Get Active

You can help stop the miserable hermit crab trade. Please inform everyone you know about the plight of the hermies and encourage them to adopt instead of buying! Join us in our work! Here are some quick and easy ways for you to get active.

  • Sign up for our e-news using the form in the right-hand column to stay up-to-date on hermit crab actions and become a warrior for sea animals!
  • Print out our leaflet (available for download here). Then, get out and spread the word at your closest boardwalk this spring and summer. Be upbeat, polite, and friendly, as you explain the plight of the crabs and let people know that the kindest thing they can do is skip the hermit crabs in their souvenir shopping this time around. If you are leafleting outside of a business, please make sure to stay on public property at all times (including keeping off their parking lots).
Download our leaflet here!
Download our leaflet here!
  • Use this care sheet to spread the word on all the essentials of hermit crab care. Print it out and give it to friends and family members you know who have crabs who could use a crabitat upgrade.
Click here to open up our cheat sheet for all the basics on hermit crab care. Print a few and hand it out to spread the word!
Click here for our cheat sheet with all the basics on hermit crab care. Print and hand it out to spread the word!
  • Donate here to contribute to our crucial work of spreading the word. Every summer, all summer we’re on the boardwalk handing out postcards, holding demonstrations, placing ads, seeking media coverage, and more, all for the hermies. Help fund this work, as well as our our online advocacy and outreach. Every dollar counts!
  • Join our campaign to stop beach chain Sunsations from selling wild hermit crabs! Sunsations’ customers would be shocked to learn that it sells thousands of wild animals who have been ripped from their natural habitats to perish in barren cages. It’s time for the chain to stop treating these animals as mere trinkets! Read more — and then order posters and postcards below if you want to organize actions outside of a Sunsations store in your hometown!


Use the form below to order our Sunsations campaign postcards & posters to get active in your beach community! (Please consider donating first to help recoup the costs! Please allow 1-2 weeks for shipping.)