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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18845596

15 July 2012 Last updated at 03:50 GMT

Namibia's controversial annual seal hunt set to begin

Namibia's annual seal hunt is set to begin on Sunday, amid an outcry from conservation groups.

The target this year is to club 80,000 pups and 6,000 bulls by the time the hunt ends in November.

Namibian authorities say the cull is necessary because of a burgeoning and unsustainable seal population which threatens the fishing industry.

But campaigners say the hunts are carried out for commercial gain, as the seals' fur and fat is sold on.

Namibia's seal hunt is reported to be the world's second largest, after Canada's notorious annual cull of its seal population.

It takes place in two reserves where the seals are rounded up on the beach and hit on the head with spiked wooden clubs.

The carcasses are processed in the factories of seven commercial licence holders, which harvest the seals for their pelts, fat and male sexual organs, which are believed to have aphrodisiac properties in some parts of the world.

Seal product ban

"Namibia's seal population has increased to the point where they exceeded by far the carrying capacity of the environment," the government said in a statement.

"Therefore it is humane to curb the unrestrained seal population to a level where they can be sustained by the environment."

Jason Bell, director for Southern Africa at conservation charity International Fund for Animal Welfare, told the AFP news agency: "There is no justification for the killing. This is purely a political and economic issue, with very little concern for animal welfare."

He said that bans on the imports of seal products by the United States and European Union could help to raise awareness and shrink the market for seal goods.

Last year, a report commissioned by a coalition of environmental groups found that seals were more valuable to Namibia alive.

The study, The economics of seal hunting and seal watching in Namibia, found that revenue gained from tourists travelling to Namibia for seal watching outweighed the revenue from the hunt.

In addition to Namibia and Canada, seal hunting also takes place in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Greenland.
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:sick: I feel for those poor animals :(.

Karma must catchup to those bastards that kill them :(.
 
Reminds me of the South Park Episode: Whale Whores...

Only slaughtering chickens and cows is ok!
 
I never see people clubbing fish or pigoens or rats :p
 
What's wrong with using a non-endangered and readily available resource? As long as all the meat, fat and hide is used and not wasted, I see nothing wrong with the killing of a not-endangered animal which endangeres the existence of other species like the fish at the Namibian coast.
 
Why do people feel so strongly about this yet happily chow meat?

It is the same thing. Slaughtering animals for consumption but seals well no we can't do that but cows, yes lets kill them and eat. No problem.

It isn't like the seal population is in decline. Silly how humans are happy to eat meat but cannot handle a seal being killed.
 
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killadoob said:
Why do people feel so strongly about this yet happily chow meat?

It is the same thing. Slaughtering animals for consumption but seals well no we can't do that but cows, yes lets kill them and eat. No problem.

It isn't like the seal population is in decline. Silly how humans are happy to eat meat but cannot handle a seal being killed.
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i think it's the manner in which it is done, thus the clubbing. i don't think highly of the people that do it either, it's basically like giving a lunatic a license to go kill as many things as they want for the day
 
What don't the people like about this? the killing method or the actually animal being killed?
More stirr around this that the Rhino poaching...and they are endangered...
 
Why is this an issue? I agree with posts saying that we should be allowed to kill and eat non-endangered species. Such as cows. It must be monitored properly tho, otherwise they will go into decline. But if they aren't going down, how come we can't chow them?
 
spiderz said:
What don't the people like about this? the killing method or the actually animal being killed?
More stirr around this that the Rhino poaching...and they are endangered...
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method.
 
smalltownsky said:
i think it's the manner in which it is done, thus the clubbing. i don't think highly of the people that do it either, it's basically like giving a lunatic a license to go kill as many things as they want for the day
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Have you seen how cows and so on are slaughtered?

Please it's the exact same thing but for some reason slaughtering a cow is fine. Slitting a cows throat to make it halaal or whatever is cool eh? Shame no big deal.

Heaven forbid they club a seal. OMG no that cannot be right but heck kill cows however you like. I get the feeling if you cannot see how an animal is killed it's all good but the minute you see it then it's bad.

There is an abundance of seals on offer, they are not endangered so why the outcry?

It's called a hunt because they need to go and hunt the seals, the seals are not in cages waiting for someone to put a bolt through it's head.
 
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killadoob said:
Have you seen how cows and so on are slaughtered?

Please it's the exact same thing but for some reason slaughtering a cow is fine. Slitting a cows throat to make it halaal or whatever is cool eh? Shame no big deal.

Heaven forbid they club a seal. OMG no that cannot be right but heck kill cows however you like. I get the feeling if you cannot see how an animal is killed it's all good but the minute you see it then it's bad.

There is an abundance of seals on offer, they are not endangered so why the outcry?

It's called a hunt because they need to go and hunt the seals, the seals are not in cages waiting for someone to put a bolt through it's head.
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It is the method that it is done. We understand that they are threatening the ecosystem and that they eat too much fish, we understand they they are used as a resource. However:

However, reports by anti-hunting groups and some independent scientific observers since the late 1990s indicate that hunters routinely ignore these regulations. Among the more than 700 apparent violations witnessed (and often filmed) by these groups were: failure to administer a blinking reflex test; allowing wounded but obviously conscious seals to suffer in agony while hunters strike or shoot other seals; dragging obviously conscious seals across the ice with boat hooks; throwing dying seals into stockpiles; killing seals by stabbing them through the head with picks and other illegal weapons; and skinning seals while they were not only alive but conscious. In 2001 a report by an international veterinary panel whose members observed the hunt and examined the carcasses concluded that it was likely that 42 percent of the animals studied had been conscious when they were skinned.
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Imagine beating a cow to death before you eat it. Beating, not a bolt ot the head, not slittign the throat so it dies quickly, literally beating a cow so that it's inside gush out and it's braisn splatter all over the floor. On top of that, this is one of those grey areas where it's perfectly cool to be a complete sociopath because there is a reason. Oh, you're hunting paedophiles and torturing them? that's cool, keep up the good work. what? too many seals? here is your spiked club and license sir, have a good day.

it is more economical to simply beat them to death, it's true, but it's also more economical to refer to any casuality of war as a terrorist rather than a civilian
 
killadoob said:
Have you seen how cows and so on are slaughtered?
Please it's the exact same thing but for some reason slaughtering a cow is fine. Slitting a cows throat to make it halaal or whatever is cool eh? Shame no big deal.
Heaven forbid they club a seal. OMG no that cannot be right but heck kill cows however you like. I get the feeling if you cannot see how an animal is killed it's all good but the minute you see it then it's bad.
There is an abundance of seals on offer, they are not endangered so why the outcry?
It's called a hunt because they need to go and hunt the seals, the seals are not in cages waiting for someone to put a bolt through it's head.
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Rubbish, there is a huge difference between the way that cows are humanely slaughtered and seals are clubbed with a barbed hook to the head.
As usual and once again you have no idea what you are talking about.
Go and do some research to stop yourself from looking like a fool with verbal diarhea.
 
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