MCM in Mass
Seal-Death Cover-up, Illegal Killing of Seals At Elands
Bay, Going on for Years!
days
old baby seal pup found strangled by rope - after picture
was published in Die Burger newspaper
Department of Environmental Affairs official is filmed
removing "the evidence" in an attempt to conceal these
illegal seal killings
On Friday 4 January 2008, Sapa reported that Theressa
Frantz of Marine and Coastal Management, Director for
offshore and high seas fisheries, under whose mandate Seal
Protection falls, stated that none of the 100-150 dead
seals had been clubbed, strangled or shot illegally, and
that the cause of their death was natural.
Seal Alert-SA who has monitored this
colony since 2001, on a yearly basis, disputes these
official findings.
cracked
open pup skull
Cracked open seal skulls are not natural causes of death,
nor is strangulation via a rope around a baby seal's neck
tied firmly to a rock, nor is .22mm bullet shell casings
found alongside dead seals in previous years.
Seal Alert-SA further questions,
why MCM and SPCA are only investigating this incident
following the publication of the strangulation of the seal
pup photograph in the Die Burger newspaper, when they are
well aware this carnage and killing of seals occurs
annually at Elands Bay. Whereby by the end of March, each
year the seal colony is completely eradicated.
Professor Andy Smith of the
Archaeological department has found evidence that the
bushman cave directly above the Elands Bay seal
colony used seal pups, with the seal bones dating back
over 10 000 years, making this seal colony the oldest
known, and culturally very significant.
In further damning evidence of MCM
attempt at a cover-up a department official was
photographed removing the evidence of this seal pup being
killed via strangulation.
Seal Alert-SA presented evidence
of these seal killings at Elands Bay as far back as 12
December 2004, in a program aired nationally on 50/50.
In even further damning evidence
against MCM's disregard for the conservation and protection
of these CITES listed endangered seal species. Seal
Alert-SA presents a sworn Affidavit by a member of the
public dating back to 2000. In which she not only found
that seals had been shot illegally but had also collected
the .22mm gun-shell casings found alongside these seals.
Furthermore in her statement she states that Inspector
Johnny Spens of MCM informed her that he was well aware
seals were being shot at Elands Bay and that he had
difficulty catching the perpetrators.
The question to therefore address
to Theresa Frantz of MCM, if even her own inspectors is
aware of the shooting and clubbing of seals, why is MCM
attempting to cover-up this annual illegal carnage of these
endangered seals at Elands Bay. Could it be that the
crayfish factory alongside deems this seal colony as
something undesirable.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27-21-790 8774
