How You Can Help End the Seal Hunt

30 March 2015

 - The efforts and actions of dedicated individuals and organizations opposing the annual killing of the harp seals have a history of about 50 years. Although strategies have been discussed, argued over, and altered over the years by the different groups and individuals involved in the opposition, much of the original strategy remains the same; and it is no secret.

As Brian Davies, founder of IFAW once wrote in his book Red Ice, “My fight to Save the Seals,” the idea for an effective opposition campaign is to “attack on 3 fronts.

Firstly, I would set out to create in Canada a public attitude hostile to the hunt. At the same time Europeans, who formed the main market, must be persuaded not to buy anything made from harp seal pelts. And foreigners must be encouraged to deluge the Canadian government with protest letters.”