Canadian hunters want to club tens of thousands more baby seals to death in cull expansion
The IndependentSign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Hunters in Canada want to be allowed to club to death tens of thousands more baby seals each year in an expansion of their annual cull. The groups have put forward three proposals to the federal and provincial governments: one would lift curbs on commercial sealing licences, and another would allow the killing of seals in a Quebec nature reserve. Wounded seals are often left to suffer in agony Humane Society International Sealing group the Pacific Balance Pinniped Society says waters around British Colombia are “plagued by an overpopulation” of seals and sea lions and that expanded culls would save fish stocks. Humane Society International says: “Sealers shoot at seals from moving boats, the pups often only wounded.
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