11. ANIMAL PEOPLE I JUNE 2009
the Atlantic Canadian sealing industry, and the Canadian fur trade.
But her gesture was unlikely to improve the image of sealing and sealers, resoundingly expressed by the European Union vote: 550 in favor
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12. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 08 Swinging Canadian elections keeps the sealers swingin...
of unbroken support of the seal hunt.
Even if 90% of Parliament opposed the
seal hunt, as up to 70% of all Canadians have
said they do in opinion
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13. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 2009
a ban on the import of seal pelts at a May 5, 2009 plenary session, but is expected to allow Canada and Norway to continue exporting seal pelts through the European Union member nations to reach markets in China and Russia.
The ban
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14. Animal People October 2008
and explicitly denounced the seal hunt and wearing fur, and was elected to the WSPA board after working for the Canadian Ministry for External Affairs, which then and now led Canadian governmental efforts to prevent the European Union from
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15. ANIMAL PEOPLE I January February 2009
Union ban on imports of seal products by announcing that sealers may no longer club seals who are more than one year old.
"Banning the use of hakapiks," as seal clubs are called, "to kill seals older than one year does
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16. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 08 Sealing protest & media response
apiece about the seal hunt, from January 1 through the first two
weeks of the 2008 sealing season. Japanese research whaling had
received only one item per newspaper or channel.
Of the 1,546 total items of seal
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17. Namibian Sealing AP 1100
video on October 1 of
sealers killing seals in flagrant disregard of rules which were supposed to
minimize animal suffering.
In July, after the Atlantic Canadian seal hunt ended with only
94,000 seals killed out of a quota of
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18. ANIMAL PEOPLE I March 2009
of the hunt. Cape Breton sealers in 2008 killed 1,200 of a quota of 2,500.
Peaking at $97 in 2006, harp seal pelt prices fell to $33 in 2008.
New sealing rules requiring sealers to use firearms instead of clubs to kill seals
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19. ANIMAL PEOPLE I May 2006 | Sealers overkill quota, mob observers
MONTH: May 2006
Sealers overkill quota, mob observers
OTTAWA–– Atlantic Canadian Sealers reportedly killed as many as 16,000 more infant Seals than their 2006 record quota of 325,000, “yet not one Sealer was
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20. Animal People Online
May 2011:
Cartoon keeps seal hunt in the spotlight
TORONTO- -Just when Atlantic Canadian sealers imagined it might be safe to go back in the water, because maybe no one was watching with cameras this year, a cartoon seal walked
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