Listed below are actions you can take to help our campaign:

1) Write to Ministers

Please write to the relevant UK and Scottish Ministers calling for the protection of our globally important seals. Their addresses are:

Huw Irranca-Davies MP, Minister of the Natural and Marine Environment, Defra, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR

Richard Lochhead MSP, Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh EH99 1SP

2) Contact your MP

Contact your MP, MEP and if you are in Scotland your MSP and ask them to support the replacement of the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 with a Protection of Seals Act.

3) Contact retailers

If you buy Scottish salmon products please contact your retailer and ask them if seals are shot by the producers of that salmon.

If your retailer cannot guarantee that the salmon is seal-friendly, you could refuse to buy it and inform the company that shot seals are too high a price to pay. A letter from you to the supermarket, fishmonger, deli or restaurant where you buy your salmon could make all the difference.

If you do not eat salmon but wish to still contact salmon retailers informing them that seals are too high a price to pay for Scottish salmon then please do so.

Please click here for contact details of the major retailers.

4) Contact your MSP asking them to support Motion number S3M-3167

Scottish Green Party MSP Robin Harper has tabled the Motion below with the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 7th January 2009.

*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 recent dramatic and unexplained reduction in the population of common seals; also notes that processes for reporting and recording of seal deaths by shooting are not consistent or accurate, and therefore calls for an immediate ban on the shooting of common seals and a commitment from government to replace the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 with a much firmer commitment to seal protection in the forthcoming Marine Bill.

Take Action: Please contact your MSP asking them to support this Motion.

The easiest way to contact your MSP is by visiting www.writetothem.com.  Once on the site, search for your MSP using your post code and then simply send a message using the box provided.

5) Contact your MP asking them to support Early Day Motion number 678

Labour MP Paddy Tipping and Conservative MP David Amess, have tabled the Parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) below:

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 populations remain depleted and are threatened by further outbreaks of the phocine distemper virus and remain under increasing threat from climate change, depletion of prey species pollution and deliberate killing; notes with extreme concern scientific reports of a frightening decline in the population of common seals in UK waters; further notes that an estimated 5,000 seals are shot in Scottish waters by the salmon industry; believes that the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 is outdated and in urgent need of review or replacement; and calls on the Government to implement an immediate and comprehensive ban on the deliberate killing of all seals, to replace the Conservation of Seals Act 1970 with legislation for the comprehensive protection of seals in the forthcoming Marine Bill and to liaise with the Scottish Executive to this end.

Take Action: Please contact your MP asking them to support this EDM

The easiest way to contact your MP is by visiting www.writetothem.com.  Once on the site, search for your MP using your post code and then simply send a message using the box provided.

People living in Scotland can also contact their MSP asking them to support Scottish Green Party Leader Robin Harper’s Motion which is detailed in Action 4 on this page.

6) Please also help our campaign by: