Maria Daines
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4/12/2006 1:52:21 PM
Add your name to OIPA supporters and help to stop animal cruelty world wide!
Please give your support and endorce this letter ......... and return it with your organisation or individual name/address to: OIPA Int. international@oipa.org
Your names/organisations will be listed below.
Thank You
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UNESCO Headquarters
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 París 07 SP
Francia
Dear sir,
OIPA – international Organisation for animal protection, is an International Confederation of associations for the animal protection and for the defence of animal rights all over the world, Founded in 1981 by Milly Shär Manzoli, OIPA is a Non Governmental Organisation associated to the UN Department of Public Information since 1992.
The Organisation’s purpose consists in the defence of animal rights and in the defence of the animals from every kind of mistreatment. It also follows the purpose of improving the public health through the abolishment of any kind of animal experiments throughout the world. The Organisation also works for environmental defence, where precarian ecological conditions may damage human health and animal and vegetal life in their wholeness.
The Organisation wants to contribute to a better, healthier and a more humane world, towards a medical science that is not based on violence, for a more efficient sanitarian structure, and for an ecologically clean environment.
In the Republic of South Africa, the Cape Fur Seals are consider “res nullius”, meaning they have no owner, and therefore, they have no animal rights protection, as they are not considered Sentient Beings. Because of antiquated laws, one-sided laws, fishermen are allowed to carry weapons and explosives on their fishing trips for fear of piracy, “A euphemistic phrase to cover up the daily slaughter of innocent Seals”.
The South African Seals that have been in existence for five million years are slowly disappearing, from their offshore islands, and if the slaughter is not curbed soon, there will be no Fur Seals period. Offshore islands are their natural habitat. Sealing and physical banning has already ensured that this species has become extinct on every major island off the coast of South Africa.
Present, meaning today, over 300 000 are dying from being clubbed, shot, entangled, drowned, beaten, abused or are starving to death. Daily, it is estimated over 1000 seals succumb to these multiple, mostly man induced threats, upon them. This is how the yearly death toll is made up;
- 60 000, 7-month old seal pups are clubbed to death on these mainland desert beaches, with wooden pick-axe handles, killing one in every two seal pups.
- 7000 bulls are shot simply for their penises.
- Up to 30 000 or 5000 new-born pups per concessionaire, are allowed to "squash" these babies whilst recovering shot bulls within the colony by truck.
- Since 1988, re-occurring incidents of mass starvation of seals involving over 250 000 in each incident, or 25% of the total population, has become common with the 2005/2006 pupping season expected to be the worst yet.
- Less than 20% of the seals still occur in South African waters, yet these seals are forced to compete for "prey" from 65 000 trawl nets deployed, where one trawl, can result in up to 25 seals being drowned, in what is commonly termed "incidental drowning", thousands are being drowned annually.
- In South Africa alone, 30 000 commercial fishermen put to sea daily, many, if not all are armed with fire-arms, with which thousands of seals are shot illegally. The Minister refusing to ban this illegal practice, and with no arrests to date, refuses to prosecute these criminals.
- Due to being banned to unsuitable awash rocks, during pupping time, an estimated 40 000 baby seal pups are washed off, drowning i
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