JOHANNESBURG — The men moved in before dawn, systematically separated the seal pups from their mothers, lined them up and began to bash their skulls with clubs to stun them before plunging long knives ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia – Namibia's annual seal hunting season started this week, over the protests of animal rights activists who say the practice is cruel. The government accused the activists of ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — Two foreign journalists who were arrested in Namibia while filming the clubbing of seals were convicted Friday of entering a protected marine area without a permit. British ...

When veteran conservationist Pete Bethune steps off the elevator at TakePart’s Los Angeles headquarters dressed in camouflage, a military-style rucksack slung across his back, he looks likes he’s ...

Leona Lewis is calling on the government of Namibia to stop seal hunting in the African country. “No price would ever be high enough to justify the killing of these harmless animals,” she said. “This ...

South African-based conservation groups have appealed to the Namibian government to stop killing seals, and to turn its seal population into an income-earning tourist attraction. The appeal was made ...

Canada has been notorious for its harp seal slaughter, massacring hundreds of thousands of seals for years in the name of the fur trade. Despite world outrage and public outcry, killing continued.

Windhoek - More than 60 000 seals are being culled in Namibia, sparking an international outcry from conservation bodies and animal rights activists, which have called the hunt genocide. The killing ...

ABOUT 60 000 Cape fur seal pups will be stabbed or clubbed to death this year during Namibia's annual sealing season. From July to mid-November, 7 000 bulls will also be culled [killed] in what is ...