Stop Commercial Whaling (Including Endangered Species!)! Critical Month!!!

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Posted: 5/17/07 at 3:08pm

Recieved this today from Greenpeace:

The International Whaling Commission meets in Anchorage this month, and the fate of whales around the world hangs in the balance.

Take Action!

http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/151/?&ref_source=myspciwc07

The great whales have been around for millions of years and once filled the oceans, but by the 1970s commercial whaling had brought them to the brink of extinction. The whales were saved from an imminent end by the ban on commercial whaling that went into effect in 1986, and some whale populations have now begun to recover.

By abusing a loophole in the whaling ban that allows killing for “scientific research,” japan slaughters hundreds of whales every year (with inhumane exploding harpoons), mostly in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary! This year, Japan’s Fisheries Agency plans to start killing endangered humpback whales, too. This must be stopped.

Do Something About It!

With ocean ecosystems on the verge of collapse due to industrial overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification from CO2 pollution, now is the wrong time for a return to industrial whaling. But that’s just what the Japanese IWC delegation wants. And after years of vote-buying, Japan has a foot in the door to legalize commercial whaling.

Please take a moment to click off a letter to principal governments involved in the looming whaling debate. Your action could stop commercial whaling from rearing its ugly head in the 21st century.

Peace!
ERIK

Updated On: 5/17/07 at 03:08 PM