A week earlier, the authorities in Ottawa announced the numbers of pups have reduced sharply with global warming having a toll on them. Alongside, they have also announced that hunters will be allowed to have their hands on the seal population this spring. And, this announcement has kicked up annoyance among conservationists, demanding that the harvest be cancelled.
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Neglecting even public uproar -- notably in Britain and Europe -- over the seal slaughter, which is likely to get more intense than ever before, the government is planning to announce a start-date for the annual culling in the next several days.
Though the hunter's vessels are tied up, they are ready to start the hunt at a moment's notice. Conveniently, as a response to renewed criticism of the massacre claimed to have been caused by the melting of the ice, the Fisheries officials in Ottawa assert that it is not presenting as dire a threat to the harp seal populations as being claimed by the conservationists.
They are not even willing to accept that the situation this year is necessarily linked to global warming.
After all, the animals have to be slaughtered to help the industries selling seal skin-made fashion accessories survive! Here are some such products.
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Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society writes in her internet blog's most recent entry over the weekend that
There is no place on earth like this - the peace and the quiet and the innocence of the pups surround you entirely. A handful of baby seals were there, basking in the sun. We managed to get close to one who was just three weeks of age. His sweet face looked up at me from across the ice, and all at once, the tragedy of this impending hunt struck me full-force.In just a few days, the boats will come, and the pristine ice will be transformed into an open air slaughterhouse. Two hundred and seventy thousand will be brutally clubbed and shot to death to make fashion accessories.
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