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With the first phase of Canada's annual seal hunt in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence now over, more than 105,000 seals
have been killed. Spectacular ice floes transformed into
giant white nurseries just weeks ago are now stained red
with the blood of seal carcasses as far as the eye can
see. Last week they began killing another 200,000 seals
in Newfoundland.

The Canadian government maintains that the hunt is humane.
But our observers returning from the ice have witnessed
numerous acts of cruelty and suffering, from clubbed baby
seals left in agony while hunters move quickly onto the
next seal, to seals shot and left to die a slow death
under the ice. As IFAW's video footage shows, the seal
hunt continues to inflict unnecessary suffering and cruelty
to baby seals as young as 12 days old.

"Stop Canada's Cruel and Senseless Seal Hunt"