seal hunting...2009

this thing happen year by year, so everyone out there, plizz giv a support for those cute little creatures. they deserve to live happily...i had receive a letter from "Humane Society of the United States" , so i juz want to share it wif all of u out there.

Read my story of a seal pup survivor.
Then please help stop the slaughter forever.

We'll be here until the seal hunt ends - but we need your help!
March 26, 2009


Read about one baby pup surviver. Please donate to save seals.

Dear zura,

After the sealing vessels left yesterday, we landed on the ice to document the aftermath. We passed one pup who had crawled into a small cave formed by ice. He hid his head as we approached, clearly terrified. I tried to talk softly to him, to let him know that it would be okay. But he just lay there, hiding his head.

This 3-week-old seal pup had just seen hundreds of others beaten to death in front of him. To him, people now mean clubs and violence and pain.

Please, help save seals from the clubs of sealers: Make an emergency donation today.

It took less than three days for sealers to slaughter 19,200 seal pups. The ProtectSeals team was there to document as they killed virtually every seal in sight -- just to produce fur coats that no one needs.

Tomorrow, the killing starts again, and the team is readying to fly to the remote area where this next phase will occur. Please be a part of our team. Please help sustain our work on the ice to save these seals.

We need to show the world that the carnage is worse than ever -- and that despite the Canadian government's promises, the hunt is as cruel and merciless as ever.

Thank you for standing with us. Having so many of you behind us at home makes all the difference.


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


p/s: for more detail go to... http://www.hsus.org/protectseals.html

Fur Facts

The Price of Fur
The real price of fur must be measured in deaths--not dollars. To make one fur coat you must kill at least fifty-five wild mink, thirty-five ranched mink, forty sables, eleven lynx, eighteen red foxes, eleven silver foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty rex rabbits, nine beavers, thirty muskrats, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, fourteen otters, one hundred twenty-five ermines, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons.

A Dying Industry
Every year, the well-organized fur trade spends millions of dollars to glamorize fur coats and accessories and to mask the real price of fur: pain, mutilation, and death for millions of animals. But as more people learn the truth about fur, growing numbers of furriers are going bankrupt. Less practical than alternatives and increasingly seen as offensive, the status of fur is status is slipping. Saga, a Norwegian fur manufacturer, in a bleak attempt to bring fur back in fashion, resorted to giving fur to students to work with in hopes of breeding a new generation of furriers.

The fur industry, which once only included the price of full-length coats in their numbers, has resorted to including fur storage and trim in their statistics to beef up sales reports. Actual fur sales decreased from $1.35 billion in 1990 to $648 million in 1993. The number of U.S. retail locations in 1993 alone fell from 192 to 46, and fur apparel imports dropped a staggering 48% in 1995. A February 1994 issue of The Trapper noted that, “from Alaska to Maine the number of those trapping, fur hunting and buying fur has plummeted to the lowest level yet recorded.” This trend has already saved millions of animals--but the anguish continues for millions of others.

Trapped in Agony
There are several methods used to trap animals in the wild. The most common is the steel-jaw leg hold trap. Animals caught in a hidden steel jaw trap suffer a slow, excruciating death. The trap snaps down on the limb of an unsuspecting animal, sometimes breaking the limb. The trapped animals often freeze to death or are attacked by predators from whom they cannot flee. Many frantically chew off their own legs to escape the agonizing pain. If they are still alive when the trapper returns to the scene, they are bludgeoned or strangled to death. The method for killing a trapped animal, as described in, "Fur Trapping: A Complete Guide," is to "Hit the trapped animal just forward of the eyes with the stick. While it is unconscious, use your knee or the heel of your shoe to come down hard behind the front leg. This ruptures the heart, and the coyote never regains consciousness."
The leg hold trap is not just cruel; it is also indiscriminate. Trappers discard millions of "trash animals" not wanted for their fur, including domestic pets and endangered species. Trapped animals sometimes leave behind dependent young who are doomed to starvation, adding to the death toll for each coat. Companion animals, such as dogs and cats, have been trapped and killed after wandering into a trap.

The Horror of the Ranch
Animals raised on ranches are kept in cramped confinement and deprived of anything resembling a natural life, until finally they are killed, often by crude and painful means. Methods used include gassing, suffocation, or electrocution through the mouth and anus so that the “product”—the pelt—is not singed or stained with blood. Far from being “humane,” fur ranching is characterized by barren wire-mesh cages, isolation, and environmental deprivation so intense that animals often go insane, as animals used to roaming 15 miles each day go crazy from life in a cage. Animals are forced to endure all weather extremes, and veterinary care is typically non-existent since it is not cost effective to treat an animal whose fate is to be turned into a coat. Animals who are naturally solitary are caged together, often resulting in cannibalism, and animals are often left to decompose in cages with live animals.

Environmental Devastation
Nothing Natural about Fur
In the face of causing such notorious, unnecessary cruelty to animals, furriers desperate for positive things to say about their product often resort to the claim that furs are “natural.” In fact, turning an animal’s skin into a coat involves preserving it with toxic chemicals, such as formaldehyde—a known carcinogen—in order to keep the carcass from decaying.

Furriers also claim that fur trapping is a necessary tool for wildlife management. However, trapping as a commercial enterprise can never be a wildlife management strategy. Proper wildlife management needs to be based on highly specific local circumstances, recognizing the delicate balance of a particular ecosystem. But the book "Fur Trapping: A Complete Guide" shows the true motivator for trapping—money. "The trapper should trap the fur most in demand. If bobcats bring a high of $400, as they did in 1976, he should concentrate on them." Is this wildlife management—or slaughter for profit? Wildlife populations follow natural fluctuation curves. Unchecked hunting and trapping of certain animals have disrupted these fluctuations. The furriers’ and trappers’ scientifically baseless claim that they are “managing” wildlife is a thinly disguised ploy to kill the most profitable animals.
Once a symbol of glamour and success, fur is now a symbol of insensitivity, vanity, and greed. World-famous designers such as Giorgio Armani, Stella McCartney, Donna Karan, Geoffrey Beene and Calvin Klein now refuse to include fur in their collections. Leading retailers including Harrods of London and I. Magnin have stopped selling furs altogether.
Each of us can make the compassionate choice to not support such unnecessary cruelty to animals and to speak out on the animals’ behalf.

Source: http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite.com

hot new fashion....but the same old cruelty

year by year we`ve been heard about human cruelty in getting animal fur. there is a lot of campaign, advertisement and others have been done to wipe out all of this. but it still happen and a big name in designer always come out with a new fur coat design using new discovery of fur. as for example in year 2005, on runways in Milan and Paris, that year fall fashion collection shocked industry writers and animal advocates who had assumed the fur was long out of favor: Several prominent designers, from Gucci to Dolce & Gabbana, paraded haute couture made entirely from or trimmed with the fur of newborn or fetal lambs.

The fashion industry, perpetually aware of the importance of labels, has apparently and unapologetically opted to call the fur "astrakhan" this season. What that term means is not exactly clear—it could refer to the fur of newborn Persian or karakul lambs or it could refer to broadtail fur taken from fetal lambs (or generally refer to both)—but whatever its exact definition, astrakhan boils down to one thing: early death for lambs, often even death for fetal lambs and their mothers.this new born lambs juz came out from their moms womb. did they done anything wrong to us? so, why they been treated like that?

The well-known fashion retailers and designers below use karakul.
• Saks Fifth Avenue
• Neiman Marcus
• Barneys
• Bergdorf Goodman
• Henri Bendel
• Prada
• Marc Jacobs
• Armani
• Dolce and Gabbana
• Carmen Marc Valvo
• Dennis Basso
• Devi Kroell
• Gucci



A Dolce & Gabbana astrakhan and alligator boot & Burberry bag.


One way to stop the killing of infant and fetal lambs for their fur is to stop buying the products made from their pelts. Read labels closely and look for words such as Kara-Cool, astrakhan, broadtail, Persian lamb, swakara and krimmer. And tell your friends to do the same.

wild life is in danger...

Poaching is the illegal hunting, killing or capturing of animals. This can occur in a variety of ways. Poaching can refer to the failure to comply with regulations for legal harvest, resulting in the illegal taking of wildlife that would otherwise be allowable. Examples include: Taking without a license or permit, use of a prohibited weapon or trap, taking outside of the designated time of day or year, and taking of a prohibited sex or life stage.

Poaching can also refer to the taking of animals from a gazzetted wildlife sanctuary, such as a national park, game reserve, or zoo. Most countries enforce various sanctions on the hunting of wild animals, and international controls, such as bans, restrictions and monitored trade, are all aimed at controlling poaching. However, it is important to note that hunting, under specific regulations, is in fact often permitted in designated game preserves.

E.g. situation

Uganda is rich in wildlife resources. Wildlife occurs in both protected areas and on ungazetted private lands. There are four types of wildlife protected areas, and they are classified according to the degree of protection accorded. Uganda has ten national parks, ten wildlife reserves, seven wildlife sanctuaries and 13 community wildlife areas. The national parks occupy about 11,150 square kilometers (km2) or 4.6% of the country; wildlife reserves occupy about 8760 km2 or 3.6%, consisting primarily of grassland with patches of dry woodlands and scrubland; and wildlife sanctuaries cover 850 km2 or 0.35% of the country and are made up of areas of different sizes designed for specific conservation purposes.

Several of the sanctuaries have been gazetted to afford particular protection to single species of national or global importance. Community wildlife areas, originally known as controlled hunting areas, occupy about 27,600 km2 or 11.4% of Uganda. Illegal hunting, wars and poaching have reduced most of Ugandas wildlife to near extinction. The majority of the animals are hunted down for the various reasons noted above. As a result of civil wars in the region, many animals have migrated to neighboring countries. At times, these animals stray to settled areas and are killed.
Source: Selected animal populations in Uganda,1960-2003.

Reasons

Humans and their ancestors have hunted for over 400,000 years. Historically, hunting has played an important role in leadership, community formation, language development, and tool use. While primitive humans relied largely upon hunting for food, the agricultural revolution (approximately 10,000 years ago) reduced the need for survival hunting in most parts of the world. Hunting has continued, however, for several reasons, and poaching remains a possibility wherever hunting is an important part of the economy or culture.



Animal products, such as hide, ivory, horn, teeth and bone, are sold to dealers who make clothes, jewelry and other materials from them. In some African and Latin American societies, animals are poached for game meat. In Congo, for example, wild monkey meat is sold in the open market, and in many parts of North America, white-tailed deer is hunted for food.

Some animals have religious value and are used as totems and in witchcraft. For example, among the Banyoro, Baganda and Batooro of West and Central Uganda, the king traditionally sits on a leopard skin. Many tribes in Congo consider leopard skin a symbol of magic, and many witch doctors in the region use these skins to show their powers. Many animals are killed for ceremonial purposes, such as cleansing a bad omen, asking gods for rain, etc.



Animals are also believed to be a source of local herbs and have medicinal value. For example, it is believed by some Lendu in Eastern Congo that the lion’s liver cures skin diseases, and it is also used as a poison. Mbuti pygmies of Western Uganda and Eastern Congo are said to use snake poison on their fighting arrows. Animals in the developing world are also hunted as vermin by communities that leave near forests and game parks. The aim is to kill the animals and stop them from encroaching on farms. Hunting for sport is also practiced in various nations. Though most of it is controlled, illegal sport hunting is common in developing countries. Many sport hunters keep the animals as trophies.

Effects

While poaching has various effects, its most direct impact is extinction, either globally or within a given locality. Poaching has also been associated with the spread of disease, both in animals and humans. In Congo, for example, it is believed that the Ebola virus was transmitted to people who fed on monkeys and other primates, who then transmitted the disease to other human beings. In Uganda, the outbreak of Anthrax in early 2000 was associated with people eating or transporting infected animals from Queen Elizabeth National Park.

IF BUYING STOPS, THE KILLING TOO

This is just a glimpse of the problem that we are facing in the whole world today. As we can see the cases in Uganda itself had shown us that the matters are getting serious everyday, No matter the reason why an animal is killed, all types of hunting or poaching have led to extinction of species, and if uncontrolled many more animals will become extinct. We need to act fast in order for our next generation to had a better life in the future as we know that most of the ecosystems in the world had its own role and each and every of living things in the world plays a part in making the ecosystem to be stable and also to ensuring the existing of the world as it is today.

It is our responsible to make sure that all the killing stops, to do so the simples’ thing that we can do is to stop demanding for products that had to do with killing of these protected animals. With no demand there will be no supply and this will contribute to reducing the killings, act now!
Save the animals! Save our planet! One act at a time does make a difference.

Seal Hunting

In 2003 alone, 350000 seals where killed in this brutal way. It happened every year by late March. Canada`s sea hunt is the cruelest annual activity and the largest slaughter of marine mammals that happened in this whole wide world. The Canadian seal killers armed with clubs and rifles will go again to the nursery floes of the harp and hood seal. Its only take 3 years for them to kill MILLION of seals…
One method of killing seals is with the hakapik, a heavy wooden club with a hammer head and metal hook on the end.

Because of its efficiency, the animal can be killed quickly without damage to its pelt. The hammer head is used to crush the skull, while the hook is used to move the carcass. Using those weapons, they beat to death the baby hooded and harp seals in front their mothers, who often die trying to save their pups. Male adults often are left to bleed to death after have their penises brutally removed to export to countries such as Japan where they are used as aphrodisiacs.



The most shocking evidence comes from 2001, when an international team of Veterinarians who witnessed the hunt, perfomed post-mortem examinations among some carcasses chosen randomly and proved that a 42% of those seals where skinned alive !!! Seal skins have been used by aboriginal people for millenia to make waterproof jackets and boots, and seal fur to make fur coats. Some high-end fashion designers, such as Donatella Versace and Gucci have begun to use seal pelts.
This is the largest mammal killing in the world and there is no excuse for such a massacre or for the torture of these beautiful living beings. It only gives Canada a bad name as a primitive nation profiting from the fur of baby seals.

Please, stop killing of Canadian wildlife in such horrific way!

Animal Cruelty

animal cruelty should not happen especially to our own pet. once you taking a cat or dog to your house, its mean u willing to take care of it, give them place to live, food and love. not to be hurt!!!

Cruelty to animals generally falls into two categories: direct violence and neglect.

Direct Violence: The types of direct violence that animals suffer every day at the hands of people include being beaten, mutilated, shot, set on fire or otherwise tortured. The intentional suffering inflicted on these animals can result in severe injury or death.




Neglect: Other animals suffer and die from neglect when they are denied proper food, water or shelter, causing them to slowly starve to death or die from exposure to freezing cold or sweltering hot temperatures. Hoarding animals can also cause suffering on a large scale.



have u ever done it to any animals. maybe now u are saying "its ok, its only once in my life time i did it"...wat if, there is thousand of people thinking the same way as u? so stop it!!! just wondering how does it feel when u r at their place...