legal - Our chalkbags are made using sealskins from healthy populations of wild hunted seals Pusa hispida, Pagophilus groenlandicus.

Neither of these species are threatened in Greenlandic waters and neither are subject to CITES restrictions.

local - Trade and transportation of such seal products supporting Inuit cultures is permitted in the EU (following EC1007-2009) and most other countries.

We use sealskins derived as a by-product of local hunting of wild populations for food, sustaining the Inuit population economically and culturally.