Why this blog?
I've set up this blog because I'd like to share some of my thoughts and experiences as an animal rights campaigner. I currently work as a policy adviser and lobbyist for a Dutch animal advocacy organisation Bont voor Dieren, which campaigns for the rights and protection of all fur-bearing animals.
At the end of March, some 320,000 young harp seals will be bludgeoned to death by Canadian sealers. As part of our campaign against this commercial hunt, I'm going to be heading off to Prince Edward Island, which is in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in just 12 days time. Together with other animal activists and journalists I shall fly by helicopter to the ice fields to bear witness to this terrible and unnecessary bloodbath. From the ice, I shall report on the cruelty of the hunt and argue the case for a total ban on the import and trade of all seal fur and seal products in both the Netherlands and the EU.
Although I'll also be keeping a Dutch language weblog at http://www.stopdeknuppels.nl, which is due to be launched this weekend, I thought it would be a great idea to also keep an on-line diary in my own native tongue.
At the end of March, some 320,000 young harp seals will be bludgeoned to death by Canadian sealers. As part of our campaign against this commercial hunt, I'm going to be heading off to Prince Edward Island, which is in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in just 12 days time. Together with other animal activists and journalists I shall fly by helicopter to the ice fields to bear witness to this terrible and unnecessary bloodbath. From the ice, I shall report on the cruelty of the hunt and argue the case for a total ban on the import and trade of all seal fur and seal products in both the Netherlands and the EU.
Although I'll also be keeping a Dutch language weblog at http://www.stopdeknuppels.nl, which is due to be launched this weekend, I thought it would be a great idea to also keep an on-line diary in my own native tongue.
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