Campaign to save Namibian seals supported by both economy and compassion. A
new study jointly commissioned by animal welfare organizations Bont
voor Dieren (BvD), Humane Society International (HSI), Respect for
Animals (RFA), and the World Society for the Protection of Animals
(WSPA) has found that even in terms of financial value, seals are worth
much more alive than slaughtered.
Comparing the most recently
available statistics from 2008, the report titled, “The economies of
seal hunting and seal watching in Namibia,” states that seal watching
generated US$2 million in direct tourism, while the cruel hunt and
killing of some 85,000 animals produced only US$513,000.
Calling
for a complete ban on the country's ruthless seal hunting industry,
WSPA celebrity ambassador and vegetarian singer-songwriter Leona Lewis,
said, “No price would ever be high enough to justify the killing of
these harmless animals. This country has so much natural beauty to offer
tourists. Why allow (such a) brutal practice to tarnish its reputation
forever?”
Our heartfelt appreciation, World Society for the
Protection of Animals, Ambassador Leona Lewis, othercaring organizations
and individuals for your noble endeavors to safeguard the precious seal
co-inhabitants.
With sorrow for the loss of innocent lives, we
pray for an end to all slaughter as humans live in peaceful coexistence
and respect for every fellow being on Earth. Speaking during a press
conference in Cancún, Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai offered
additional spiritual insight into how the love from animals like the
precious seals helps sustain human life on our planet.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: All
the animals can talk to us, telepathically, inside. If we love them,
they correspond with us. They are very lovely, very intelligent, very
noble, and very, very forgiving. The birds can give us spiritual
blessing. Same with dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, rabbits, horses, cows,
elephants, whales, sharks, seals, etc.
The animals are here to
help to bless and balance the planet with loving energy so that we still
can have time to be awakened and save our world. So, the more we
protect them, the more we protect ourselves.
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