PETA has launched their 'Save the Seals' celebrity campaign with an eye to using celebrities as a focus point to draw attention to the Canadian seal hunt and their desire to stop it. See some of the celebrity...
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Supermodel Heidi Klum, 36, is changing her surname to Samuel, taking on her husband Seal's last name (his full name is Seal Henry Olusegum Olumide Adeola Samuel). She filed her petition Monday in L.A. to legally change her surname. Heidi Samuel is going to take a little...
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Ban the import of seal products: Canada takes Fight of seal ban World Trade Organization. Products from traditional hunts by indigenous peoples in Canada and Greenland will be exempt from the ban. Canadian...
Animal organization PETA has launched their 'Olympic Shame 2010' website to help bring awareness to and an end to the Canadian seal slaughter that takes place every year. "All eyes are on Canada as it prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. This extra attention will bring...
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Found this alarming story about the 'secret' slaughter of seal pups in Scotland. It follows a story published by myself last month where a man was jailed for killing seal pups. Scottish man who clubbed 21 seal pups...
PETA protested at the Vancouver Olympic Clock in downtown Vancouver today, dressing up like 'bloody baby seals' in front of the art gallery at 1pm. The protest was a quiet but effective one, with four people dressed...
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The annual Canadian Seal Hunt began yesterday, despite protests against it year after year and the fact that other countries are banning seal product imports from this hunt. Animal rights groups have the biggest...
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The fisherman who beat and crushed the skulls of 21 seal pups to death on a beach on the island of East Linga, near the Shetland Islands has been jailed for 80 days. First ofender Jimmy Stewart, 47 admitted...
Canada this year allows the hunting of seals 280,000 on its Atlantic coast, announced Friday the Minister of Fisheries, Gail Shea, saying "extremely disappointed" that a European Parliament committee has called...
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Russian government promised to ban the hunting of baby seals in its Northern regions. PM Putin said the industry is "bloody" and should have been ceased a long time ago. He promised to recompensate locals who...
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A fisherman who repeatedly battered the heads of seals with a wooden fence post has been told he may be put in jail. Jimmy Stewart, 47 admitted mutilating, beating and crushing the animals last November. The...
Seal populations off the coast of New England are continuing to rise, and the animals that were once such marine pests that hunters could kill as many as they liked until there were barely any left, have now made a...
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"A group of local men braved dangerous broken ice and frigid waters in a fibreglass speedboat to rescue a small pod of dolphins and help them back to open water, the mayor of Seal Cove, N.L., said Thursday." "We...
PETA plans to launch a year long relentless campaign leading up to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver to help bring the world attention back to the annual seal slaughter that takes place in Canada every year. The...
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Northwestern Wall plaza in Jerusalem, place where valuable archeological findings from the time of kings Manasseh and Josiah are being made." According to the excavation director, archaeologist Shlomit...