Sentences with phrase «seal hunting»

The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest marine mammal slaughter in the world.

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.

The annual Canadian seal hunt is one of the most controversial events in the world when it comes to animal rights issues — animal rights groups stage angry protests, critics loudly call it unsustainable, and the European Union

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

I mean consider how this species, a newcomer by evolutionary time scales, had become finely tuned to sustaining itself on seals hunted on sea ice, had been ravaged by uncontrolled hunting, had started recovering as such hunting was controlled, but now — along the warmest edges of its habitat — is in retreat as its main food supply is diminished at least partly by global warming from accumulating greenhouse gases.

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.

The experiences of a US Navy Seal hunted by the Taliban hit mighty numbers while The Legend of Hercules limped in at No 4, writes Jeremy Kay

But it seems, to many who have participated in years passed, hunting seals isn't quite as appealing as it used to be.Although the annual seal hunt opened earlier this week through northeastern Newfoundland, reports say that folks aren't showing up in the numbers they have in the past.

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.

It can explain some of the observations that Horning and his co-workers have made of Weddell seals hunting under the antarctic ice (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 993).

How polar bears combine these flexible foraging strategies to obtain and utilize terrestrial food will become increasingly important in compensating for energy deficits from lost seal hunting opportunities.

In the meantime, TreeHugger readers say Canada should stop seal hunting altogether.

Hocking and his colleagues spent 670 hours observing wild harbor and gray seals hunting salmon in Scotland.

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.

For example, T - 14, the big male who participated in the Hood Canal seal hunt, has an observed history of joining forces with other transients merely for an easier kill.

They know, for example, that seals hunt toothfish.

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.

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.

Why were elephant seals hunted?

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).

Lot's of seal hunting habitat.

Norway, which is not an EU member, has also said it may protest if seal hunting is banned.

If the calls of countless animal rights activists and conservationist groups weren't enough to bring an end to Canada's yearly seal hunt, economic hardship and climate change just might.

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.

This, however, is not: «Red Lobster sales of Canadian snow crabs were at the time under boycott by animal advocates as a pressure tactic in opposition to the Atlantic Canadian seal hunt.»

Meat, oil, and pelts Canada has the world's largest commercial seal hunt but seals are also hunted in Greenland, Norway, the U.S., Namibia, Britain, Finland, and Sweden.

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.

The EU Parliament has approved a suggestion to forbid the sale of seal products in the EU, in a bid to stop seal hunting and the brutal methods the hunts have sometimes been party to, including skinning the animals while

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.

In 2012, McLachlan wrote a letter on behalf of PETA to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, protesting that country's annual seal hunt.

Collar videos showed that 90 percent of seal hunts are ambushes, often by a bear lurking near a hole in the ice until a seal bursts up for a gulp of air.

Our Government will also continue to defend the seal hunt, an important source of food and income for coastal and Inuit communities.

Battling against bans and bad press over the seal hunt, Bernie Halloran is single - handedly trying to revive Canada's commercial seal business

The NDP MP for St. John's South - Mount Pearl muses of an end to the seal hunt.

Ryan Cleary pledges his support for the seal hunt (whatever his questions about the industry's future viability) and Thomas Mulcair.

«Now, is that day coming with the seal hunt?

The NDP officially supports «a commercial seal harvest that is humane, market driven and sustainable, with no tolerance for inhumane hunting practices» and also supports «the right of the Inuit to engage in their traditional and commercial seal hunt.»

I do nt understand how people can have such utter disgust to whale hunting, seal hunting and try to have it banned but yet this so - called sport goes on?

Its entrenched cruelties put in perspective those of its more celebrated international counterparts such as the Canadian seal hunt.

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.

Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident.

Early one morning, on a seal hunt with their friend James, a tussle turns violent, and James is killed.

Red Lobster sales of Canadian snow crabs were at the time under boycott by animal advocates as a pressure tactic in opposition to the Atlantic Canadian seal hunt.

Animals Today March 30, 2014 — Seal hunt.

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?

You can't rescue your way out of seal hunts and pigeon shoots.