Barbara Kohn Kohn Public Relations Linda Taal, Founder, StraydogsCampaign, Holland Sakae Hemmi, Elsa Nature Conservancy, Japan P.O.Box 2, Tsukuba-Gakuen Post Office, Tsukuba,Ibaraki,305-8691 JAPAN John Carmody, President and Founder, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN, Ireland Siobhan Higgins, Project Manager, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN, Ireland Beatrice Wiltshire Ubuntu Youth Club of South Africa. European Initiative 17" Danica Drobac- Founder & Jelena Zaric- Campaign Manager Animal rights Board Belgrade/Serbia Svetlana Schewchenko New England Pet Expo Founder & Director Spay Neuter Program Feline Friends Rescue and Adoption League Ex-IFAW Supporter Judith Swain United Kingdom Ex-IFAW Supporter Debbie MacCarter, United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Katherine Boykin USA Ex. IFAW supporter SAVE THE SEALS THEY ARE GOD'S ANIMALS Carol A Tavani, MD, MS, FAPA catavani@msn.com Wilmington, De USA Ex- IFAW Supporter Mark Johnson - Founder; North Kent Animal Welfare Singlewell, Kent, England, Uk Ex-IFAW Supporter Robert Mouland - Founder - European Animal Welfare (EAW) Folkestone, Kent, England, Uk. Ex-IFAW Supporter Anjo Jacobi Desiree Verburg The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Arnold Thompson DelCity,OK USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Frances Howlett Gallante-Creature Comforts Feral/Stray Rescue Ex-IFAW Supporter. Nicole DEcock, Belgium Ex-IFAW Supporter Prof. Myrta Montiel - María Inés Bacigalupo - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter Mark Allen Adkins - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter Myrta Nasta - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter María Cristina Montiel - Spain Ex-IFAW Supporter Jennifer Adamski Buffalo, NY, U.S.A. Ex-IFAW Supporter Barry Hammer USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Lisa K Tarbet USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Evelyn Zerin United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Donald Henderson, Halifax, Nova Scotia Ex-IFAW Supporter Alice Adamson, Toronto, Ontario Ex-IFAW Supporter (Disgusted) Julia & Andrew Caruk, USA Ex-IFAW Supporters Dr. Teresa Buss-Carden Australia Ex-IFAW Supporter Rozlen Willoughby Australia Ex-IFAW Supporter Hannelore Elker, Animal aid a.l.f.a. , Austria, Ex IFAW Supporter Sjaan van Saus Eurohonden Germany Emmanuelle Stathopoulos Athens, Greece Ex-IFAW Supporter Vera Resch Dublin, Ireland. Ex-IFAW Supporter Elizabeth Goodwin USA Ex-Member IFAW. Will no longer support IFAW Kalinke ten Hulzen The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Brigitte Lemson, Amsterdam The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Le Petit Chien Director: P. SweermanSeat: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (EU) Ex-IFAW Supporter Comité Anti Stierenvechten/Anti Bullfighting Committee the Netherlands Function: voorlichter/PR Officer The Netherlands Saskia Oskam Ex-IFAW Supporter Charlene Shumate United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Asta Nilsen Ex IFAW supporter 11690 Lisbon Portugal Ex-iFAW Supporter Gerald Fulham Ex-IFAW Supporter Hulya Alpgiray President ASKOD The Association for the Protection of Street Animals CVFA Turkey Representative www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/ Louise Shutt United Kingdom Ex-IFAW Supporter Colleen Downes. Worcestershire. England. Ex-IFAW Supporter Rosa Mertens Beerse Belgium Ex-supporter IFWA Tess Karagiannidis South Africa Ex-IFAW Supporter Trudi Humphry-Rankin (Mrs) Stephen J Rankin Ex-IFAW Supporter Mike Sexton U.S. A. CVFA - USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Franziska Gerhardt Germany Ex IFAW supporter Kirstin Isobel Johnston England Ex-IFAW Supporter Jennifer Deuster USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Viscount M.T.J. Cormier Canada Ex-IFAW Supporter Sonja Sigurdson Vancouver, B.C. Ex-IFAW Supporter Hannes Coetzee Vanvouver, B. C. Ex_IFAW Supporter Gladys Scott West Vancouver, B.C. Ex-IFAW Supporter Dagmar Oest Freudenstadt Deutschland Ex-IFAW Supporter Denise Lytle St. Fords, NJ 08863 USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Dionne Hoeben The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter. Eleanor Boyd Scotland (Monthly donation stopped) Ex-IFAW Supporter Gail Clark New York USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Evi and Claus Gehrke Auenweg 6 83666 Waakirchen (You can count on us for the Seals) Paulette Fuentes Highland, Indiana USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Jessie Cross, Italy. Ex-IFAW Supporter Kathy Holt, Jonesboro, IL USA. Ex-IFAW Supporter Lale Demiral, Turkey Ex-IFAW Supporter Lark Diane Kephart Huntsville, Alabama, USA Sharon Sharon Lee Suecof USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Mike Wagner U.S. A. Wolf Site.. Ex-IFAW Supporter Miss Nuntanit Bumrungsap Bangkok, Thailand Ex-IFAW Supporter Sue Baumgardt, Hove UK. Green Party of England & Wales Animal Rights Spokesperson & Editor The Shoreham Protester Newsletter Tammy Williams Co-Founder Advocates for the Underdogs Organization Terrie C. Williams USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Thomas Wachter Germany Ex-IFAW Supporter Astrid Ducoffre Berlin Germany Renata Dutra Herne , Brazil- Ex IFAW supporter Carol Marshall from Hampshire,UK. Ex-IFAW Supporter Giuliana Gorlei-Pittsey Naples, Italy Ex-IFAW Supporter Chrisitne Carter Surrey, B.C. Canada Ex-IFAW Supporter Barbara Lance, Morganton, North Carolina, U.S.A. Ex-IFAW Supporter Rachel Astill-Dunseith, Branston, Lincoln ENGLAND Ex-IFAW Supporter. Albert McAllister, Westville, Nova Scotia Ex-IFAW Supporter. John and Mary Adamson, Belville, Ontario Members now Ex-IFAW Supporter Marcel Joseph Goudet, Dummondville, Quebec. Ex-IFAW Supporter. Geoffrey Dekkers, president of EDEV - Een DIER Een VRIEND, Netherlands John Edward Weaver, England UK Karen Hughes United States Ex-IFAW Supporter Judy Watson, Vancouver, British Columbia Ex-IFAW Supporter Arsene Carmen - vicepresident: Association Ute Langenkamp Giuliana Gorlei-Pittsey, Naples, Italy Ex-IFAW Supporter Jean Jackson, England, U.K. Nina Natelson, U. S. A. Elke Winkler, Germany. |
MARCHIG ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 802133 ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ PO Box 9422 Carnwath ML11 8YG Scotland Tel /Fax: 0044 (0) 1555 - 840991 CLICK HERE FOR UPDATE E-mail: info@marchigtrust.org Website: www.marchigtrust.org 16 September 2005 Mr Jason Bell Director International Fund for Animal Welfare Southern Africa 77 Church Street Cape Town 8000 South Africa Dear Jason, I am writing to you on behalf of the Marchig Animal Welfare Trust, a respected international grant making charity based in the UK. This request has the support of the other organisations and individuals shown at the bottom of this letter. We have been made aware of the desperate need for a rehabilitation platform as well as help with the costs of rehabilitating seals by the organisation Seal Alert SA. This Trust has helped this organisation over the years and is impressed by the dedication and work of Francois Hugo and his wife Nelda. As IFAW will no doubt be aware by the end of October, some 6-weeks away, seal pups that have been washed off the rocks or become abandoned after their mothers have become yet more victims of the fishing industry, will begin stranding on the coastline of South Africa. Within two months as many as 40,000 pups will have died after stranding along the coast. Whilst Seal Alert SA cannot hope to rescue and save them all, with the right floating platform, equipment and sufficient medicines a number of these seals could be saved and granted a further chance at life. At the moment, Seal Alerts two small floating rafts although very effective in seal rescue cannot hope to cope with the rehabilitation of so many seals needing help during the pupping season. Therefore what is desperately needed is a larger floating platform that will be able to house all the rehabilitation equipment, is big enough to accommodate 50 to 100 seals and enable the carers to remain with the seals as long as is necessary. Seal Alert SA believes that the solution lies in a Catamaran boat of about 24-foot. The lowest price of these scarce boats is around R120 000 or $18 000. In addition, as these pups require constant attention for the first 90-days the rehabilitation costs amount to a minimum of about R7000 or $1000 each. As you know IFAW is seen by vast numbers of the international public to be synonymous with the saving of seals. It has raised millions of dollars over the years through its publicity materials asking for money to help save and protect seals. Therefore we are approaching IFAW for a donation of between US$25,000 and US$30,000 towards the campaign to save and rehabilitate the seals, that includes the purchase of a catamaran desperately needed by Seal Alert SA and which as already outlined, will make a valuable practical solution to saving the lives of seals. The Marchig Animal Welfare Trust is prepared to provide a complimentary grant to the donation provided by IFAW. The on-going plight of the South African seals is again attracting much public concern and is beginning to receive considerable publicity, as is this campaign initiative on behalf of Seal Alert SA to raise the necessary funding to help these seals. I feel sure that the international public will be surprised and disappointed were IFAW not to financially support this campaign to rescue and save the seals from an otherwise certain death and especially as indicated earlier, IFAW's origins and foundation are firmly based on the seals issue. Therefore your early attention to this request would be appreciated, since time is not on our side with the pupping season looming. We look forward to receiving your positive reply. Kindest regards. Yours sincerely, Les Ward MBE Managing Trustee Supporting Organisations/Individuals: Paul Watson, President and Founder, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, USA Dr Herbert Henrich, Advisory Board Member of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Defne Voronin, Co-Founder, www.foklar.gen.tr and www.seals.gen.tr, Turkey Jose' Kersten, President and Founder and Marius Donker, Advisor, Action Against Poisoning, Netherlands Philip Wollen, Founder, The Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, Australia Ingrid E. Newkirk, President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, USA Louise van der Merwe, Director, The Humane Education Trust, South Africa The Duchess of Hamilton, UK Ross Minett, Director, Advocates for Animals, UK Miguel Moutinho, Executive Director, Associação ANIMAL, Portugal Christa Blanke, Founder and Director, Animals' Angels, Germany Birgitt Häusler, Mediator, Tierhilfe Malaga, Germany Núria Querol, International Liaisons Officer, Fundación Altarriba, Spain; GEVHA's Founder (Relation between animal abuse and human abuse) and Animanaturalis International Sjoerd van de Wouw, Holland Luka Oman, President, Animal Friends Croatia Marina Berati, Founder, AgireOra, Italy Christine Townend, Chair and Timmie Kumar, Managing Trustee, Help In Suffering, India Christine Hafner, Head of Investigations Italy, Animals' Angels, Germany Adam Murry, Chief Executive Officer, Bill Jordan Foundation, UK Beryl Scott, National Chairperson, Beauty Without Cruelty, South Africa Alan Cooper, Founder Cetacea Defence UK Daniela Costin -ROLDA - Romania Animal Rescue,Inc. Linda Taal, Founder, StraydogsCampaign, Holland Peg Kishel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Contributor to Animal Rights Jean Thill, Administrator GAVEA asbl. Luxembourg Groupe d'ActionVégétalien pour l'Egalité Animale Nuria Querol of GEVHA GROUP |
Barbara Kohn Kohn Public Relations Linda Taal, Founder, StraydogsCampaign, Holland Sakae Hemmi, Elsa Nature Conservancy, Japan P.O.Box 2, Tsukuba-Gakuen Post Office, Tsukuba,Ibaraki,305-8691 JAPAN John Carmody, President and Founder, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN, Ireland Siobhan Higgins, Project Manager, Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN, Ireland Beatrice Wiltshire Ubuntu Youth Club of South Africa. European Initiative 17" Danica Drobac- Founder & Jelena Zaric- Campaign Manager Animal rights Board Belgrade/Serbia Svetlana Schewchenko New England Pet Expo Founder & Director Spay Neuter Program Feline Friends Rescue and Adoption League Ex-IFAW Supporter Judith Swain United Kingdom Ex-IFAW Supporter Debbie MacCarter, United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Katherine Boykin USA Ex. IFAW supporter SAVE THE SEALS THEY ARE GOD'S ANIMALS Carol A Tavani, MD, MS, FAPA catavani@msn.com Wilmington, De USA Ex- IFAW Supporter Mark Johnson - Founder; North Kent Animal Welfare Singlewell, Kent, England, Uk Ex-IFAW Supporter Robert Mouland - Founder - European Animal Welfare (EAW) Folkestone, Kent, England, Uk. Ex-IFAW Supporter Anjo Jacobi Desiree Verburg The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Arnold Thompson DelCity,OK USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Frances Howlett Gallante-Creature Comforts Feral/Stray Rescue Ex-IFAW Supporter. Nicole DEcock, Belgium Ex-IFAW Supporter Prof. Myrta Montiel - María Inés Bacigalupo - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter Mark Allen Adkins - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter Myrta Nasta - Argentina Ex-IFAW Supporter María Cristina Montiel - Spain Ex-IFAW Supporter Jennifer Adamski Buffalo, NY, U.S.A. Ex-IFAW Supporter Barry Hammer USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Lisa K Tarbet USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Evelyn Zerin United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Donald Henderson, Halifax, Nova Scotia Ex-IFAW Supporter Alice Adamson, Toronto, Ontario Ex-IFAW Supporter (Disgusted) Julia & Andrew Caruk, USA Ex-IFAW Supporters Dr. Teresa Buss-Carden Australia Ex-IFAW Supporter Rozlen Willoughby Australia Ex-IFAW Supporter Hannelore Elker, Animal aid a.l.f.a. , Austria, Ex IFAW Supporter Sjaan van Saus Eurohonden Germany Emmanuelle Stathopoulos Athens, Greece Ex-IFAW Supporter Vera Resch Dublin, Ireland. Ex-IFAW Supporter Elizabeth Goodwin USA Ex-Member IFAW. Will no longer support IFAW Kalinke ten Hulzen The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Brigitte Lemson, Amsterdam The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter Le Petit Chien Director: P. SweermanSeat: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (EU) Ex-IFAW Supporter Comité Anti Stierenvechten/Anti Bullfighting Committee the Netherlands Function: voorlichter/PR Officer The Netherlands Saskia Oskam Ex-IFAW Supporter Charlene Shumate United States of America Ex-IFAW Supporter Asta Nilsen Ex IFAW supporter 11690 Lisbon Portugal Ex-iFAW Supporter Gerald Fulham Ex-IFAW Supporter Hulya Alpgiray President ASKOD The Association for the Protection of Street Animals CVFA Turkey Representative www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org/ Louise Shutt United Kingdom Ex-IFAW Supporter Colleen Downes. Worcestershire. England. Ex-IFAW Supporter Rosa Mertens Beerse Belgium Ex-supporter IFWA Tess Karagiannidis South Africa Ex-IFAW Supporter Trudi Humphry-Rankin (Mrs) Stephen J Rankin Ex-IFAW Supporter Mike Sexton U.S. A. CVFA - USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Franziska Gerhardt Germany Ex IFAW supporter Kirstin Isobel Johnston England Ex-IFAW Supporter Jennifer Deuster USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Viscount M.T.J. Cormier Canada Ex-IFAW Supporter Sonja Sigurdson Vancouver, B.C. Ex-IFAW Supporter Hannes Coetzee Vanvouver, B. C. Ex_IFAW Supporter Gladys Scott West Vancouver, B.C. Ex-IFAW Supporter Dagmar Oest Freudenstadt Deutschland Ex-IFAW Supporter Denise Lytle St. Fords, NJ 08863 USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Dionne Hoeben The Netherlands Ex-IFAW Supporter. Eleanor Boyd Scotland (Monthly donation stopped) Ex-IFAW Supporter Gail Clark New York USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Evi and Claus Gehrke Auenweg 6 83666 Waakirchen (You can count on us for the Seals) Paulette Fuentes Highland, Indiana USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Jessie Cross, Italy. Ex-IFAW Supporter Kathy Holt, Jonesboro, IL USA. Ex-IFAW Supporter Lale Demiral, Turkey Ex-IFAW Supporter Lark Diane Kephart Huntsville, Alabama, USA Sharon Sharon Lee Suecof USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Mike Wagner U.S. A. Wolf Site.. Ex-IFAW Supporter Miss Nuntanit Bumrungsap Bangkok, Thailand Ex-IFAW Supporter Sue Baumgardt, Hove UK. Green Party of England & Wales Animal Rights Spokesperson & Editor The Shoreham Protester Newsletter Tammy Williams Co-Founder Advocates for the Underdogs Organization Terrie C. Williams USA Ex-IFAW Supporter Thomas Wachter Germany Ex-IFAW Supporter Astrid Ducoffre Berlin Germany Renata Dutra Herne , Brazil- Ex IFAW supporter Carol Marshall from Hampshire,UK. Ex-IFAW Supporter Giuliana Gorlei-Pittsey Naples, Italy Ex-IFAW Supporter Chrisitne Carter Surrey, B.C. Canada Ex-IFAW Supporter Barbara Lance, Morganton, North Carolina, U.S.A. Ex-IFAW Supporter Rachel Astill-Dunseith, Branston, Lincoln ENGLAND Ex-IFAW Supporter. Albert McAllister, Westville, Nova Scotia Ex-IFAW Supporter. John and Mary Adamson, Belville, Ontario Members now Ex-IFAW Supporter Marcel Joseph Goudet, Dummondville, Quebec. Ex-IFAW Supporter. Geoffrey Dekkers, president of EDEV - Een DIER Een VRIEND, Netherlands John Edward Weaver, England UK Karen Hughes United States Ex-IFAW Supporter Judy Watson, Vancouver, British Columbia Ex-IFAW Supporter Arsene Carmen - vicepresident: Association Ute Langenkamp Giuliana Gorlei-Pittsey, Naples, Italy Ex-IFAW Supporter Jean Jackson, England, U.K. Nina Natelson, U. S. A. Elke Winkler, Germany. |
BELOW ARE THE NAMES OF IFAW SUPPORTERS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE NOT PLEASED WITH THEIR CURRENT POLICY OF NOT HELPING THE SEALS OF SOUTH AFRICA, AND SOME ARE GETTING LETTERS ASKING FOR DONATIONS FOR THE HARP SEALS OF CANADA...IT'S TIME FOR IFAW TO GET THEIR PRIORITIES IN ORDER... IT'S TIME TO RE-PLANT THEIR ROOTS. |
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REPLY FROM IFAW 21 September 2005 Mr. Les Ward MBE Managing Trustee Marchig Animal Welfare Trust PO Box 9422 Carnwath ML11 8YG Scotland Dear Mr. Ward, I write in response to your letter dated 16 September 2005. You correctly suggest IFAW is seen by many people around the world to be synonymous with the saving of seals. This is related primarily to our decades of efforts to save the harp and hooded seals from cruel slaughter in Canada -- a campaign that continues to this day. It also relates to our efforts worldwide, including in South Africa, to raise public awareness and lobby Governments to take appropriate steps to protect seals where their welfare is compromised. IFAW believes that there is cause for concern regarding the welfare of Southern African fur seals and that this issue merits a serious approach. We also believe the advisability and scope of Southern African fur seal rescue and rehabilitation efforts need to be assessed and appropriate methods implemented accordingly, rather than on an ad-hoc basis. In each of the campaigns which it undertakes, IFAW relies upon objective scientific evidence which highlights animal welfare concerns and the extent of those concerns. In the absence of such research with respect to the welfare of Southern African fur seals, IFAW will not succumb to inappropriate pressure to underwrite purchases of catamarans or other one-off efforts by SealAlert-SA or any other organisation. Neither will IFAW tolerate threatening and aggressive behaviour which has the goal of forcing it to act contrary to its established principles. In the recent appointment of Dr. Ian Robinson (veterinarian) to the position of IFAW Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Programme Manager, IFAW hopes to contribute organisational expertise to ongoing discussions regarding appropriate seal rescue and rehabilitation methodology in South Africa. We look forward to working with you and other individuals and organizations of goodwill who share our concern for the welfare of Southern African fur seals. Yours sincerely, Jason Bell Director, IFAW South Africa |
