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THE SEALS OF NAM  Wednesday, June 15 · 12:30pm - 2:00pm Corner of Main Road and Peter Place, Bryanston West (outside the Bryanston Gate Office Park) In order to give the boycott campaign against Namibia another huge boost, Fur Free SA, in collaboration with Sea Shepherd and Beauty Without Cruelty, will be hosting a demo outside the offices of the Namibian Tourism Board in Bryanston, Johannesburg. We hope once again to have some of our wonderful celebs there – Christina Storm has already confirmed! But of course we mostly need YOU!!! If you are unable to make it, you can sign a petition against it. https://sites.google.com/site/thesealsofnam/get-involved/petitioN CAPE TOWN Friday, June 17 · 12:00pm - 2:00pm Lower Buitengracht (entrance to V & A Waterfront) We say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. We have made repeated calls to the Namibian Government to end this massacre, we have provided alternative solutions in terms of eco-tourism, but there are none so deaf as those who will not hear. We will be holding a PEACEFUL demonstration on the 17th of June. All are welcome to attend. As a show of solidarity and to create a visual impact, supporters are asked to wear black and red. Bring your own posters, which you can download from www.bwcsa.co.za/resources where we have stunning, impactful posters! PLEASE INVITE FRIENDS. You can also sign here https://sites.google.com/site/thesealsofnam/get-involved/petitioN
ANTI-SEALING DAY 2011 As part of the Anti-Sealing Day observed worldwide 15 March 2011, a press conference was held in Cape Town to create awareness of the annual massacre of around 85 000 nursing seal cubs in Namibia. Celebrity supporters include Verity, Siyabonga Beyile, Faizal Sayed, Mynie Grovè, Roxy Louw. As Gandhi said: 'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Organisations involved: Beauty Without Cruelty, Fur Free, Sea Shepherd SA and others  Verity, Toni Brockhoven, Faizal Sayed and Siyabonga Beyile in Cape Town,
at the Capetonian Hotel, who showed their support by donating the venue and extras. Did you know that the Namibian Seal massacre is responsible for the largest slaughter of wildlife on the planet? It is considered to be the most brutal of all killings and is now officially responsible for the death of more seals than the Canadian slaughter.
Namibia profits from products derived from seals such as seal skin which popular as a luxury , the seal oil, which is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, and there are two commercial uses, used for industrial grade oil and the production of cosmetics, paints, soaps and manufacturing of low-grade margarine!! Over the counter products such as Omega-3 oils and capsules derived from seal products have already become part of sales of medicine in some countries and possible surgical implants from seal tissue have been on the table as the use of seal heart valves for human heart surgery has of late shown to be promising.
Every year for the past three years, the kill quota has been set at 85 000 nursing pups and 6 000 bulls. In the past, concessionaries have admitted that there are simply not enough animals to kill, and they seldom meet their quota. Yet the Namibian authorities insist on increasing the quota.
The Namibian Government has been resorting to non-existent laws to arrest and detain journalists who attempt to film the cull. See http://bit.ly/eAQzaU. The government also inflates the figures of the actual seal population to justify a higher cull quota – see http://tinyurl.com/5rpp7nx Seal clubbers have been known to attack and beat journalists – see http://tinyurl.com/62vujny The following footage shows how savage this "cull" is (warning - graphic content): http://tinyurl.com/5wfb3we
CANADA On March 12, 2009 Canada announced plans to kill 255 000 Harp Seal pups this Northern Hemisphere spring. The seal slaughter commenced on March 23rd. The Canadian harp seal faces mass extinction from this man-made slaughter, while at the same time battling the results of global warming (also man-made) that has seen a drastic reduction in ice floes, which are their breeding grounds
Once again, the sealers, mostly off-season fishermen from Newfoundland and Quebec, have cast shame on Canada as they smashed in the heads of hundreds of thousands more baby animals last year. They are supported by the Canadian government (and therefore the Canadian tax payer), who supplies spotter aircraft and ice-cutter ships to make their job even easier. However, the efforts of activists around the world, and in particular the Canadian Senator Marc Harb who has brought a bill to end this senseless slaughter, may soon see the last of seal blood flowing on the ice. Together with the European Union, who has banned the import of any fur seal products, and the worldwide campaign to stop buying Canadian fish, the economic and moral screws are turning on the Canadian government. Visit www.seashepherd.org; www.ifaw.org; www.hsus.org for more information and how to help end this terrible killing.
NAMIBIA The annual slaughter of 80 000 Cape fur seal pups and 6 000 bulls will commence on July 1st, 2009 and continue until November 15th.
The baby seals are rounded up on Namibia's beaches with their nursing cows and clubbed to death, often as they are still feeding off their mothers’ milk.
In 2007, group CEO Stephen Lussier of De Beers Diamonds (the largest contributor to Namibia's GDP) wrote to Seal Alert-SA stating, "De Beers does not support any seal culling activities and like you, I cannot help but be moved by the images you have seen". Shortly thereafter, Germany became the third country to ban imports of specifically Cape fur seal products, of the four largest international tourism countries to Namibia, followed shortly afterwards by the Netherlands. Write to: His Excellency Mr. Philemon Kambala at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it asking for an end to this brutal, unsustainable slaughter. PLEASE keep you correspondence polite at all times. |
In addition to being a cruel, unnecessary slaughter, the harp seal hunt is one of the most glaring displays of Canadian mismanagement of the oceans. The 
As far back as 1971, the US banned imports of seal products from South Africa and Namibia, as under the US Marine Mammal Protection Act regulations it is a crime to club or kill seal pups still nursing or suckling in their breeding habitats. During a Commission on Sealing enquiry held in 1990 in South Africa, 11 top marine scientists recommended that the Cape fur seals be managed by both countries (Namibia and South Africa) as one population under one management policy, which led to South Africa ending its commercial seal culling policy in 1990.
Should a single Fisheries Minister be allowed to cause the extinction of the only species of seal found breeding on the African continent?