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Lilly Woman Warrior
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 790 Location: God's land
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject: Victory for whales |
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Got a letter in my inbox from http://pacificenvironment.org regarding victory of whales
http://dolphinconnections.blogspot.com/
Quote: | This is an exciting time for our work protecting whales and other marine mammals. The Marine Sanctuaries Campaign has been working as a joint partnership between Seaflow and Pacific Environment for the past 5 months. We have now received our formal notice from the Attorney General allowing us to fully integrate into Pacific Environment. As you may have seen following the Salazar Hearing in San Francisco to voice public opinion on off-shore drilling, this partnership is allowing us greater resources and networks to carry forward our goal of protecting whales and other marine wildlife from human-made noise. We will continue our work to advance adequate protections for California's marine sanctuaries, organizing Vessel Watch trips to experience first-hand the impacts of human-made noise to whales and other sea dwellers, securing safeguards for sea mammals from human-made noise around the world, and offering opportunities to come together locally as a community to make a difference.
Lately, we are seeing some tremendous victories for whales!
This past Friday, we received great news for one very vulnerable population of whales! Following insistent pressure from Pacific Environment and our partners, Sakhalin Energy - a consortium led by Gazprom and Shell - agreed to suspend seismic testing, an extreme form of human-made noise, planned for this summer off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. This is a crucial feeding area for the critically endangered Western Gray Whale. With only 25 breeding females remaining, the Western Gray Whales would have faced tremendous peril if seismic testing commenced this summer. Experts believe the loss of just one breeding female would likely mean extinction for these whales. To learn more about this victory, please click here.The week before, we won another impressive reprieve for marine mammals in the Arctic. Pacific Environment and our partners won a lawsuit that canceled the Bush Administration's 5-year plan for offshore oil drilling!
Thank you for your continued support!
Jackie Dragon Marine Sanctuaries |
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Lilly Woman Warrior
Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 790 Location: God's land
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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hey guys we need to do some more boosting for whales and dolphins our sisters and brothers that are still being eaten by human, UNBELIEVABLE!!!
No more whale or dolphin sushi PLEASE!! I was watching "whale wars" on TV and could smell the blood from killed whales that really made me sick...
however there are some good news from Sea Sheperd (Paul Watson)
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Antarctic Campaign Report – Success Defending Whales!
Ships are expendable, endangered whales species are not
2009-2010 Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign: Operation Waltzing Matilda
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Sea Shepherd just completed the most ambitious and effective campaign to defend the great whales that we have ever undertaken and Operation Waltzing Matilda, the sixth voyage to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to oppose the illegal whaling activities of the Japanese whaling fleet, was astoundingly effective.
For three straight weeks from February 5th until February 26th we prevented the entire Japanese whaling fleet from killing a single whale. The month before, we had shut the whalers down for twelve days giving us thirty-three solid whaling-free days, which is one-third of their whaling season. In addition, our actions forced the harpoon vessels Shonan Maru 2 and the Yushin Maru 3 to break off from whaling activities to serve as security vessels to oppose Sea Shepherd interventions, and this prevented these two vessels from killing whales for almost the entire season.
We will not know the final results until the Japanese whaling fleet reports back to Tokyo in April, but we cut the kill quotas nearly in half during the three previous years and this year was much more effective, so the results promise to be very satisfying. We know we have cost the whalers tens of millions of dollars in lost profits.
But this achievement was not without cost. We lost one of our three ships when our newly acquired, fast interceptor boat Ady Gil was deliberately rammed and cut in half by the Japanese harpoon vessel Shonan Maru 2. The six crewmembers of the Ady Gil narrowly escaped the collision with their lives and the $1.5 million USD, high-tech trimaran Ady Gil sank and was lost.
This is, of course, something not unexpected when we deliberately sail our vessels into harm’s way to defend the whales from their remorseless killers. Our view is that ships are expendable, and that endangered species of whales are not.
The Ady Gil was, in fact, so effective in disrupting whaling operations that after only two days on January 6th, the Japanese whalers made the decision to destroy it in a cowardly act. The Ady Gil was struck while idling in the water. The Shonan Maru 2 made an abrupt and deliberate turn to strike the Ady Gil at full speed while all the time aiming their high-powered water cannons and long-range acoustic weapons on the Ady Gil crew.
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