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Seal Defenders

Guide to Other Organizations Opposing the Seal Slaughter

Individuals and organizations have been striving to end the Canadian seal hunt for over 40 years. Despite great efforts and partial successes, the seal hunt continues to this day, taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of seal pups each year.

In 2005, efforts to end the Canadian seal hunt expanded, with new organizations joining the campaign. The Canadian seafood boycott got underway, and media coverage of this annual massacre increased.

Here, we provide information about other organizations involved in some way in stopping the seal hunt. Harpseals.org strives to work with all seal hunt opponents and bring us all together in a cooperative effort to help the seals.

We encourage you to contact these organizations and assist them in saving the seals.

Organizations Focused on the Seal Hunt

Animal Alliance of Canada

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Promoting the Canadian seafood boycott with cards for restaurants and other materials Recruiting restaurants to the Canadian seafood boycott Organizing street protests Running print ads targeted at sealers in Canada Linking to seal hunt opposition groups Producing radio commercials

Atlantic Canada Anti-Sealing Coalition

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Promoting the Canadian seafood boycott Lobbying Canadian government officials Organizing street protests Documenting Canada's seal hunts (including grey seal hunts) Linking to seal hunt opposition groups

Campaigns Against The Cruelty to Animals (CATCA)

Organizing and helping to organize protests in Canada and Latin America Promoting the boycotts of Canadian seafood and Canada in general Providing anti-seal hunt information and petitions at events and on internet Lobbying nationally and internationally, including EU ministers Providing information in English and Spanish Linking to seal hunt opposition groups

Scandinavian Anti-Sealing Coalition

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Promoting the Canadian seafood boycott Lobbying government officials Promoting alternatives to fur Linking to seal hunt opposition groups

Sealalert SA (Namibian seal hunt)

Organizations with Major Seal Campaigns

Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN)

Organizing anti-seal hunt protests and rallies in Ireland Helping lobby for seal product import ban in the EU

Environment Voters

Supporting anti-seal hunt candidates in Canadian elections Fielding anti-seal hunt candidates in Canadian elections and exposing the issue in candidate debates

Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing publicity events and U.S.-Canada tours to expose the seal hunt Promoting a general boycott of Canada

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

Sending observers to document the seal hunt Producing short videos to expose the brutality of the seal hunt Generating publicity (e.g., by bringing Paul and Heather McCartney and Nigel Barker to the ice) Recruiting restaurants to the Canadian seafood boycott Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Running 3 to 4 full-page ads in national newspapers each year Helping to organize street protests

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

Sending observers to document the seal hunt Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Linking to select hunt opposition groups Preparing scientific analyses of seal biology, seal ecology, and the suffering of seals killed in the seal hunt Presenting testimony before the Canadian Parliament Providing high-resolution images to oppose the hunt

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Sending ship to the ice to defend the seals Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Linking to select hunt opposition groups Helping to organiz street protests Putting on publicity events (e.g., Brigitte Bardot's visit to Ottawa)

Organizations with Supportive Seal Campaigns

Advocates for Animals

Anima Naturalis International

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

Animal Friends Croatia

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

Animal Protection Institute

Animal Rights Action Network Ireland (ARAN)

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

Animal Rights Collective of Halifax

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

Anti-fur Coalition

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

Franz Weber Foundation

Friends of Animals

Promoting a tourism boycott of Canada Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing NYC street protests

Global Action Network (GAN)

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Providing information in French

Greenpeace

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Relseased ecological critique of the seal "hunt" in spring 2005

In Defense of Animals (IDA)

Helping to organize street protests

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests and publicity events Hosting an online petition

Respect for Animals

Spreading information about the seal hunt on the internet Organizing street protests

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA)

Links for Information on Seals and the Seal Hunt

Animals' Voice

Fishery Crisis

Newfoundland Reality Tourism

Seal Conservation Society