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HELP NOVA SCOTIA GREY SEALS

SEALERS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL BEGIN KILLING BABY SEALS
ON "PROTECTED" HAY ISLAND THIS THURSDAY
Coalition Spokesperson Bridget Curran is Joining the HSI/Canada Team to Document the Slaughter
YOU CAN HELP!!
Alert Date: 22 February 2011

Grey seal pups on Hay Island 2010 Photo B. Curran/ACASC

Unbelievably, the Canadian and Nova Scotian governments have defied logic, compassion and decency and have given the green light for another slaughter of defenceless baby grey seals on so-called "protected" Hay Island, a provincial nature reserve. Not only will terrified pups be bludgeoned to death by Cape Breton sealers wielding wooden bats, they will also be part of a macabre experiment testing the use of low-velocity bullets.

Sealer Robert Courtney has confirmed to media that sealers plan to travel to Hay Island this Thursday to begin the killing. Bridget Curran, spokesperson and Director of the Atlantic Canadian Anti-Sealing Coalition, is traveling to Sydney on Wednesday to join the HSI/Canada team and will be present on the island to document the slaughter. Bridget will be posting her experiences, together with photos and videos, on her blog Atlantic Canadian Musings and will also attempt to Tweet directly from the island. She will also make the videos available on YouTube.

YOU CAN HELP NOVA SCOTIA'S GREY SEALS. Please take a few minutes to do the following:
1. Let the Nova Scotia Minister of Tourism, Percy Paris, know that you think the Nova Scotia seal pup slaughter should be stopped. (IFAW Action Alert)
2. Let the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment, Sterling Belliveau, know that he is wrong to sacrifice our marine ecosystems for the whims of Nova Scotia fishermen. (Atlantic Canadian Anti-Sealing Coalition Alert)
3. Write to your local papers condemning the cruel slaughter of baby grey seals in Nova Scotia, particularly in provincial nature reserves.

Thank you for speaking up for Nova Scotia's grey seals. It is incomprehensible the killing will happen again this year, but we are very close to ending it. Please stand with us as we win the final victory for seals.