The heads and tails of seal hunting
China Daily | Updated: 2011-12-06 07:59
A renewable resource
Pro: The seal population is growing. There are 9.5 million harp seals - four to five times as many as in the 1970s. The number of seals in Greenland has doubled in the past three decades.
Con: The hunting of seal pups during 1950s and 1960s reduced the global seal population by two-thirds. Climate change also threatens the animals.
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