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3 kwi 2018 · A persistent image in anti-seal hunt videos is of a sealer running across an ice floe to repeatedly club a prone seal with a hakapik.
24 kwi 2023 · As the effects of climate change threaten harp seals, HSI and tens of thousands of supporters delivered a message to the Canadian government demanding the 2023 commercial seal slaughter be shut down to protect the harp seal population.
Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Facing harsh criticism the world over because of the hunt’s cruelty and unsustainability, the Canadian government and fishing industry have spread much misinformation. Here are the basic facts about the hunt.
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United States (above the Arctic Circle in Alaska), Namibia, Estonia, Norway, Finland and Sweden.
9 gru 2021 · Seal hunting is a controversial topic in Canada, and animal rights groups have been fighting against it for a long time because they claim that it is brutal and unsustainable.
The 2022 Canadian commercial seal hunt has officially been declared open beginning April 8th with an expected allowable catch of 400,000 harp seals.
31 maj 2022 · As the below interview illustrates, Winter has focused much of his life to trying to re-inject nuance and cultural sensitive and awareness into the highly charged, and what he views as the largely one-sided, global debate on seal hunting and sealing cultures. Where are you from and what is your personal connection to seal hunting?
