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Animals News tagged with harp seals

ACTION ALERT: A SEAL"S STORY- HELP! TELL THIS STORY TO THE WORLD!!!!
Animals  (tags: harp seals, tragedy, short lives, killed, canadian seal massacre, slaughter, worldwide attention )

Simone
- 28 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
I was born on the ice floes off the east coast of Canada, where the pristine snow-scape stretches out as far as the eye can see. For the first few days, my fluffy coat was as white as the surrounding snow...then after a couple of weeks, it began to turn
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Protect Seals EU- European Campaign to Save Canada's Seals
Animals  (tags: harp seals, protect seals, european activists, stop canadas seal slaugher, horriifc cruelty )

Simone
- 54 days ago - hsus.org
With more than one million seals killed in the past five years alone, Canada's commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on earth. Almost all of the seals killed are defenceless pups
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Canada's 2009 Commercial Seal Hunt Crawls to a Halt - More Than 200,000 Seal Pups Spared
Animals  (tags: canadian seal hunt closed, harp seals, massacre, canadian government, outrage, worldwide, seal products )

Simone
- 162 days ago - politics.co.uk
The Canadian government is set to officially close the 2009 commercial hunt for harp seals today - with only a fraction of the quota killed in the year Europe voted to ban the cruel trade in seal products. About 72,000 seal pups have been reported
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Canadian Senator Mac Harb Observes Seal Hunt and Renews His Effort to End It
Animals  (tags: harp seals, slaughter, massacre, canadian senator mac harb, witness, IFAW, outrage, fighting to ban )

Simone
- 242 days ago - ifaw.org
Senator Mac Harb has returned from witnessing this year's commercial seal hunt along with observers from IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare -www.ifaw.org) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. "Continuing to defend the commercial seal hunt is not the
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A Graveyard for 250,000 Baby Seals
Animals  (tags: harp seals, killed, slaughter, AnimalCruelty, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering )

Cher
- 258 days ago - kintera.org
In just a few short weeks, Canada's ice floes will transform from spectacular miracle to blood-soaked graveyard for more than 250,000 baby seals. Harp seals as young as three weeks old will be shot or beaten, impaled with metal hooks, or even have the
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In 2008 Harp Seals Gave Birth to Three Times Less Pups Then in Previous Years
Animals  (tags: WWF, harp seals, populations, slaughtered, births, less pups, . global warming, habitat destruction, humans )

Simone
- 260 days ago - wwf.ru
WWF considers that the most severe threat to Harp Seals comes with the climate change, and not with the harvesting. However the impact of commercial harvest on species population should also be thoroughly assessed. In the new version of the Rules on
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Russia Bans the Slaughter of Baby Harp Seals
Animals  (tags: russia, marine wildlife, harp seals, ban, slaughter, endangered, extinction, humans, habitat, slaughter, sadness, protection, AnimalCruelty )

Jacquelin
- 266 days ago - seashepherd.org
The baby harp seals of the world have now found at least one civilized place on this planet to be born where they can be spared the greed and cruelty of humankind. The Russian government has banned the hunting of baby harp seals in the regions surround
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Harp Seal Slaughter and Reeducate 2009!- Please Sign PETITION
Animals  (tags: harp seals, slaughter, massacre, canadian prime minister, barbaric slaughter, animal cruelty, laws, legislation )

Simone
- 268 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In less then 25 days the peaceful areas off the Atlantic Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador; also the Gulf of St. Lawrence (east of Quebec)will once again become a bloodbath for the Harp Seals. Fisherman will be descending upon these areas clubbing and
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Sign Petition: Help End Canadian Baby Harp Seal Slaughter
Animals  (tags: canada, harp seals, pups, slaughter, hunt, cruelty, death, suffering, sadness, animals )

Tom
- 281 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The massacre of harp seal pups begins at the end of March. We need to permanently end the cruel seal hunt. Be the voice for the harp seals. This is the largest massacre of marine mammals. At least 1 million harp seals were killed in the last three years.
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Action: Will Canada Slaughter Seals in 2009?
Animals  (tags: HARP SEALS, slaughter, cruelty, death, killing, wildanimals, suffering, protection, humans, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates )

Brenda
- 370 days ago - harpseals.org
In March and April this year, over 200,000 harp seal pups were beaten and shot to death for their fur. The Canadian government would have allowed tens of thousands more seal pups to be killed; but thanks to high gasoline prices, deadly sealing boat accide
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Save The Harp Seals! Sign Petition!!
Animals  (tags: harp seals, killing, Canada, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 531 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We want to save the harp seals from being killed out of rage, fun, and sports in Canada. ABOUT 80 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION HAS BEEN KILLED! THATS OVER 220,000 SEALS!
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Nursery Tales: Harp Seal Pups - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: harp seals, photos, gallery, mothers love, wildanimals )

Simone
- 565 days ago - hsus.org
Mother seals who give birth to their pups in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and in an area called "the Front" off Newfoundland and Labrador have traveled in large groups from Greenland to their Canadian nursery. Their trip could be more than
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Take the ProtectSeals Petition Challenge to Stop Cruel Seal Hunts - PETITON
Animals  (tags: harp seals, slaughter, massacre, animal advocates, petition )

Simone
- 619 days ago - community.hsus.org
Within weeks, Canada's beautiful harp seal nursery will be transformed into a scene of bloody carnage. The Canadian government will allow 275,000 seals--almost all of them babies as young as 12 days old--to be killed for their fur this year.
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Take the Protect Seals Petition Challenge to Stop Cruel Seal Hunts
Animals  (tags: harp seals, Canada, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, slaughter, killing )

Cher
- 620 days ago - community.hsus.org
Within weeks, Canada's beautiful harp seal nursery will be transformed into a scene of bloody carnage. The Canadian government will allow 275,000 seals--almost all of them babies as young as 12 days old--to be killed for their fur this year.
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Global Day of Action - Canadian Seal Fur - Saturday 3/15
Animals  (tags: global day of fur, protest, against canadian seal massacre, cruelty, harp seals )

Simone
- 623 days ago - war-online.org
On Saturday, we turn our attention north to Canada. Canada recently released the number of harp seals that can be killed in this year's annual slaughter. Protests on Saturday will take us to New York City's haughty Fifth Avenue to protest those designers
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