AR-News: (CA)Seal hunt ignited environmentalist battle

[Animalconcerns]

Montreal - It's an image seared on the minds of animal lovers everywhere -
a hunter, straddling a cuddly, white seal, a club poised to beat it into
oblivion.

Anti-seal hunt campaigners are using similar props to that 1980s campaign
shot again, as they mobilise against a commercial hunt targeting thousands
of harp seals in eastern Canada.

But advocates of hunting, a tradition for Canada's native peoples for
years, argue that seals are not endangered - numbers have exploded over
the last 30 years - and that the cull is a fast, humane way of controlling
their numbers.
...
The hunt, sanctioned by the Canadian government, is "the largest and
cruelest slaughter of marine mammals anywhere in the world," says the
International Fund for Animal Welfare.

"I watch a sealer club a seal and immediately turn to club another, and
another, and another before he turns his attention back on the first seal
so he can skin it," said activist Sherri Cox in a log on the fund website.

full story:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31&art_id=qw1081069021161B253&set_id=1

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