de negocios, quien ofrecia pagar a los cazadores para no cazar mas focas Harp. Cathy Kangas, la fundadora u Directora Ejecutiva de Prai Beauty, escribio al Primer Ministro con una oferta de $16 millones US ($22 millones de dolares Canadienses),para reemplazar el dinero que los cazadores ganan de la caza. Ella dijo que varios grupos opuestos a la caza podrian juntar dinero para suplementar el sueldo de los cazadores. Ella gargo que no es correcto matar a las focas por su piel. Steve Outhouse, director de comunicaciones del Department of Fisheries and Oceans, dijo que el gobierno federal no tomara la oferta de Kangas."We're not interested," Outhouse dijo al periodico the St. John's Telegram. |
Last news from the front 
Sir Paul Mc Cartney and his wife Lady Heather Mills McCartney, went to the ice on the Eastern part of Canada, to meet the seal pups that in few days will be clubbed or axed to death.
They had an interview with Larry King where they confronted the Premier of Newfoundland.
The McCartneys, urged the Canadian Government to stop this brutal slaughter and proposed alternatives that would benefit the fisherman and of course the seals. It was a great debate and Heather Mc Cartney defended the seals with all her heart.
Please, if you miss this show, check on the link below for a transcript of that show:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/03/lkl.01.
Just a few days ago, there was not enough ice on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, preventing the sealers to reach the young harp seals. In a region where the Canadian government set a quota of 45,000 seals, only 3,000 were taken this season. The warm weather also cut the number of pilgrimages by animal lovers to see newborn harp seals.
In Canada, seals are hunted off Newfoundland, Labrador, Iles de la Madeleine, the Quebec North Shore, Cape Breton Island and at aboriginal communities in the North. But unusually large patches of open water and slushy ice this year isolated the seals.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare say that many of the mammals may have died because the thin ice may have resulted in fewer places for the seals to give birth.
The ice conditions are normal for the much larger annual seal hunt scheduled for April 10 on the Atlantic. The quota set there and in other parts of eastern Canada are of over 250,000 harp and hooded seals.
About 1,500 seal pups were swept out to sea and drowned by a tidal surge off Canada's east coast this week after a lack of ice cover meant their mothers were forced to give birth on a small island, environment officials said on Friday.
A resident on the island described how the mother seals had frantically tried to push their tiny pups back on to land as they floundered in the storm-tossed water.
Grey seals in the Northumberland Strait -- which lies between the provinces of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island -- usually give birth on the pack ice which forms in winter.
But the extreme warm conditions this year mean there is no ice in the strait, so some seals had to give birth on the beaches of Pictou Island. Unusually high tides hit the island this week after a major storm.
"The majority of those seals born above the high water mark have been lost. It is estimated that of about 2,000 pups that were born prior to the storm, we lost about 1,500,".
Television showed hundreds of dead seal pups litteres of one of Pictou Island's beaches.
French film star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot tearfully begged Canada on Wednesday to stop the annual harp seal hunt, during which about 325,000 young seal pups will be shot or beaten to death.
"before I die I want to see this massacre ended", she told a news
conference, sitting in front of a poster that showed a giant seal clubbing a blood-covered human baby.
The hunt, which takes place on ice floes off the coast of eastern
Canada, is due to start on Friday or Saturday. Ottawa denies the hunt
is cruel and says it helps the local economy while keeping the seal
population healthy and in check.
To try to stop the hunt each year, activists release gory pictures of
hunters crushing seal skulls with big clubs. Anti-hunt campaigners are
calling on some major U.S. restaurant chains to boycott Canadian
seafood until the hunt stops.
Bardot, who started campaigning against the hunt some 30 years ago,
cried quietly as aides played a video showing graphic shots of young
seals screaming in agony and drowning in their own blood after being
attacked by hunters.
Seal-hunt activists complain police abusing rights
Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society of the United States, said yesterday she has been told she cannot return to the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence while an investigation is under way into possible violations of hunt regulations.
Ms. Aldworth, along with six other hunt protesters and a freelance cameraman working for Reuters Television, were arrested Sunday, the second day of the annual hunt, for coming too close to a sealing boat. They were later released, but video footage shot by the Humane Society was seized and the group does not know when it will be returned.
"I'm a Canadian and I'm humiliated in the presence of these international observers that our government would choose to sink to these levels to ensure that the seal hunt can continue in secrecy," said Ms. Aldworth, a native of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ms. Aldworth insisted that she did not come too close to a sealing operation.
She said a sealing boat manoeuvred close to the observers' small boat, forcing them within the 10-metre buffer zone. The sealing boat was carrying RCMP and Fisheries officers.
Reporters covering the hunt from the ice floes confirmed that several sealing boats charged observer vessels.
On Saturday, seal guts were hurled into a boat carrying mostly journalists. On Sunday, a sealing boat rammed one of the protesters' inflatable Zodiacs, damaging a propeller.
A representant of the DFO, said no charges have been laid. He said an investigation will take several weeks or months to reach a conclusion.
"The decision to charge or not to charge is a long process," Mr. Simon said, adding that the seized video footage will be analyzed for evidence and will be held until the issue of charges is resolved.
He said Ms. Aldworth and other protesters still can apply for observer permits, which are renewed on a daily basis. However, he said the investigation into the alleged violations would be a factor in deciding whether to renew her permits and those of the others.
This year's Gulf hunt got off to a slow start because of poor ice conditions and low numbers of seals.
The quota for this year's Gulf hunt is 91,000 seals. Another 234,000 can be taken in a second hunt that begins in April off Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ultimas noticias acerca de la caza de focas en Canada
Hace unos dias que debido al insuficiente hielo en el Golfo del San Laurent en Quebec, los cazadores de bebes focas, no tuvieron exito de alcanzar sus quota de sangre, ya que no tuvieron exito de alcanzar a las focas por la falta de hielo. El gobierno Canadiense permitio una quota de 45,000 que sean matadas alla, pero los cazadores solo lograron matar 3,000.
En Canada se matan focas en Newfoundland (donde matan cientas de miles cada ano), Labrador, Iles de la Madeleine en ele norte de Quebec,Cape Breton y en el norte donde los aborigenes las cazan para comer. Pero inusual descongelamiento del hielo por el calor (calentamiento global), aislo a varias de estas focas.
Pero en el Atlantico las condiciones nos "buenas" para la matanza donde esperan matar mas de 250,000 harp y hooded focas.
Sir John Mc Cartney y su esposa Lady Heather estuvieron en el hielo junto con la focas bebes que van a ser masacradas en unos dias aqui en Canada.
Al dia siguiente, ellos tuvieron una entrevista con el prestigiado Larry King donde se confrontaron con el Premier de la Provincia de Newfoundland.
Los McCartneys, urgen al gobierno Canadiense a que pare la brutal matanza de focas y propusieron alternativas que beneficiarian no solo a los pescadores y cazadores de focas, sino a las focas mismas.
Si se perdieron el show, vean el texto del show que estuvo buenisimo el debate, siguiendo el link de aca abajo:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/03/lkl.01.html
Cerca de 1,500 bebes foca murieron por la falta de hielo hace un par de semanas. Estas focas que por lo general nacen el en norte, pero con la falta de hielo, fueron a las costas de Nueva Escocia a dar a luz en las playa de una pequena isla, pero con la marea alta y olas luego de una tormenta, cientas fallecieron mientras sus madres desesperadas trataban de ayudar a sus bebes, empujandolos lejos de las olas.
Residentes de la isla y camaras de television fueron testigos del horrendo testimonio de cientos de bebes focas muertos en la playa.
En esa playa nacieron cerca de 2,000 bebes foca y murieron mas de 1,500 de ellos.
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Brigitte Bardot, le suplica al Gobierno Canadiense entre lagrimas, que ponga un alto a la matanza brutal de focas bebe que empezara este Sabado 25 de Marzo. En la conferencia de prensa, donde la famosa actriz y activista contra esta matanza hablo, mostraron un video y estaba rodeada atras de un poster gigante de una foca gigante matando a golpes a un bebe humano.
Ella reitero que antes de morirse quiere ver que esta masacre se acabe. BB, fue la primera persona famosa que hace 30 anos, que fue al hielo a protestar la caza de focas bebes junto con Greenpeace.
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Activistas anti caza de focas se quejan de policia abusando sus derechos
Charlottetown, Canada- Grupos de derechos animalistas se han quejado se ser abusados por la policia Canadiense y Oficiales federales, tratando de proteger la muy maligna caza de focas en la Costa Este.
Rebecca Aldworth del la Sociedad Humana de Los Estados Unidos dijo ayer que se le dijo que no podia regresar al hielo del Golfo De San Laurene mientras se investiga las posibles violaciones a las regulacines de la caza. Rebecca Aldworth, junto con otros 6 activistas y un reportero del Reuters Television, fueron arrestados el Domingo 26, por acercarse mucho a un barco lleno de cazadores. Ellos fueron permitidos a irse, pero el equipo de video tomado por el HSUS fue confiscado y no se sabecuando se retornara.
Yo soy Canadiense y me humilla que en la presencia de estos observadores internacionales, nuestro gobierno prefiera bajar a esos niveles para asegurarse que la caza continue en secreto, dijo Rebecca quien es de Newfoundland.
Rebecca insistio que ella no se acerco demasiado a la operacion de los cazadores. Ella dijo que un bote con cazadores maniobro cerca de los observadores, forzandolos 10 metros dentro de la zona prohibida.
Este bote eestaba cargando policia Canadiense y oficiales del ministerio de pescaderias y oceanos.
Reporteros cubriendo la caza desde el hielo, confirmaron que varios botes con cazadores golpearon a proposito botes de observadores. El Sabado, intestinos de focas fueron tirados por cazadores aa un bote cargando en su mayoria reporteros. El Domingo, un bote de cazadores fe a golpear uno de los botes inflables Zodiacs con activistas, danando una propela.
El DFO dijo que no cargos se han dado todavia y puede tardar varias semanas o meses para alcanzar una conclusion.
El representante del DFO dijo que Rebecca Aldworth y otros protestantes pueden aplicar todavia a permisos de observacion, los cuales son renovados diariamente. Sin embargo, debido a la "violacion", eso puede influir en decidir si se renuevan los permisos o no.
Este ano la caza del golfo a empezado lentamente debido a las pobres condiciones del hielo y el bajo numero de focas.
La quota de este ano para el Golfo es 91,000 seals. Otras 234,000 se planea sean cazadas en el segundo frente que empieza a mitad de Abril en New Foundland and Labrador.
