Germany Bans All Seal Products

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is pleased to announce that the German Parliament has voted unanimously on a motion to ban the import of all seal products, eliminating 100% of the German market for all seal products.

The German ban comes one month after the European Parliament passed a resolution to support a complete European ban on seal products. The German Parliamentary motion calls for the government of Germany to work towards achieving a complete European ban.

Germany will presiding over the European Union Presidency in the first half of 2007 and Germany will use it’s position to push for the European wide ban on all seal products.

National bans on seal products presently exist in the United States, Mexico, Croatia and Italy and Belgium, the U.K. and the Netherlands will soon be adopted.

“This is great news for the seals in Canadian, Norwegian, Russian and Namibian waters,” said Captain Paul Watson. “Europe is sending a strong message to these countries that the inhumane and unnecessary slaughter of these incredible creatures will not and must not be tolerated.”

Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1977-
Co-Founder - The Greenpeace Foundation (1972)
Co-Founder - Greenpeace International (1979)
Director of the Sierra Club USA (2003-2006)
Director - The Farley Mowat Institute
Director - www.harpseals.org

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