Fw: Help us protect the UK’s whales and dolphins

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WDCS

 

Help us protect the UK’s whales and dolphins

 

Dear Friend

 

We need your help to protect the UK’s whales and dolphins from the numerous

threats they face around our coastline.

 

The recent report by WDCS, The Conservation of British Cetaceans, has found

that the UK government is not doing enough to protect the whales and

dolphins that live around the UK from threats including entanglement in

fishing nets, pollution, loss of habitat and increasingly the loud noises

from industry and other sources that pervade their environment.

 

Outdated laws currently do little to help whales and dolphins, yet there are

over two dozen species in UK waters, and some, like the bottlenose dolphin,

are already rare. All are little studied and human impacts on them happen

mainly out of sight.

 

This needs to change and, as we continue to increase our activities inshore

and offshore, so we need to improve existing laws and enforcement measures

to give these animals improved protection.

 

We need you and your friends to sign our e-petition to call on Hilary Benn,

the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to act now to

protect the UK’s whales and dolphins and progress the government’s plan for

a Marine Bill.

 

Please join us in urging the UK Government to act now before it is too late.

To add your name to our petition,

http://205.212.187.100/petition/petition/

 

Thank you

 

Take Action

Sign our e-petition now and urge the UK Government to protect whales and

dolphins by progressing a Marine Bill.

 

Click here to sign the e-petition

 

http://205.212.187.100/petition/petition/