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EMAILS NEEDED AGAINST VIVISECTION!

It takes only minutes to click on the link in the share, find Jessie's letter, then copy and paste it to the e-mail address. Please take the time. Vivisection is vile. Lots of love and many thanks! Eleanor


Alert: HELP CLOSE LAGER THAT BREEDS DOGS FOR VIVISECTION
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A message from Abid


Original Message:

Received from Susan S and crossposting – please do the same !!!

PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALREADY SIGNED THIS PETITION AND ALSO ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO REVISE IT AS WEEL. THE MORE SIGNS WE GET THE BETTER TO STOP SUCH CRUELTY. THANKS. HUGS, AGNES C.

End Abusive Iditarod Dog Race
Target: Iditarod Dog Race Sponsors
Sponsor: Raea Bach
Please ignore due date - Petition still ongoing.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/651526437


End Abusive Iditarod Dog Race

This race is condemned by animal protection groups and animal lovers across the United States. Please help stop this abusive race, and all of the evils associated with it such as beatings, culling, starvation, and chaining.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/651526437

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VICTORY: Panasonic Pulls Iditarod Sponsorship

Your emails helped convince electronics giant to stop subsidizing cruel dog race.
http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=8323452



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iditarod

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1807811.php

US Navy, and NATO test Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) system to detect diesel and nuclear submarines.

The information you are about to read in this article is not pleasant, and is very sad. It questions the wisdom of the scientific quest, and makes you want to stop this unbelievable madness.

"Insights", as a Conscious E-Zine, presents issues and ideas that are not always pleasant, but need to be expressed due to their severity, and need for awareness.

The internet has become a global voice and by presenting this awareness we can better question our own actions, and how that may impact our surrondings and our planet. It is clear beyond doubt that current ideology is allowing not only the killing of ocaen life, but indigenous people, forests, rivers and waterways, and ultimately our own species. As writer and publisher for "Insights" I too try to express my opinions, as we all should, now that we have access to a global communications medium. If you think that our planet is not in serious trouble then this article will pin point a devastating look at what technolgy and poor thinking is doing to the oldest living creatures on Earth.

I wish with all my heart I could weild the power to stop this activity. I want it to stop. We should all want it to stop. Why must it continue? Please use this information to help others become informed. Willard Van De Bogart - Publisher "Insights"

"BEWARE, THE BEACHED CANARIES*"
What Stranded Dolphins and Whales are Trying to Tell us About a Global Emergency Beneath the Sea"

By Bobbie Sandoz

(*The death of canaries taken into coal mines warned the miners of trouble below.)

In the last few months, hundreds of dolphins are washing up dead along European shores while dolphins and whales are again playing with people in Hawaii after two years of ignoring them following our government sonifying these high level beings in their own Marine Sanctuary. This grateful return of their friendliness toward humans in Hawaii is clearly an act of forgiving the unforgivable. In January, hundreds of dolphins stranded along our eastern coast, while a superpod of orcas off California circled a group of boats to flirt and play with the people aboard, then remained afloat on the surface as the sun set on their fins. A similar contrast occurred last summer when a group of San Juan Orcas appeared in time to appreciate a human concert given in their honor, showing particular interest in Amazing Grace, or forgiveness without merit, while hundreds of their gray whale cousins washed up dead on west coast shores.

Although these events contribute to an uneasy yet growing pattern of marine mammal strandings juxtaposed to their kindness to us, there has been little media coverage of this disturbing phenomenon or a true investigation of why it is happening. Are we so indifferent that we don't really care or is there a massive cover-up....or both?

To add to the disquiet of these events, independent scientists strongly disagree with government-funded "experts" on the true effect of an extremely intense and apparently lethal force going into the ocean called low frequency active sonar (LFAS) that appears to be leaving a trail of corpses in its path. Yet, in spite of the controversy over its safety, our government is pushing forward to deploy this risky technology in 80% of the world's oceans in an apparent effort to get it underway before the public learns more about it.

Will we remain cooperatively in denial, uninformed, and dangerously silent in the face of this potential planetary holocaust as we have in the past, or will we awaken in time to stop this serious threat to all marine life? And, if we fail to respond, what will the consequences be for our own survival and souls?

In view of a possible cover-up buttressed by our indifference, could it be that the intelligent dolphins and whales are making their way to our public and popular shores before dying in order to serve as "beached canaries" that warn of something amiss in their hidden world beneath the sea? If so, will their massive deaths at our feet pull us out of deep moral slumber or fall on the cold hearts of an uncaring species? **The LFAS Story** Following a brief yet troubled period of LFAS testing at levels far below those planned for actual use that resulted in trauma and death, this reckless technology is in the process of being pushed toward premature deployment in
80% of the world's oceans.

Sadly, slick propaganda programs dispensed by in-house "experts" have succeeded in convincing a slumbering media and uninformed populous that the dolphins and whales are unaffected by intensely explosive blasts ripping through their ocean home with sustained intensity for hundreds of miles, causing damage and death in their wake.

Thus, in contrast to government claims of safety, outraged boat captains, swimmers, independent researchers, and environmentalists have observed this technology to be highly disruptive and deadly to marine life, even at the considerably lower decibels used during brief public testing than those planned for actual extensive and classified use.

Even more frustrating, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), established to protect marine life, appears to be aligned with the government-funded "experts" promoting LFAS. They also appear to be ignoring required protocol in order to prematurely slip the U.S. Navy a permit to harass and kill whales which will serve as the green light needed to unleash this risky technology into full and unfettered, classified deployment.

Eerily, the NMFS is also the organization assigned to oversee the testing done on the "beached canaries" stranding on our shores. Yet, while they publicly serve as the protector of marine life, behind the scenes they seem to prefer keeping these strandings in the category of an "unsolved mystery" to risking discovery of a possible connection to sonar exposure by checking their ears for rupture or their tissue for signs of explosion and shredding. Instead of conducting these revealing tests, they offer vague explanations that don't hold up, while focusing their search for answers solely on viruses, red tides, and other toxic algae that were neither in the problem areas nor have caused this kind of cetacean carnage in the past. In view of this seeming bias in favor of LFAS and the dual role it creates for the NMFS, should they ever concede to test the ears or tissue of stranded marine corpses for sonar exposure, the public would be wise to insist that non government-funded and independent researchers bear witness to their exams.

It's also important to notice that the brain and tissue fissures, lesions, and ruptures as well as mass starvation consistently found in these and other recent marine mammal corpses resemble the symptoms of sonar exposure described by the Marine Mammal Commission when in 1997 they predicted that lung and tissue hemorrhage and trauma in marine mammals (and fish) as well as cavity explosion and hearing loss causing subsequent starvation was likely to occur if LFAS was employed worldwide as proposed.

So why is the connection between these known symptoms of sonar exposure (similar to microwave explosions) and those found in stranded marine mammal corpses being ignored -- especially when sonar activities are rumored to be taking place in several of the affected areas?

And, now that we are on the brink of full deployment of this unexamined force, will the American public awaken in time to make the connection, check its validity, and if there is a connection, stop the madness? Or, will we remain drugged by our usual denial and the silence of fear and apathy as we have during other holocausts at human hands, enabling yet more government crimes against nature and others as well as ourselves?

Could this be the pivotal point at which humans decide if we will orchestrate our own self-destruction with our typically passive response to impersonal government actions or rally as caring individuals in time to uncover the path of our more conscious, courageous, and higher selves as well as a safe and golden future for our world, ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren?

I was pondering these questions one day as I swam in a bay amidst 50 dolphins who approached and circled me, then stayed to play for over an hour. I was surprised by their visit in view of my mood, since they usually avoid me when my thoughts are weighty. But, on this particular day they swam near me to play, show off their babies, and engage me in beguiling and flirty gazes. I reflected on my decade of friendship with these high- level beings and the notable lessons I had learned from them that I had not learned from humans about how to be a more loving and joyful human being. I wondered as I swam if my species would have the wisdom to allow the sweet grace of these bright and loving beings to serve as mirrors reflecting our need to seek a higher place in ourselves where we might act as kindly toward others as cetaceans do. I also thought of the American Indian elders predicting that whatever happens to "the great beast" -- or whale -- will also happen to humanity, and I wondered which fork in the road of our forecasted futures we would take -- the Apocalypse or golden age.

Then it occurred to me that as humanity stands at the portal of the new millennium, it is in our power to select which road we will travel. We can continue to kill the saints and sages in our midst or change the course of human history by surrendering our self-centered ways to their more lofty and loving teachings.

Yet before we can claim this higher potential, we must address what kind of species we truly want to be and which future we wish to create. We must then commit to becoming and creating whatever we choose. I also realized that to succeed in doing this we need look no further than to the model of loving kindness the dolphins and whales offer or the manifesting tools the dolphins revealed to me in "Listening to Wild Dolphins" which I have woven into my suggestions for how we can respond to the LFAS challenge.


PATTERN OF STRANDINGS THAT MAY LINK TO LFAS ACTIVITY:

EUROPE - In February, 2000, 100s of dolphins began washing up on European shores.

THE ATLANTIC COASTLINE - On January 21, 2000, Katie Couric asked on "The Today Show" why hundreds of dolphins are beaching along the Atlantic coastline. Although brain and other tissue lesions have been found in these cetaceans, one of the symptoms predicted by the Marine Mammal Commission in 1997 for LFAS exposure, ears are not being checked. In view of the far-reaching effect of sonar exposure predicted by independent researchers, some suspect apparent NATO sonar in the general area may be the cause.

FLORIDA - On January 3, 2000, Associated Press reported that scientists were trying to determine why dolphins have been washing up dead on northwest Florida shores over the last month. Although a previously severe outbreak of red tide did not kill dolphins, it appears that only red tide and other toxins are being examined as a possible cause, rather than also include an examination of their ear canals to prove or disprove the important variable of possible sonar exposure.

THE VIRGIN ISLANDS - In early October, 1999, scientists in the water heard sonar sounds, followed by multiple cetacean strandings in the area. Government-funded ear canal testing expert Dr. Darlene Ketten from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, was summoned by many groups to run ear canal tests, but results have not yet been revealed. If they are, citizens must determine if anyone other than government-funded scientists were present in order to neutralize any conflicts of interest.

THE CANARY ISLANDS - A total of 21 whale strandings in
1985, 1988, and 1989 were linked to visible US Navy maneuvers. These were the only times that whales were reported to strand in the Canary Islands. (Nature, 1991) Award-winning French biologist Dr. Michael Andre, free from our government's influence, learned from necropsies while studying the decline in sperm whales in this area that two of the whales (who were involved in the increasing whale collisions with boats in the area) were deaf as suspected.

THE ATLANTIC COAST - In 1987, dolphins exposed to 235 decibels of sonar stranded and were found to suffer from tissue and lung explosion. (This information was allegedly found by Dr. Joe Geraci and buried in reports on file.) Since this revelation, there has been a great deal of resistance to obtaining autopsies that check for these types of problems, also predicted by the Marine Mammal Commission in
1997 (possibly based on Dr. Geraci's findings) to be a consequence of LFAS.

THE HARO STRAIT, SAN JUAN ISLANDS - In the Summer of
1996, 195 decibels were sent into this key waterway used by orcas, porpoises, seals, and other mammals, followed by an increase in strandings of these mammals. ABC News recently reported that the previously thriving orca population from this area is now in enough trouble to be considered eligible for the Endangered Species list.

THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA NEAR GREECE - In 1996, twelve Cuvier's beaked whales documented to be exposed to NATO sonar at 150-160 decibels were found stranded. At the same time about 200 stranded dolphins were suspected of suffering from tissue explosion. (Nature, 1996) LFAS levels to be used by the U.S. are reported to be 180 decibels in areas near shore and could go considerably higher, once deployment is underway and this program is classified.

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - In 1998, three whale calves and one dolphin calf were found dead or abandoned during and immediately following sonar testing, even though in 15 years of research this phenomenon had never been observed. One of these was a distressed whale calf who breached 230 times and pectoral slapped 658 times in front of Dr. Marsha Green's research team in a four-hour period before the sun set on his distress. In addition, a pod of dolphins was observed by naturalists familiar with normal dolphin behavior huddling unusually close to the shore near the surface and vocalizing excessively while the sound was on.

CALIFORNIA- Since the open testing in California began in 1997, sonar exposed whales immediately began to strand in increased numbers. In addition, there was a report of uncharacteristically aggressive behavior which is known to be a symptom of LFAS exposure. More recently, The Malibu Times reported in January, 1999, that more than 150 gray whales were found dead due to starvation along their migratory route where testing took place in 1998. Starvation can be a result of deafness, but ears were not checked in these cetaceans, even though the cause of death has remained a mystery.

AUSTRALIA - Rumor has it that the Australian government has questioned a connection between observed US Navy and NATO maneuvering and strandings off their shores.

UNKNOWN - In view of indications that brain and body tissue explodes and body cavities (bladders, lungs, and ear canals) rupture when exposed to sonar blasts, it is plausible to assume that most affected marine mammals will sink to the ocean floor, rather than make their way to a beach in order for us to view their plight. And who knows what the effect this risky technology has on the thousands of other, smaller forms of marine life, less able to withstand such a powerful force.

For More Information and Evidence of LFAS Problems: GENERAL INFORMATION:

* Low-frequency sonar raises whale advocates' hackles CNN 3 Part Series
* Listen to LFAS Viewpoints
* Ocean Mammal Institute
* Natural Resources Defense Council

LEGAL INFORMATION AND CURRENT LAWSUIT AGAINST THE US NAVY:

* LOW FREQUENCY SONAR LITIGATION

TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

* LFAS Update Web Page

ASK YOUR LOCAL ABC AFFILIATE TV STATION TO AIR: "WHEN THE WHALES STOP SINGING" This excellent news special report on the Navy's Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) was filmed by Dan Noyes of KGO TV News: ABC TV in San Francisco. Ask your ABC station manager to call KGO News in San Francisco to request a copy of this two part special to air in your vicinity. KGO News has agreed to send out copies of this video to other ABC stations, and to give them permission to air it. It is a short video, only 10 minutes long, and can be run as part of a news program. INTERVIEW AUTHOR AND PANEL OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS ON LFAS These people sincerely hope they are wrong about their concerns regarding the potential danger of LFAS, but believe people should know what they have uncovered in the event they are not wrong: Dr. Marsha Green (OMI/Marine Biologist/ Professor) 610-670-7386 Lanny Sinkin (Attorney) 808-961-9100 Dr. Lee Tepley (Physicist) 650-961-7440 Dr. Linda Weilgart (Independent Marine Biologist) 902-479-1861 Cheryl Magill (LFAS Activist) 650-429-2116 Bobbie Sandoz, MSW (Author) - 808-524-6775 Dr. Naomi Rose, (Director, Humane Society of the United States - HSUS)

WAYS TO RESPOND

We must first face the seriousness of the threat LFAS poses to marine life and ourselves. For only then, will we break our silence and engage in clear but gentle action with the urgency this issue deserves. We must then let our Congressional representative, ultimately responsible for this program, know of its possible consequences and insist that they stop all forward movement of this program until it can be proven that it will not cause the massive destruction concerned non-government scientists and citizens fear. We must then insist on extensive and highly monitored necropsies of currently stranded mammals, including full ear exams -- since such tests could expose possible sonar exposure. Only by having this information will we know if the sonar technology is connected to these deaths as many environmentalists suspect. We must then insist that the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) halt all movement toward deployment of this unexamined power. We must demand that the possibility of a conflict of interest on the part of NMFS be seriously scrutinized in view of their apparent bias and seeming partnership with the U.S. Navy in this risky government operation they have been charged with overseeing. We must send copies of all correspondence on this and other protests to the media, our president, and congressional representatives -- since such letters give witness to our concerns and constitute our greatest power to influence or reverse government decisions we do not approve. Some, including myself, will view this issue as important enough to organize a peacefully powerful march in Washington since visibility and numbers are imperative to change in this country. Hopefully, responsible media will invite the listed panel of independent experts who have uncovered evidence that points to potentially serious and illegal errors and omissions made in the process of testing and activating this technology they consider far more dangerous than claimed. Teachers may wish to introduce this topic in their classrooms and invite students to uncover, lobby for, and implement solutions. In doing this, we enlist the spirits and insights of this national treasure to help us become our best selves while teaching the art of kindness, cooperation, and friendship with our global family. *Those aligned with spirit can inspire continuous prayer for all concerned -- including those in control of this formidable technology who genuinely believe in its merits and their right to employ it without sincerely inviting the public's awareness, opinion, or approval. Hopefully, clergy of all faiths will be moved to hold prayer vigils to bring this matter to a unifying, loving, and safe resolution. Although everyone was surprised that we moved through the millennium without incident, few noted a possible connection between this unexpected peace to a massive and powerful prayer vigil organized by Marianne Williamson and James Redfield. Many will want to participate by using one of the manifesting tools I learned from the dolphins for creating the world we desire. To do this we need to identify exactly what we want instead of what we don't want and then place all of our energies, prayers, and focus on drawing that picture to us. This focus becomes even more powerful if we unite our combined energies as the dolphins do to create a large and harmonious group holding a common dream with love and joy in our hearts.

If we succeed in gathering together a large enough group to lovingly concentrate our intention on this dream until it is fulfilled, we will discover a power beyond anything we have yet witnessed on this planet. And once we learn to do it, we will no longer feel the need to quarrel and fight among ourselves and against others -- or develop weapons considerably more dangerous than the "enemies" we fear.

Nor will we continue to allow our businesses, government, or military to treat us like children, while excluding us from the management of our lives, our country, and our world as they fund and implement plans without our knowledge or permission. Once we exercise the power of our own voices and visions to reclaim self-governance, we will no longer view big business interests or our government and military as separate from ourselves or dangerous to our lives or planet.

How perfect that we can use this unique yet effective manifesting tool the dolphins have shown us to safely return their ocean home to them and self-governance to ourselves. Let's experience this radical new power by taking our first steps on the path to a better future and the world of our dreams.

Author: Bobbie Sandoz March, 2000 Phone: 808-524-6775 Fax: 808-538-0423 Website:

* Bobbie Sandoz Web Site

E-Mail: bsandoz@aol.com

Another Indication:

Subject: Bahamas, the Navy, and dead whales
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000
From: "Steuer, Karen"

Dear All,

As some of you will be aware, there has been a mass mortality of cetaceans in the Bahamas over the last few days. As of Saturday, at least 12 beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris and Ziphius cavirostris), 1 minke whale, 1 dolphin, and 1 unidentified balaenopterid (Brydes or fin) had died, with other ziphiids stranding live and being pushed back out. Mortalities occurred between Grand Bahama and the Abacos; given the number and isolation of islands in the area, it is very likely that not all carcasses have been located.

The mortality coincides with US Navy exercises in the area; the exercises appear to have involved explosives detonation, although active acoustics work *may* have been conducted also. There is no confirmation that the latter occurred in this area, or whether LFA activity was involved. (LFA = Low Frequency Active acoustics, a highly controversial anti-submarine technology which has been the subject of much debate in the marine mammal field. Recall that a NATO LFA exercise in the Med is widely believed to have been responsible for a mass mortality of beaked whales a few yearsago).

As of this morning (Monday), five ziphiids had been secured and necropsied by Ken Balcomb (who lives on site) and Nan Hauser/Hoyt Peckham (Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation, Maine; who flew down on Saturday).

Darlene Ketten (Harvard/WHOI) arrived yesterday to extract ears from these animals and any others which become available. Charley Potter (Smithsonian Institution) is also on site.

An aerial survey will attempt to locate other carcasses today. Needless to say, there are a lot of unanswered questions here, and we should be demanding answers ASAP: Did the Navy submit an EA to NMFS on this exercise? If so, did NMFS comment or simply allow this to go ahead? Was LFA or other acoustics "experimentation" involved? Does the Bahamian government have a role in this?

I'll let you know more as we hear it at our end -- suggest we start applying pressure to NMFS and the Navy ASAP to ensure that this doesn't continue until we get some answers.

Karen L. Steuer
Director, Commercial Exploitation and Trade Program
International Fund for Animal Welfare

HERE IS MORE! Whale Deaths Immediately Follow US Navy Sonar Buoy Tests In Bahamas

http://sightings.com/politics6/testbaham.htm


Informant: Scott Munson

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1807812.php

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The Navy and marine wildlife experts are investigating whether the beaching of dozens of dolphins in the Florida Keys followed the use of sonar by a submarine on a training exercise off the coast.

About 70 dolphins beached themselves in the Florida Keys after a submarine used sonar off the coast. By Rob O'Neal, Key West Citizen via AP

More than 20 rough-toothed dolphins have died since Wednesday's beaching by about 70 of the marine mammals, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary spokeswoman Cheva Heck said Saturday.

A day before the dolphins swam ashore, the USS Philadelphia had conducted exercises with Navy SEALs off Key West, about 45 miles from Marathon, where the dolphins became stranded.

Navy officials refused to say if the submarine, based at Groton, Conn., used its sonar during the exercise.

Some scientists surmise that loud bursts of sonar, which can be heard for miles in the water, may disorient or scare marine mammals, causing them to surface too quickly and suffer the equivalent of what divers know as the bends — when sudden decompression forms nitrogen bubbles in tissue.

"This is absolutely high priority," said Lt. Cdr. Jensin Sommer, spokeswoman for Norfolk, Va.-based Naval Submarine Forces. "We are looking into this. We want to be good stewards of the environment, and any time there are strandings of marine mammals, we look into the operations and locations of any ships that might have been operating in that area."

Experts are conducting necropsies on the dead dolphins, looking for signs of trauma that could have been inflicted by loud noises.

And this---

NOAA: Infection To Blame For Beached Dolphins Vets Euthanize 13 Sick Dolphins

POSTED: 2:43 pm EST March 4, 2005 UPDATED: 9:06 am EST March 5, 2005

MARATHON, Fla. -- Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday a mysterious infection is to blame for the more than 60 sick dolphins that beached themselves in Marathon Wednesday.

Veterinarians have been conducting blood tests and other medical assessments on the dolphins for two days now, while rescue workers and volunteers continue trying to save the animals.

Seven dolphins have died and dozens are being treated for dehydration. Thirteen dolphins were in such bad shape that they were euthanized Friday.

"We do not want to prolong the suffering of these animals any longer. We do have some healthy, viable animals that look like they are going to be very successful in rehab and we're going to be able to get them back out to the wild. We need to focus our effort on those animals," Sarah Gomez, of NOAA Fisheries, said.

Meanwhile, veterinarians said some of the dolphins were healthy enough to be released back to sea Friday.

At 9:30 p.m. Friday, two of the dolphins will be moved from the pen and taken to the Rosenstiel School on Virginia Key near Miami. Saturday morning, 19 of the remaining dolphins will be taken to two locations, one in Key West and one in Key Largo.

More than 60 rough-tooth dolphins were found on flats and sandbars and in a nearby canal Wednesday evening about a quarter-mile off Marathon.

By Thursday, most of the dolphins had been moved from just a few inches of water on the flats to the 15-foot-deep, mangrove-lined canal, said Denise Jackson, a member of the Marine Mammal Rescue Team.

"Some are free swimming and frolicking and having a good time," she said.

Boats brought most of the dolphins to the canal, though one hitched a ride on a stretcher in the back of a pickup truck, Jackson said.

Meanwhile, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office has closed the area of
88th Street in Marathon to everyone except those working with dolphin rescue groups.

Lt. Larry Kelley said no one will be allowed to enter the area except those with identification showing they are rescue workers, and those who live in the area.

"There are just too many people showing up in that area wanting to see the dolphins," he said. "It is extremely disruptive to the neighborhood and makes it very difficult for rescue groups to conduct their business, so we are closing the area to the general public."

Anyone who wants to volunteer in the dolphin rescue effort should call the Marine Mammal Conservancy at (305) 360-2130

Additional resources: http://seaflow.org


Informant: Scott Munson

By Nassim Khadem, Canberra
The Age
March 16, 2006

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/earth-faces-mass-extinction/2006/03/15/1142098529668.html

A leading British environmental scientist has urged the Australian Government to switch its focus from nuclear power and clean-coal technologies to renewable energies.

Norman Myers said he had raised the issue with federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell just two days ago.

Professor Myers was speaking yesterday at the National Press Club about the mass extinction of animal and plant species being a greater threat to the world than global warming.

Professor Myers, a visiting fellow of Oxford University, said despite Australia having vast amounts of coal and uranium available to export to countries such as China, it still needed to consider how it would produce energy beyond the fossil-fuel era. "I would suggest to Australia, as I did to the minister, that in anticipation of the end of the fossil fuel era Š Australia might want to develop an alternative energy strategy. That is, a clean and renewable source of technology."

Asked whether he agreed with the Australian Government that nuclear power was a possible way to reduce global warming, he said it was not safe and it would take at least 10 years before a nuclear power plant would be operational.

His comments came as Australia confirmed it was close to signing an agreement with China on the sale of uranium. Officials from both nations met in Beijing a fortnight ago for the latest round of negotiations.

Professor Myers, who has been a senior adviser on biodiversity to the United Nations, the World Bank and the White House, said Earth was experiencing the largest mass extinction of species in 65 million years. He said there were about 10 million species and half could be lost if governments did not act quickly.

Professor Myers is renowned for identifying "hot spots" -- homes to our most valuable animal and plant species -- in grave need of protection. There are
34 hot spots and only five countries have more than one. Australia has two: one in southern Western Australia and the other taking in forests on the east coast.

A UN meeting in Brazil next week will discuss reducing the loss of species by 2010.


Informant: NHNE

On Friday, March 3, the Alberta government announced it will suspend the spring grizzly bear hunt while DNA census data is collected throughout the province, which is expected to continue over the next few years. In addition to suspending the hunt, the government has committed to completing the population studies, reducing the number of human-bear conflicts through public education and regulations, and has requested the assistance of several widely-known grizzly experts to provide scientific peer review on the current draft grizzly bear recovery plan.

While the announcement is an excellent and commendable step towards sustainable grizzly bear management, there are several more important actions that need to be taken to ensure that grizzly bears, and a wide range of other species, are conserved on the Alberta landscape.

It is important that the government acknowledge the precarious position of the grizzly bear in Alberta and designate it as a 'threatened' species, begin immediately to deal with access management and ensure that key remaining habitat is not degraded.

Learn more at CPAWS.org
http://cpaws.org/action/ab-grizzlies.php
and send a letter to Honourable David Coutts, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development
http://www.actionworks.ca/clientfiles/cpaws/actioncentres/ab-grizzlies/takeaction.jsp
to congratulate him on the government's decision and to encourage the ministry to continue to take progressive, proactive actions for the conservation of Alberta's grizzlies.

From Eleanor:

Thanks, Estelle. I signed this on March 18 2005. I am sorry there are so few signatures. Please sign folks! Love Eleanor


Original Message:

This kind of thing has disturbed me for a long time so thats why i feel compeled to fwd it.. hope you dont mind. best wishes estelle

This is horrible, please read and sign it; although after seeing the pictures I know you will want to sign it.


Original Message:

Hey everyone its roxy...again lol. ive been feeling better so im trying to catch up on everything and ive been trying to take it easy but i just have to send this around. this petition ends the 21st of this month and only has 638 signatures. i know we can do better then this. now ive seen it done so i think we all need to SIGN, FORWARD, CROSSPOST, whatever to get these signatures up before next tuesday. i know we can do it!!!!!!!!!! thanks everyone so much!!!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/583380170


©Idris Ahmed/WTI-WSPA


An End to the Suffering

A 12-year-old former dancing bear named Charlie undergoes a tooth operation at Bulgaria's Dancing Bears Park on Sept. 3, 2005. Nine of the park's 18 bears are receiving expert dental and healthcare after a lifetime of suffering.


PLZ EVERYONE HELP THESE POOR BABIES!

****Cross Post Widely****

The Frontlines of the Seal Slaughter
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1808130/

ACTION AGAINST CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER

Dr. Jerry Vlasak in prison and on hunger strike for Canadian Seals

PLEASE CALL THE COURT HOUSE TO VOICE YOUR OUTRAGE! PLEASE HELP JERRY VLASAK (see story below) GET OUT OF JAIL!

BACKGROUND:

Anti-Sealing Activist in Jail on Hunger Strike (since Monday, March 27, 2006)

Charlottetown, PEI, Canada - Dr. Jerry Vlasak, one of three press officers with the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO) remains in jail on a hunger strike in Charlottetown, PEI. He was jailed Monday in protest of the unjust conviction stemming from last year's seal slaughter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the egregious massacre of the seals that are right now being mercilessly killed for greed and profit. Arrested in March of last year, Dr. Jerry Vlasak and ten other anti-sealing activists were charged with and convicted of violating the blatantly inappropriately named "Canadian Seal Protection Act" after approaching within a half a nautical mile in an attempt to film a seal killer. They refused to pay the fine and were sentenced.

March 31st, 2005, eleven activists went out onto the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to attempt to film the futility and cruelty of killing baby seals killed, ostensibly for their negative impact on the codfish population- but in reality to pander to the European fur trade and the Asian market for aphrodisiacs; Dr. Vlasak was punched in the nose and 10 others were violently assaulted by the captain and crew of the Brady Mariner from Newfoundland. Despite extensive video documentation of the assault, none of the seal killers were ever arrested or charged.

A worldwide boycott of Atlantic Canadian seafood products supported by a number of conservationist groups has cost the Canadian economy tens of millions of dollars - far in excess of the value of the skins and penises sold to drape narcissistic Russian princesses or to facilitate the erections of impotent men in Asia. But the Canadian government continues to subsidize the slaughter by providing spotter planes and icebreakers, which cut the deadly swath through the floes directly to the baby seal nursery. This support continues despite the fact that the majority of Canadian citizens oppose the hunt and are embarrassed by the worldwide publicity engendered by the likes of Sir Paul and Lady Heather McCartney.

Dr. Vlasak said from Charlottetown before his incarceration on Monday: "Three-fourths of all newborn seals may have already perished in the Gulf of St. Lawrence due to record warm weather's melting the ice from beneath them. Meanwhile, the violent barbarians are bludgeoning the survivors to death at this very moment. The pathetic murderers of Newfoundland must be stopped.

For more information- to be added to the NAALPO list serve- or to obtain footage and photographs of the seal kill - please call or e-mail the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. 21044 Sherman Way #211 Canoga Park CA 91302 phone: 818.932-9997 fax: 818.932-9998 press@animalliberationpressoffice.org http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org

National Press Officers: Lindy Greene-Southwest
Camille Hankins-New York
Jerry Vlasak MD-Los Angeles

What you can do:

CALL THE JUDGE. The (Provincial Court) Judge Nancy Orr is at Phone: 902.368.6740 or 6741

Jail Phone: 902.368.4590 direct extension to the ward is x 5837 (Gary Trainer is the assistant warden.) The Provincial Court: 902.368.6741

CALL/CONTACT Prime Minister Stephen Harper Phone 613.992.4211 Fax 613.941.6900

(All numbers are in Canada)

1. Please call and voice your outrage at the jailing of someone who is simply trying to expose what really happens to those young seals on the Canadian ice floes.

2. Demand the court release him with time served and the REAL CRIMINALS be jailed instead!

PROTEST THE CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER

Call/write/e-mail:

Ms. Pamela Wallin Canadian Consul General New York The Canadian Consulate General, 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020-1175 <>Tel: 212-596-1628 Fax: 212-596-1790 e-mail: pamela.wallin@international.gc.ca

Pamela's Executive Assistant, Heather: heather.ursu@international.gc.ca

An interesting fact from their website, please consider referring to this in your correspondence:

"Annual trade between the three states (NY, NJ and Connecticut) and Canada has soared to almost $50 billion (U.S.). That's up almost 300 per cent over a 12-year period and would, if this region were a country, be enough to make it Canada's second-largest trading partner."

BOYCOTT ALL CANDIAN PRODUCTS:

Tell GNP (Great Northern Seafood Products), a U.S. Company, that specializes in the importation of Canadian Seafood that you are boycotting all Canadian products.

For more information about GNP (Great Northern Products) visit: http://www.northernproducts.com/

Great Northern Products Ltd. PO Box 7622 Warwick, Rhode Island USA 02887 Phone: 401-821-2400 Fax: 401-821-2419 e-mail: info@northernproducts.com

For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org or visit our website at: http://war-online.org


Informant: Ima Vegan

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The Seal Hunt Has Begun - Now We Need Your Friends' Help!

Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.

But we still need more support!

Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW

The seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.

As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.

Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoI/Jt/n5lW

Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.

Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

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Please visit and send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj

As you know, the seal hunt has begun - yet the Canadian government still hasn't come clean with the truth: that the hunt has little economic benefits and horrific cruelty to seals.

As reported in the BBC, the hunt's resurrection in recent years is mainly tied to fashion - where seal fur has become politically acceptable to wear again in countries like China, Russia and Norway.

Which is why we need as many voices as we can muster to get the truth out about the hunt. Consumers need to be informed about the horrific cost of life involved in purchasing a non-essential fashion item like seal fur. Send this link to your friends to demand that Canada come clean to the world about the true nature of the seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/e/JoH/Jt/DIXj

Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.

Lauren Alvarez
Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team.

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ProtectSeals update: HSUS teams harassed by sealers in Canada
http://community.hsus.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3744274

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Latest on Canada's seal hunt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11994476/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11995040/

Sign Pam Anderson's Canadian Seal Petition
http://getactive.peta.org/ct/k1SOQpp1mmbR/

Seal Slaughter: Canada, Tell the Truth!
http://www.omega-news.info/seal_slaughter_canada_tell_the_truth.htm

Right now on the sparkling ice floes of Eastern Canada, hundreds of thousands of baby seals are about to die.

In just a few short days, seals as young as 12 days of age will be clubbed and beaten. Others will be shot with a rifle in open water, fighting for their lives … many left to suffocate under the ice or be pulled onto boats with sharp metal hooks.

95% of the seals killed will be less than three months old. Some will even be skinned alive. But there’s still time to help.

If you were to witness the seal hunt personally, your heart would break.

There is no economic or environmental reason to justify Canada’s commercial seal hunt. This is a cruel and unnecessary hunt, opposed by the majority of Canadians. This government supported hunt isn’t designed to promote science or meaningful employment for Newfoundlanders, it’s designed to gain votes for politicians.

Most seal pups lay on the ice alone and helpless, crying in anguish before they are violently cut down. During the past 30 years, IFAW hunt observers have continued to witness and document severe cruelty at the hunt.

All this to produce less than one percent of the Newfoundland GDP and, by the government’s own calculations, about $1,000 per sealer per year. A hunt that is nationally and internationally offensive is of no use to today’s Newfoundland and a progressive Canada trying to build a reputation for first-class environmental tourism.

Canada’s government is counting on your silence

World-leading marine scientists agree that the current high quotas for killing seals are putting the harp seal population at serious risk of being depleted. As many seals are killed today as during the 1950’s and 60’s when commercial sealers significantly reduced the seal population.

You helped raise a global outcry that stopped the killing of whitecoat baby seals in the 1980’s. But baby seals as young as 12 days old are still being left to suffer a lingering death besides piles of seal bodies rotting on the bloody ice after their fur is removed.

Read further under:
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/site/pp.asp?c=hmKYJeNVJtF&b=1469095&msource=DR060302001&tr=y&auid=1492294

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Take Action! Tell Canada to Put an End to the Seal Hunt
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=89

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A message from Eleanor:

Has gone up from 56% to 59% for the vote to ban the slaughter in just the last while! So please sign and forward!!!!

Lots of love!

Eleanor


Original Message:

URGENT POLL FOR THE SEALS, PLEASE FORWARD ALSO TO YOUR FRIENDS. THANK YOU RIA S.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/poll/poll.asp

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A message from Abid

ADD YOUR CANDLE AND SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS - FOR THE SEALS, PRAYING SLAUGHTER WILL BE INTERRUPTED. LORD, MAKE HUMANS UNDERSTAND WE ARE NOT HERE FOR FUR. GOD, PLEASE PROTECT US, THE SEALS.


Original Message:

Subject: Candlelight Vigil for Seals TOMORROW!

Old friends and new friends:

Austin's animal advocacy group, ACTION FOR ANIMALS, will be holding a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, March 15, from 7-9 PM on the southside of the Capitol (11th and Congress) to protest the cruel and senseless Canadian seal hunt. ACTION FOR ANIMALS will be joining other animal and environmental protection groups all over the world for the International Day of Protest against the Canadian seal hunt.

Beginning March 29, sealers will take to the ice of the North Atlantic wielding clubs, hakapiks, and guns clubbing and shooting to death over 300,000 seals just days or weeks of age, skinning them alive and their corpses left to rot on the bloody ice of Canada.

Don't let this hunt happen! Join us for a peaceful candlelight vigil to mourn the seals who will be murdered solely for their fur/pelt to be sold in the European fashion industry.

The press release has been sent to the local media. Now, the effectiveness of this vigil will depend on a great attendance! If there is only one function you attend this year to make a huge impact in ending the senseless cruelty to defenseless animals, let ACTION FOR ANIMAL's candlelight vigil to protest the Canadian seal hunt be that one!

Please contact Timothy at tverret@earthlink.net or 719-4374 if you have any questions and/or to lend your support by responding "yes, I will attend this important vigil for the seals!" If you cannot make it, please make a decision to boycott Canadian seafood until this hunt is abolished.

Please forward this information to all your friends and colleagues!

The seals are counting on us!

http://www.protectseals.org
http://www.harpseals.org
http://www.seashepherd.org

Timothy J. Verret


The lives of animals are woven into our very being-closer than our own breathing-and our souls will suffer when they are gone. -Gary Kowalski http://www.actionforanimalsaustin.org

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The international campaign to stop the merciless killing of newborn seals has now reached a stage where there is a very good chance of success. Along with the huge support it has achieved across the globe, it has also drawn in two of the worlds best known people: Paul McCartney and his wife Heather.

Our online petition has now reached 78,000 signatures. It is easy to sign, hosted on the web by the Humane Society of the United States. Our target before the end of this month is 150,000 signatures. Please can you help us by forwarding this mail to as many of your friends as possible?

To make it easier for you the Humane Society of the United States has an online petition, which you can read and sign, spending only a few minutes of your time. Today, the 15th of March, 2006 we have reached over 78,000 signatures and our target is 150,000. Please, could you take the time to visit this site and read the petition and sign it if you agree with us?

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/566342047?ltl=1141555333

Please visit this site to read more: http://www.hsus.org/

Sincerely, For All that is Good in the World, Keith Varady. (Founder) http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/EarthForceUnited "With Knowledge comes Power. With Power comes the Responsibility to use it Wisely." Keith Michael Varady.

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From Eleanor

Original Message:

HI DEAR FRIENDS, THIS IS A CTV CANADIAN POLL FOR THE SEALS,
PLEASE VOTE NO, BECAUSE A LOT OF CANADIANS SEEM TO VOTE TO BE IN FAVOR FOR THE SEALHUNT.

PLEASE PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, THANK YOU, Ria S.

http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam

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Seals are Crying

Dear Friends

I thought I had signed everything and done everything for the seals this year but I hadn't signed this particular petition and I hadn't e-mailed the PM. And I have still to contact the Canadian Embassy! So please check in case the same thing is with you! Thanks Altug for forwarding this!!

Eleanor


Please sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224

Please contact Prime Minister Harper to put an end to this brutal hunt:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals?source=gaban5

Photos:
http://photos.signonsandiego.com/gallery1.5/seals

Canadian Embassies:
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-europa/mundi/country-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/world/menu-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/middle_east/countries-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/latin-america/latinamerica/country_info/default-en.asp
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/asia/main/country/country-en.asp

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Thank you for signing the petition telling Canada to speak the truth about the seal hunt.

But we still need more support!

Please send your friends this link to the petition to help even more: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW

The seal hunt is slated to begin in a matter of days and the Canadian government has still not come clean with with truth: that the hunt holds little economic benefit for Canada and demonstrates horrific cruelty towards seals.

Please forward this link to your friends to help stop the hunt before it's too late: http://go.care2.com/e/j4Y/ji/n5lW

Thanks for your help saving baby seals today.

Lauren Alvarez Care2 and ThePetitionSite Team

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TEARFUL BARDOT BEGS CANADA TO SCRAP SEAL HUNT
By David Ljunggren
With additional reporting by Deborah Gembara
Reuters
March 22, 2006

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=11616382&src=rss/scienceNews

OTTAWA - 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.

"Canada is a rich country. It doesn't need to sell skin, oil, fat and powdered seal penises to make aphrodisiacs for countries in Asia ... you cannot continue a genocide of animals like this," said the 71-year-old actress, who peppered her comments with expletives.

Harp seals can be legally hunted once they shed their white coats at about two weeks, though they are not usually hunted until at least a week later.

Canada says the seal population is almost six million, nearly triple the level of the 1970s.

"For outsiders to come and tell sealers that they don't need to participate in an activity that feeds their families shows a deep misunderstanding of the issues," said Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for Canada's federal fisheries ministry.

Earlier this month, former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife ventured out on to an ice floe and posed with young seals to try to persuade Prime Minister Stephen Harper to scrap the hunt.

Harper turned down a request to meet Bardot, who wrote him an open letter in which she said "Only imbeciles don't change their minds."

Officials and sealers say the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is so poor this year that hunters will not be able to kill many seals with clubs and will have to shoot them instead.

"We are kind of worried because the ice is not too good and they are drifting outside the Gulf," said seal hunter Jean-Claude LaPierre.

"We flew over it in a helicopter and there are quite a few seals that went out on the Atlantic," he told Reuters Television in Prince Edward Island.


Informant: NHNE

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Re: "I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt..." (TAKE ACTION NOW!!!)

ALL RIGHT LIZZY!!!!

WELCOME TO MY WORLD OF ACTIVISM. I WILL IMMEDIATELY PASS THIS ON TO ALL IN MY LISTS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION...AND CONCERN.


Jack Topel


Elizabeth wrote:

Dear friends,

Although I don't usually send out these types of e-mails, I am so disturbed by the upcoming Canadian Seal Hunt, I can barely sleep at nights just thinking about those poor baby seals.

If you don't know much about this senseless massacre, please educate yourself now, join me and millions of others, in the fight against this slaughter.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, TAKE ACTION, SIGN THIS PLEDGE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi

EDUCATE YOURSELF, CLICK HERE: https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals/?qp_source=gabaoi

I hope that after reading through this material, you too, will be moved to do put an end to this cruelty.

Thank you for your support.

Elizabeth

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A message from Eleanor:

Ten mins ago - 56% Yes to 38% No - it's improving!!!!! Thanks to you Ria, for sending this on!

As I send this, the poll is showing 47% for us and 46% for the sealers from
4888 votes. Please take a moment to vote on this

http://news.sympatico.msn.ca/National/#PS

Please vote YES to ending the seal hunt. Please sign this and pass it along to all with whom you may be acquainted. Thanks.

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THE CRUEL SEAL HUNT

http://www.ProtectSeals.org

Canada's cruel seal slaughter begins today More than 300.000 animals to be killed for their fur.

"A sealer near us quickly clubbed every seal within a small radius, to immobilize each of the pups, and then dragged the bodies to the center of his circle. One by one he flipped a seal on its back and skinned it. If the seal flipped around or fought against the skinning he'd flip it back to its stomach, club it several more times and then finish the skinning."

IFAW Seal Hunt Monitor International Fund for Animal Welfare

Seal Hunt Photos: http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html


HELP STOP THIS CRIME - TAKE ACTION

SEALS MASSACRE - VIDEOS AND PHOTOS:

http://www.hsus2.org/slideshow-seal-hunt/sealhunt.html http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=canada_seal_hunt http://stream.realimpact.net/?file=realimpact/hsus/e-community/seal-hunt-press-conference.wmv&type=wmv http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/a_time_to_mourn_and_to_fight.html

TAKE ACTION: http://www.ProtectSeals.org https://community.hsus.org/campaign/harper_protectseals_2/

Trouble with links or images? View this message online: http://hsus.ga4.org/humane/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3741739

The cruel hunt has begun.

At daylight this morning, the first baby seal was killed for her fur on Canadian ice. It was heartbreaking to watch, but bearing witness to this cruelty -- and exposing it to the world -- is essential if we are finally to end this slaughter.

I am now in Canada, leading a skilled team of experts from The Humane Society of United States to the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We are here once again to document the horrifying abuses inflicted by sealers, abuses that violate Canada's own laws.

We are also here to bear witness to the brutality that is perfectly legal and acceptable in the eyes of the Canadian government: the bludgeoning, shooting, and skinning of hundreds of thousands of baby seals. Just two weeks ago, I was on the ice with Heather and Paul McCartney, watching these same seals nursing and playing with their mothers. Heather and Paul were so moved by their beauty and innocence that they made a public plea to the Canadian government to ban the hunt forever.

The hunt has begun. Take action today.

Help save the baby seals by contacting Canada's Prime Minister and urging him to put an end to the hunt. Your simple act could help end the seal hunt forever. Even if you've previously written to him, please email him again today.

We can make the Canadian government stop this hunt. But it will require unrelenting pressure from people like you and me, who constantly tell Canada that we will not stand idly by while hunters kill these baby seals. On this tragic day, I urge you to join me in stopping the seal hunt forever. Take action now.

Tell Prime Minister Harper to stop the seal hunt. Say that you will not buy Canadian seafood. Click here. With the recent election of Prime Minister Harper we have a new chance to convince the Canadian government that the price of continuing the seal hunt is too high to pay. Your message to the Prime Minister, urging him to stop the hunt and letting him know that your dollars will not support the slaughter of baby seals, is critical to the success of our fight to protect seals. Even if you've previously written to him, I ask you to write him again today.

Donate to put an end to the hunt for good. Your generous donation today will bring us closer to ending this hunt forever. It will exclusively support our ProtectSeals Campaign. With that support we can go head to head with the fishing industry and the Canadian government as we create a public outcry so loud -- and an international boycott so effective -- that Canada will no longer be able to ignore it. Simply click here to make a donation to our ProtectSeals campaign today.

I want to thank you so much for your commitment to saving the seals. Remember that you can stay in touch with the campaign with up-to-the-minute news, videos, and actions throughout the hunt at http://www.ProtectSeals.org.

Your action and donation today truly make a difference in our ongoing efforts to end the seal hunt.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States

P.S. Please don't forget to tell all your friends and family about how they can help seals today. Simply click here to spread the word.

Copyright © 2006 The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) |
All Rights Reserved. The Humane Society of the United States | 2100 L Street, NW | Washington, DC 20037 Protect-Seals@hsus.org | 202-452-1100 | http://www.hsus.org

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Seal Hunt Ecologically Irresponsible
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0330-32.htm

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HELP!

http://www.savesandiegoseals.com

Hello friends,

I join Coreen and Agnes in raising my voice in this campaign. Request you too join, sign this and also cross post. Thanks.

Thanks Coreen.
Thanks Agnes.

Light and peace

Abid


Original Message:

fwd: PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE, COREEN HAS SENT THIS OFF AND I JOIN HER ASKING FOR HELP FOR THE SEALS... PLEASE DO HELP! NO DRILLING IS REQUIRED, NO REMOVAL OF OUR BABY SEALS, PLEASE DO CPOST AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, IN THE GROUPS, ACTIVISTS, EVERYWHERE! PLEASE! THANKS.

Original Message:

HELP! http://www.savesandiegoseals.com

DEAR FRIENDS, PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD THIS PETITION. HELP THESE SEALS OF LA JOLLA,CA. KEEP THEIR HOME TO RAISE THEIR YOUNG. THE GREEDY WANT TO DREDGE CASA BEACH. WE HAVE ENOUGH COASTLINE! PLEASE BE THEIR VOICE. THEY WILL THANKYOU WITH THEIR INNOCENCE AND BEAUTY AND JOY OF LIVING.

THANK YOU.

PLEASE SIGN
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/549405801

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Stop the Killing of Seals in Canada
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/236982184

Canadian Seal Hunt
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/263683224


From Linda H.

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Stars and seals
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1799784/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=seals

A message from Abid:

Original Message:

CROSSPOSTING THIS MESSAGE FROM RIA - SEE BELOW, AND ASKING ALL MY DEAR FRIENDS TO JOIN AND SIGN !!! AND TO, PLEASE, ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO SIGN AS WELL...THANKS TO YOU ALL, HUGS, AGNES C. DEAR FRIENDS, A NEW PETITION IS MADE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH CARE. I THINK THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PETITION (of course they all are) BUT IT NEEDS LOTS OF SIGNATURES.

PLEASE READ THE PETITION AND CONSIDER TO SIGN AND ALSO FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ANIMAL FRIENDS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP, hugs, Ria.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/989748990

Don't Downlist the Florida Manatee

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is recommending that manatees be downlisted from endangered to threatened status on the state level.

Last year was the second highest manatee mortality year on record. Just in the last five years, 1682 manatees have died in Florida waters and of those, 398 were killed by boats. That is almost an 18% increase over the previous five-year period. Furthermore, state scientists estimate the manatee population could drop by half in the next 50 years because of habitat loss, red tide poisoning and boat collisions. The population is far from stable.

Manatees are poised to be downlisted regardless of how they are faring in the wild because of a calculated effort by special interest groups opposed to boat speed zones and restrictions on development.

Later this summer, the FFWCC will vote on this issue. If the commission approves, restrictions that have kept in check boat speeds, seawalls, docks and waterfront home-building could be diluted or eliminated. Urge Governor Bush to take a stand and keep protections for the manatee in place!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/847148803

Click here for more information:
http://www.savethemanatee.org/

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Manatees Need Better Protection
http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/281428