Cases / Law, regulation and treaties · Greenland · 2009–2014
Danish opinion piece reports Greenland seal exports down 90 per cent
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Did nature suffer? Not measured.
A 2014 Danish-language opinion piece by NetNatur and KNAPK reports that Greenland's seal exports fell 90 per cent after the EU ban. The Inuit exemption to the ban was reported ineffective, and the figures are not checked against trade data.
What?
Greenland's seal exports reported down 90 per cent in a 2014 opinion piece, after the EU ban.
Where?
Greenland
When?
EU ban in 2009; opinion piece in 2014
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
- Greenland seal exporters — exports reported down 90 per cent in a 2014 opinion piece
Harmed
- Inuit seal hunters — EU ban exemption for Inuit reported ineffective Nunatsiaq News
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
EU ban on seal products, with an exemption for Inuit that Nunatsiaq News reports is ineffective. Nunatsiaq News
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What happened
The record, in order.
A 2014 Danish-language opinion piece by NetNatur and KNAPK reports that Greenland's seal exports fell 90 per cent.
Nunatsiaq News reported that the exemption for Inuit in the EU's seal product ban is ineffective.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: according to the Greenland hunters' association, hunter numbers and income fell by a third after the 2009 ban.
- None on record Not stated: whether the 90 per cent fall covers all seal skin exports or one market, and what exports were after 2014.
- None on record Not stated: how the 2014 opinion piece measured the change.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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