ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — The global recession, plummeting pelt prices and the prospect of a European ban on seal products dramatically lowered the number of seals killed in this year’s hunt, ...

I am angered to learn that the Canadian harp seal hunt still continues this year. Isn’t it time for more compassion for wild species? The commercial seal hunt is still practiced in certain regions of ...

OTTAWA - Canada's harp seal population is growing despite a seasonal hunt off the East Coast that has killed 975,000 young animals over the past three years, officials said last week. The annual hunt, ...

TORONTO — The recession, low pelt prices and a possible European ban on seal products lowered the number of seals killed in this year’s hunt, officials said Thursday. About 70,000 harp seals were ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island -- The film image shows a hulking seal hunter walking across the ice in pursuit of a baby seal as it wobbles to escape. The hunter stomps on the seal's tail, raises ...

Paris Hilton models one of Danny Seo’s seal-protest fashions Canadian wildlife officials are currently tallying the number of seals harvested in this year’s Atlantic seal hunt—one of the largest seal ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island — Protesters alighting from helicopters to try to stop a seal hunt scuffled yesterday with sealers who fired warning shots — sending the protesters scurrying back ...

TORONTO — Canada announced Thursday that hunters can kill 270,000 harp seals this spring, despite environmentalists' protests that thousands of pups too young to swim have fallen through ice thinned ...

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears headed for the ice floes off eastern Canada on Tuesday for the world’s largest seal hunt, one expected to bring poor coastal communities ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, April 13, 2011 (ENS) – Canada’s annual seal hunt opened Monday off northeastern Newfoundland in an area called The Front, but few sealers went to the ice amid low demand for ...

Rock legend Sir Paul McCartney and his wife Heather are expected in the Maritimes later this week to observe harp seal pups before the start of the annual hunt. The Humane Society of the United States ...