The HUNT has begun, Act now to SAVE THE SEALS!
Just this morning off the coast of Newfoundland, I witnessed baby seals clubbed, shot, and skinned, and it broke my heart. There was nothing — not one thing — I could do to stop it.
These baby seals on the ice today never had a chance. They’re threatened at every turn — even their ice habitat is melting out from under them.
Still, the Canadian government has authorized sealers to slaughter up to 400,000 survivors this year — all for their fur in the name of “fashion.”
This massacre has to end. We have to end it. Please, help me end the seal slaughter by making an emergency donation to protect seals. Click to Donate!
Your emergency donation today keeps us on the ice so we can report on the fate of these beautiful animals, and it will keep us fighting all year long to stop this senseless killing once and for all.
Thanks to the global outcry of millions of people like you, we’re closer than ever to ending the slaughter. Demand for seal products is rapidly diminishing — most recently, Russia has banned the trade in harp seal pelts, and Canada’s largest seal fur purchaser has stopped buying seal products.
We’re making tremendous progress in this campaign. But sadly, baby seals are still dying. With your emergency gift today, we won’t stop fighting until peace has been restored to the ice floes for good.
Thank you for all your support.
Rebecca Aldworth
Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues
The Humane Society of the United States
1 Comment
To further the crass stupidity of it all the Canadian government has appointed $3.6 million dollars to PAY a company to BUY the pelts and blubber. The pelts will be stock piled in warehouses along with a backlog of unsold pelts from previous years. The reason for this has been given as it will enable the seal hunters to earn a living whilst there is a slump in the market! A doubt if there is ever going to be anything but a slump in the seal product market, so why oh why cannot the Canadian government just give the $3.6 million dollars directly to the seal hunters NOT to hunt. There would still be a saving of capital expenditure when the cost of fuel, stand by emergency services, and ice breaker ships is taken into consideration. Every one can go home happy, including the poor Harp seals, their plight is not just only one of animal welfare, but has now become a conservation issue. Any more hunting will push this species over the edge and onto the brink of extinction is this part of the world.