Canada: 3 dead during slaughter of seals
Three seal hunters are dead after their boat capsized in the icy waters of St. Lawrence Bay in Canada, reports say.
Sunday, 30.03.2008.
11:09
Three seal hunters are dead after their boat capsized in the icy waters of St. Lawrence Bay in Canada, reports say. Beta news agency quotes the local media who said that the accident happened when the boat, one of 16, pursued a large group of seals between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Canada: 3 dead during slaughter of seals The three deaths once again drew attention to the annual hunt, the biggest slaughter of marine mammals anywhere in the world. Canadian hunters have in the past four years killed over a million of these animals in an extremely cruel manner, by smashing their heads with clubs. The Canadian government has promised a "more humane" hunting season, set to cost some 275,000 seals their lives in the space of two months. The "more humane" approach as envisaged by the government in Ottawa includes rules that require hunters to "sever the seals' arteries under their flippers to ensure they do not suffer slow, painful deaths". The markets for the furs of harp seals and their young killed in this way are found in Norway, Russia and China. All this comes despite calls from Greenpeace Canada, the Canadian Green Party and the World Association for Protection of Animals to immediately put an end to the commercial hunt and protect the seals, whose survival as a species is threatened in this way. In the meantime the European Union has "ordered a study that should demonstrate whether the seals are killed humanly". But Brussels has not banned imports of seal fur from Canada.
Canada: 3 dead during slaughter of seals
The three deaths once again drew attention to the annual hunt, the biggest slaughter of marine mammals anywhere in the world.Canadian hunters have in the past four years killed over a million of these animals in an extremely cruel manner, by smashing their heads with clubs.
The Canadian government has promised a "more humane" hunting season, set to cost some 275,000 seals their lives in the space of two months.
The "more humane" approach as envisaged by the government in Ottawa includes rules that require hunters to "sever the seals' arteries under their flippers to ensure they do not suffer slow, painful deaths".
The markets for the furs of harp seals and their young killed in this way are found in Norway, Russia and China.
All this comes despite calls from Greenpeace Canada, the Canadian Green Party and the World Association for Protection of Animals to immediately put an end to the commercial hunt and protect the seals, whose survival as a species is threatened in this way.
In the meantime the European Union has "ordered a study that should demonstrate whether the seals are killed humanly". But Brussels has not banned imports of seal fur from Canada.
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