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Our founder Brian Davies has been defending seals from slaughter for almost five decades. In 1987 he and his team were the catalyst for a vitally important ban on the culling of »

Stop this horrible seal cull

1st April 2017 — Canada

Our founder, Brian Davies, has been fighting for the lives of seals, since the 1960’s, when he pioneered a campaign to end the slaughter of baby seals in Canada. His »

Looming Success for Seals

31st October 2016 — Canada

Tonight, the Discovery Channel premieres Huntwatch, documenting much of our founder Brian Davies' 50-year-fight against the Canadian seal cull. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds and produced by IFAW, the film takes a »

Brian Davies' fight for seals: Huntwatch, on US TV Tonight

20th September 2016 — Canada

The Canadian government argue that seal numbers need to be controlled to protect fish stocks, blaming seals for the low numbers of cod in the oceans around Canada. The Canadian »

Evidence Lacking for Canada's Seal Hunt

26th August 2016 — Canada

More than fifty years ago, Network for Animals founder Brian Davies dedicated his life to ending the unnecessary brutality of the Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt. His latest offensive in this »

Save Seals: Find & Boycott Canadian Fish Products

15th August 2016 — Canada

My fight to save seals began years ago, thousands of miles from my Welsh hometown. I had immigrated to Canada and served six years in the Canadian Army before joining »

Boycott fish from Canada - until the brutal slaughter of harp seals in the North Atlantic ends.

14th July 2016 — Canada

Earlier this year our founder, Brian Davies, was set to return to the Canadian ice. 2016 marks 50 years since Brian first began his brave crusade against the brutal Canadian »

Climate Change is Killing Seals - Canada Doesn't Need To

4th April 2016 — Canada

The barbaric seal cull, painting Canadian ice blood red each year, is normally thought of as an archaic Canadian venture. The Canadian government cites culling seals as “an important part »

Canada, Stop Hunting Our Seals

29th December 2015 — Canada

This Saturday 14th November, Huntwatch premieres in New York, documenting our founder Brian Davies’ epic fight against the Canadian seal cull. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds and produced by IFAW, the »

Huntwatch: The Fight For Seals

13th November 2015 — Canada

Late last year, the World Trade Organization dealt a mortal blow to a renewed Canadian hunt of non-whitecoat seals. They upheld a European Union ban on the importation of all »

Winning The Fight For Seals

29th January 2014 — Canada

A recent Russian trade ban is set to have terminal consequences for the Canadian seal hunt. At last our longest running campaign appears to be over »

Death Knell for Seal Hunt?

1st February 2012 — Canada

This week Network for Animals partially funded a giant screen display in Ottawa to coincide with the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) talks. The talks were aimed at »

NFA Screens Seal Images

12th April 2011 — Canada

The 2011 southern Gulf of St Lawrence seal hunt officially began on Sunday 27th March, but got off to a slow start due to poor weather. Unfortunately, once the storms »

Seal Hunt Update

5th April 2011 — Canada

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