Seal saved from ILLEGAL NET

A seal rescue to remember: we reached our goal of #100SealsForTime!
In the month of May 2020, a team of committed activists from Ocean Conservation Namibia (OCN) got together and attempted to catch and disentangle 100 seals within one month from ocean rubbish and plastic pollution.

This medium sized female Cape Fur Seal was a worthy candidate for our one hundredth seal rescue. Her head was covered in a piece of gill net - an illegal fishing method in most countries in the world, including Namibia. She was not able to eat fish anymore, the net covered her mouth and she would have starved to death without our interference.

Naude and Antoine took about 15 minutes to slowly crawl towards the seal colony and then started a high speed chase. She slipped through Naude's fingers, but luckily Antoine had brought our seal catching net along.
It took about 10 minutes and a lot of strategic thinking to cut through all strands of the gill net. It was a huge reward to see her swim off into the sunset, and we got to celebrate the completion of our campaign.

Thank you all for watching and contributing to our work. We would not be able to do this without so much support for our fundraiser. WE MADE IT!
Of course we won't rest. tomorrow we will go out again and catch the next animal in need, until our work is no longer needed.

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