Francois Hugo www.sealalert.org tries to persuade Prime Minister of Namibia to stop clubbing 85 000 baby seals annually
Seal Alert-SA its first Seal-Man Cam Titled "Talking French Kissing Wild Seal" www.youtube.com/v/3_OuWvr2KD0
Scroll down for al or go to youtube and fill up " sealmancam "
Its a glimpse into an
endangered United Nations Listed CITES (Convention In Trade of
Endangered Species) Appendix II Cape fur baby seal pup rescued,
named Popeye, and now living free in the wild. The only species on
seal breeding on the African continent.
The concept behind this series to
be released
weekly, will take you into
the world of Cape fur seals, as never before seen or
experienced.
Each July, Namibian government
permits 120 unskilled sealers to go into two large mainland seal
colonies, drive herds of baby seals with their mothers, (like
Popeye in the clip above), who are still suckling on their mother,
away from the safety of the sea. Where held in terrified groups,
sealers begin clubbing their way through their quota of 85 000 baby
(non-fish eating) seals, for the next 139 days.
70% of the Cape fur seals were
forced into Namibian territory over the past few decades. Latest
population figures record 120 000 pups (2007). 62% of these pups
die from starvation, jackal predation and abandonment, before
sealing season starts. This leaves 45 000 seal pups to kill. The
government awards 2 sealing concessionaires the right to club 85
000 seal pups. Almost twice as many as there are left alive.
If you enjoyed this video-cam clip,
help me save these seals by forward this email to family and
friends and boycott everything related to Namibia, until they stop
killing seals.
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Seal-Man Cam 2, Titled "Why We Should Never Kill
Them",
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nin0spCH8YM
For over a hundred years, South African
government has had a policy which bans this endangered species of
seal, the only species of seal breeding on the African continent,
from breeding in 99% its native offshore islands. The result of
which, seals are restricted to breeding on inappropriate small
offshore rocks or fleeing north into Namibia where physically
culled. During pupping time in December, high gale force winds
prevail, turning seas that sweep over these rocks into living
nightmares, for these new-born baby seals which cannot swim for the
first six weeks.
In reality, this restricted habitat,
causes a genocidal cull to be forced upon these baby seals each
year. And as these nine offshore seal colonies have collectively
declined, over a million baby seals have drowned, statistically
ignored over the past 30 years, or been consumed by white
sharks patrolling their colonies.
A tiny few do get saved, with Seal
Alert-SA the only organization actively doing so. I believe that
during their long and costly rehabilitation over the next 12
months, the only way to ensure these baby seals become self
surviving seals, is to raise them in the wild, in as natural an
environment as humanly possible.
These naturally culled victims, must be
added to the 85 000 seal pups commercially slaughtered in Namibia,
annually, and the tens of thousands illegally slaughtered by
thousands of fishermen.
As this clip shows, we should never
kill them, instead protect them for all they are worth.
If you enjoyed this video-cam
clip, help me save these seals by forwarding this email to family
and friends and urge the South African government to allow seals to
return to their native islands, and boycott everything related to
Namibia, until they stop killing seals.
Send a cheque or cash to Seal
Alert-SA, Box 221, PostNet,
Hout Bay, South Africa, 7806.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
link to sealmancam
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Thanks to you, Seal-Man Cam 2, reached after day one on
youtube,
#14 - Top Favorites (Today) - Pets &
Animals. After 2 days, 721
people viewed the clip, we need to reach a much greater sector of
the international public. I believe that all the campaigning and
legislation in the world, will not save them. I believe if you see
them as I do daily, this will save them, so please forward this
email to all in your address book.
Seal-Man Cam 3, titled "Baby Seal Makes A
Dummy",
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4U0fM0TXJ8
is an inside look into how important it is for these baby seals to
bond with their adopted parent, and how life long these bonds
become.
Seal-Man Cam 4, titled "South Africa's Oldest Seal
Colony",
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5tkS2NBKhY
a single morning's look at a seal colony, protected on paper, but
not in reality, where fear, starvation, terror and death is common
place for these seals. This is why we need to all protect them, and
if we cant, then physically save them.
Seal-Man Cam 5, titled "SEAL-TALK WITH PRIME MINISTER
OF NAMIBIA" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfvKhdutH9w
Francois Hugo www.sealalert.org tries to
persuade Prime Minister of Namibia to stop clubbing 85 000 baby
seals
annually
Seal-Man Cam 6,
titled "Namibia's Annual Baby Seal
Cull" : youtube
watch
Banning
seals from islands to mainland. Rounding up, herding and then
clubbing to death 85 000 baby seals annually
Seal.Man Cam 7, titled Feeding
"drowned" Baby Seal Pups : youtube watch
Saving Cape fur
seals email sasealion@wam.co.za
Beyond the human barrier
: youtube
watch
