From: Animals Australia. http://www.animalsaustralia.org/
Seals being clubbed to death in Namibia – All for an Australian Fur and Skins Company !
The world’s largest and cruellest slaughter of seals is about to commence on 1st July in Namibia.
Australian-based fur and skins company, Hatem Yavuz, is directly implicated in this annual brutal slaughter. Hatem Yavuz alone bought all of the dead seal pup skins from last year’s cull in order to make fur coats.
This year, the highest quota ever — 91,000 cape fur seals — are set to be killed.
Most pups will be so young that they are still being nursed by their mothers. The terrified pups will be rounded up, separated from their mothers and brutally clubbed to death.
The market for Namibian Cape Fur Seal skins has collapsed over recent years due to lack of demand and import bans in the European Union, the United States, Mexico and South Africa because of the cruelty involved in the sealing methods.
As of 2008, there was only one company left buying seal skins from Namibia — Hatem Yavuz.
An international campaign to expose and pressure Hatem Yavuz has been started by Seal Alert-South Africa. Please add your voice and express your outrage to Hatem Yavuz for their culpability in animal cruelty, and call on them to commit to never again buying Namibian Cape Fur Seal skins.
Take further action at:
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/namibian-seal-slaughter/
Filed under: CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional
Cape Fur Seals are friendly, intelligent mammals with strong social bonding in the colony.
Namibia seal clubbing is damaging their international reputation, seriously driving the tourism down, and will lead to economic decline.
There’s only one reason people go to Africa – the wildlife. But who would take their family and friends to a place conducting “secret” cruel acts of brutality against the very wildlife people go to see!