EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SETTLES SEAL FUR BAN FOR EUROPE
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE COUNTDOWN is on for an almost total ban on seal fur and leather sales in the European Union (EU), with the European Parliament approving a new regulation coming into force by next March. This bans all sales of seal products for profit, unless manufactured from seals caught during traditional hunts of Inuit dwellers of the Canadian, Russian, Greenland and Alaskan Arctic and sub-Arctic. Travellers can import their own furs for personal use and there is a small loophole for non-profit byproducts of hunting designed to conserve maritime ...
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