Canada announces $1.43 million for Inuit protected and conserved area on Hudson Bay island chain
The Canadian government announced on Thursday that they’ll invest $1.43 million in the creation of an Indigenous Protected and Conserved
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Saimaa seal population believed to have grown in Finland
Mild weather and melting ice cover disrupted the spring count, but more pups may have been born than the year
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Feds invests $3.2 million in Indigenous-managed watershed program in northern Canada
The Canadian government will invest $3.2 million in the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area in the Canadian province of
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Finland’s endangered Saimaa ringed seal population reaches 400
Conservationists have succeeded in smashing a target for numbers of the rare and severely endangered Saimaa ringed seal, with more
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Inuit artists criticize Canada’s Green Party leader for opposing commercial seal trade
Two prominent Inuit artists say Canada’s Green Party leader Elizabeth May is being “hypocritical” by claiming to support Indigenous rights
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Finnish petition to ban fishing nets in endangered seal habitats gathers 50,000 signatures
A citizens’ initiative calling for a total ban on fishing nets in habitats used by the endangered Saimaa ringed seal
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Fishing ban lifted near habitat of endangered ringed seals in southeast Finland
The annual springtime ban on fishing with nets on Lake Saimaa in southeast Finland ended on Monday. Saimaa is the
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Unique freshwater Alaska seals require special conservation efforts, study finds
New research on the United States’ only known population of freshwater seals has found they’re unique, suggesting special conservation efforts
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Thin ice hampers survey of rare seal dens in southeast Finland
Researchers tracking the endangered Saimaa seal population of the Finnish lake district (southeast Finland) say that conditions are good for
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Deep snowbanks bode well for Finland’s rare Saimaa seals
The endangered Saimaa seals of eastern Finland may be able to nest this spring without human help. In recent years
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Finland’s endangered Saimaa seal population climbing back
The population of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal has risen to 392 individuals in Finland, according to the Ministry of
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Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast
Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at
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Polar bears greatly exposed to toxic chemicals in eastern Barents Sea
Polar bears following the sea ice in hunt for seals have a 30-35% higher concentration of perfluoroalkyl substances compared to
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Can a high-pitched noise scare seals away from Baltic fisheries?
This summer Finland’s Natural Resources Institute (Luke) is experimenting with a newly developed acoustic deterrent in the Baltic sea waters
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Endangered Finnish seal population slowly recovering
A survey of endangered Saimaa seal nests in eastern Finland has turned up 78 pups born this year. Census-takers also
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