Sunday, December 22, 2013
Harp seals are not an endangered species
With all the hysteria surrounding the Canadian seal hunt, you’d think seals were on the brink of extermination. Not true. The harp seal population is nearly triple what it was in the 1970s, currently estimated at 5.6 million. By contrast, in 2000, the number of right whales thought to be living in the North Atlantic was estimated at 300. Eastern wolverine populations might already be extinct. One of the reasons to support the seal hunt is that unnecessary efforts to protect harp seals actually distract us from more important conservation efforts.
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