Seals take control
The seals have voted with their flippers
Cape Cross, once the biggest Cape fur seal colony of all, has recently been completely abandoned. Management at Cape Cross lodge informed Sunday Independent journalist Eleanor Momberg, that tourists complaints, about the abandoned colony, has resulted in them now recommending them not to visit the area for seal watching. Many believe the seals have had enough of the relentless brutal slaughter and will never return. With no seals for the tourists to admire, the people of Cape Cross and surrounds are now going to suffer a severe financial blow. It is somehow ironic that the seals forced tourists to abandon the area themselves. When ecoeye covered what campaigning groups, Seal Alert and Sea Shepherd, have been warning the government about, the message was clear. Once tourists learn what is happening with the early morning slaying of the young seals, they would boycott Namibia and poor communities would suffer the most. Perhaps the government will now realise the dire consequences of continuing the barbaric practice of seal clubbing to both the local community and to the image and marketability of the country as a whole. Click here to read more.
