Browse our latest news and work on animal protection across North America.
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April 18, 2013
Nearly 60,000 Seals Killed Without Quota in Commercial Seal Hunt
HSI/Canada condemned the failure of Fisheries Minister to establish the 2013 seal hunt quota.
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April 16, 2013
HSI and The HSUS Criticize Decision to Allow First Import of Critically Endangered Black Rhino Trophy in More Than Three Decades
In a setback for species protection and an end to more than 30 years of U.S. protection for the critically endangered black rhino, the Obama Administration has granted approval to an American trophy hunter to import a sport-hunted rhino trophy into the United States from Namibia.
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April 13, 2013
Baby Seal Dies in Stages
Rebecca Aldworth and the Protect Seals team filmed a young seal as she died of a gunshot, impaling, and clubbing at the hands of Canada's sealers.
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April 12, 2013
Scenes of Suffering from Canada's Seal Slaughter
Rebecca Aldworth and the Protect Seals team reported on more scenes of horror from Canada's seal slaughter.
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April 11, 2013
Boats in the Fog, Seal Blood in the Water
Rebecca Aldworth and our Protect Seals team followed sealers through the fog and witnessed gruesome scenes of baby seals clubbed and shot to death, sometimes slowly.
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April 10, 2013
Grounded, But the Slaughter Continues
The slaughter continued while the Protect Seals team was grounded by weather.
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April 9, 2013
Taxpayer-Subsidized Seal Hunt Begins off Canada’s East Coast
HSI/Canada was on location to document cruelty at Canada’s 2013 commercial seal hunt as it opened in the "Front" (the waters northeast of Newfoundland).
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April 9, 2013
Canada's Barbaric Seal Slaughter
The Protect Seals team bore witness as baby seals were clubbed and shot on the ice in Canada.
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April 3, 2013
Tim Hortons Eliminating Controversial Pig Cages from Supply Chain
HSI/Canada welcomed Ontario-based fast-food giant Tim Hortons' announcement that it would phase out the use of pork from gestation crates.
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April 1, 2013
One Million Seals Saved, But the Fight Continues
Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of HSI/Canada, reflects on her 15th year of witnessing Canada's annual seal slaugher.
