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Cape fur seal die-off: NGO fundraises for test kits to help to find out why
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/ 14 February 2022

Cape fur seal die-off: NGO fundraises for test kits to help to find out why

Work is underway to determine if a marine biotoxin is linked to seal mortalities, although preliminary tests have proven negative or insignificant

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/ 27 August 2006

Decoys save Lamberts Bay after seal bloodbath

When a gang of seabird-killing seals ate the main tourist draw of Lamberts Bay, residents of the small South African town called in a surfer, an artist and a flock of fake gannets to save the day. Cape gannets had been breeding on a tiny island off Lamberts Bay, on the Atlantic coast 250km north of Cape Town, since the early 1900s, becoming a profitable — albeit raucous and smelly — part of the landscape.

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