As part of marking its half a century, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is pleading for everyone to play a part in protecting threatened wildlife. A Canadian sealer swings a hakapik to kill a harp seal pup while it helplessly looks up to him. Ending Canada's cruel commercial seal hunt was IFAW's founding campaign when the organisation was set up by Brian Davies in 1969. Every year, tens of thousands of young harp seal pups were brutally clubbed and skinned for their fur. All four were successfully released back into the wildA whitecoat baby harp seal in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada.

Source: Daily Mail May 09, 2019 16:33 UTC