Demand Seal Awareness and Seal Rescue Station

  • por: Jacques Nel
  • destinatário: Community, interested parties and Environmental authorities

PETITION:

 10 January 2019

 Part 1:

The photo above was taken of a Seal that was shot on a rock on the beach, in St Helena bay.  Entry and exit wound. SPCA and Police was notified and inspected.

Many seals die from natural causes, but not all. Many gets shot, poisoned, gaved and beaten to death because some fishermen {not all} believes that the seals are in competition with them for fish. The ocean is the natural habitat for seals and they do feed on fish.

During season many pups strave on the beaches, waiting for their mothers who gets killed at sea.

 

Part 2:

The petition of the community and any interested parties to encourage the development of a Seal Rescue centre within the West Coast region by Jacques Nel and his team.

 

Part 3:

Draws the attention of the community and conservationists and environmental authorities to the neglect of Seals along the coast line of the West Coast area by many encounters experienced where dead seals are noted along the coast line. The cause of death, unknown in many cases. The number of deaths experienced yearly fluctuates every month, but as many as 10 to 30 dead seals noted monthly and during pup season, as much daily.  Many reported abandoned seal pups are also noted along the coast line and no facility to facilitate these stranded pups and rear them for sufficient release back into the environment.

Part 4:

The petitioners therefore request that the community, conservationists and environmental authorities support the development of a Seal rescue centre along the West Coast, as there is no such centre in this region and the nearest one is based in Hout bay, Cape Town. Also to promote the finances for school awareness campaigns on seals, whales and the marine environment within all schools and community centres within the West Coast area.

 

Part 5:

To support the legal requirements as stated in the Sea Birds and Seals Protection Act, No. 46 of 1973:

(cB) make regulations prohibiting or regulating the taking on board, without lawful reason, on any fishing boat as defined in the Sea Fisheries Act, 1973 (Act No. 58 of 1973), of any fire-arm or any instrument or substance with which seals may be killed, disturbed or frightened away;

[Para. (cB) inserted by s. 43 of Act No. 57 of 1975.]

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