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Victory for animal welfare: EU bans sale of seal products!
In force from 2010, the EU ban on the sale of seal products offers a lifeline to thousands of seals who seemed fated to suffer the guns and clubs of commercial hunts.

Video footage of Namibian seal hunt and attack on journalists
The undercover footage smuggled out of Namibia shows seals being killed by hunters during a hunt at the Cape Cross Reserve and hunters armed with clubs running towards film maker Bart Smithers and Jim Wickens, from the UK's Ecostorm agency.

Journalists attacked and arrested during Namibian seal hunt
A British investigative journalist and his South African cameraman were violently assaulted by seal hunters and arrested by police while documenting the controversial Namibian seal hunt yesterday morning.

WSPA condemns seawolrd
This repeated aggressive behaviour is doubly concerning as it reveals the serious welfare risk to both people and animals for the sake of entertainment.

A week that brought both losses and hope for the whales
A week that brought both losses and hope for the whales Jun 28, 2010 Tweet As the 62nd annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) comes to an end, WSPA's Marine Mammal Programmes Manager, Joanna Toole, reflects over this year's meeting.

Disney artist and WSPA celebrate the Caribbean’s whales
The completed, colourful wall will support the Caribbean anti-whaling movement and celebrate the successful whale watching industry as a more humane and profitable alternative to whaling.

Help create a fur-free future!
With fur back in fashion, it’s ever more important that we celebrate successes for the anti-fur movement and remind ourselves and our friends why this acute cruelty will never be acceptable.

Whales granted reprieve at International Whaling Commission
WSPA is happy that the whales have been given a reprieve and urge the IWC member states to use the “cooling off period to consider the inherent cruelty of whaling.

Reprieve for whales: Greenland’s humpback request frozen
This will look specifically at the meat and blubber yield of whales caught, which was one of WSPA’s concerns.

World against whaling: WSPA demonstrates global opposition to whaling at the IWC
WSPA, NOAH – for dyrs rettigheder and Dyrebeskyttelsen Norge today hosted a press conference at the 62nd meeting of the IWC.

First whale festival draws crowds
The Costa Rican Coalition for Whales celebrated the country’s first Whale and Dolphin Festival this month, introducing yet more people to the breathtaking joys of humane whale watching.

WSPA protest Icelandic whaling season
Accompanied by a life-sized ‘harpooned’ inflatable minke whale – one of the species of whales that will be hunted by Iceland this season – the group of protestors handed in a letter of protest to Icelandic Ambassador Sverrir Haukur Gunnlaugsson at the Embassy, calling for the country to act now to end whaling.