Next week, weather permitting, hundreds of men armed with clubs will scramble onto the ice floes covering the sea off eastern Canada and kill more than 300,000 baby harp seals. It will be the largest seal kill since 1970. The Canadian government maintains that the catch is sustainable, reducing numbers by only 5 per cent. But a detailed analysis by Greenpeace highlights uncertainties in the government's population estimates, and Greenpeace says the government will be unable to assess the impact of the hunt for 10 years or more.
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