Day: August 31, 2018

Environmental, General News

Canada: Tell Air Canada To Cut Ties With SeaWorld.

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Dear Mark;
SeaWorld confines animals to tiny concrete tanks at marine abusement parks across the country. Often housed with incompatible tankmates, dolphins, whales, and other animals are regularly drugged in order to manage stress-induced aggressive behavior and relieve the endless monotony of swimming in circles.

They break their teeth chewing in frustration on the metal bars and concrete sides of their tanks, and they’re forced to perform tricks for tourists in exchange for food—all in the name of entertainment.

It’s a business built on the suffering of intelligent, social animals who are denied everything that’s natural and important to them.

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WestJet recently stopped its promotional support of SeaWorld, and travel giant Thomas Cook has committed to ending ticket sales to the parks. STA Travel, Taco Bell, and Alaska, JetBlue, and Southwest airlines as well as dozens of other responsible companies have already severed ties with the abusement parks.

ACTION – Please send a quick note to Air Canada urging it to join the wave of companies making the compassionate decision to cut ties with SeaWorld.

 

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Thank you for your compassion for animals.

Sincerely yours,

John Di Leonardo, M.S.
Manager, Animals in Entertainment Campaigns
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

General News, Hunting

Canada: The Sealers of the Magdalen Islands of Quebec are Pressuring the Government To Allow Them To Hunt Grey Seals.

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August 30, 2018

Dear Mark,

The sealers of the Magdalen Islands of Quebec are pressuring the government of Quebec to allow them to kill grey seals who live on and around the nature reserve, Brion Island.

The government of Quebec is considering this proposal. The Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change, Isabelle Melançon, has said that consultations on the matter will begin in September.

The sealers, in typical fashion, are blaming seals for fish population declines at the same time that they pillage the oceans. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada (DFO), which calls the Atlantic cod “endangered,” still allows thousands of tons of the fish to be killed by fishermen. In 2017, the DFO allowed fishermen to kill 13,000 metric tons of this endangered fish.

At the same time, the DFO allows over-fishing of capelin, thus depleting stocks of one of the main prey of cod.

Until the DFO and fishermen recognize that the marine ecosystem is a complex web and that human interference in the web is extremely destructive to this ecosystem, we will continue to see scapegoating of seals along with ever more population collapses, both of fish and marine mammals. The DFO and the fishing industry must change the way they operate, ending industrial-scale fishing and the use of destructive fishing methods like long lines, purse seines and bottom trawlers, and maintaining control of fishing gear so that unintended targets do not become victims of entanglement in their plastic pollution.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY and send an automated email to the Quebec government. If you are a resident of Quebec, please also participate formally in the public consultations on Brion Island seals. Note: the National Assembly of Quebec was recently dissolved, so if you are a voting citizen in Quebec, please keep this issue in mind in the coming elections.

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Thank you for caring and taking action.

For the seals,

Diana Marmorstein, Ph.D.
CEO
Harpseals.org

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General News, Hunting

USA: Judge Puts Halt On Allowing Yellowstone Grizllies To Be Hunted.

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Hi Mark,

Huge news out of Montana: A federal judge has temporarily halted plans allowing Yellowstone grizzlies to be hunted in Wyoming and Idaho.

This is an important victory for these bears — and for people like you who raised your voice against these cruel trophy hunts, which were scheduled to start on Saturday.

We filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order on Thursday while our case is heard about restoring protections for these bears. The judge granted our order, keeping these bears safe while our case plays out.

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We’re grateful for everyone who has gotten us this far. We couldn’t have done it without you. And it’s exactly why our Predator Defense Fund exists. When you give, we put your donation straight into the kind of work that led to this victory.

Here are the details from the dramatic ruling: The Center and allies were in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s decision last summer to strip Endangered Species Act protection from Yellowstone’s grizzlies. That decision paved the way for Wyoming and Idaho to plan trophy hunts for bears. More than 20 grizzlies that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park could’ve been killed, including a dozen or so females.

This ruling immediately halts the hunt while our court case continues.

We’re so relieved that Yellowstone’s famed grizzlies can rest easy for now and won’t face a hunter’s bullet this weekend.

I hope you’ll pause for a moment and enjoy this important victory. These are the kinds of moments the Center’s lawyers, scientists and activists live for, days when our actions save wildlife from certain death.

Thanks for supporting our work and standing with us in this fight.

For the bears,

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Kierán Suckling
Executive Director
Center for Biological Diversity

P.S. We’re fighting for wildlife day in, day out. The best way to support that fight is by joining Wild Uprising, a group of our most committed supporters. Do your part by starting an automatic monthly donation.

 

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P.S. We’re fighting for wildlife day in, day out. The best way to support that fight is by joining Wild Uprising, a group of our most committed supporters. Do your part by starting an automatic monthly donation.