by ACF | Aug 28, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals, Wildlife News
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has targeted Namibia’s annual seal culling operation with a covert operation aimed at recording and exposing the brutality of the cull. The Society launched Operation Desert Seal II in Namibia on Friday. Its Oceanic Research... by ACF | Jul 15, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals
NAMIBIA’S annual seal hunt, which will see some 86,000 Cape fur seals slaughtered by end November, starts on Sunday amid outcry from conservation groups that brand it a massacre for trade purposes. This year targets are to club 80,000 pups and shoot 6000 bulls... by ACF | Jul 11, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals
On the 15th July 2012, 20 Namibian men are preparing themselves to go into protected baby seal nurseries and attempt to find, and then separate 85 000 baby seals from their mothers and beat them to death for their soft pelts over the next 4,5 months. Later, a further... by ACF | Jun 28, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals, Wildlife News
“From the facts placed before me I do not have adequate and sufficient grounds in law and fact to recommend to the Namibian government to stop the annual seal harvest.” “I trust my Report with its findings and recommendations will ensure better... by ACF | Jun 26, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals, Wildlife News
NAMIBIA’S Ombudsman, John Walters has proposed a host of changes to the regulations governing culling in Namibia, although he endorses the practice. After a lot of complaints from seal rights activists, particularly Seal-Alert SA, Walters called a stakeholders... by ACF | Jun 23, 2012 | Conservation Threats, Seals
On July 1, 2012 The Republic of Namibia will begin 139 days of barbaric wildlife carnage ~ the largest slaughter of marine wildlife in the world ~ separating over 90,000 baby Cape Fur Seals from their mothers ~ brutally stabbing & clubbing them to death ~ $7.00 a...