During the cold months in Canada many Harp seals are born. Soon after they are born their mothers leave them to gather with the males and head north. The Harp seal pups are left to take care of themselves. Two weeks after they are born they grow white fluffy fur to hide them from predators and to keep them warm from the ice. Once they have grown fur they are able to be killed by hunters. These humans use clubs to beat them to death, they are also gunned down, and the worst is they are sometimes skinned alive. Nearly one million harp seal pups have been murdered in the past three years.
Hunting is not the only thing that endangers harp seals. Harp seals like to give birth to their pups on ice floes. But due to Global warming many ice floes have turned into, well, water and harp seals will not give birth on land. Absolutely not. Because of global warming many of these pups have not survived."It would be reckless for the government to allow the hunt to proceed this year, given the high pup mortality that has apparently occurred. We may not be able to save these seals from the effects of global warming, but the Canadian government can save the survivors from being hunted. I can only hope that they will do the right thing and cancel the hunt." said human Sheryl Fink, a senior researcher with IFAW.
The whole topic of killing poor, defenseless harp seal pups is devastating. Even though Harp seals are not endangered species they should still be protected. This should go for all animals in the world. Just because animals do not build buildings or drive cars does not mean they cannot think or feel too.
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Killing baby seals is sad. Why would anyone want to do that? Is there anything we could do to stop the hunters. Or is there a law or rule that could be passed that would stop the Seals from being hunted? What are your thoughts on solutions for this problem.
Good questions. Many people in Canada and the U.S are boycotting Canadian seafood hoping to put pressure on the Canadian fishing industries. Did you know that the Canadian fishing industries who kill the harp seal pups every year. Hopefully by doing this they can get a law passed that will forbid the harp seal massacare. Giving up seafood is really difficult for me since I pracitally live on it. I tried, didn't work. I suggest writing letters to U.S government and the Canadian government. I also would write to resturants that buy Canadian seafood.
This is just terrible what they are doing to defenseless living creatures for their own needs. Just like with the Harp seals, their are other seals that are getting killed just because they are eating salmon.It's horrible what people do just for their benefit. Maybe you can go more into that to know where it is hapening and what people have done or trying to do to stop it.
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