SEAL ALERT ! AGAINST THE BRUTAL KILLINGS OF SEALS IN NAMIBIA SO THEIR FUR CAN BE SOLD IN TURKEY

The Issue

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Hello, my name is Francois Hugo, founder of Seal Alert-SA based in South Africa. On 1 July 2009, the Namibian seal cull of baby Cape fur seals will become the largest and cruelest seal hunt in the world. For the next 139 days seal clubbers in Namibia will beat to death 91,000 baby seals who are still suckling their mothers. These seal skin imports were banned in the US in 1972. Although I have managed to get the EU to ban Cape fur seal product imports in 2009, and met Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula in 2007, Namibia has vowed to go ahead with its baby seal cull.

The latest development, due to the EU Seal ban and world economic crisis, is that Namibian sealers could only find one seal fur buyer in 2008. This individual is Hatem Yavuz, based in Australia. He continues to purchase baby fur skins, which he exports to Turkey, a non-EU member, and he could be the sole reason why Namibia does not announce an end to its seal culling policy, as have Russia and South Africa.

I implore you to politely ask Hatem Yavuz to issue a public letter announcing he will no longer buy Namibian seal fur skins. Thank you very much.

For the SealsFrancois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
INTERVIEW WITH HATEM YAVUZ:
(As you see, this will be another battle for ARA, but who says our fight for animals has ever been easy?)
"....FACTS: If I don't buy these skins and oils etc., the monster economy CHINA will. Due to the respect by the Namibian harvesters, they have not bent down to the Chinese. Even in the event that I don't buy the skins, then the fishing industry will do what is necessary for their business. The difference is between the Chinese and I, is that I make a very nice value added product which does not require mass quantities.

The Chinese manufacturers will have to purchase the full quota and maybe ask for an increase on the quota to make up the same value that I have done in the past years. Eventually they will learn, and eventually they will approach our company and pay us top dollars to teach them, since the seal protestors will eventually play the so-called productive role in stopping my company doing this business. I would have to sell this section of my company to the Chinese. What happens then?

The Chinese are in negotiations with the Canadian harvesters to cull the full quota of harp seals. This is an example when you BAN. The middle class Chinese are seen almost everywhere, elite shopping centres popping up like mushrooms throughout the country. The Chinese dominate the Mink, Beaver, Fox, Racoon and now the Seals? I do respect protestors, as long as the protestors themselves look in the mirror and calculate the outcome first before making noise...."
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