Please join our campaign for the creation of safe havens, or marine protected areas (MPAs), for whales and dolphins, by signing our petition! Your signature will support our global efforts to work towards a worldwide net of marine protected areas. Our campaign calls for 12 large, highly protected MPAs by 2012, including Antarctica%u2019s Ross Sea and the Alborán Sea in the western Mediterranean Sea.

Every day whales and dolphins face becoming entangled in fishing nets, poisoned by chemicals, harassed, hunted, starved and evicted from where they feed, breed and take shelter. These long-lived, social mammals urgently need safe homes in the sea %u2013 protected places where they can raise their families, find food, rest and play.

I, the undersigned, demand that the leaders of my government, the governments of the world and the appropriate international conservation agreements work together to create a global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) for whales and dolphins, and other marine life and ecosystems.