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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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
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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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