COMMERCIAL WHALING IS A NO-GO — FOR THIS YEAR
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Dear Mr. President and Honorable Government Officials.
The United States once played a vital part in protecting whales and their oceanic habitat. As a nonpartisan voice for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), it helped shape decades of sound conservation.
That's about to change if U.S. IWC Commissioner Dr. William Hogarth successfully removes a key safeguard for these giant marine mammals.
Whales are already vulnerable to pollution, global warming, seismic and naval sonar, drilling, fishnet entrapment, ship strikes, habitat loss and more human hazards. Yet Dr. Hogarth wants to dilute the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.
Granted, the commercial ban has been difficult to enforce. Japan, Iceland and Norway have long exploited an IWC exemption for "scientific whaling." There is no rationale for butchering whales to analyze migration, age, ecology or behavior. Eminent scientists and legal authorities rebuke "scientific whaling." as pointless. In fact, science-based slaughter is a veil for commerce in whale meat.
Dr. Hogarth further undercuts whale preservation with his proposal to accept some commercial whaling and allow it in coastal waters. I encourage you to appoint the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the U.S. IWC Commissioner and oppose strategies that endorse Special Permit catches or Coastal Whaling. I hope you will uphold IWC regulations and discount any type whaling presently forbidden under them.
The U.S. ought to use its clout to halt increased whaling from Japan, Iceland and Norway — not appease them with watered down rules. Japan, in particular, has continually defied international treaty obligations and hunted endangered whales. Moreover, whale hunts are profoundly inhumane. Harpoons literally explode inside their bodies. It can take a half to full hour for a whale to die. Some, tied to the side of ships, suffocate as they thrash in vain.
Please revitalize America's leadership in the IWC with a U.S. Commissioner who facilitates conservation instead of killing.
Thank you,
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ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
The United States once played a vital part in protecting whales and their oceanic habitat. As a nonpartisan voice for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), it helped shape decades of sound conservation.
That's about to change if U.S. IWC Commissioner Dr. William Hogarth successfully removes a key safeguard for these giant marine mammals.
Whales are already vulnerable to pollution, global warming, seismic and naval sonar, drilling, fishnet entrapment, ship strikes, habitat loss and more human hazards. Yet Dr. Hogarth wants to dilute the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.
Granted, the commercial ban has been difficult to enforce. Japan, Iceland and Norway have long exploited an IWC exemption for "scientific whaling." There is no rationale for butchering whales to analyze migration, age, ecology or behavior. Eminent scientists and legal authorities rebuke "scientific whaling." as pointless. In fact, science-based slaughter is a veil for commerce in whale meat.
Dr. Hogarth further undercuts whale preservation with his proposal to accept some commercial whaling and allow it in coastal waters. I encourage you to appoint the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the U.S. IWC Commissioner and oppose strategies that endorse Special Permit catches or Coastal Whaling. I hope you will uphold IWC regulations and discount any type whaling presently forbidden under them.
The U.S. ought to use its clout to halt increased whaling from Japan, Iceland and Norway — not appease them with watered down rules. Japan, in particular, has continually defied international treaty obligations and hunted endangered whales. Moreover, whale hunts are profoundly inhumane. Harpoons literally explode inside their bodies. It can take a half to full hour for a whale to die. Some, tied to the side of ships, suffocate as they thrash in vain.
Please revitalize America's leadership in the IWC with a U.S. Commissioner who facilitates conservation instead of killing.
Thank you,
YOUR FULL NAME
ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
COUNTRY
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