"The vast majority of Europeans want the EU to enact a strong prohibition on seal products, which will end the suffering I witness on the Canadian ice floes each year."
In the wake of environmental decline and man's impact on the earth, and the ocean, there are several marine mammal hunts, including international whaling, and the dolphin slaughter in Japan,that...
Today, representatives of The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International return to court to refute charges relating to technical violations of Canada's Fisheries Act...
A clearly agitated Loyola Hearn, Canada's Minister of Fishy Business held a media conference in Ottawa on Saturday to deliver a vindictive and clearly angry denunciation of Captain Paul Watson and...
Docs on the Bay, a new documentary film festival to be held annually in Stephenville, is the first film festival in Atlantic Canada dedicated solely to the presentation and promotion of documentary...
Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
With over 177,222 harp seals and seal babies slaughtered to date, it seems like things couldn't get much worse in Canada. Yet, brutality witnessed on the ice this month by the seal hunt observation...
Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Thin ice is killing baby seals in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence by the thousands and forcing the delay of the area's annual harp seal hunt for the second year in a row.
The controversial...
The first stage of Canada's controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal...
Canadian officials remained uncertain Wednesday if the controversial annual seal hunt can take place this year in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, citing higher-than-normal mortality rates of...
Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn says officials are working on new restrictions to keep protesters farther from the East Coast seal hunt.
During an appearance before the Commons fisheries...
With Canada preparing to go full-speed ahead on its annual seal hunt, Friends of Animals today unveiled an international tourism boycott to press the Canadian government to stop the kill....
Last year the Canadian seal slaughter realized $16 million in income to East Coast seal killers.
This year, Sea Shepherd member and supporter Kathy Kangas has offered $16 million to compensate...
Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed or shot without mercy this year alone-an annual harp seal slaughter subsidized by the Canadian government.
95% of the harp seals killed are...
