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Namibia’s wildlife: 85 000 Cape Fur seal pups beaten to death

Namibia is responsible for the largest slaughter of wildlife on earth, surpassing even the Canadian hunt in animals killed. Each year, 85 000 Cape Fur seal pups, a threatened species listed on Appendix II of CITES, are savagely beaten to death. Their pelts are sold for a mere $7. A further 6 000 adult bull seals are shot at point blank range so that their penises can be used to make ineffective aphrodisiacs.

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Killing seals to save Scottish salmon so we can kill them later

I just read an interesting tweet from @SealScotland, a campaigning group who aims "to protect Scotland’s seals while also raising the profile of Scotland’s seals and seals

  

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