Great Greenland banned from importing Canadian sealskins

13/01/2006

Greenland’s state-owned tannery Great Greenland has been banned by the government from importing Canadian seal skins due to worries over the manner in which they are killed.

This will have a significant effect on the tannery that has imported sealskins from Canada since 2003 and bought 40,000 Canadian pelts in the first nine months of 2005, out of a total number of 80,000 and 100,000 sealskins that it uses each year.