Nearly 1 million baby seals will be clubbed or shot to death in Canada in just three years. Shockingly, the hunt is subsidized by the Canadian government!

Every winter, Northwest Atlantic harp seals migrate to Eastern Canada to give birth and mate. Following their birth in late winter, mothers leave in search of mates, while the pups remain helpless and vulnerable on the ice until they can swim and catch their own food. It�s during this time when they are most vulnerable that they are mercilessly slaughtered for their pelts!

Hunters armed with clubs and rifles will bludgeon to death hundreds of thousands of baby harp seals. About 96% of the seals killed will be less than three months old and more than 40% may be skinned alive!

Canada's seal hunt is the largest deliberate slaughter of marine mammals in the world. But the killing of baby seals doesn't make sense economically or ecologically, nor is it sustainable. It's simply a tragic slaughter of defenseless animals that benefits a small minority of boat captains armed with big ships, snowmobiles and even personal helicopters. This isn't about small town survival or tradition, it's an industrial killing machine for profit.

But Canada wants the media and public to believe that no one cares about the innocent blood spilled each year across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This year's hunt will continue until the industry reaches its quota of 319,500 seals.That's why we must raise a public outcry.

Please tell the Canadian government that you do care and that this practice is unacceptable. We must show the Canadian Parliament that the rest of the world will no longer stand for this cruel and senseless hunt!

Canada's baby harp seal hunt was conducted in 2005 despite widespread condemnation by concerned citizens, animal welfare advocates and the media. Preliminary statistics suggest that nearly 318,000 harp seals were slaughtered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and coastal Newfoundland in March-April 2005, with a majority of the animals killed less than three months of age.

Fortunately, the strong international condemnation of Canada's baby seal hunt this past spring raised public awareness to its highest level in many years, which in turn has increased pressure on the Canadian government to stop this cruel and senseless slaughter.

In May, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) issued a report of questionable scientific merit, which claimed that despite the culling of roughly one million harp seals over the past three years, Canada's harp seal population is growing. Biologists at IFAW and other animal welfare groups have called upon the Canadian government to fully disclose its data and methodology for peer review by the scientific community, but as yet it has declined to do so.

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