Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Russia does have its own seal hunt, but apparently they banned killings of animals under one year old. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry. And harp seals are the prime source of that fur. (The other two neighbors that banned them are Kazakhstan and Belarus). Excerpted from the Globe and Mail.

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Russia Seals Belarus Fur Industry 100

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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Foie Gras Seals Protest Protesting 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

Situate across a small canyon carved by a steep stream it made for excellent viewing, at eye level right across the small chasm. “Well, I won’t be needing this any longer” Up until this moment I did not realize that not only owls upchucked undigested pellets of bone and fur. “That nest?”

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 167