Link: http://century-club.com/blog3.php/2009/03/31/russia-serves-canada-on-baby-seal-hunt-b

Looks like Russia has shown us all the door on the environmental disaster that is baby seal hunting...

March 19, 2009 guardian.co.uk

Following Vladimir Putin's condemnation of a "bloody industry", the ecology ministry has announced legislation protecting harp seal pups less than a year old.

"The bloody sight of the hunting of seals, the slaughter of these defenceless animals, which you cannot even call a real hunt, is banned in our country, just as well as in most developed countries. This is a serious step to protect the biodiversity of the Russian Federation," the Russian ecology minister, Yuri Trutnev, said in a statement.

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