WINDHOEK, Namibia – Namibia's annual seal hunting season started this week, over the protests of animal rights activists who say the practice is cruel. The government accused the activists of ...

When veteran conservationist Pete Bethune steps off the elevator at TakePart’s Los Angeles headquarters dressed in camouflage, a military-style rucksack slung across his back, he looks likes he’s ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — Two foreign journalists who were arrested in Namibia while filming the clubbing of seals were convicted Friday of entering a protected marine area without a permit. British ...

JOHANNESBURG — The men moved in before dawn, systematically separated the seal pups from their mothers, lined them up and began to bash their skulls with clubs to stun them before plunging long knives ...

The annual culling of thousands of Cape fur seal pups will start next month and animal rights groups are calling on Namibia to stop the barbaric killings and rather make money from the animals’ touris ...

Namibia will attempt to reduce the local seal population by 80,000 this year, officials recently announced, despite opposition from animal rights groups. The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources ...

Canada has been notorious for its harp seal slaughter, massacring hundreds of thousands of seals for years in the name of the fur trade. Despite world outrage and public outcry, killing continued.

Leona Lewis is calling on the government of Namibia to stop seal hunting in the African country. “No price would ever be high enough to justify the killing of these harmless animals,” she said. “This ...

The target this year is to club 80,000 pups and 6,000 bulls by the time the hunt ends in November. Namibian authorities say the cull is necessary because of a burgeoning and unsustainable seal ...