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<DIV align=right><FONT color=#ffffff><STRONG>International Fund for
Animal Welfare</STRONG> March 14, 2006</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<P>Dear Edelweiss,</P>
<P>Right now on the sparkling ice floes of Eastern Canada, hundreds
of thousands of baby seals are about to die.</P>
<P>In just a few short days, seals as young as 12 days of age will
be clubbed and beaten. Others will be shot with a rifle in open
water, fighting for their lives … many left to suffocate under the
ice or be pulled onto boats with sharp metal hooks.</P>
<P>95% of the seals killed will be less than three months old. Some
will even be skinned alive. <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922944557596825137865"
target=_blank>But there’s still time to help</A>.</P>
<P class=Head3>If you were to witness the seal hunt personally, your
heart would break.</P>
<P>There is no economic or environmental reason to justify Canada’s
commercial seal hunt. This is a cruel and unnecessary hunt, opposed
by the majority of Canadians. This government supported hunt isn’t
designed to promote science or meaningful employment for
Newfoundlanders, it’s designed to gain votes for politicians.</P>
<P>Most seal pups lay on the ice alone and helpless, crying in
anguish before they are violently cut down. During the past 30
years, IFAW hunt observers have continued to witness and document
severe cruelty at the hunt.</P>
<P>All this to produce less than one percent of the Newfoundland GDP
and, by the government’s own calculations, about $1,000 per sealer
per year. A hunt that is nationally and internationally offensive is
of no use to today’s Newfoundland and a progressive Canada trying to
build a reputation for first-class environmental tourism.</P>
<P class=Head3>Canada’s government is counting on your silence</P>
<P>World-leading marine scientists agree that the current high
quotas for killing seals are putting the harp seal population at
serious risk of being depleted. As many seals are killed today as
during the 1950’s and 60’s when commercial sealers significantly
reduced the seal population.</P>
<P>You helped raise a global outcry that stopped the killing of
whitecoat baby seals in the 1980’s. But baby seals as young as 12
days old are still being left to suffer a lingering death besides
piles of seal bodies rotting on the bloody ice after their fur is
removed.</P>
<P class=Head3>Four ways you can help stop Canada’s seal hunt right
now:</P>
<P><STRONG>1) <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922954557596825137865"
target=_blank>Write a Letter to Save a Seal</A></STRONG><BR>The
Canadian government believes no one cares enough about the seal hunt
for them to end it. Prove them wrong. Send a letter to your
representative calling for an end to Canada’s commercial seal hunt
before millions more baby seals die an unnecessary and cruel
death.</P>
<P><STRONG>2) <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922964557596825137865"
target=_blank>Sign the Petition to Prime Minister
Harper</A></STRONG><BR>The Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador
made some shocking and false statements about IFAW and the seal hunt
on the Larry King Show. The public deserves honesty and respect for
the real facts about the killing of baby seals. Sign the petition
urging Canada’s Prime Minister to tell the truth about what’s
happening on the ice.</P>
<P><STRONG>3) <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922974557596825137865"
target=_blank>Make a Donation to Stop the Seal
Hunt</A></STRONG><BR>IFAW brings journalists and politicians to
observe the seal hunt, resulting in growing condemnation of the hunt
around the world. Thanks in large part to IFAW’s efforts,
legislation to ban seal products is advancing in a number of
countries, such as the Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. Your
contribution is needed to help document the cruelty occurring on the
ice this spring and expose the truth.</P>
<P><STRONG>4) <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922984557596825137865"
target=_blank>Tell Others to Help Protect Baby
Seals</A></STRONG><BR>It only takes a few seconds to spread the word
about the cruelty of Canada’s seal hunt and our efforts to end it,
yet the impact on the campaign is enormous. Please invite your
friends, family, and colleagues to help save the seals.</P>
<P>The seal hunt will be underway in just a few weeks. <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714922994557596825137865"
target=_blank>Please take action now</A> to help spare another
single baby seal from a cruel and senseless death.</P>
<P>Sincerely,<BR><IMG height=60
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width=168 NOSEND="1"><BR>Fred O’Regan</P>
<P><BR><STRONG>P.S.</STRONG> Looking for even more ways to help?
Please consider taking a fifth action: writing a letter to the
editor of your local newspaper speaking out against the seal hunt.
Also <A
href="http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M714923424557596825137865"
target=_blank>be sure to forward this message</A> to as many friends
as possible. It’s critical that more people speak out right now
before the slaughter of baby seals begins.</P></TD></TR>
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