Labour MP Paddy Tipping is backing our ‘Saving Scotland’s Seals’ campaign by tabling a Parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) below, co-sponsored by Conservative MP David Amess: EDM 678: Protection for seals – That this House recognises the UK’s international obligations to maintain its globally important seal populations at a favourable conservation status; notes that seal […]

The Seal Protection Action Group’s campaigns to protect seals are being backed by a range of celebrities including musicians, models, actresses and authors. The latest celebrities to offer their support include author Julia Stephenson, model and actress Melita Morgan and up and coming social action rock band ‘Truth on Earth’ Talking about their support, the […]

Scottish Green Party leader Robin Harper is backing our ‘Saving Scotland’s Seals’ campaign by tabling the Motion below with the Scottish Parliament. *S3M-3167 Robin Harper: Protection for Seals—That the Parliament calls on the Scottish Government to recognise the threat to the seal population in Scottish waters from disease, climate change and shooting; particularly notes the […]

The Canadian Government has proposed new regulations governing the country’s annual mass cull of around 350,000 seals which begins again this March. The new regulations have been introduced in an attempt to make the hunt appear more humane, with the threat of a European Community ban on all seal products an increasing possibility this year. […]

The two fishermen charged with the deaths of 21 grey seal pups on the small island of East Linga in the Shetland Islands have now appeared in court. John George Eunson, aged 44, of Seefeld, Symbister, Whalsay, and 47 year old Jimmy Stewart, of Ellies Knowe, Saltness, Symbister, Whalsay, have been charged with mutilating, beating […]

Yesterday (Tuesday 16th December) Liberal Democratic MP for Lewes ‘Norman Baker’ and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South ‘Robert Flello’ joined us at 10 Downing Street demanding a ‘CEASEFIRE FOR SEALS’. Andy Ottaway of the Seal Protection Action Group along with representatives from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue and the Cornwall Seal Group handed in […]

A delegation of MPs will be supporting us at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday 16th December as we call on Prime Minister Gordon Brown asking him for an immediate and comprehensive ban on the deliberate killing of all seals in UK waters, including Scottish waters. An estimated 5,000 seals are shot in Scottish waters alone […]

A second man has been charged in connection with the clubbing to death of what appears to be now a slaughter of an even greater number of grey seal pups found on a beach in the Shetland Islands. Last week (w/c 1st December) a 47 year old fisherman was charged with killing 18 seals on […]

A man has been charged in connection with the clubbing to death of 18 grey seal pups found on a beach in the Shetland Islands. Police were alerted by workers from Scottish Natural Heritage while conducting a seal survey on 29th November. When officers attended the beach, in the East Linga area of the island, […]

On Tuesday 24th November, the Seal Protection Action Group along with coalition members targeted the Scottish Government dressed as seals. The aim of our protest was to call for an immediate and comprehensive ban on the deliberate killing of seals by Scottish salmon producers and other fisheries interests in Scotland and the United Kingdom. An […]