Tell President Bush it is Time to Stand up for the Whales

In May of this year, the IWC will take place on U.S. soil. Tell the administration to lead the way in defending the whales. Whale hunting for commercial purposes must be stopped, calm returned to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and the government of the United States must stand up with its citizens for the whales and the oceans that give them life.

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Dear President Bush, Secretary Gutierrez, Secretary Rice,

For more than three decades, the United States led international efforts to protect the world�s whales from commercial whaling. This led to the commercial whaling moratorium of 1986, which was both a victory for whale conservation and a milestone for U.S. environmental diplomacy. But the U.S. government seems to have forgotten about the whales and the huge amount of support that there is for whale conservation among the American public. Since 1986, more than 25,000 whales have been killed. Of these, 9,220 whales were killed under the guise of �scientific research� by the Fisheries Agency of Japan�s �scientific� whaling fleet, including nearly 8000 whales within the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Before the IWC convenes on U.S. soil in May of this year, the same fleet plans to kill another 1325 whales in the Southern and North Pacific Oceans, including endangered fin and sperm whales. A growing number of whales are also being killed commercially by Norway and Iceland. The whales clearly need the U.S. In May this year, the IWC will take place on U.S. soil. Please stand up and lead the way in defending the whales so that whale hunting for commercial purposes under whatever guise is stopped, calm returns to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and the government of the United States can stand up with its citizens for the whales and the oceans that give them life.

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Tell President Bush it is Time to Stand up for the Whales

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