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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 »
In September 2012, the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s seal team sprang into action to help two captive seals Read more »
Make the seal hunt an issue in the Canadian by-elections
The seal hunt should be a federal election issue. It is an Read more »
The Canadian Senate, our Senate, has just released its report on the “management” of grey seal populations on 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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Russia has officially requested Third Party status at the ongoing WTO case against the EU ban on seal products. This development was welcomed today by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org ).
"Europeans and Russians are Read more »
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 »
In a move that ignores economics and threatens international trade relations, the Harper government is moving forward with an expensive challenge of the European Union’s ban on seal products at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Internatio Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and nearly 140,000 people from across Canada and around the world are elated that Zak and Mika, two young harp seal pups who were slated for death at the Aquarium des Îles de la Madeleine in Queb Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW www.ifaw.org) commends Senator Mac Harb for re-introducing a bill to end the commercial seal hunt and is hopeful a rational debate about it will finally happen in Canada.
Despite decades of support from 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 »
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 »
In September 2012, the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s seal team sprang into action to help two captive seals Read more »
Make the seal hunt an issue in the Canadian by-elections
The seal hunt should be a federal election issue. It is an Read more »
