Over one and a quarter million seal pups have been clubbed or shot to death over the last four years during the annual Canadian seal slaughter.
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EU Seal Import Ban to be Proposed Today
23 July 2008
Respect for Animals welcomes today’s anticipated proposal from the European Commission to ban the import of and trade in seal products throughout the EU.
Paul McCartney supports Brussels Rally for Seals
1 July 2008
A video statement from Paul McCartney was broadcast at a mass rally in Brussels today in support of a European Union ban on the seal product trade.
Canada's 275,000 seal slaughter begins
28 March 2008
The Canadian seal hunt – the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world – got underway in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada, today.
Canadian government denies journalists and animal welfare groups permits to document slaughter
27 March 2008
Canada’s commercial seal slaughter will begin half an hour before dawn on Friday, 28 March. However, at this time, Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials have refused to confirm they will issue permits to observers to document the killing for the opening day of the hunt.
MEPs Caroline Lucas and John Bowis speak out about seal hunt
28 March 2008
Alison Steadman speaks out for the seal pups
20 March 2008
Actor Alison Steadman joined Mark Glover and Nicki Brooks from Respect for Animals earlier this month (March 2008) as they visited a harp seal pup nursery to see the wonderful wildlife spectacle of hundreds of newly-born whitecoat seal pups being nursed by their mothers, on the hauntingly beautiful ice floes off Canada’s east coast.
Canadian government sanctions killing of 275,000 seal pups
11 March 2008
Weeks before the start of the Canadian seal hunt, the largest and most brutal marine mammal hunt in the world, the Canadian government has announced that up to 275,000 seal pups can be clubbed and shot to death during this year’s hunt.
Actor Alison Steadman visits seal pup nursery & says Stop the Seal Hunt
3 March 2008
Alison Steadman visited a seal pup nursery on the ice floes off Canada's east coast and called for an end to the largest marine mammal hunt in the world, due to start here, likely killing the very seal pups she saw, later this month.
An Important Message from Paul McCartney
30 January 2008
"Please take a few minutes now to tell the EU you support a ban on seal product trade.”
Paul McCartney
Help end the cruel seal product trade – take action now
23 January 2008
Deadline: 13 February 2008
The European Commission is considering a seal-product trade ban that would save millions of seals from a horrible fate.
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