Saving the Seal may condemn Inuit Traditions to Extinction

Since 2009 the EU has banned the import of seal products - largely in the form of fur imports. This was in reaction to the calls from environmental groups sickened by the bloody cull of seal pups in Canada each year which saw tens of thousands of weeks-old seal cubs bludgeoned to death by clubs and ice-picks for their pure-white fur. However, the ban on importing all seal products, however obtained, is having a devastating impact on traditional Inuit communities in Greenland and northern Canada.