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[ [link removed] ]The picture shows two puffins with their heads together, suggesting
trust and confidence. Their plumage is black and white, their beaks and
feet bright orange.

John,

Adorable Atlantic puffins are hanging on by a thread, with a shocking 70%
decline over the past five decades. 

The majority of the surviving population nests in Iceland – the only
country in the world that cruelly allows these beautiful birds to be
hunted for sport. And so thousands of these charismatic birds are
slaughtered each year while nesting and raising their baby pufflings. 

Neighbouring countries like Norway have banned puffin hunting – and
together we are going to make sure Iceland follows suit.  

Already, tens of thousands of us have taken action to demand an end to
this cruel killing. And now we’re ready to ramp up the pressure with a
massive public campaign that targets Iceland’s largest industry – tourism
– to give decision-makers no choice but to ban puffin hunting. We’re ready
to launch smart tactics like polling and targeted ads, but need to raise
the funds to make this huge – and keep fighting for animals and nature
everywhere.

Can you help?



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Atlantic puffins spend winters in the open ocean, then nest in spring on
cliffs and islands near shallower water. They lay just a single egg per
year – and like penguins, parents share responsibility for incubating and
feeding their chicks. Once their pufflings are born, parents spend hours
out of the sea hunting each day, then return to burrow with their catch
each afternoon.

And hunters are pushing these unique creatures to the brink of extinction.
A skilled hunter could catch a few hundred puffins in a single day!

But here’s the thing – elections just ended in Iceland, giving us the
perfect opportunity to overwhelm the new government with a massive global
call to end puffin hunting. And given tourism is its biggest industry, our
global movement can show the government that if they don’t ban puffin
hunting, they’ll risk a tourism PR nightmare.

If we can quickly raise enough we could:

* Launch a massive lobbying push to convince MPs to get behind a ban on
hunting;
* Conduct polling to show that the hunting of puffins will impact
tourism;
* Put up ads in Iceland’s airport terminals and ferry ports exposing
this cruel practice of killing puffins for sport;
* Run digital ads targeting likely tourists, warning them about the
awful hunting practice, and then re-target those ads to strategic MPs
so they see what tourists will be seeing.

The Icelandic government is already under increasing pressure from
conservationists to review and change its hunting policies as
profit-driven tourism accelerates – and together we can be the tipping
point to win a ban. Can you chip in to save puffins from extinction – and
keep fighting for animals and nature everywhere?



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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for
people and the planet.



  Thanks for all that you do,  
Allison and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Puffin hunting ban proposed, RÚV English, The Icelandic National
Broadcasting Service, 26 October 2023

[ [link removed] ]Puffin Population Declines By 70%, Reykavík Grapevine, 23 May 2023

[ [link removed] ]Iceland: End Puffin Hunting Before It’s Too Late, Ekō

[ [link removed] ]Iceland is rethinking puffin-eating traditions – but some tourists have
not received the memo The Straits Times 01 January 2025

[ [link removed] ]Expert Suggests Puffin Hunting Ban Iceland Review 08 July 2024

 

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