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Volume 14 Special Edition!

CATCA is proud to celebrate 21 years of educating and campaigning for the animal's welfare.


E-Newsletter Volume 14 It's CATCA 21st ANNIVERSARY!

CATCA is proud to celebrate 21 years of educating and campaigning for the animal's welfare.

Our first campaigns were against the elephant and rhino poaching in Africa. Campaigns against bullfighting and the seal hunt in Canada, Russia and Namibia followed. Twenty one years later we are still very involved in these issues. In the meanwhile, the ivory trade moratorium was implemented and the elephant poaching decreased, but in recent years due to the increasing demand of ivory from China and Japan, plus the increasing lobby Japan does in international high end animal conservation conferences, a couple of onetime sales of ivory have been granted to some few African countries, but these sales turned out to be catastrophic for the elephant population in Africa. Now Japan has managed to make the International Whaling Commission ineffective and in 2 months time, it seems the whaling ban may be overturned during the IWC62. Last month during the CITES CoP15, Japan managed to get rejected the urgently needed shark Proposals to protect 8 shark species, the blue fin tuna and other marine species Proposals. Japan also lobbied intensely for the Proposals of Tanzania and Zambia to have a onetime sale of ivory and to down list the Zambia's elephant population, but they didn't succeed. At this pace, Japan, China and other Asian countries are going to annihilate all the animal populations of the world for their immense greed.

CATCA has been lobbing at the highest level for animal conservation for the last 5 years. We succeeded with the international seal campaign that we launched in Europe in 2007, we got Poland to join the IWC in 2009, during the CITES CoP15, CATCA proudly managed to hold a minority at the European Union and that avoided the EU of voting in favour of the elephant Proposals, plus we got the votes the Satanic beetle needed to get in Appendix II.

CATCA will keep on fighting for the animal conservation. The next "battlefield" will be for the whales during the IWC62 in June 2010.

Thank you for your support and for caring for the animal welfare and the animal conservation.

Ericka Ceballos
Founder and President
CATCA

Check our new articles:

and

Our CATCA Reports submitted during the CITES CoP15 in Doha, Qatar last month:

Comments about this Report were published in the media of 4 continents:

http://washingtontimes.com
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/
http://www.ctv.ca/
http://cnews.canoe.ca/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
http://porthedland.igwn.com.au/
http://technology.canoe.ca/
http://news.scotsman.com/
http://www.watoday.com.au/
http://www.aolnews.com/
http://www.spokesman.com/
http://www.menafn.com/
http://iplextra.indiatimes.com/
http://www.hedgehogs.net/
http://woofeed.com/
http://schema-root.org/
http://1click.indiatimes.com/
http://www.pen.com.qa/
http://www.zawya.com/
http://www.pdfexplore.com
http://cari-pdf.com/pdf.php?q=catca

Note: Read inside our Article on page 5:

  • African elephant's future in peril How the decisions taken during the CITES CoP can either save or condemn the elephant population in Africa

Important articles on the news:

  1. Japan's whale catch falls nearly 50% short of target http://www.japantoday.com/japan-catches-only-60-of-targeted-whales-in-fy-2009
  2. Japanese whalers blame 'violent interference' for small catch http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
  3. Has CITES has its day? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8606011.stm
  4. Seal cull stirs old emotions as EU mulls new ban http://www.smh.com.au/ and vote NOW Yes in the poll about ending the seal hunt in Canada.
  5. Fury as hunters blast baby seals http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/04/11/fury-as-hunters-blast-baby-seals-115875-22177201
  6. Japan's eco-credentials assailed. Seafood policy seen negating moral authority http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100408f1.html
  7. World marks Cetacean Day on Wednesday http://www.timesofmalta.com/article
  8. Whaling compromise under attack http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/
  9. Iceland Dissatisfied with US Whaling Demand http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/
  10. Whaling Commission Proposes Return to Commercial Whaling http://www.ens-newswire.com/
  11. Whaling ban to be overturned http://www.goallover.org/
  12. Canada's seal hunt sends a different message about the Olympic nation http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/

PLEASE, sign these petitions:

  1. Please urge President B. Obama to oppose the IWC Deal allowing commercial whaling for 10 years. The US position should be that Japan, Norway and Iceland must end their illegal whaling activities NOW.

You can contact President Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/contact
or phone the White House comment line: 202-456-1111 or contact your Congressional representatives at www.congress.org
.

2) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/18/stop-the-slaughter-of-dolphins-in-taiji-japan
Against the dolphin drive in Japan

3) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/send-the-dolphins-back-to-japan-close-the-dolphin-tank-in-stanley-park
For the Vancouver Aquarium to close its dolphin tanks

4) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/tell-superstore-to-not-sell-live-fish-and-crabs
Against the cruelty of keeping live fishes and crabs in Canadian Superstores

5) http://www.ancientforestpetition.com/
New Petition to Protect BC's Endangered Old-Growth Forests and Forestry Jobs

6) https://www.secureconnect.at/4pfoten.org/petition/090205/
This petition is to condemn the animal cruelty in Bulgaria.

This E-Newsletter was brought to you by CATCA

We are always in need of donations to print educative materials to distribute in events, mail and for office supplies. If you can help us by buying our anti seal hunt t-shirt or by donating, you can do it going to our main page at www.catcahelpanimals.org and click on the Paypal button. You can also send us a check to:

CATCA
P. O. Box 16021, 617 Belmont St.
New Westminster BC V3M-6W6
Canada

CATCA was created 22 years ago in The Netherlands. We deal with animal rights, animal welfare and animal conservation issues, educating the general public. Our current major campaigns are against the seal hunt in Canada, whaling and the dolphin drive in Japan. We are also working in some CITES issues (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora- which is an UNEP organism). The issues that we are involved with CITES are: E-commerce, illegal trade on protected fauna species and rising awareness about the elephant ivory trade and the poaching of elephants in Africa.

Our new website is still being updated, but we will have eventually our web pages in Spanish and Polish re-installed there, with all our reports and our effort campaigns in Canada, Europe, Latin America and the US for the seals and the whales in the last years.

CATCA is a proud member of AMEDEA and the Western Canada Anti Sealing Coalition.



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