How can we stop whaling and the threat of commercial whaling that has been banned since 1986?
The IWC is working hard to help Japan legalize whaling you can be at the IWC meeting and hear all the discussions...and find out that there will be no solution by the IWC! Australia and New Zealand and the USA speak up...but they don't take action! Japan can go on! FOLLOW THE IWC MEETING LIVE JUST PRESS LIVE SOUND!
Greenland is planning to make a request to the International Whaling
Commission (IWC) to kill 10 humpback whales a year, starting in 2010.
WDCS believes that the proposed hunt is unjustified and should be
opposed by member governments of the IWC.
You can help us save the lives of these humpback whales by sending a
protest e-mail today to European Union member governments urging them
to reject the request.
Greenland will request this new quota under the IWCs category of
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling – non-commercial hunts intended to meet
the cultural and subsistence needs of indigenous people who have a
longstanding reliance on whale products. But Greenland’s hunters do not
need to kill more whales for their subsistence – they actually have a
surplus, and sell whole whales from their current quota of 212 minke
and 19 fin whales a year to corporate wholesalers that sell frozen and
vacuum packed whale meat and blubber through supermarkets all over
Greenland, including to visitors and tourists.
On top of the whale hunts, Greenland’s hunters kill another 4,000
dolphins, porpoises and small whales every year, but not a single gram
of meat from these animals is taken into account by the IWC when it
evaluates whether Greenlands needs are being met by its existing
whaling quota, or if it needs more whales.
WDCS believes this is wrong and we are demanding a long overdue reform
of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling to prevent these kinds of abuses.
These humpbacks need our help now. Please help us now by calling on
members of the European Union to vote against Greenland’s request to
the IWC meeting this June to kill humpback whales. Thank you for your
support.
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Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an
international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization
whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of
wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect
ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action
tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to
expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By
safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean
ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future.
For
more than 20 years, Captain Paul Watson has been at the helm of the
world's most active marine conservation organization. Watson's love for
animals was apparent from the age of 9 when he joined the “Kindness
Club,” dismantling traps and caring for local wildlife in his native
New Brunswick, Canada. As a young adult, Watson’s passion for the sea
developed when, in 1968, his career began as a master mariner seaman in
the Norwegian merchant marine. In the early ‘70’s while serving in the
Canadian Coast Guard, Watson conceived of the idea of taking the
lifesaving measures (direct intervention) and tools (zodiac inflatable
boats) used to protect human lives at sea and adapting them to the task
of safeguarding the marine wildlife that he cared for so deeply.
In
1982, Sea Shepherd president Paul Watson was invited to Japan to
discuss the Iki Island dolphin slaughter with the local fishermen's
cooperative. We were able to successfully negotiate an end to the
slaughter. From 1987 to 1992, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
exposed, documented, and seized illegal destructive drift nets in the
Eastern Tropical, North, and South Pacific, and sent the evidence
directly to the United Nations as support for U.N. Resolution 46/215
banning high-seas drift netting.
Forget IFAW and Greenpeace dont support them if you want to help the whales!
Paul Watson about Greenpeace:
Greenpeace Surrenders to the Japanese Whaling Fleet
Greenpeace has officially announced that they will not be sending a
ship to the Southern Oceans to oppose whaling by the Japanese Whaling
fleet. This means that Sea Shepherd will be alone in our high seas
opposition to illegal Japanese whaling operations when the whaling
season opens in a month.
"As a Greenpeace co-founder, I am deeply offended that Greenpeace
has been raising millions of dollars in the name of defending whales
all year and now two weeks before the Japanese whaling fleet is
scheduled to depart, they announce they will not be going," said
Captain Paul Watson. "In my opinion they collected funds under false
pretenses and now they have abandoned the whales. Shame on them."
Ask Greenpeace what they did with the 2008 whalecampaign money!
Together we can end whaling in the Southern Ocean.
with a strong BOYCOTT OF JAPANESE PRODUCTS!
February 6th, 2009 It appears the whalers are becoming increasingly
aggressive this season in their attempts to fill commercial whaling
quotas. If this is nothing more than a 'research' mission, why all the
hostility? RESEARCH? NO WAY!