For more information, please visit:
www.efsa.europa.eu/
EFSA TO LOOK INTO SEAL HUNTING PRACTICES
Following a request by the European Commission, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) is to prepare a scientific opinion on the methods for killing and skinning seals currently used in and outside the European Union. The aim is to measure, as far as is scientifically possible, the degree of pain, distress and suffering that may be caused by each method, and to identify the most humane practices.
www.oipa.org/hunting/campaign/canada/efsa.html
For more info go to: www.efsa.europa.eu/
Meetingplace Palma - Italy
review of seal killing.
Cape fur Seals help
them
PPT PRESENTATION
PERMANENT 18,9 MB
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From:
Seal Alert-SA
To:
oriol.ribo@efsa.europa.eu ;
dorothee.convens-billerbeck@ec.europa.eu ;
sabine.osaer@ec.europa.eu
Sent:
Sunday,
September 09, 2007 1:23 PM
Subject:
Namibian Pup
Seal Cull for EFSA to Consider for Review
Dear Dr Oriol Ribo,
I understand that you are organizing the
AHAW review on the scientific opinion on the animal welfare aspects
of killing seals for the European Commission whose aim is to
adopted its opinion by December 2007.
Meeting with the Namibian Prime
Minister on 23 July 2007 to Discuss Seal Culling
Seal Alert-SA
is the leading expert on matters related to the Cape fur seals and
the Namibian Seal Hunt. In this regard, I understand that World
Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) submitted a paper on
the Namibian Seal Hunt. In further reference, I have just returned
from a meeting with the Prime Minister Angula Nahas on July 23 and
a follow-up scientific meeting with the Namibian Ministry of
Fisheries to discuss these exact issues, I further understand the
Namibian government is sending a delegation to the Review Meeting
on 4 October in Italy. As such could you please accept and review
the attached report and supporting documents, in order for the AHAW
panel and EFSA to reach a scientific opinion on the killing of
nursing seal pups in Namibia. The second largest seal hunt in the
world, and the only country still harvesting nursing seal pups, in
an annual quota which is 90% pup based.
The annual commercial harvest or cull, 90% of
which is nursing seal pups of the Cape fur seals in southern Africa
was been on-going since 1902. Two independent veterinarian
assessments in 1974 and a US Appeal court finding in 1977 found the
harvest on nursing Cape fur seal pups to be inhumane, and as such
as been banned from import into the US. A scientific opinion on the
welfare aspects of killing young seal pups (nursing seal pups) has
already been adopted by the Union European legislation banning
young seal pup imports in 1983.
The report of Seal Alert-SA sets out to
scientifically establish that Namibia is harvesting nursing seal
pups, and then asks the AHAW panel and the EFSA to confirm its
scientific opinion, that a ban on the Namibian seal harvest of
nursing Cape fur seal pups, be recommended in line with the EEC
Directive (EEC/83/129), and to include the harvesting of bull
seals, primarily for the far east penis trade.
In this regard the US and Mexico has maintained
its ban on Cape fur seal imports, as has recently Belgium,
Netherlands and Germany.
Please
click on link to view issues related to the Cape Cross Seal Colony
in Namibia,
www.ecoeye.org/ecoeye/Film%20database/CF593352-3B8E-49EB-9029-C9D60D2A3A6A.html.
Could you please advise whether I should submit
further papers and it would be appreciated if I could be kept
informed of the review panels decision.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
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PETITION
NANNY FRANCOIS
WE ARE THEIR VOICE
MID SEPT 07: www.wildlife-nannies.com episode 3
Remember the seals of Namibia
poem by MARIA DAINES received 30 June 07 & video
! FRANCOIS HUGO SEAL ALERT-SA AT WORK
WATCH AND ENJOY !
See the seal play
CULLING VIDEO 1& CULLING VIDEO 2
EMAIL SEAL ALERT SA
| Telephone: +27-(0) 21-790 8774 to interview Mr. Francois Hugo |
WATCH IN MAPS GOOGLE
go to personal maps -NAMIBIA WOLF BAY & ATLAS BAY FRANCOIS HUGO seal De Beers etc
OPEN LETTER August 15, 2007
to the Prime Minister of Namibia Mister Nahas Angula
Seal Alert-SA Exposes Namibia's
Sick Seal Trophy Hunting Business
ANIMAL FOUNDATIONS AROUND THE WORLD
PLEASE PROTEST AGAINST THE ANNUAL SLAUGHTER
OF THE CAPE FUR SEALS IN NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Request
! NAMIBIA 2007 !
! NAMIBIAN SEALING "CRUELLEST IN THE WORLD" !
FREEDOM FOR SEALS Internet Radio Station at IACmusic.com
Blood soaked sand
is all that remains of the Cape Cross Seal Colony
67th Day into Namibia's baby seal cull
THERE ARE NO BABY SEALS TO BE KILLED
Seal Alert-SA, Press Release, August 21, 2007:
Seal Alert-SA's Review
of the Scientific Presentation
by Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources
ENDING THE NAMIBIAN BABY SEAL CULL
SEAL ALERT-SA MEETING 9th August 07 WITH FISHERIES MINISTER, FISHING INDUSTRY & SCIENTISTS
Dear All Cape Fur
Seal Supporters,
Below you will clearly see what Seal
Alert-SA has been doing to save this species.
Francois.
This
Picture was taken
on 20th August 2005 at 10.35 at Cape Cross
Namibian Travel agencies and scientists claim this is the largest
Cape fur seal colony in southern Africa. Government then increased
the pup quota in 2006 by 30%, and has awarded two sealing rights
holders the right to club 50 000 pups a year on this colony for
2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, in which scientists claim 30% of pups
born is a sustainable harvest.
These
Pictures were taken
on the 10th August 2007 at 10.40 at Cape Cross
(2 years later on roughly the same day and time)
Not a single seal to be found, less than 30 days into 139 day
sealing season which started on July 1. This colony touted as the
largest, is now extinct. (I have extreme close-up's as well).
Sealing therefore cannot be sustainable as it causes extinction,
like it did to all the offshore seal island
colonies.
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