Please sign this petition to Save South African Rhinos in National and Provincial Parks  from being sold to Hunting Farms.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-rhino-from-being-sold-to-hunters

 
For more information on how rhinos are under siege in South Africa please see ARA’s recent report:

http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/Archive/ARA_Report_Under_Siege_Rhinos_in_South_Africa2009_.pdf

Contact persons for ARA:
Steve Smit +27 (0) 82 659 4711
Michele Pickover +27 (0) 82 253 2124
ARA email - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
ARA website – www.animalrightsafrica.org

Please urgently sign this very important petition to try and stop the culling of dispersing baboons before it’s too late.  This petition is valid and can be shown as public support for the baboons. As I write this, Bart, a lone male, is being followed relentlessly for capturing and ‘euthanasia” by the authorities.   He is not the only adult male baboon ear-marked for imminent death, despite them being a protected species on the Cape Peninsula.

This is in spite of the fact that for hundreds, if not housands of years, adult male baboons have moved from the peninsula to find new troops further inland. Nowadays because of city development the traditional route through the Cape Flats to the Hottentots Holland mountains has been cut off, thereby leaving baboons such as Bart with no option but to either risk their lives by crossing the Cape Flats or staying in the suburbs of Cape Town as a lone male, tempted by the easy food readily available from bins, fruit trees and houses.

The City of Cape Town and Cape Nature Conservation refuses to assist these males off the peninsula by translocating them to a new troop, because they feel there is no conservation benefit, even though translocation is an option set out in the new protocol. Another excuse they are using is the problem of internal parasites and the worry that baboons from the urban edge will infect other troops not living on the edge. I feel that this really needs to be researched in more detail, with input from experienced primatologists, as there seems to be conflicting scientific opinion around this thought.

The word “Euthenase” is being used in all official correspondence and statements around this issue. To me “euthanasia” means relieving animals of pain and suffering, when there is no viable option available for the animal to live out their natural life in comfort and freedom. Therefore I am not using the term “euthenase” in this letter to you, as it is misleading. There are most certainly viable options available for these males, and for Bart in particular. All they need is a little assistance, in this case by the CITY of Cape Town, to get through the city of Cape Town.

HUMANE CAPTURE
NSPCA has specified to Cape Nature that the baboons are not allowed to be shot by a sharp shooter, but need to be captured and then killed humanely by injection. In the past few weeks, the new service provider has attempted to catch Bart unsuccessfully, spending R12 000 on vet bills. Baboon Matters has offered to help catch him for translocation, as with the experience and success rate of their Rescue Team, they would probably have more chance of success. Their offer was declined.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Baboon Matters is calling for the translocation of Bart and other dispersing males off the peninsula, rather than taking the lethal management option. If you would like to voice your opinion and make a difference, please send an email to the Mayor of Cape Town: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

You can also sign the on-line petition that I have set up. This petition is valid and can be shown
as public support for the baboons.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-the-culling-of-cape-towns-baboons.html

Have a look at http://www.wildnorthwest.org/galleries/baboons.html to meet and get to
know the baboons of the cape, through the beautiful photographs of Brett Cole

On the 26th June 2009, 5 days before the Namibian annual slaughter of 91 000 seals. I have received a signed exclusive agreement to completely buy-out the entire Namibian sealing industry, lock, stock and barrel and thereafter shut it down.
 
After 10 years of trying, doing everything humanely possible, the end is in sight, This has never happened in the world, it’s a world first. A once in a life opportunity to save an entire wildlife species.
 
Interested in becoming a financial partner with me in this (then you need to contact me most urgently), and together we can make world history together and save an entire species, and prevent over one million seals being clubbed cruelly to death.

Please See, 2-minute video clip on YouTube.

Together we can do it.
 
A once-off financial investment from each of you, and which will give you each a return within days, could give the Cape fur seals as a species in Namibia a life-time.
 
You have nothing to lose, as the financial pledge is not binding or enforced in anyway, it simply leads us to the next and final step.
 
Write to Francois Hugo of Seal Alert-SA at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   most urgently, stating clearly the amount of your financial pledge and your support (please be honest and keep your email short).

For more information, please see: http://sealalertsa.wordpress.com

For the Seals
Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
27-21-790 8774

This is your once-in-a-lifetime chance to save an entire herd of elephants from being gunned down.

Annually government and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) policy of banning CITES Appendix II listed endangered and protected Cape fur seals from all their original endemic islands in order to make these islands exclusively for seabird conservation - has its environmental and cruel negative side. It causes thousands of baby seals to be swept off their small displaced to awash rocks. At some of the 9 offshore colonies, the entire year's cohorts of the colony is effected. Most drown or become shark prey. The reason for this is although a marine mammal, these babies are not born with a waterproof skin/fur and cannot swim until 6 - 8 weeks of age. During mean pupping time each December, Cape Town City Refuse Department collects and disposes of 500-700 dead baby seals that get washed ashore on our public beaches - daily.

The Tana River Delta is under serious threat.  In June 2008, Mumias were granted a licence to turn the wetland into sugarcane plantations for sugar production and “eco-friendly” bio-fuels.  The Tana River Delta conservation lobby is therefore taking the issue to the High Court to try to halt the decision.

The Zambezi is one of the most heavily dammed rivers in Africa. More than 30 large dams have already been constructed throughout its basin, at great cost to local people and wildlife. These impacts have been particularly harsh in Mozambique, where the giant Cahora Bassa Dam displaced tens of thousands of people, and severely degraded downstream floodplains and fisheries. Significant work is currently underway to restore the lower Zambezi by improving how water is released from Cahora Bassa. Water release patterns that more closely mimic natural flows will improve the richness of the degraded downstream environment.