Archive for the 'Seals' Category

Shetland seal pup slaughter update:Two men appear in court

The two fishermen charged with the deaths of 21 grey seal pups on the small island of East Linga in the Shetland Islands have now appeared in court. John George Eunson, aged 44, of Seefeld, Symbister, Whalsay, and 47 year old Jimmy Stewart, of Ellies Knowe, Saltness, Symbister, Whalsay, have been charged with mutilating, beating […]

Second man charged over seal pup slaughter in Shetlands

A second man has been charged in connection with the clubbing to death of what appears to be now a slaughter of an even greater number of grey seal pups found on a beach in the Shetland Islands. Last week (w/c 1st December) a 47 year old fisherman was charged with killing 18 seals on […]

Man charged over seal pup slaughter

A man has been charged in connection with the clubbing to death of 18 grey seal pups found on a beach in the Shetland Islands. Police were alerted by workers from Scottish Natural Heritage while conducting a seal survey on 29th November. When officers attended the beach, in the East Linga area of the island, […]

Caribbean Monk Seal officially extinct

It’s depressingly and unfortunately official – the Caribbean monk seal which was aggressively hunted in the past and began spiralling towards decline as far back as the 1490’s is now extinct! The last sighting of this seal species was in 1952. It is the first seal species to go extinct solely due to human causes. […]

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