AR-News[CA]Invitation to join Global Anti-Hunting Coalition

[Sinikka Crosland]

You are invited to join
The Global Anti-Hunting Coalition


We've all asked at some point, "Wouldn't it be
powerful for all groups of like mind from coast to
coast to collectively wage a single coordinated
campaign against a single adversary?"  Thus was born
the concept of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition.

In the seven months between August 29, 2003, and April
2, 2004, wildlife preservationist and anti-hunting
campaigner Anthony Marr, with best-selling vegan
author Brenda Davis and her son Cory Davis, will be
conducting the Compassion for Animals Road Expedition
(CARE) through 40 U.S. states and four Canadian
provinces (see http://www.HOPE-CARE.org for the
state-by-state itinerary).  One of CARE's main
objectives is to form the American chapter of the
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition.  Anthony Marr will be
holding meetings with the directors and giving
presentations to the members of interested animal
advocacy groups en route to discuss participation,
campaigns, strategy and tactics.

The first campaign of the Global Anti-Hunting
Coalition will be to apply external pressure on Canada
focusing on its:

1. East Coast Commercial Harp Seal Hunt (current quota
- 375,000/year - the largest marine mammal hunt in the
world, known as "Canada's Shame").

2. Western Canada Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt (current
quota ~300/year plus poaching deaths of ~300 out of a
hotly debated estimated population of 4,000-13,000).

3. West Coast Commercial Harbour Seal Hunt (currently
being tabled in parliament - quota: an incredible
50,000/year out of a total estimated population of
only 110,000).

4. West Coast Grey Whale Hunt (currently being
planned).  

5. Central Canada Gopher Derby (2002 kill - ~60,000).

6. Eastern Arctic Bowhead Whale (endangered) Hunt.

7. Trophy hunting and fur trapping (a
passive-aggressive form of hunting) in general.

If the Coalition finds the above too diffuse, the
focus could be sharpened - thus the strategizing. 
Nonetheless, the adversary is only one - Canadian
hunting/trapping practices.

Groups need not have anti-hunting mandates in order to
join.  A vegan group, for example, is presumably
intrinsically anti-animal-abuse, and therefore
implicitly against hunting and trapping.

To join the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition, or if you
have any questions, or if you wish to meet with
Anthony Marr or arrange a presentation for him during
the CARE tour, please contact him at 604-222-1169 or
toll-free 1-866-822-1169, Anthony-Marr at HOPE-CARE.org


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