Animals 4Ever: July 11 petitions and more

Various:

Committee threatens circus animal ban. Take action now!
Related: Wild animal circus ban under threat!
Recommendations made to Government that circus ban should not remove a single wild animal from the big top
Petition - Review of Meat Export Policy
Please take action for lab animals
Please send a letter: Seal hunt begins in Namibia
To whom it concerns,

This year’s seal hunt has begun in Namibia. From July to November permission is granted to kill seals on the beaches where they come ashore to breed, nurse their pups and rest.
The seal pups are herded together, away from their mothers and clubbed to death with wooden bats. THe adult male seals (bulls) are shot. The killing takes place at two main sites: Cape Cross and Atlas Bay.
Cape Cross is a tourist resort where seal watching is a popular attraction. The gore from the killing is cleared away before the tourists arrive.
The quota for this year’s hunt has yet to be announced and inquiries by Respect for Animals to the Namibian Ministry of Fisheries were met with an assertion that the seals are not hunted or killed but ‘harvested’. In 2009 the Ministry announced a three-year rolling quota hunt (85,000 pups and 7,000 bulls each year) making the Namibian seal hunt second only in size to the brutal Canadian slaughter.
An economic report commissioned by a coalition of animal welfare groups, including Respect for Animals, concluded and demonstrated that the seals are worth more alive as a tourist attraction than dead as seal products. The two activities, the report concluded, were not compatible.
Despite repeated requests to end this cruel hunt, the Namibian government refuses to act and claims the seals are a threat to the fish populations, despite no evidence to support this claim.
The European Union has banned the import of all commercial seal products including those from Namibia. In 2011, a boycott of Namibian tourism and Namibian products was launched in response to the continuing cruel slaughter.
I will not visit Namibia until the killing of seals is banned.

Sincerely,
Refocus on original wolf management goals
Stop the Plan to Slaughter Wolves
Give Wolves a Fighting Chance
Sign the Petition to Investigate the Wolf-kill Cover-up
Current Action Campaigns from Center for Biological Diversity
Contre le massacre des chiens Yulins (confirmation needed)
Abolition de la chasse (confirmation needed)
NYCLASS - Stop Horse Carriages
SIGN THE VOTE HUMANE PLEDGE NOW:
Yes, you can count on me to vote for humane City Council candidates on Election Day September 10th!
Say THANKS and protect it forever.
Australia has created the world's largest network of marine parks. History in the making! If we want to prove that marine protection is not just a passing trend we need to tell them how much these new sanctuaries mean to us. Send a quick message to your local MP and help prove that Australians strongly support this decision.