Fw: Please help stop whaling

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WDCS

 

Will you help us stop commercial whaling for good?

We’re calling on all our supporters to sign an important petition to the

European Union and US Government telling them that we will not stomach a

return to commercial whaling.

 

The ban on commercial whaling has stood for over 20 years, but it could be

lifted this summer. The International Whaling Commission is currently

considering a deal that would give Japan legal whaling quotas in its coastal

waters and in return, Japan is supposed to give up some of its so-called

'scientific whaling' in Antarctica.

 

This deal is bad news for whales! It’s unworkable and unenforceable and, if

adopted, it will open the floodgates for other countries to restart or

expand their own whaling.

 

The reality is that Japan doesn't need coastal whaling and in this time of

global recession the IWC’s member countries should not be offering it a way

of sustaining an industry that is an economically unviable relic of a

century past.

 

If you want to help stop commercial whaling from once again expanding out of

control, please sign our petition today and forward it to your friends and

family asking them to do the same.

 

http://www.wdcs.org/stop/killing_trade/petition.php

 

On behalf of the whales, thank you!

 

Chris Butler Stroud

WDCS Chief Executive

WDCS is the global voice for whales, dolphins and their environment