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April 29, 2013
Taking our Evidence Worldwide
With our evidence, we're at the World Trade Organization to show the world the cruelty of the 2013 seal slaughter.
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April 19, 2013
A Banner Year for Stopping Canada's Seal Slaughter
Canada's sealing industry boasts of an expected slaughter of 100,000 baby seals this year as more countries around the world end their trade in seal products, forcing Canada to stockpile unwanted skins.
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April 13, 2013
Baby Seal Dies in Stages
Rebecca Aldworth and the Protect Seals team film a young seal as she dies of a gunshot, impaling, and clubbing at the hands of Canada's sealers.
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April 12, 2013
Three Scenes of Suffering from Canada's Seal Slaughter
Rebecca Aldworth and the Protect Seals team report on three instances from one day when baby seals didn't die quickly during Canada's slaughter.
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April 11, 2013
Boats in the Fog, Seal Blood in the Water
Rebecca Aldworth and our Protect Seals team follow sealers through the fog and witness gruesome scenes of baby seals clubbed and shot to death, sometimes slowly.
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April 10, 2013
Canadian Seal Slaughter Begins Again
Despite the collapse of the sealing economy, it persists. Guest blogger Rebecca Aldworth reported from the scene of the slaughter.
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April 10, 2013
Tragedy and Hope at Canada's Seal Slaughter
Sealers killed about 4,450 baby seals on the first day of Canada's seal slaughter, staining the ice and their boats red with blood.
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April 2, 2013
Canada's Seal Slaughter: Progress against Continuing Horror
Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for The HSUS, looks to another seal slaughter, ever more determined to stop it.
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March 21, 2013
Celebrity Chef Brian Malarkey Joins with The Humane Society of the United States to Protect Seals
Acclaimed celebrity chef Brian Malarkey has signed on to The Humane Society of the United States’ Protect Seals campaign to bring Canada’s commercial seal slaughter to an end.
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December 12, 2012
Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone Teams Up with The HSUS’ Protect Seals Campaign
The Humane Society of the United States is proud to announce that celebrity chef Curtis Stone has joined its Protect Seals campaign in an effort to end Canada’s commercial seal slaughter.
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November 15, 2012
More Than 6,000 Establishments Join with The HSUS to End Canada’s Seal Slaughter
The Humane Society of the United States is pleased to announce that more than 6,000 restaurants and grocery stores have taken a stand to protect seals by pledging to avoid purchasing some or all Canadian seafood.
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May 4, 2012
Seal Slaughter is on Life Support, but Not Ready to Die
Rebecca Aldworth anticipates a challenging year for the Protect Seals campaign because of a fur lobby that won’t give up easily, but she is ever more determined to stop the slaughter.
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April 16, 2012
Death on Ice: Seal Pups Die Horribly
Rebecca Aldworth and the Protect Seals team watch miserably as off-season fishermen turn the peaceful ice floes into seal pup slaughterhouses.
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April 12, 2012
Seal Pups Killed off the Coast of Newfoundland
The commercial seal hunt opened early this morning in an area off the Newfoundland coast known locally as "the front," and more than two dozen sealing vessels launched to do their killing.
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April 10, 2012
Canada's Seal Slaughter Begins
The HSUS's Rebecca Aldworth watches helplessly as the first seal pups are clubbed to death in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but with ever greater determination to stop the seal slaughter for good.
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April 3, 2012
HSI/Canada Calls for Sealing Industry Buyout as Largest Seal Fur Processor Closes
Canada's largest seal fur buyer, NuTan, announced Thursday it would stop processing seal skins.
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April 2, 2012
The Unthinkable: Another Seal Slaughter is Set to Begin
Does this make any sense? Those who claim to represent sealers are demanding a government subsidy to pay sealers to kill seals so the skins can be stockpiled in warehouses.
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February 23, 2012
The HSUS Launches New iPhone App at 'Chefs for Seals’ in San Francisco
The HSUS launched a new iPhone app allowing users to locate restaurants and food suppliers boycotting Canadian seafood products until Canada ends the annual slaughter of baby seals.
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December 19, 2011
HSI Canada Calls for Canadian Sealing Industry Buyout
HSI Canada commends the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Belarus for prohibiting further import and export of fur from harp seals, and calls on Canada to buy out the sealing industry.
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September 21, 2011
KG - NY Restaurant Group Joins The HSUS to Protect Seals
The HSUS is pleased to announce that KG-NY Restaurant Group has joined the Protect Seals campaign boycott of Canadian seafood.
