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 ...

OFF CANADA'S EAST COAST — Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal-rights groups. This ...

Animal welfare campaigners have released footage of the "horrific cruelty" seals are subjected to during Canada's controversial annual hunt. Graphic images show injured seals struggling on the ...

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, Canadian officials said Thursday.

TORONTO (AP) -- 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 "inherently ...

TORONTO — Vessels pursuing seals maneuvered through heavy ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Friday at the start of the largest marine mammal hunt in the world. Only 15 seals had been killed in the ...

TORONTO -- 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, Canadian officials said ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson wants to save the seals from the ...

French actor Brigitte Bardot who died Sunday at the age of 91, was also an animal rights activist and a vocal opponent of ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Mark Small is fed up with being portrayed as a bloodthirsty killer for his part in an annual cull in which about 300,000 young seals are shot or clubbed to death on ice floes off ...

Anyone who’s seen a baby harp seal knows there isn’t much that can melt hearts quicker than the bulging, innocent black eyes and snow-white coat of the adorable pups. But many U.S. citizens are ...