Sentences with phrase «of seal hunts»

Proponents of seal hunts insist that the animals are killed humanely and the white - coated pups are not taken, while opponents argue that it is irresponsible to kill harp seals as they are already threatened by declining habitat.

Having witnessed the appalling cruelty of the seal hunt, she immediately vowed never to model fur again and persuaded all the top models of the day to give up promoting fur.

«Today's action will help ensure the safe and orderly conduct of the seal hunt.»

Over the last year I found myself as parliamentarian at the centre of a legislative issue that provoked global interest: the import of the products of seal hunting into the European Union.

And by way of return, I offer yesterday's post on the Property Law Blog, which will point you to the draft of a great article by Bruce Ziff on the way the courts in Newfoundland developed the law of capture of wild animals to respond to the needs of the seal hunt.

Not exact matches

As pack ice disappears, they can't hunt the seals that form the basis of their diet.

Kevin Reid with IDI wrote in yesterday to highlight an ongoing series of Second Life events that the International Fund for Animal Welfare is holding to try to mobilize public opinion against Arctic seal hunting.

But experts insist that while the great white's hunting habits do earn it the title of a seal serial killer, attacks on humans are rare.

Still, the lengthier, more physically challenging journeys in some years may explain why populations of these northern fur seals — considered «depleted» under the Marine Mammal Protection Act — have not rebounded in recent decades despite a hunting ban.

So Neil Hammerschlag of the University of Miami, Florida, and his colleagues used geographical profiling, a tool more commonly used by police tracking down serial killers, to investigate how sharks hunt for Cape fur seals off Seal Island in South Africa.

Young Antarctic fur seals spend a lot of time on their own when mom is out hunting.

For instance, Inuit boys have been observed mimicking seal hunts with items supplied by parents, such as pieces of sealskin and miniature harpoons.

He notes that the average Norse farmer had to balance the spring - and summertime demands of his own farm with annual communal walrus and migratory seal hunts.

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

The eight - ton predators had become a gang, an aquatic Hells Angels that hunted cooperatively, skulking among the five main sites in the canal where seals haul themselves out of the water to rest.

Furthermore, we assumed above that all neurons of one type behave in the same way in all normal brains, just as all polar bears hunt seals under normal circumstances.

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

«But they travel in small groups, three to five animals, and hunt in complete silence when going after seals,» because of the seals» acute hearing.

«Each whale had a seal pup in its stomach,» Foote says, «yet their teeth were worn like those of the herring - hunting whales» seen off Iceland.

Scientists have decades of data documenting the bears, and Lentfer says that the bears» weights have been dropping over the past 25 years, indicating that they're having trouble hunting seals on sea ice.

They spend most of the year cruising the fringes of sea ice, hunting ringed seals.

The proposed designation would not, however, stop the subsistence hunt of the seals by Alaska natives.

He points to the return of the Guadalupe fur seal, a Mexican pinniped that was hunted nearly to extinction in the 19th century, as proof that imperiled marine mammals can rebound without captive breeding.

«Both sexes of all age classes successfully hunt seals by stalking or «still hunting»,» says Hamilton.

The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.

But they would need an immense omelette to replace a seal breakfast and this type of mass egg hunting can devastate nesting bird populations.

The New Zealand fur seal was hunted to the brink of extinction in Australia last century.

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.

These magnificent animals are facing unprecedented threats as a warming climate and loss of their sea ice habitat make it more difficult for the bears to hunt prey like seals and find dens for their cubs.

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.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.

It's most compelling, and often frustrating, as a portrait of a rural Inuit population that relies on sustainable seal hunting for food, community and economic survival.

Who: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Kyle Chandler, Chris Pratt and Jason Clarke What: A chronicle of the decade - long hunt for al - Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team Six.

We confront the largest national and international problems facing animals, which local shelters don't have the reach or the resources to take on, such as animal fighting, puppy mills, horse slaughter and soring, seal killing and other forms of commercial slaughter of marine mammals, captive hunting and the wildlife trade, and inhumane slaughter and factory farming.

In his book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, HSUS president and CEO Wayne Pacelle gets at one of the core issues challenging the humane movement: If we rid the world of inhumane economic practices — be it puppy mills, whaling, the Canadian seal hunt — what will replace them?

These dogs were renowned for their prominent roles as excellent hunters capable of hunting down large predators such as seals and bears.

Humane Canada is opposed to the commercial hunting of seals because it is impossible to ensure humane killing due to the methods used and the unstable environment in which the killing is performed.

Videotape observations collected by seal hunt observers indicate that between 7 % and 30 % (Daoust et al and IFAW, respectively) of attempts to kill seals by shooting and clubbing were not successful in achieving unconsciousness on the first attempt.

In 2010, Emily Deschanel received The HSUS's Humane Advocate Award for her tireless support of key Humane Society of the United States campaigns, including those addressing dogfighting, factory farming, and the Canadian seal hunt.

He is particularly keen on public scholarship that brings academic insights to the wider public without unnecessary jargon or impenetrable theories.Some of the topics he has addressed includes wolf recovery, outdoor cats and biodiversity, barred and northern spotted owls, the Canadian seal hunt, cosmopolitanism, the Earth Charter, precaution, rewilding, sustainability science, and urban ecology.

We learned that the seals were hunted for their blubber in the 19th century to the point of near - extinction.

Also making a comeback, after years of hunting, are the thousands of pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) that breed, pup, and haul out on the island's 27 miles of isolated coastline.

What is known is that white sharks often cruise at depths of 10 feet to 60 feet, and prefer a rocky terrain, and often hunt near seal colonies where, McCosker says, they are attracted to the «smell of feces.»

What makes our surf trip exciting is the anticipation on our hunt for waves of discovering an incredible surf spot behind every turn or hill; What makes our surf trip unique is the rare opportunity of finding new locations and unsurfed coastlines; And what makes our surf trip unforgettable is your once - in - a-lifetime chance to surf unchartered waves, where the only local surfers are the friendly seals and the only other footprints in the sand, or snow, are yours and those of your fellow adventurers.

In the United States, the elephant seal, like all marine mammals, is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), passed in 1972, which outlaws hunting, killing, capture, and harassment of the animal.

Northern elephant seals were hunted almost to extinction during the 19th century, but after the introduction of protection laws in the United States and Mexico the species recovered at fast rate, and expanded outside its previous breeding range.

While hunting in the dark depths, elephant seals seem to locate their prey, at least in part, using vision; the bioluminescence of some prey animals can facilitate their capture.

The two species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were both hunted to the brink of extinction by the end of the 19th century, but the numbers have since recovered.

However, Weddell seal hunting is prohibited between September and February if the animal is over one year of age, to ensure breeding stocks are healthy.