Greenland trade in Canadian seal pup skins (1 Viewer)

The basic facts

Greenland's Home Rule Government is selling skins of Canadian seal pups as young as 12 days old through the Great Greenland trading company.

Nearly half of the Canadian seal pups are still being clubbed to death and the corpses are left on the ice to rot.

The sustainability of Great Greenland's seal skin trade is now being questioned in the Danish press. Ultimately this could adversely affect the income of the Inuit hunters if consumers begin to boycott seal furs again.

The seal pup skins are traded by Great Greenland A/S - the company is owned 100 percent by the Greenlandic Home Rule Government.

Great Greenland received more than DKK 30 million Danish Crowns public funding from the Greenlandic Home Rule Government in 2005.

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