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More about seals, sealing and IFAW:
- 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
Today Canadian Senator Mac Harb will formally re-introduce legislation to end the commercial seal hunt in Canada.
Despite Read more »
I get asked a lot why IFAW travels to the ice each year to document the commercial seal hunt. Many people believe the Read more »
There is nothing more frustrating than being prepared to document the commercial seal hunt and being kept down by one thing Read more »
And so it begins…day one of the Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Northern Gulf of St Lawrence
The International 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 »
A “Day of the Seal” was arranged by Canada’s Conservative government on Parliament Hill today, purportedly to show support for sealers, but according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) the government is falling shor 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 »
“The annual herding and clubbing to death of still-nursing seal pups in Namibia has been criticized by veterinarians and scientists around the world” said Sheryl Fink, Director of IFAW’s Seal Program.
As the example of the C Read more »
The hunt, which runs from 01 July to 15 November, is the world’s second largest, next to Canada – which this year only managed to kill 38,000 seals of a total allowable catch (TAC) of 400,000 in 2011.
Namibia, in southern African, target Read more »
In 2011 and into the following year, Canada's Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans undertook a review of pro Read more »
Canada’s commercial seal hunt remains an industry predominantly based on the skins of seals aged 3 weeks to 3 months of Read more »
Canada’s commercial seal hunt remains an industry predominantly based on the skins of seals aged 3 weeks to 3 months of Read more »
Our first campaign, in 1969, was in protest of the Canadian seal hunt. By the 1980s, our work, and the outrage of millions of Read more »
Today Canadian Senator Mac Harb will formally re-introduce legislation to end the commercial seal hunt in Canada.
Despite Read more »
I get asked a lot why IFAW travels to the ice each year to document the commercial seal hunt. Many people believe the Read more »
There is nothing more frustrating than being prepared to document the commercial seal hunt and being kept down by one thing Read more »
And so it begins…day one of the Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Northern Gulf of St Lawrence
The International Read more »
