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Seals photos & video
Seal Experts
Our Animal Action Education programme helps children learn and care about animals
Resources to learn more about seals:
- Video answers to frequently asked questions
- Why commercial seal hunts are cruel
- Timeline of shrinking markets
- IFAW's briefing paper on the WTO
- An Amicus Brief filed with the WTO by Rob Howse from NYU School of Law
- Amici Curiae paper from IFAW and other NGOs
- Fact sheet: Ending Canada’s commercial seal hunt
More about seals, sealing and IFAW:
- Protecting grey seals in Canada
- Why commercial sealing is cruel
- Seals on thin ice – Climate change threatens seals
- Seals and Fisheries – Are seals eating all the fish?
- Aboriginal sealing – Does IFAW campaign against subsistence seal hunts?
- Defending Seals brochure
- Seal meat waste memo
Seals news
We're coming off an inspiring week among peers and experts who are putting their skills to work in telling the story of Read more »
We are excited to announce our very own “Animojis” – a collection of emoji stickers focused on wildlife Read more »
Every April, the ice floes off Canada’s east coast run red with blood as the annual slaughter of harp seal pups takes Read more »
Our video team has been fortunate enough to chronicle so many of our successes over the years. Here is a rundown of our Watch Video »
It’s time to end Canada’s commercial seal hunt. No one wants products from dead seals — 35 countries have banned them. The Watch Video »
It’s nearly spring in Canada. The snow is beginning to melt, the maple sap is flowing, and the ice floes on the east Watch Video »
Warning this video from 2012 contains graphic material. IFAW has spent decades documenting what really happens at Canada Watch Video »
Every year, hundreds of dolphins, whales, porpoises and seals strand along coastlines around the world. Fortunately in some locations, networks of scientists, vets, and volunteers are able to respond to these animals and rescue some that com Read more »
#OneActForAll
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has partnered with over two dozen celebrities, including familiar stars like IFAW Ambassadors Pierce Brosnan and Slash; Samantha Bee, Nina Dobrev, Mark Ruffalo, Wilmer Valderrama, and Sus Read more »
International Fund for Animal Welfare teams with Bare Tree Media to release emojis to engage audiences in animal rescue and conservation
Mobile technology and conservation join forces to save animals in a new partnership. IFAW (International Fund Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is disappointed that Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) will be opening the commercial seal hunt early this year, allowing sealers to hunt while harp seal pups are still nursing. Traditionally, the annu Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare condemns any early opening of the commercial harp seal hunt. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) are considering suspending the annual closure of the hunt in mid-March. This is one of the few protections in pla Read more »
Discovery Channel acquired worldwide television rights to the feature documentary Huntwatch narrated by actor Ryan Reynolds and produced by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). The film, which follows the 50 year history of Canada’ Read more »
The United States is celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) this year. In this report, w Read more »
The International Fund for Animal Welfare joins 120 organizations from across civil society, including conservationists, fait Read more »
“It is high time Namibia stopped culling Cape Fur seals,” said Jason Bell-Leask,
IFAW Director Southern Africa Read more »
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has already demonstrated their
inability to manage this hunt this year, with the Read more »
Canada has allowed nearly a million seals to be killed over the past three
years, the largest hunt of marine mammals in the Read more »
“There is almost no ice out here,” IFAW’s Canada director Olivier Bonnet said
today, after flying over Read more »
