Pelican Island was established as the first National ... Whatever the quota, the barbarity of Namibia’s seal hunt has to come to an end. Drowning in fish nets, entanglement and the illegal ...

Namibia will attempt to reduce the local seal population by 80,000 this year, officials recently announced, despite opposition from animal rights groups. The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine ...

Francois Hugo, of Seal Alert, said a colony on Cape Cross island was wiped out during last year's hunting season. "Namibia's commercial sealing industry is 93 percent seal pup based," Hugo said ...

In September 2025, Namibia will host the Global African Hydrogen Summit. The Namibian government has ambitions to turn the country into a leading producer of green hydrogen for export to markets ...

Tourists enjoy themselves in the Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia, Oct. 11, 2023. Namibia's coastline is home to the Cape Cross Seal Reserve, which is one of the largest settlements of Cape fur ...

Windhoek - Namibia has this year doubled its seal harvesting quota to 67 000 animals, which are to be culled by the end of the season on 15 November, it was announced on Tuesday. Some 60 000 seal pups ...

Previously sold to the fur trade in Europe, market demand has drastically decreased following a 2009 EU ban on seal imports. China is now the main market for Namibia's cull. Seal culling has long ...

Namibia is being urged to pause its plans to extend a port on Shark Island, a key site in its genocide and the likely location of human remains. When the southwest African nation was under German ...