1977 Press Photo Journalist Expedition to Canadian Seal Hun

Journalist Expedition to Canadian Seal Hunt: The Weber Foundation, charted by Swiss law in 1975, organized a expedition to Canada to the yearly seal hunt with about seventy newspapers men coming from mostly European Countries, USA and even Australia. Because of moving ice and falling snow only a few of them could follow the cruel hunt at the coast of New Found land (Canada). The dedicated Swiss Journalist and environmentalist Franz Weber hows here some carcasses of killed seal babies in Bland Sablon. Carcasses will by analyzed by a veterinary.

Photo measures 7 x 9.5 inches.

Photo is dated 03-03-1977.

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