WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO.
The Seal Protection Action Group (SPAG) is dedicated to protecting seals and their habitats worldwide. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of seals are killed each year. Today these animals are facing escalating threats from climate change, pollution, entanglement, loss of prey, boat collisions and noise pollution, as well as serious disturbance and loss of critical habitat from deliberate killing, commercial hunting, and other human activities.
The Seal Protection Action Group believes that we are stronger working together and this is why we have created a working coalition of organisations and individuals – the Seal Alliance – to promote achieving better welfare, conservation and protection for all pinnipeds and their habitats.
A major priority for the Seal Alliance is to assess and reduce the escalating threat of serious disturbance to native seal populations. This can cause stress and severe injury to individual animals and even the abandonment of dependent pups that later starve. The Seal Alliance has created a Disturbance Working Group to find solutions to this serious problem.
Future priorities for the Alliance will include developing and sharing best practice with regard to the seal entanglement. We will be looking to pool expertise by involving organisations and individuals that have considerable experience in these fields.
Seal Alliance members are free to choose whether or not to participate in any initiative, be it information sharing; a joint sign-on letter or a specific Working Group looking at a specific problem.
For further information about the Seal Alliance please contact the Seal Protection Action Group on 01273 515416, or email andyo@sealaction.org. Contact details for existing members are supplied on this page.