Date: April 5, 2008
Reply to Seal Alert-SA South Africa
Dear All Cape Fur Seal Supporters, and those of Harp Seals,
Canadian Sealer sobs as he
thinks about the death of his 4 sealing buddies
It's Time to
Save Seals, from 'Cry-Baby' Sealers
A Canadian delegation to the EU appeals for mercy not to
impose Seal Import bans.
One
posted message expressed hope that seals would eat the body
of the missing man.
Sealer Longuepee said he played hockey, took boat trips and
shared bottles of red wine with the men lost at sea.
They're all my friends. Tomorrow (Saturday) they're going
to be under the ground. It's crazy. Can you imagine how the
family feels when they see these comments.
Can
you imagine how we feel watching you club 600 000 baby
seals to death or how the seal families feel?
Paul
Watson receives the following message, "
I am a well educated man from Newfoundland currently
living in Atlantic Canada and I support the seal hunt, I
support the seal fur trade!! There is no greater pleasure
than clubbing a baby seal and feeling that skull collapsing
and watching them trying to crawl away and then smacking
the little shits again. It ideally
should be accomplished in one blow but
sometimes it takes two or even three!! Hey all the little
bastards do is eat fish and defecate so we are getting rid
of animals that do more to
destroy ecosystems of fish than are actually contributing
to more stable ecosystems. Besides seal meat tastes great
and the fur is warm. Baby seal meat
is exceptionally good!!".
Is
this statement not true for the over 6 billion of man-kind?
Double standards.
Sustainable use wildlife conservation organizations support
the slaughtering of clubbing, stabbing, shooting and
kicking in the skulls of 600 000 baby seals annually
worldwide, and then mounted the largest rescue operations
in environmental history to re-locate 20 000 oiled
penguins, whilst governments contributes millions to the
rescue fund.
Whilst doing nothing to save a million seals starving to
death.
Double standards.
Its time we see the need to save seals, not from the
effects of mankind's oil-pollution or global warming, but
mankind's overfishing and sealing clubs.
Its time to stop taking pictures of sealers killing seals.
Its time to mount the largest environmental rescue
operation in history. The relocation of over a million
weaned seal pups to safer ice floes or as many as possible.
Seal Alert-SA has been do so for years, rescuing baby Cape
fur seals and weaned pups fleeing sealers, and
re-colonizing them into new and safe offshore colonies.
Is it possible?, Russian sealers regularly transport tens
of thousands of harp seal pups from ice floes to seal
farms. As HSUS's photographer Nigel Barker stated two weeks
before the 2008 seal hunt, "He stood next to them,
photographed them inches from their faces, and
they stared up inquisitively with doey eyes and
flaring nostrils. "The only humans they're seeing are
us [here now]...and they come right up to you...the word
'hunt' is a farse. They don't run away".
Seals taken from ice floes
and re-located to Russian Seal Farms
A
record number of over 60 organizations and media companies
have applied for observation permits to monitor and film
the seal hunt. Its time to put these resources into good
use. Seashepherd already has 137-ft ship in the area,
instead of retiring for a week at the Island of St Pierre
to off-load video footage, only to be chased away by
sealers, surely Seashepherd could have used the time to
"seashepherd these seal pups to safer areas"? HSUS and IFAW
both have easy access to helicopters and large groups of
volunteers. Russian sealers collect and remove tens of
thousands of white-coat seal pups in exactly the same way
and move them into pens for slaughter.
Could international seal saving organizations not do the
same. Would such rescue not send a very clear message to
the EU, at this most critical of times.
Canada banned large sealing boats over 65-ft in 1984,
surely it would be relatively simple as most seal pups are
already beyond Canada's 12-mile territorial range, to
re-locate these seal pups beyond the range of small sealing
boats and sealers.
The Seal hunt has stopped for the week, to give the sealers
time to mourn the four dead.
The time is now ! To go in and rescue the seal pups and
move them away from the reach of the sealers, to safer
waters and ice floes.
For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
link to
sealmancam
