AR-News: (AU) Seal cull ignores cameras, protests

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The Australian

>From AFP
April 14, 2004 
MONTREAL: Canadian hunters have started one of the biggest seal culls in 
decades on the ice floes of Newfoundland and Labrador, ignoring the protests of 
animal rights groups.

Authorities have increased the number of harp seals that can be culled to 
close to 1 million during the 2003-2005 period, and the take this year might go 
as high as 350,000. 
Animal rights groups say the cull, which began yesterday, is the largest 
since the 1960s and activists from the International Fund for Animal Welfare are 
out on the ice, filming the slaughter. 
Canadian authorities, however, contend that the seal population is a growing 
threat to cod stocks in the Atlantic, and that the culling is humane. Atlantic 
harp seal stocks have rebounded from 1.8 million in 1970 to 5.2million, 
according to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. 




full story:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9273679%255E2703
,00.html 




“I personally cannot get overly worked up about the deprivation of human 
rights in a world where non-humans have no rights at all. Until animals and nature 
have rights, none of us have any rights at all because without animals, 
eco-systems and nature's diversity, rights are meaningless. Humans are a group that 
was never very successful to begin with. Overly territorial, obsessed with 
trivialities, violent, petty, and completely lacking in empathy for other 
species. The world would be a much nicer place without us." Captain Paul Watson 
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