Protect Seals: What You Can Do

To help end the Canadian seal hunt, the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals in the world, we need your immediate help. Please consider doing one or more of the following actions:

1. Join our boycott of Canadian seafood
2. Encourage grocery stores to join the Protect Seals campaign 
3. Contact Canada's prime minister
4. Contact the nearest Canadian embassy
5. Don't vacation in Canada
6. Contact Canada's minister of international trade
7. Ask your senators to co-sponsor the Levin Resolution
8. Write a letter to the editor
9. Ask designers not to use seal skin
10. Support The HSUS' ProtectSeals campaign
11. Tell everyone you know
12. Wear ProtectSeals apparel
13. Try out a ProtectSeals ring
14. Put ProtectSeals stickers on letters and packages
15. Sign up for Seal Watch
16. Download ProtectSeals badges, banners, and icons

1. Join our boycott of Canadian seafood products. (You can easily identify what seafood comes from Canada by using our downloadable Pocket Guide.)We believe the Canadian government will quickly realize the economic impact of a fisheries boycott is too high a price to pay for the seal hunt. You can start by signing our pledge, which can be found at www.protectseals.org. The HSUS will deliver your pledge to Canada's government so the politicians will know you've joined our international Protect Seals team to end the hunt.
   
   

2. Encourage grocery stores to join the ProtectSeals campaign. What's the connection between your grocery store and the seal hunt? Grocery stores sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Canadian seafood each year. By choosing to avoid Canadian seafood until the seal hunt ends for good, grocery stores can give the fishermen who kill seals a clear economic incentive to stop the slaughter. Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, and Trader Joe's are three of the more than 5,000 grocery stores and restaurants that have already agreed to shift some or all of their seafood purchasing away from Canada until the commercial seal hunt is ended for good. Please help us convince your local grocery store to join you, The Humane Society and these compassionate companies to help bring the commercial seal hunt to an end. Ask your local grocery store to step up for seals: Download this customer comment card and give it to your store manager the next time your go grocery shopping.

3. Contact Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.Right Honorable Stephen Harper
   80 Wellington St.
   Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A OA2
   613-992-4211
   Fax: 613-941-6900
   Email: pm@pm.gc.ca or Harper.S@parl.gc.ca

4. Write, fax, email, or call the nearest Canadian embassy. If you are not a U.S. citizen, you can look up the Canadian embassy in your nation. The contact information for the embassy in Washington, D.C., is below:

   The Honourable Michael Wilson
   Office of the Ambassador
   Canadian Embassy
   501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
   Washington, DC 20001
   202-682-1740
   Fax: 202-682-7701, 202-682-7678
   canada@canadianembassy.org
   
   Click here for suggested points to make.

5. Don't vacation in Canada. Consider instead spending your tourist dollars in a nation that does not actively promote the barbaric slaughter of wildlife. Write to the Canadian Tourism Commission and the Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism Office to explain why you've made this decision.
   
   Canadian Tourism Commission
   Four Bentall Centre, Suite 1400
   1055 Dunsmuir Street, Box 49230
   Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7X 1L5
   604-638-8300
   Email: Use the Contact Us form on www.canadatourism.com
   
   Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism
   P.O. Box 8700
   St. John's, NL Canada A1B 4J6
   1-800-563-6353
   Email: tourisminfo@gov.nl.ca

6. Tell Canada's Minister of International Trade, David Emerson, that the seal hunt damages Canada's international reputation, and remind him that it has resulted in ongoing global boycotts of Canadian seafood and tourism. Say that a hunt opposed by most Canadian citizens shouldn't be allowed to harm Canada's economy. You can email him using our form or contact him using the information below.
   
   Minister of International Trade
   Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
   125 Sussex Drive
   Ottawa, Ontario
   Canada
   K1A 0G2
   613-992-7332
   Fax: 613-996-8924
   Email: emersd@parl.gc.ca

7. Ask your senators to co-sponsor Senator Carl Levin's (D-MI) resolution condemning the Canadian seal hunt.

8. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper protesting the seal hunt. Click here for suggested points you can make.

9. Ask the designers who use seal fur and skin to stop providing a financial incentive for the seal hunt. Sign the fur-free pledge and join the more than 115,000 people who have pledged to help us tell the fashion industry that the animals need their fur more than we do.

10. Support The HSUS' efforts to stop Canada's slaughter of seals.

11. Tell everyone you know about the seal hunt, and ask them to sign our pledge to boycott Canadian seafood and contact the Canadian government to demand the hunt stop. One way to spread the word is to download a PDF of our ProtectSeals brochure and leave copies in public places. Or you can email our seal campaign videos to friends or link to them from your website.

12. Wear our seal apparel and tell everyone why you're wearing it. There are shirts to suit every style: the ever-popular "Club Sandwiches Not Seals" polo shirtas well as the new "Stop the Seal Hunt—Boycott Canadian Seafood" short-sleeved tee and long-sleeved thermal henley. The HSUS has also collaborated with Wildlife Works, the wildlife conservation-driven apparel company, to create a line of shirts that tell the world to "Do Something" to protect seals. For each shirt sold on this web site, $10 goes to the Protect Seals campaign. To top it all off, wear our "Stop the Seal Hunt—Boycott Canadian Seafood" baseball cap.

13. If jewelry is more your style, jewelry company Alex & Ani, which is a proud supporter of the ProtectSeals campaign, has produced a Save Our Seals expandable ring.

14. Stick to it: Every time you attach one of our ProtectSeals stickers to a letter or package, you are spreadaing the word about the seal hunt.

15. Sign up for Seal Watch and get the latest news from the ProtectSeals team as it documents the hunt.

16. Download ProtectSeals badges, banners, and icons to use on your web page or when instant messaging.

Updated April 2, 2007