Hear from Finnish sealer Jouni Heinikoski, a project observer, on CBC Radio's The Broadcast about the EU seal product ban.

Learn more about the Ålandic perspective on local fisheries, including the impact of grey seals.

Was I wrong about cultural violence and the anti-sealing movement legacy?

Fieldwork update: Interviews in Brussels

If you would like to contact the ‘Seals, Stigma and Survival’ team, please reach out below. Greenland (2016) Photo taken by and copyright: Danita Catherine Burke

In early May 2014, I traveled to Waterloo, Ontario to conduct research at the Laurier Archives on the campus of Wilfrid Laurier University.  Earlier this year, I was awarded the inaugural Joan Mitchel...

Learn more about the archival research conducted at Laurier Archives on the environmental conservation movement in Canada, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous voices .and experiences with anti-sealing and anti-fur activism.

The EU has failed to engage Greenlandic people in public consultations that are part of its review of its seal trade regulations.

The EU has failed to engage Greenlandic people in public consultations that are part of its review of its seal trade regulations.

Check out the new piece informed by research for "Seals, Stigma and Survival" and ongoing fieldwork. The piece is titled: "The European Union excluded Greenland from public consultations on the EU seal product ban. Why?" It is based on interviews with Kalaallit/Greenlandic seal hunters and a preliminary review of the 2024 EU public consultations for its fitness check of its trade in seal products regulations.

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This is the first fact sheet on the impact of the EU ban on seal product imports and the legacy of anti-sealing activism for the project Seals, Stigma and Survival. The fact sheet is informed by interviews with sealers – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – across the Circumpolar North, as well as civil servants, diplomats and fisheries industry players and scientists.

This is the first fact sheet on the impact of the EU ban on seal product imports and the legacy of anti-sealing activism for the project Seals, Stigma and Survival. The fact sheet is informed by interviews with sealers – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – across the Circumpolar North, as well as civil servants, diplomats and fisheries industry players and scientists.