Seals

HSUS Activists Reportedly Not Happy at Being Caught on Film - 5 Mar 2007

Pro-hunt filmmaker catches HSUS allowing a seal to suffer for an hour while they film fund-raising promotion.

Activists Target Red Lobster Over Canadian Seal Hunt - 4 Aug 2005

Activists demand that Red Lobster stop buying seafood from Canada.

Senate Resolution Condemning Canadian Seal Hunt Recommended by Senate Foreign Relations Committee - 12 May 2004

Resolution, introduced by Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) in November 2003, calls on Canada to end commercial hunting of seals.

Scottish MP Calls for Seal Cull - 1 May 2004

But Scotland not likely to reinstitute seal hunt anytime soon.

Belgium Enacts Temporary Ban on Cat/Dog/Seal Fur Imports - 22 Feb 2004

Temporary ban is likely to be made permanent later this year.

HSUS Takes Out Ad Attacking Canadian Seal Hunt - 27 Jun 2003

But Canadian government says HSUS is distorting the reason and methods behind the seal hunt.

WWF Gets Grief Over its Seal Cull Support - 8 Apr 2003

Canada wants to allow hunters to kill up to 1 million Harp seals over the next three years.

Animal Rights Activist Forced to Resign as NDP Chief of Staff - 9 Feb 2003

Opposition to Newfoundland seal hunt dooms Rick Smith's selection as chief of staff to newly elected NDP leader Jack Layton.