saw this on facebook:
http://www.uncaged.co.za/
The world's second largest seal cull is set to start on 1 July 2007. This slaughter has been called the cruelest in the world as nursing pups are ripped from their mothers, killed while mother's milk spill from their noses and mouths.
In July 2006, just prior to the start of the 2006 cull, the Namibian Ministry of Fisheries stated the seal population was still recovering from the 1994 mass die-off, and was at 27% below pre-1993 levels. During the 2006 cull, concessionaires often had to stop and bury up to 900 dead seals a day. The Ministry launched an investigation in to the cause of this mass die-off and found the animals were not dying of disease, but the deaths were caused by starvation. The Ministry also admitted the seal pups of the Wolf/Atlas Bay colony have been starving so badly that their growth have dropped to less than 10% (from 30g/day to just 2g/day). It also found that 48% and 51% of the pups were below the surviving threshold of 11kg. The Ministry's own researchers concluded that the majority of pups wouldn't survive beyond post weaning age.
http://www.uncaged.co.za/
The world's second largest seal cull is set to start on 1 July 2007. This slaughter has been called the cruelest in the world as nursing pups are ripped from their mothers, killed while mother's milk spill from their noses and mouths.
In July 2006, just prior to the start of the 2006 cull, the Namibian Ministry of Fisheries stated the seal population was still recovering from the 1994 mass die-off, and was at 27% below pre-1993 levels. During the 2006 cull, concessionaires often had to stop and bury up to 900 dead seals a day. The Ministry launched an investigation in to the cause of this mass die-off and found the animals were not dying of disease, but the deaths were caused by starvation. The Ministry also admitted the seal pups of the Wolf/Atlas Bay colony have been starving so badly that their growth have dropped to less than 10% (from 30g/day to just 2g/day). It also found that 48% and 51% of the pups were below the surviving threshold of 11kg. The Ministry's own researchers concluded that the majority of pups wouldn't survive beyond post weaning age.
