Former sex kitten Brigitte Bardot is the latest celebrity to lend her support to the protest against Canada’s controversial seal hunt this year.
The French film actress-turned-activist has travelled to Canada to join conservationists in their campaign. The 71-year-old previously posed with seals to draw attention to the pup killing in the 1970s.
"It's incredible to think that such dreadful things are still happening in a country like Canada, in a country that can hardly be considered undeveloped. We're not living in caves any more," she says.
"Before I die, I want to see this massacre ended," she says.
“So I ask you with my heart and soul ... I want to see this massacre stop. I would like that my life would have served at least for that," she adds.
Brigitte, who left her movie care 30 years ago devote her time to protecting animals, has also called for a worldwide boycott of Canadian seafood products.
A fortnight ago, former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney, traveled to the Gulf of St Lawrence to bring global attention to the annual hunt.
Paul branded the annual cull of the marine mammals a "stain on the character of the Canadian people".
Each year, up to 325,000 pups will be killed. As required by strict laws, the pups are quickly jabbed through the brain with picks, or shot with one quick bullet.
A majority of the pelts are used in the fashion industry.
