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Tag: Seal ban

EU ban on seal products sparks heated reactions - 14,000 replies to public hearing

The harbor seal is one of the seals benefitting from the EU ban on seal products. The Greenland Institute of Natural resources estimated there to be around 640,000 individuals worldwide in 2009. It lives mostly in subarctic waters and is not abundant in Greenland. Photo: Charles J. Sharp, Wikimedia Commons

Ole Ellekrog

Artists and hunters in Arctic Canada hope the EU will lift the ban that has been in place since 2009.