RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — Canada’s governor general ate a slaughtered seal’s raw heart in a show of support to the country’s seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman today ...

A harp seal that was rescued near death in Lavallette and nursed back to health by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center was spotted this week after making his way to Nova Scotia in Canada. The harp ...

The vote also earned praise from animal welfare groups, who say that seals are sometimes skinned while still conscious. ... The E.U. imports around $5 million of Canada’s seal skins each year.

TORONTO — Canada’s annual seal hunt started Monday, under pressure from a possible European Union ban on imported seal products. The world’s largest marine mammal hunt was called ...

A harp seal that was rescued near death in Lavallette and nursed back to health by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center was spotted this week after making his way to Nova Scotia in Canada. The harp ...

The United States banned importing seal products in 1972. Though Canada’s sealing industry represents a tiny fraction of the East Coast’s fishing industry, the annual hunt looms large on the ...

LONDON — The intruders arrived during the night with the wind and high tide. By the morning of Jan. 3, it seemed like the little Canadian town had been overrun. Seals, dozens of them. Seals on ...

Moving a seal, or enticing or causing it to move, and swimming with a marine mammal are both illegal acts under Canada’s ...

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.

The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save more than 1,500 animal and plant sp Bears, eagles, seals: How endangered animals fare | News | dailygazette.com Skip to main content ...

The young grey seal appeared on the sand around 11 a.m. Wednesday where it spent the night and was back in the ocean early Thursday morning, Myrtle Beach State Park says.