Seal washed up on city beach
A BABY seal is recovering at an Edinburgh vets after being washed up on Portobello beach.

Warm weather can't save Canada's seals
CANADA'S controversial annual seal hunt has caught only 400 animals because of the warm weather, the government said yesterday.

Harp seal killing quota cut by a quarter
THE number of young harp seals that Canadian hunters can kill off the country's east coast this year has been cut by a quarter.

Global warming may spell end of seal cull
EVERY spring, the ice floes off Canada's east coast turn red with the blood of baby seals. And every spring, celebrities, environmentalists and governments demand that Canada end the slaughter.

Whales 'show threat to seals'
A WILDLIFE campaigner says the sighting of killer whales in the Firth of Forth last week highlights the plight of the Scottish seal.

Dramatic decline in island common seal populations baffles experts
SCIENTISTS can't explain why Orkney and Shetland common seal numbers have nearly halved in five years

Ban call over Britain's shocking trade in sealskins
AFTER a 20-year campaign by activists Britain may act against bloody slaughter

Culling of seals humane and viable, says Canada
CANADA's annual seal cull sees animals killed on an almost industrial scale, and attracts controversy to match.

Friday 13 a Lucky day for visitors to centre
CAMERAS on Forth island reveal the first seal pup born this season .

Grey guzzlers
AS October arrives and thousands of grey seals haul themselves inland to breed, new figures on what they're eating in the North Sea really couldn't have come at a worse time.

Fisherman shot seal dead with rifle, court told
A SALMON fisherman has appeared in court accused of using a high-powered rifle to shoot dead a seal that was basking on a sandbank near his nets.

Slaughter of five seals sparks demands for tougher laws
WELFARE groups have called for tougher laws to protect seals after five were found shot dead on a beach in Orkney.

Fall in Shetland seal numbers prompts shooting ban calls
THE number of common seals in Shetland has fallen by a third in the past decade according to experts, prompting calls for an outright ban on shooting the animals.

Seal cull provokes icy clashes
SEAL hunters and animal rights activists clashed on the thawing ice floes off the east coast of Canada on the first weekend of the world's largest cull.

Sir Paul and Heather take to the ice in attempt to stop seal cull
SIR Paul McCartney and his wife Heather braved the freezing Canadian ice floes yesterday to beg the country's government to stop the "brutal" annual seal cull there.



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