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A rare and beautiful antelope is being machine gunned and trapped for its wool high in the Himalayas. Welcome to high fashion’s latest accessory - the shahtoosh shawl.
With one long blast of his foghorn, the captain of the fishing boat signalled the start of the slaughter. Moments later, hundreds of Canadian fishermen armed with steel-tipped clubs began battering to death infant seals with a brutality seen nowhere else on earth..... 
Canadian fishermen are in the midst of a vast and secret slaughter of over 300,000 seals. We are all grimly aware of Canada's infamous seal clubbing season but off the coast of Newfoundland a far bigger cull occurs. Newsmonster's Danny Penman is the first journalist in 30 years to witness this cull. The fishermen were so determined to keep the slaughter secret that they attacked Danny and destroyed his car.....
Next time you take your pet into a smoke filled room or light up a cigarette spare a thought for Felix and Tiddles. Passive smoking may be as bad for pets as it is for humans.
Their fur makes the most exclusive shawls on Earth - worth more by weight
than gold or cocaine. Now the chiru antelope could be wiped out by
ruthless gangs feeding the world's fashion black market. Newsmonster
investigates.....
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