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Inuit Plan Giant Sealfie To Protest Ellen DeGeneres

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A Nunavut land claims group is planning a giant "sealfie" to protest Ellen DeGeneres's opposition to the seal hunt.

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) is inviting people to come out for a large "sealfie" at the curling rink in Iqaluit on April 11 at 3 p.m., the group said a news release.

The organization is also asking people to wear sealskin clothing for a "sealfie" photo booth, which will be put up at the Igluvut Building on April 10 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. NTI staff will take photos at both events and post them to social media.

The actions come as part of the "sealfie" movement that popped up in response to DeGeneres' $1.5 million donation to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The TV host asked Samsung donate the money to the organization after she took the famous "Oscar selfie" with one of the tech giant's phones.

DeGeneres's website has a section calling for an end to the seal hunt, which was referred to as "one of the most atrocious and inhumane acts against animals allowed by any government."

The HSUS website calls on the Canadian government to buy out the sealers, saying, "less than five per cent of a sealer’s annual income comes from the seal slaughter."

In response, many Inuit, who can depend on sealing for subsistence, have posted hundreds of "sealfies," or photos of themselves wearing sealskin clothing, to social media.

Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq faced an online backlash when she tweeted a photo of her baby next to a dead seal near her hometown of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.






A spokesman with Humane Society International in Canada (HSI) responded to that story by saying that it opposes the commercial seal hunt, not the Inuit seal hunt.

"We take no issue with the Inuit subsistence seal hunt, which occurs in a different part of the country, is much smaller in scale, targets different species of seals and occurs for very different reasons," Chris Paré said.

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