OUI les pétitions servent à quelque chose !!!

[terrienne 0]

la pétition contre le massacre des otaries et des phoques en Namibie a recueilli 1102 signatures.
François Hugo, l'homme qui se bat depuis des années pour la sauvegarde de ces animaux, vient de signer avec les autorités une convention scellant la fin de leurs massacres.
un énorme MERCI à tous ceux qui se sont mobilisés pour cette cause. c'est grâce à vous, à toutes les autres pétitions et à l'inlassable bataille que mène François Hugo que nous devons ce succès.

voici une photo de François Hugo :
http://www.linternaute.com/television/programme/photo/vu-du-ciel-yann-arthus-bertrand-en-afrique-du-sud/francois-hugo-l-homme-aux-otaries.shtml

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Sujet : Results For the Petition You Signed, Only 7 days to stop the Worlds largest Seal slaughter!
Date : Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:48:20 -0700
De : ThePetitionSite <petitions@earth.care2.com>
Pour : terrienne01@free.fr


Dear Odette,

You signed the petition, Only 7 days to stop the Worlds largest Seal slaughter!, on Jun 26, 2009. The petition received 1120 signatures. The petition author, Radiant Living, has now closed the petition and posted the results:

Message from the petition author, Radiant Living:

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Seal Approved! The Seals are Saved!

Francois Hugo (the Seal man) has signed an Exclusive Agreement to end the Seal Culling and Sealing in Namibia. Please visit http://www.radiantliving.co.za for pics and the full story on the 1 July. We will also supply all of Francois' Contact details so that you can remain updated concerning the Seals welfare.The results of this petition will be forwarded as a THANK YOU to Francois and the parties involved in this agreement.

A humungous THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this petition. Intention is energy and the combined enrgy from this petition combined with other petitions linked to the Seals as well as Francois' relentless battle to save the Seals , has produced an awesome result and a resounding success.You guys ROCK!

With gratitude, appreciation, love and light.

Jen and Friends

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[hop 0]

Splendide nouvelle, merci Terrienne !

Les sous ont joué un rôle déterminant puisque, si je comprends bien l'article cité, il s'est agit (ça s'dit ? ) de racheter l'industrie de la fourrure de phoques de namibie : stock de fourrures, contrats, usines, etc...



...Despite the Namibian government confirming that Yavuz was the purchaser of this year's consignment of furs, Yavuz has said that he had already stopped the purchase of Namibian seal products because of the present economic climate.

The two concessionaires had also indicated that it was no longer viable for them to continue in the industry.

"The world market for seal skins, particularly Namibian Cape fur seal skins, is dead, but Namibia refuses to announce an end to its cruel seal clubbing policies," said Hugo.

This week Yavuz and the concessionaires contacted Hugo and asked him to purchase Namibia's sealing industry "lock, stock and barrel".

This meant buying up all the remaining furs, all contracts, the processing factories in Namibia and Turkey, and creating full-time jobs for those set to lose their part-time annual income.

Hugo said talks were already under way, but that he wanted to bring interested parties such as the Dutch government, which had been instrumental in securing the EU ban, De Beers, which had expressed its displeasure with the culling of seals, and potential financiers on board.

"I want this to be a success story and not just a private business deal," he said.

"But, it takes money. Seal Alert-SA is appealing for any financial partners to come forward to help make this deal a reality."

Hugo said he had been given an undertaking by Yavuz that if this sale went through he would "walk away from the fur industry worldwide".

Seal Alert-SA planned to turn the sealing factories in Namibia into seal museums for tourists after ending the seal cull.


http://www.radiantliving.co.za

[Animal 0]

Citation :

l'article cité, il s'est agit (ça s'dit ? ) de racheter l'industrie de la fourrure de phoques de namibie : stock de fourrures, contrats, usines, etc...

C'est bien ce que j'ai aussi compris hop ...
Il n'y aura plus de chasse au phoque car ça n'était plus rentable. Éventuellement, les usines de transformation pourraient être transformées en musée. C'est une super bonne nouvelle

[Cath10 0]

Non non non, c'est impossible....
Non mais je rêve.... ça ne se peut pas.

[hop 0]

The ‘business’ of saving seals is just that, business. Whether $7 is paid for a seal skin or $10 is charged to view seals in the wild or $25 is donated regularly to campaign against cruel seal hunts or $100 is donated to rescue seals or $500 is paid to adopt-a-seal or $5000 is paid for a seal fur jacket, it is all business at the end of the day. Therefore buying out the Namibian sealing industry, to stop clubbing and cruelty, to give these endangered seals a life-time in the wild, at $15 a seal, makes good business sense.

The 910 000 seals earmarked to be killed by sealers until 2019, at $15 a seal, will cost Seal Alert-SA and its supporters $14 million, the price the Namibian sealing industry has offered.

Today,1 July 2009 is D-Day for Namibia’s 85 000 baby seal pups. According to a front page report in The Namibian newspaper yesterday, (http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2009/june/article/million-dollar-bid-to-end-seal-clubbing ), “The sealing season starts on July 1 I think, there have been no changes”, Dr Moses Maurihungiriri, Director of Resource Management at the Ministry, told The Namibian yesterday.“We are in the third year of a three-year rolling seal quota of 85 000 seal pups and 6 000 bulls annually, which was issued in 2007,” he added.

Seal Alert-SA’s, the one-man seal rescue organization based in South Africa is struggling to raise the full cash amount of $14 million US dollars the sealing industry offered it 5 days ago. Its extortion and blackmail to be placed in such a position and a heavy burden to have a million endangered seal lives and their future dependent on your financial ability to buy them their life-time as a single individual.

Pledges for the buy-out of the sealers is flooding in from individuals and supporting organizations from around the world, with the highest pledge so far of $150 000 US dollars from one individual in Australia, Australian Man of the Year and a former merchant banker and another $100 000 from a television channel in China, but it takes time, and the time has run out for the seals in Namibia. Without any surety that I can raise the $14 million, I am in a catch 22-position, where I am able to put down a deposit of 10 percent of the purchase price, to contractual secure that no seal pups will be slaughtered whilst negotiations are underway to buy-out the industry.

(...)


http://sealalertsa.wordpress.com/

[Animal 0]

Excuse-moi Cath si je t'ai fait une fausse joie..., mais je crois que j'avais mal interprété cette nouvelle...
En fait, d'après ce dernier article de hop, il s'agirait plutôt d'un organisme pour les animaux qui serait prêt à offrir à des chasseurs de phoques ce qu'ils gagneraient normalement s'ils abattaient 910 000 phoques jusqu'en 2019... Seal Alert-SA’s tente ainsi d'amasser 14millions de $ (dons, etc.), afin d'épargner la vie de ces phoques, mais pas sûr que cette asso ait l'argent nécessaire avant la reprise de la chasse ...

[hop 0]

Moi aussi, j'avais cru comprendre qu'il y avait eu d'un côté l'engagement de récolter ces 14 millions et de l'autre, celui de mettre fin à cette chasse. Mais les autorités ont maintenu la date d'ouverture et la chasse s'est ouverte hier.

[Cath10 0]

Ça va... je crois qu'au fond, je savais que c'était trop beau pour être vrai. Mais ce n'est pas de ta faute Animal, c'est moi qui avait mal-lu le texte de hop !

Si je comprends bien, ce pauvre gars doit ramasser tout cet argent pour sauver les phoques... et si la saison s'est ouverte hier, est-ce que ça veut dire qu'ils ont commencé à tuer les phoques, parce qu'il n'avait pas tout l'argent ?

[Animal 0]

Citation :

et si la saison s'est ouverte hier, est-ce que ça veut dire qu'ils ont commencé à tuer les phoques, parce qu'il n'avait pas tout l'argent ?

oui Cath


Voici cette nouvelle en français...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jaz2YojExNuhq3N4Q0UD2XNGzr-w


....La saison d'abattage des bébés phoques sur la côte atlantique de Namibie s'est ouverte mercredi, alors que des défenseurs des animaux tentaient de rassembler des millions de dollars pour acquérir le pelletier australien qui achète les fourrures.

[Cath10 0]

C'est toujours qu'une question d'argent !!! Merde ! J'peux pas le croire!!! Moi qui croyait que les phoques auraient pu être épargnées !!! On va l'avoir, l'argent !!! Ils auraient pu attendre !!! Ahhh que c'est frustrant !!!

Citation :

Les mâles sont tués pour leurs testicules, utilisées une fois séchées dans la médecine traditionnelle chinoise.

Médecine traditionelle chinoise... mon !!!

[hop 0]

Breaking News, the FULL STORY, after 3 weeks of international news reporting. Many reporters, readers and supporters have confessed confusion.

Either we together do this or seals lose. Let us all sit down – please !

Has a single seal pup this season been clubbed to death, to this I cannot tell you, some say yes, some no, with sealers claiming they weighing the pups for size and weight on the sealing colonies because they are too small, (first time I have heard an excuse like this why the seal cull has not started) ? Is the Namibian sealing industry buyout offer off or on, again your guess is as good as mine ?

All I know is that 85 000 seal pups need our support now more than ever before.


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Doing ‘Seal Business’ in Africa
http://sealalertsa.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/doing-seal-business-in-africa/

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Namibia : Seal Cull NOT Started, Hang-in There Baby Seals, Help Coming - 07/07/09
http://sealalertsa.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/namibia-seal-cull-not-started/