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More about seals, sealing and IFAW:
- Protecting grey seals in Canada
- Why commercial sealing is cruel
- Seals on thin ice – Climate change threatens seals
- Seals and Fisheries – Are seals eating all the fish?
- Aboriginal sealing – Does IFAW campaign against subsistence seal hunts?
Seals news
Some great news to start off 2013, as Taiwan passed legislation this week to close its markets to marine mammal products, Read more »
Yesterday, the Honourable Mac Harb bravely addressed the Senate of Canada as debate resumed on his bill to end the seal hunt Read more »
A study recently published in the journal Marine Policy confirms what the International Fund for Animal Welfare and others Read more »
From September 6-15, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is taking place in Jeju, South Korea. This congress takes place Read more »
Today a debate will begin in the Canadian Senate on Senator Mac Harb’s bill to end commercial sealing.
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The Canadian Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans today released a report recommending a mass cull of 70,000 grey seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence, a recommendation the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) calls an unethical and risky gam Read more »
Canada and Norway have formally requested panelists to be appointed for their joint challenge to the EU trade ban of commercial seal products at the World Trade Organization (WTO). This latest attempt to overthrow the EU legislation was met with frus Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) condemns the Canadian government's decision to provide $3.6 million in bailout money to a Norwegian company to stockpile seal pelts. The animal welfare group says that using Newfoundland tax dollar Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) says that by setting a Total Allowable Catch of 400,000 harp seals, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) not only ignores the lack of market for seal products but demonstrates a cont Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) wants Canada’s 2012 commercial seal hunt to be called off due to conservation concerns raised by a new scientific report showing that climate change is negatively impacting harp seal Read more »
Rather than providing any economic benefit, Canada’s commercial seal slaughter arguably represents a drain on the Read more »
Some great news to start off 2013, as Taiwan passed legislation this week to close its markets to marine mammal products, Read more »
The Canadian Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans today released a report recommending a mass cull of 70,000 grey seals Read more »









