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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When veteran conservationist Pete Bethune steps off the elevator at TakePart’s Los Angeles headquarters dressed in camouflage, a ...

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.

The annual culling of thousands of Cape fur seal pups will start next month and animal rights groups are calling on Namibia to stop the barbaric killings and rather make money from the animals’ touris ...

Seal hunters plan to club 86,000 seals in an annual hunt set to begin next week, as animal rights activists brace for a showdown with the government over a practice they regard as inhumane. During ...

Namibia has recorded its first case of rabies in a Cape Fur Seal. The affected animal was spotted at the Walvis Bay Lagoon on12 June. It displayed very aggressive behaviour, and died shortly ...

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 ...

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 ...