1:25
It is early morning sometime late winter last year. Out on the islands in the Skarv archipelago in the sea belt outside Stockholm, female seals...
reportage/redigering: Kajsa Grandell
grey seal
Explore the dramatic journey of the Baltic Sea's seals from near extinction to recovery and the debates surrounding their resurgence....
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Johan Candert
0:41
Sweden, Finland, and Norway conduct hunting for seals as trophy hunting. In most other countries, hunting of large marine mammals has been prohibited. In the...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti
0:57
The fish are running out, the herring and the baltic herring are threatened and the cod is almost completely gone. When there is a competition...
Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti
1:40
When the seal population had collapsed around 1980 and was almost completely extinct, the authorities put an end to all hunting. Seal protection areas were...
Reporter: Lena Scherman
Editing: Alexandre Gobatti/Daniel Hager
Graphics: Daniel Hager
For the second year in a row, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has decided on licensed hunting for grey seals and harbor seals. During this...
Text: Tina Remius Strömberg/TT/Nyhetsbyrån
Photo: Claus Gertsen/TT Arkivbild
I have had many pets in my life. First I had budgies. I particularly liked my first one - Mimi. I once took her to...
Chronicle: Daniel Hager
Photo: Daniel Hager
5:41
Dive into the world of underwater filmmaking with Johan Candert and Göran Ehlmé as they share their captivating experiences with seals through five years of...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Underwater photo: Göran Ehlmé, Johan Candert
Photo: Leif Eiranson, Simon Stanford, Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
Drone: Robert Westerberg
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
05:22
I have been invited to accompany Anja Carlsson and Markus Ahola of the Swedish Museum of Natural History on their annual seal pup survey. When...
Reportage: Simon Stanford
Photo: Simon Stanford, Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
The government makes it possible to introduce licence hunting for both grey seals and humpback seals. "This is about protecting fish stocks and coastal fishing,"...
Text: Tea Oscarsson/TT
Photo: Lars Pehrson/TT
09:24
In one of our recordings this spring, the researchers brought four dead seals to investigate the causes of death. Wildlife pathologist Elina Thorsson has now...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
UV Photo: Göran Ehlmé, Johan Candert
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
09:57
We accompanied the seal keeper Therese Alpstig Anund, from Skansen, the first time she met wild seals...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
Underwater photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Jonas Rydin, Robert Westerberg
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
11:25
When the grey seal is born, it is largely helpless, and it does not take long for the mother to leave her kut. Deep Sea...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
UV Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
05:00
Researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History have recently discovered that many seals in the Baltic Sea suffer from intestinal ulcers...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
05:33
Seal researchers are now concerned that there are fewer grey seals in the Stockholm archipelago. A contributing factor may be the new license hunt...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Simon Stanford och Jeppe Gustafsson/TT Nyhetsbyrån
Editor: Kajsa Grandell
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