The fisrt time I saw footage of this film, was at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Chile, 2008. I also had the chance of meeting some of the people involved in the making, Louie Psihoyos and Joe Chisholm, from Ocean Preservation Society (OPS). I was astonished, dismayed, and angry, by all the footage, and [...]
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Stop the seal hunt
A recent scientific study (Leaper and Matthews 2006) examining the Canadian government’s approach for determining the population status for Northwest Atlantic harp seals revealed that the current approach to managing the seal hunt risks seriously depleting the harp seal population by as much as 50 to 70 percent over the next 15 years. Removing so [...]