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Alert for high mortality of seals because of the lack of ice in Canada
Thursday January 5, 2012 | 13:01
Posted by Camila Alvarez ? 408 views
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The latency reduction of the ice surface in the North Atlantic Ocean has opted in a high mortality rate of harp seals in the region, threatening its survival.
The alert has emanated from research conducted by Duke University (USA) and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which ensures that the disappearance of sea ice has meant that harp seals can not use the ice sheets that are created on the coast of Canada to give birth to their young in the months of February and March (late winter in the northern hemisphere)
David Johnston, a researcher at the Marine Laboratory at Duke University said that mortality is dramatic because the pups die of little ice in the ocean.
IFAW, an organization protesting the seal hunt in Canada, said that at this time mammals.
Remember that Canada allows the hunting of some 300 thousand seals, most young animals and kill them to sell their fur in international markets, which they say the seal population on the Atlantic coast of the country is not in danger.