Date: June 24, 2007
Seal Alert-SA Press Release : June 25, 2007.
Less than 7-days to go to the largest slaughter
of endangered animals and
the second largest seal harvest in the world
Namibian
Sealers 'Snub' Dutch Parliament Ban on Seal
Imports
Namibian Sealers getting ready to club nursing baby Cape fur
seals
According to the Namibian Newspaper, Namibian Sealing Stakeholders
"are not deterred by the (Dutch Parliament's)
decision". Snubbing
The Dutch Parliamentary ban on seal imports, claiming it will
not stop the culling from taking place, say the Sealing Industry.
(see article)
www.namibian.com.na/2007/June/national/079DCCD797.html.
What Sealing Industry? Asks Francois
Hugo of Seal Alert-SA, a three-man Sealing Concessionaire group of
thugs who hire part-time un-skilled labour to do their sickening
baby seal-killing work for 139 days of each year? That's not
sealing or an industry, that is sadistic baby seal slaughter.
SealAlert-SA who is in direct contact with
Dutch Minister Gerda Verburg, the Social Party and the
PartyvierDiere in the Netherlands will ensure that they receive a
copy of this article, and the 'snub' by the Namibian Sealers,
which most export their seal product to Europe.
Namibian Sealers should consider things
very carefully, and stop sealing themselves or risk jeopardising
their far more lucrative tourism industry, via a boycott.
Are the Sealers in Namibia not aware of
the fact, that Germany who equally now heads the 27-nation European
Commission, specifically introduced a ban on Cape fur seal imports
into their legislation recently. Who according to the Namibian
Tourism Board, International Tourism Exchange(ITB) figures. Germany
remains Namibia's most important tourism market. Followed closer by
the Netherlands, USA and Italy, all of which have banned Cape fur
seal imports.
I wonder how the thousands of Namibian
Guest-House Owners, Lodge-Operators, Hotels, Tour-Guides who have
invested heavily into catering for these European
tourists, feel, about the three-man Namibian Sealing Industry
'snub' of the ban on seal imports?
Should Namibians themselves not call for
an end to their sick seal culling industry, particularly the
tourism industry taking European travellers to see these
seal-killing colonies. Seal Alert-SA will have to request the
Dutch, German, US and Italian Parliaments to consider somesort of
tourism boycott of Namibia, should the seal cull go ahead on July
1.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
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Dutch ban on seal products won't stop local culling
ADAM HARTMAN
NAMIBIA'S seal-culling season starts on July 1, and although animal-rights activists consider the recent decision by the Dutch parliament to ban all Cape fur seal products as a victory, Namibian stakeholders are not deterred by the decision.
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As in previous years, animal-rights activists from all over the world are bemoaning the fate of the tens of thousands of baby seals that will be culled, calling it inhumane and unnecessary.
In Gauteng, South Africa last week, activists in mourning dress marched with funeral music in the background as they moved up and down in front of the Namibian High Commission in Johannesburg, carrying posters stating, 'Stop Killing Baby Seals' and 'Sick Men Club Babies To Death'.
To add fuel to the fire, the Dutch Minister of Environment, Gerda Verburg, on Wednesday announced that a new law banning all imports of Cape fur seal products would come into effect by September.
"The most time consuming is the total ban on Cape fur seal products.
The international trade in these products is regulated very strictly and some additional steps had to be taken to reach a total ban," she was reported as saying.
The decision will not stop the culling from taking place, Namibian stakeholders in the industry told The Namibian yesterday.
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