Sentences with phrase «from seal hunts»

The first exception — the «indigenous peoples» exception — allows seals products resulting from seal hunts by Inuit and other indigenous communities to be marketed within the EU.

They have their own array of video clips from the seal hunts showing injured seal pups being handled in ways that appear to be at odds with Canadian rules.

The ban, while of relatively minor economic importance, has led to strong reactions from seal hunting nations such as Canada and Norway and the seal hunting community itself: these countries are outraged by the EU's «interference» with a business model that they see as perfectly normal.

Not exact matches

Learning from Inuit hunters that killer whales use specific methods to hunt bowheads, beluga, narwhal and seals, Ferguson discovered at least two different killer whale groups based on prey preferences.

The bears depend on hunting seals on the surface of the sea ice over the continental shelf, most successfully from April to July.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

«For the time - being we know king penguin populations are still increasing across their range, probably due to them recovering from hunting pressure during the sealing era.

Sea ice also provides crucial coastal protection in the Arctic, hunting grounds for local tribes, and habitats for creatures from polar bears to seals.

This morning's video - of - the - day Chicken's Fate is Sealed documents the meat industry's attempts to lower the arachidonic acid level in chicken muscles through genetic manipulation and the egg industry's attempts to lower arachidonic acid levels in hens by feeding hens blubber from baby harp seal pups clubbed to death in the Canadian seal hunt.

From the outset of Alethea Arnaquq - Baril's eye - opening documentary Angry Inuk, it is clear that this is going to be a different take on seal hunting than the one that has dominated the mainstream conversation over the past four decades.

Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have hunted elephant seals near Campbell Island, while bite marks from a southern sleeper shark (Somniosus antarcticus) have been found on surviving elephant seals in the Macquarie Islands.

Although Ingrid's studies take place in New Zealand, the hunting techniques she describes are very similar to those used by killer whales pursuing seals in the San Juan Islands of Washington: cooperative herding, surpise attacks, and powerful blows from the flukes to deal the death blow.

Across the stars a race of warriors is alerted to the discovery of their pyramid and a hunting party is dispatched to ensure that it remains sealed at all costs, whilst deep inside the ruined pyramid a malevolent intelligence awakes from centuries of dormancy.

Also, as warming temperatures limit seal hunting opportunities on the ice, adult male polar bears will likely fare the best, securing the best sites from smaller bears (females, subadults).

It's been clear for a long time that, other things being equal, polar bears have a much easier time when Arctic waters are sheathed in ice to provide a platform from which to hunt and kill seals.

The government defends the practice, as you can see in a set of video clips explaining requirements for specific hunting methods, a quick kill, the importance of the income to local residents and the importance of the hunt to Inuit communities (the ban does not apply to seal products from such hunts).

The key danger to polar bears is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss: Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice.

Polar bears like this one are excellent swimmers but use floating sea ice as pathways to coastal areas and as platforms from which to hunt seals.

The new work, led by Rockwell and Linda Gormezano, a postdoctoral researcher in the Museum's Division of Vertebrate Zoology, examines how polar bears might compensate for energy deficits from decreasing seal - hunting opportunities.

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) rely on sea ice for roaming, breeding, and as a platform from which to hunt seals.

For this reason, foods that polar bears consume during the ice - free season may become increasingly important in alleviating nutritional stress from lost seal hunting opportunities.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

The region is a complex and finely balanced system, with some of the islands still recovering from industrial - scale hunting of whales, seals and penguins.

The EU's prohibition will go into effect before next year's hunt, and will forbid all products containing anything derived from seals being imported, exported or transported across the 27 members of the EU.

The problem is that the sea - ice is further away from the land for longer now, as the ice - cap shrinks, so reducing the seal - hunting season.

The second exception — the «natural resources» exception — allows the marketing of seal products which result from «by - products of hunting that is regulated by national law and conducted for the sole purpose of the sustainable management of marine resources.»

According to the General Court, existence of disparities between national regulations on seal products discourages consumers from buying other products that do not involve seal hunting, but which might not be easily distinguishable from seal products (such as Omega 3 capsules) or products that contain seal products without being clearly recognisable as such (para. 39 and 47).

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.