AR-News: (US NY) Activists campaign against seal hunt

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

With help from celebrities and senators, such as Paris Hilton, anti-hunting 
groups pursue ban against Canadian seal hunts
 
By David Crary
Associated Press — Feb. 2, 2004

NEW YORK — Escalating a sporadic, 35-year-old protest campaign, opponents of 
Canada's seal hunt are advocating a travel boycott, pushing their cause in the 
U.S. Senate, even recruiting Paris Hilton. Canadian officials say the tactics 
will fail and the hunt will continue. 
"There comes a point where you just have to say, 'This is what we believe,"' 
said Steven Outhouse of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans. "You 
can't back down every time someone says it's wrong." 
The new protest initiative began after Canada last year announced a quota of 
975,000 seals that could be killed off Labrador and Newfoundland through 2005. 
Protests are likely to intensify as the peak killing period approaches in 
early April.



full story:

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/news/2004/0202/1725610.html

"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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