Critter News
MAY 5, 2009
From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane".
Critter News
MARCH 3, 2009
But the bill still needs the the approval of the entire EU assembly and EU governments in order to become law. Tags: canada greenland europe seal hunters seals. It will be tough. Nordic EU countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Finland have opposed such a ban, and EU legal experts say it could violate world trade rules.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. Instead of Special Weapons and Tactics, think: Sealed With A Trap. Sealed With A Trap. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. It’s time for this to end.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2021
There are sections on transport, wildlife career info, and domestic animal issues; there are links to other wildlife organizations, wildlife and law enforcement agencies in several states, and contacts for marine mammal and sea turtle strandings. . Harbor seal in Puget Sound, Seattle. Oiled Western Gull after the Cosco Busan oil spill.
10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2014
This June my brother-in-law and I took off to Kangiq (Cape Crauford), the western edge of of the mouth of Admiralty Inlet to Lancaster Sound. We found a spot where the pack ice hadn’t completely come in and stayed for hours, watching curious Ringed Seal watching us. Ringed Seal. A scant 24 hours to take it in.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2016
“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals.
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2011
It was chosen as the national bird by dint of its inclusion in the National Seal of the United States, which happened by an act of the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. Want to see all of the national bird posts on 10,000 Birds?
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