Dear Sir
That there is concern about the state of the nature art is worthy.
The seal population has across the years come under considerable pressure: even habitats have been disturbed and, presumably, lost.
But natural life is, despite the often rosy pictures depicted, not a “nice” place to live; survival of the fittest has a harsh byline. Watchers of nature at large surely know this.

But when food-chains are disturbed, another pressure is placed upon this natural world.
During early 1995, there was an outcry about the Cape Cross seal colony. People where there clubbing of seal pups, and adults too, left, right and centre. Brutality was the outcry, the reality was also brutal but with another cause. The food-chain had been swept away by a warm water influence. This food source lay far to seaward, too far for the seals to swim. The alternative was, nature in the raw death by starvation or (worse?) cannibalism of the weakest by the somewhat stronger.
The clubbing episode did, at least, gain some value from relicts of the dead. The alternative a dead and rotting mass, surely not the better side of a harsh natural world.
Natural survivor
Windhoek