Look To The Stars News: Brigitte Bardot Foundation

Sea Shepherds Rename Boat In Honor Of Brigitte Bardot

Fri, 27 May 2011 15:00:00 +0000

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has renamed one of the vessels that helped chase the entire Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary earlier this year in honor of Brigitte Bardot.

Photo: Libby Miller via Sea Shepherds

Brigitte Bardot Donates Royalties To Animal Charity

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Screen legend Brigitte Bardot has donated the royalties she received from a recent French TV ad to animal welfare charities.

The actress was paid US$320,000 for her classic 1966 song Tu M’as Trop Menti to be used during a promotional campaign for a film festival in France. The actress is well known for her work with animals, and she has reportedly given the money to the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.

Bardot retired from acting in 1974. In 1986 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and personal belongings. Since then she has dedicated herself to animal welfare issues, and has made countless donations to the cause, including $140,000 for a mass sterilization and adoption program for Bucharest’s stray dogs.

Brigitte Bardot Pens Letter To Obama Over Seal Hunting

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Following her letter to French president Nicolas Sarkozky earlier this month, screen legend Brigitte Bardot has penned an open letter to US president Barack Obama voicing her outrage over laws that permit seal hunting.

The 74-year-old actress and animal campaigner used the letter to appeal to Obama to speak out over the hunting of seals in Canada. She said she has “immense hope” in Obama, “even if I know that he is in demand from all directions and he already has a lot to do in his own country.”

Brigitte Bardot Calls For France To Ban Seal Products

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Movie legend Brigitte Bardot has made a plea to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, urging him to ban seal products.

The 74-year-old actress has penned an open letter to the French leader, asking him to ban seal products because they are made from animals killed in a cruel way.

“There is no alternative but to ban… the importation, trade, exportation and the transit of any product from seal hunting and without any derogation other than that accorded to the Inuit populations,” she wrote. She went on to tell Sarkozy that recent measures taken by the major seal skin exporters in Canada to stop accusations that it allowed unnecessary cruelty to animals were not enough.