Date: April 5, 2008
Reply to Seal Alert-SA South Africa
Dear All Cape Fur Seal Supporters, and those of Harp Seals,
Canadian Sealer sobs as he thinks about
the death of his 4 sealing buddies
It's Time to Save
Seals, from 'Cry-Baby' Sealers
A Canadian delegation to the EU appeals for mercy not to impose
Seal Import bans.
One posted
message expressed hope that seals would eat the body of the missing
man.
Sealer
Longuepee said he played hockey, took boat trips and shared bottles
of red wine with the men lost at sea. They're all my friends.
Tomorrow (Saturday) they're going to be under the ground. It's
crazy. Can you imagine how the family feels when they see these
comments.
Can you
imagine how we feel watching you club 600 000 baby seals to death
or how the seal families feel?
Paul Watson
receives the following message, " I am a well
educated man from Newfoundland currently living in Atlantic Canada
and I support the seal hunt, I support the seal fur trade!! There
is no greater pleasure than clubbing a baby seal and feeling that
skull collapsing and watching them trying to crawl away and then
smacking the little shits again. It ideally
should be accomplished in one blow but sometimes it
takes two or even three!! Hey all the little bastards do is eat
fish and defecate so we are getting rid of animals that do
more to destroy
ecosystems of fish than are actually contributing to more stable
ecosystems. Besides seal meat tastes great and the fur is warm.
Baby seal meat
is exceptionally good!!".
Is this
statement not true for the over 6 billion of man-kind?
Double
standards.
Sustainable
use wildlife conservation organizations support the slaughtering of
clubbing, stabbing, shooting and kicking in the skulls of 600 000
baby seals annually worldwide, and then mounted the largest rescue
operations in environmental history to re-locate 20 000 oiled
penguins, whilst governments contributes millions to the rescue
fund.
Whilst doing
nothing to save a million seals starving to death.
Double
standards.
Its
time we see the need to save seals, not from the effects of
mankind's oil-pollution or global warming, but mankind's
overfishing and sealing clubs.
Its
time to stop taking pictures of sealers killing seals.
Its
time to mount the largest environmental rescue operation in
history. The relocation of over a million weaned seal pups to safer
ice floes or as many as possible.
Seal
Alert-SA has been do so for years, rescuing baby Cape fur seals and
weaned pups fleeing sealers, and re-colonizing them into new and
safe offshore colonies.
Is it
possible?, Russian sealers regularly transport tens of thousands of
harp seal pups from ice floes to seal farms. As HSUS's photographer
Nigel Barker stated two weeks before the 2008 seal hunt, "He stood
next to them, photographed them inches from their faces, and
they stared up inquisitively with doey eyes and flaring
nostrils. "The only humans they're seeing are us [here
now]...and they come right up to you...the word 'hunt' is a
farse. They don't run away".
Seals taken from ice floes and
re-located to Russian Seal Farms
A
record number of over 60 organizations and media companies have
applied for observation permits to monitor and film the seal hunt.
Its time to put these resources into good use. Seashepherd already
has 137-ft ship in the area, instead of retiring for a week at the
Island of St Pierre to off-load video footage, only to be chased
away by sealers, surely Seashepherd could have used the time to
"seashepherd these seal pups to safer areas"? HSUS and IFAW both
have easy access to helicopters and large groups of volunteers.
Russian sealers collect and remove tens of thousands of
white-coat seal pups in exactly the same way and move them into
pens for slaughter.
Could
international seal saving organizations not do the same. Would such
rescue not send a very clear message to the EU, at this most
critical of times.
Canada
banned large sealing boats over 65-ft in 1984, surely it would be
relatively simple as most seal pups are already beyond Canada's
12-mile territorial range, to re-locate these seal pups beyond the
range of small sealing boats and sealers.
The
Seal hunt has stopped for the week, to give the sealers time to
mourn the four dead.
The
time is now ! To go in and rescue the seal pups and move them away
from the reach of the sealers, to safer waters and ice floes.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
link to sealmancam
