Scientific Reports and Publications
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Commercial Sealing Remains an Important Conservation Issue
In this paper Dr. David Lavigne explains why sealing – in particular, Canada’s commercial seal hunt – is an important and pressing conservation issue. Conservation is concerned with both the “use” and “preservation” of the natural world. Being the largest remaining hunt for any marine mammal population is sufficient to qualify Canada’s commercial seal hunt as an important conservation issue today.
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An illustrated guide to the tools used to kill seals in Canada’s commercial seal hunt
This document contains photographs taken during IFAW's observation of the Canadian commercial seal hunt to catalog both legal and illegal killing tools.
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Global Warming and the Seal Hunt
Reduced ice cover has important implications for harp seals, which depend on the annual availability of sea ice in the Gulf and off Newfoundland and Labrador during February and March to give birth, nurse and wean their pups successfully. Lack of solid ice may increase pup mortality and ignoring the effects of climate change on seal population and Total Allowable Catch numbers is a recipe for disaster.
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Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt is Not Acceptably Humane"Throughout my career as a veterinarian, I have seen animals die in slaughterhouses, research labs, and animal shelters, and I can assure you that the cruelty existing in the seal hunt would not be tolerated in these institutions." Dr. Mary Richardson
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IFAW's Annual Publication outlines the latest facts and figures from Canada’s most recent commercial seal hunt and provides substantiated arguments for ending the hunt. "
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An Overview of the Economic Importance of Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt
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Why IFAW?
IFAW has led the fight to stop the cruel slaughter of seal pups
since the 1960's, resulting in the import ban of newborn whitecoat
seal pelts in 1985. Today, with offices in 15 countries, IFAW is the
world's leading animal welfare
organization, fighting to save seals both on the ice and through vital
scientific and market research.
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