How to Save Harp Seals
The harp seal, native to the Northern Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, is threatened by over-hunting, the decline of the fish populations that are the seal's main source of food, environmental contamination and global warming.
You can help save the harp seal by exerting pressure on elected officials and governmental agencies to better regulate the environmental conditions that threaten the seal's survival.
The most direct way, though, is to make hunting politically and economically unfeasible: refuse to buy seal pelts or meat, protest the hunts, or join the boycott of Canadian seafood intended to stop the Canadian seal hunts.
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Join one of the groups like harpseals.org, the World Animal Foundation, International Fund for Animal Welfare or SeaShepherd.org, that work to protect harp seals.
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Write to the Canadian prime minister and demand that he end the seal hunts, and/or sign petitions against seal hunting.
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Boycott Canadian seafood until the seal hunts are stopped. The boycott was launched by harpseals.org and joined by the American Humane Society to pressure sealers -- many of whom derive most of their income from fishing -- to stop seal hunting or lose their main source of income.
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