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“Many hands make light work.” - PROVERB
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Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank |
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” - Edmunde Burke |
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Many Hands Network joins like-minded, compassionate people who want to help heal our global home. If you are concerned about the state of our world, check out the Many Hand Network pages regularly to stay informed on human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues, and add your voice and effort to those who would make our planet a safer, peaceful and more just world, and home, to all species. |
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“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” - Betty Reese |
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With all beings and all things we shall be as relatives.” - Sioux Indian Proverb |
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Join The Virtual March Against Global Warming!
On global warming, world renowned ecologist David Suzuki warned “Australia is especially vulnerable. Your whole country is bordered by the ocean, sea levels are rising, half your country is desert, that desertification is going to continue.”
To help motivate governments and the private sector meet the responsibility of reducing greenhouse emissions , click on here to join the virtual march.
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Do animals have emotions? Most people with pets will have no doubt regarding the answer to this question. Science now concurs - animals DO have emotions. To read a fascinating article by scientist Marc Bekoff discussing this topic |
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Reduce the amount of toxic chemicals in your home environment. |
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True stories and amazing images to make you smile. |
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For information on Orangutans and how your shopping habits may be contributing to their extinction, and Dogs and Cats being slaughtered cruelly for meat - click here. |
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MESSAGE FROM THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Recently the Humane Society International's ProtectSeals team escorted British actor Alison Steadman and "America's Next Top Model" judge and fashion photographer Nigel Barker to the Canadian ice floes. They came to experience the beauty of the harp seal nursery and to shine a spotlight on the enormous potential for eco-tourism in the region, as well as the impending slaughter of these young pups. Many people still do not realize that Canadian fishermen brutally kill hundreds of thousands of baby seals every year, just for their fur. They are set to slaughter 275,000 this year alone.
· Global markets for seal products are closing. · Prices paid to sealers are falling. · Governments are condemning commercial seal hunting. · The ProtectSeals boycott of Canadian seafood is gaining momentum. · Canadians are speaking out against the seal hunt. It only takes a few minutes to speak up for baby seals. If we all act now, this spring's Canadian hunt may be the last commercial seal hunt any of us ever has to witness. Sincerely Andrew Rowan
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To sign the Humane Society’s petition to help protect seals from barbaric slaughter and encourage the European legislators to ban the seal product trade click here |
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International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) monitors were present on the opening day of the Gulf seal hunt to witness the cruel mass slaughter of baby harp seals in Canada. “The sealing vessel had to search out small pans of ice to find a few lone seals. Sealers fired at seals on slushy, moving ice. Seals were seen in agony after being shot at and injured, but not instantly killed. One seal was hauled alive onto the deck of the boat with a steel hook before finally being beaten to death.” “The lack of ice in the Southern Gulf has led to a mortality rate for baby seals estimated to exceed 90%, yet sealers continued to wipe out the last remaining survivors. They can do this because, despite the tragic effect of global warming on seal breeding habitat, the Canadian government has given sealers permission to kill 270,000 seals.” Visit StoptheSealHunt today to help the seal pups and read the latest diaries from IFAW monitors on the scene of the hunt. See the latest footage from the scene of the hunt and listen to IFAW monitors describe in their own words the cruelty they are documenting firsthand.
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Scroll down to very bottom of this page if you wish to view photos of what is actually happening on the ice flows. The photos show men killing these gentle animals “for fun” (trophy hunters who obviously see themselves as “real men” because they can club a helpless animal to death) as well as men taking part in the fur hunt. Be warned the images are extremely graphic . |
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A mother seal and her slaughtered pup. |
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A seal dying a slow, painful death, breathing blood and crying tears of blood. |
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All this animal can do to protect itself and its’ baby from this “man” with a club, is to cry out in anger and fear. |
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It may take more than one hit with the club before this animal is finally dead. Some animals are skinned while still alive. |
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A mother’s kiss to reassure its baby… soon the trophy hunter (below) arrives to club them to death. |
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A man whose only claim to fame is beating to death an animal with no means of defending itself— a “real” man—a “sportsman”?!! |
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Here we have an aerial view of the seal massacre in progress. The seals without any real means of escape can only watch and wait until its their, and their babies, turn to be bludgeoned to death, or skinned alive while in the process of dying. |
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SEALS ON THIN ICE
—YEARLY BLUDGEONING TO DEATH OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SEALS. |
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