homework

HOW HUMANS TREAT ANIMALS:

well. when it comes to pets some owners treat them with respect such as guard dogs, others with love and compasion for any household pets and sometimes very cruely from abusive or lazy owners. when it comes to the wild sometimes thier treated like pests like racoons and opossums or as just "game" for hunters like bears, dear, elk, etc. or in farms thier treated like livestock for food, milk, wool, furs, etc. or in a circus for tricks, entertainment and atractions like lions, tigers, zebras, etc. its pretty much where they are that matters in the subject. i mean, you cant take a tiger in the wild and keep it as a pet and not expect it to kill you! or set free an animal born and raised in captivity to roam free and know how to survive. its pretty much about location and population. like in china/japan, i dont know if its a stereotype or not, but some say they just eat anything they consider edible due to overpopulation. and in places like canada or anywhere frigit animals like seals are hunted http://alexlimongamboa.blogspot.mx/2014/04/homework.html for food and sport and wolves for sport and fur. and then thier are the endangered species like pandas and rhinos who are being protected (hopefully) by that areas populations. so...yeah. thats pretty much all i got. also, my sister told me that everyone thought i was looking up everything on the presentation. i wasnt, i was reading my last blog post about it (not the sealing thing, the economic collapse thing). i just wanted to straiten that out. thanks for reading.

Homework

this is what seal hunting or sealing is:

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in six countries:Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Russia. Seals are hunted also in Finland and Sweden to prevent fisheries damages. Canada's largest market for seals is Norway (through GC Rieber AS).The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) regulates the seal hunt in Canada. It sets quotas (total allowable catch – TAC), monitors the hunt, studies the seal population, works with the Canadian Sealers' Association to train sealers on new regulations, and promotes sealing through its website and spokespeople. The DFO set harvest quotas of over 90,000 seals in 2007; 275,000 in 2008; 280,000 in 2009; and 330,000 in 2010. The actual kills in recent years have been less than the quotas: 82,800 in 2007; 217,800 in 2008; 72,400 in 2009; and 67,000 in 2010. In 2007, Norway claimed that 29,000 harp seals were killed in its seal hunt, and Russia and Greenland claimed that 5,476 and 90,000 seals were killed in 2007, respectively.Harp seal populations in the northwest Atlantic declined to approximately 2 million in the late 1960s as a result of Canada's annual kill rates, which averaged to over 291,000 from 1952 to 1970. Conservationists demanded reduced rates of killing and stronger regulations to avert the extinction of the harp seals. In 1971, the Canadian government responded by instituting a quota system. The system was competitive, with each boat catching as many seals as it could before the hunt closed, which the Department of Fisheries and Oceans did when they knew that year's quota had been reached. Because it was thought that the competitive element might cause sealers to cut corners, new regulations were introduced that limited the catch to 400 seals per day, and 2000 per boat total. A 2007 population survey conducted by the DFO estimated the population at 5.5 million. It is illegal in Canada to hunt newborn harp seals (whitecoats) and young hooded seals (bluebacks). When the seal pups begin to molt their downy white fur at the age of 12–14 days, they are called "ragged-jacket" and can be commercially hunted. After molting, the seals are called "beaters", named for the way they beat the water with their flippers.The hunt remains highly controversial, attracting significant media coverage and protests each year. Images from past hunts have become iconic symbols for conservation,animal welfare, and animal rights advocates. In 2009, Russia banned the hunting of harp seals less than one year old.

what i think of it: 

to be honest, you cant change the way an entire country thinks or is. you can go to any of these countries and protest,complain, etc. all you want but there are going to be many who will just shrug it off or just ignore it. there will be some poeple who will agree sealing is bad and should be stopped but there will be many who think it should continue or just wont care. thats all i have to say about it i guess...