seals in Canada from the seal clubbing and we have a field office in Galapagos.
seals around my face uh means that if I need to I can climb in and swim across
elephant seals , penguins, albatross, in a way, in protecting and restoring that abundance in a way that is unprecedented around the planet.
catch seals .
vegetables crisp and seals in the flavor of the meat and whatnot.
But Elephant Seals were spending 80 percent of their time in the far away ocean, in the open ocean, in the deep ocean, in the international waters, places that were not protected at
You can imagine what seals taste like.
primarily and seals and you can see here a well is brought in and prayer is given
The Navy SEALs are probably right there on the cutting edge of deploying advanced technology to accelerate their performance in the field and to accelerate their performance
We call them the Navy SEALs .
My work there is on Elephant Seals , I work on these big creatures.
When Iím working on Elephant Seals , of course I love the social behavior they have when they fight, they get very excited about that, but then I see all the animals that are being
When we were learning what Elephant Seals were doing in the ocean we conservationists want to protect the areas where they are.
This is a colony of Elephant Seals , where I work, that well, this is the way that scientists
There is not just the Elephant Seals , thereís several species of penguins, turtles, etcetera.
is that polar bears eat seals .
So how do polar bears catch seals then?
for polar bears to hunt for seals .
other species who depend on ice like seals walrus pcs of seals that
Not patting ourselves on the back like these Navy SEALs do.
First, thanks to Alan Seals and the authors of Google team for making this talk possible, a lot of hard work behind the scenes.
populations, ice seals to manage through this change and the indigenous communities that actually depend on these resources to stay alive.
Yet, Elephant Seals are 5 meters long and that was a particularly big one, so it was helping me but in the right direction.
And the people that were doing that work discovered that Elephant Seals can dive up to a mile under water.
So in an ice free ocean polar bears simply cannot catch seals .
and stunning and just was full of whales and seals and birds and penguins and really just
waste and the entire optic ecology from smallest of animals to seals to polar
you think about shackles and these guys lived on penguins and seals for 17 months and that degree of hardship
The largest marine mammal slaughter in the world is the killing of harp and hooded seals on the Atlantic seaboard of Canada-- Prince Edward
Well, it's a lot of Seals .
The beauty of Antarctica, the leopard seals .
The only thing you have to do is share the dive hole occasionally with seals .
All polar bears in all regions of the Arctic prey on ice dependent Arctic seals .
They're in everything-- doorknobs, counters, seals , walls.
These are folks who are going out, killing the seals on the ice floes, and then shipping the pelts all over the world.
If there was a marketing effort to be had for the military community, do what the Seals do.
One thing that we did immediately is to put some recorders that were telling us about the diving behavior of Elephant Seals .
At the time that was being done, technology also allowed us to put instruments on Elephant Seals that told us where the animals were located in the ocean.
Certainly not for 25 years, the way Claudio has with Elephant Seals in Argentina, but weíre just starting to determine the relative importance of the place.
Misconception number three: as the Arctic sea ice melts and shrinks it becomes easier for polar bears to hunt seals because they catch their prey in the water.
With extraordinarily rare exceptions polar bears cannot catch their prey in the water; seals are much too quick and far too agile when they're swimming and they can very easily
They need the sea ice to travel long distances and to find their prey and they need the ice to get close to seals in order to stalk them effectively and they need the ice to actually
In many parts of the Arctic the amount of time that polar bears can be out on the Arctic sea ice hunting seals is decreasing significantly already basically because the ice in the area
We know it's been deployed with our Navy Seals .
first joined Sea Shepherd in 2005, to protect the baby harp seals in Canada and the deep sea from bottom trawling.
and four miles deep uh for most of my my route uh it's home to as well as seals things like uh killow
enzyme in their stomach that's unique to B to Bears they eat very fatty animal seals mostly uh and they can they can
And centuries passed, and a new millennium began, and the seals which separated the worlds began to break.
that didn't have the decades of environmental issues and no wilderness designation, and nobody ever goes near the baby seals , and, all that stuff,
And 400,000 seals were killed for their pelts-- for fur-- not for local use.