End the commercial seal slaughter in Canada

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End the commercial seal slaughter in Canada

Right now, mother harp seals are nursing their young pups on sea ice off Canada’s East Coast. But the peace on the ice is about to be shattered. Climate change is quickly destroying the seals’ habitat, melting the sea ice before the pups are strong enough to survive in open water.

Then, in just weeks, the seal pups who survive will be subjected to the largest slaughter of marine mammals on earth, in which they will be clubbed and shot for their fur, despite seal products being banned in many markets.

No one can reverse the impacts of climate change in the immediate term, but a responsible government can and should take urgent action to stop the commercial seal hunt.

Please ask Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to act now to save seals.

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Justin

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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,

I am writing to ask you to stop Atlantic Canada’s commercial seal slaughter. 
 
The harp seals that are the primary targets of the commercial seal hunt are ice-dependent animals. They rely on sea ice to give birth to their pups and the pups need the ice to remain intact until they are old enough to survive in open water.
 
But the harp seals’ sea ice habitat is vanishing. Canadian government reports show that climate change has caused a significant decline in sea ice cover off of Canada’s east coast over the past five decades. In recent years, we have witnessed exceptionally high mortality rates for seal pups born in key whelping areas when the ice melted too soon in the season.

It is unthinkable that tens of thousands of the survivors are then subjected to Canada’s cruel, industrial-scale slaughter of seals for their fur. The defenseless pups are often shot and left to suffer, impaled on metal hooks and dragged onto bloody boat decks to be beaten to death. Many wounded seals escape beneath the surface of the water where they die slowly. Veterinarians who have studied the commercial seal hunt have stated that the killing methods at the slaughter are inherently inhumane.

The impacts of climate change on ice-dependent animals cannot be reversed in the immediate term. But a responsible government can and must end commercial seal hunting now. 
 
Sincerely,
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