Canada's controversial seal hunt began yesterday as 16 vessels carrying about 100 hunters set out to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Globe and Mail reported that activists and journalist observers were barred from the hunt's first 16 hours because federal fisheries officials delayed their granting of observer permits.Read the Globe and Mail story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080329.HUNT29/TPStory/National
Read the Canada.com story:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=095035c6-f3ad-47a1-a390-4e7b2dcc3452&k=67580
Read about an interruption in the seal hunt due to a deadly boat accident:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jA4MeLH1ni1-spaARWb17Eot9xSQ
Send a letter urging the Canadian government to stop the seal hunt:
http://www.kintera.org/c.ihKPIWPCIqE/b.2580449/k.9025/Take_Action/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx
Download and print PDF of customer comment card to give to your local grocer:
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/why_a_boycott_of_canadian_seafood/grocery_store.html
Donate to help IFAW to put hunt monitors on the ice, fight for seal product bans in Europe and conduct vital scientific research to help save seals:
https://www.kintera.org/site/c.ihKPIWPCIqE/b.3974143/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?msource=DR080302002
Sign up for the Humane Society of the United States' "Seal Watch" to receive email reports from the ice:
http://www.hsus.org/index-seals.html
Read about Sea Shepherd's Seal Defense Campaign 2008:
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals2008/
Read the IFAW 2008 seal hunt coverage:
http://blog.stopthesealhunt.com/2008/03/seal-hunt-news.html
photo courtesy greekchickie, Creative Commons
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