A whale is in trouble

Dear Indiana,

We were upset to find out that some "environmentalists" are promoting a market based approach to whale hunting as a way to "Save the Whales." This is ridiculous and another example of commercial interests exploiting our shared ocean resources, and ignoring the real problem: too many whales are being killed each year.

If the real goal is to reduce the number of whales harvested every year, then enforcing the International Whaling Commission moratorium on whale hunting, including no longer allowing Japan to kill 1,000 whales for the commercial market under the guise of “scientific research,” would be a good start.

Our friends at Greenpeace are doing just that, they just sent out an urgent action asking President Obama to make good on his promise to protect the whales. Take Action with Greenpeace, and ask President Obama to stop the needless killing of whales.


Sincerely,

Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Food & Water Watch

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Tell President Obama: Stop the slaughter and make good on your promise to protect whales. © Greenpeace We need your help to send 50,000 letters to President Obama by Friday.

Dear Friend,

The Japanese government wants to kill more whales.

Their whaling fleet is down in the Southern Ocean right now gearing up to kill over 1,000 whales in internationally protected waters. Japan’s senior vice-minister announced that Japan is “determined to continue the [whaling] program until it leads to the resumption of commercial whaling.”

But you can help stop it. Ask President Obama to fulfill his campaign promise to protect whales. We need the help of whale protectors like you to send 50,000 letters to President Obama this week.

Tell President Obama: There’s no more time to delay on your word. Stop the brutal slaughter of whales now.

It can take over an hour for a harpooned whale to be dragged until it dies. We can’t let it continue.

Now, in light of Japan’s declaration that it intends to kill even more whales, President Obama must make good on his promise. As the President himself put it, "allowing Japan to continue commercial whaling is unacceptable."

We need the President to act before another whale is killed – and that means he needs to hear from you today. Thanks to your letters, the Obama administration has already taken important steps to save whales this year, standing up against vote-buying in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and imposing diplomatic sanctions on Iceland.

Starting today, the United States must help turn the IWC into a conservation body that protects whales, not whaling. The Administration needs to have bilateral talks with nations who are stalling reforms and work with other conservation-minded nations. It’s time to take a stand.

Please remind President Obama of his promise and ask him to save the whales.

We’ve made remarkable strides to save whales this year, and we’re not going to slide backward now and let Japan resume commercial whaling. We can end this senseless practice once and for all, but we need to stand together and speak up.

Thank you for protecting whales and the planet.

Philip Radford
Executive Director
Greenpeace

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