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Protect Humpbacks from Whaling
Target: Ryozo Kato, Ambassador of JapanSponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare
The Japanese Government is sending its whaling fleet into the protected waters of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary around Antarctica. And this year, Japan is threatening to add endangered humpback and fin whales to its target list!
The Japanese government attempts to defend its whaling program by calling it "scientific" whaling. In reality, this deadly program is nothing more than unlawful commercial whaling in disguise. We don't need to kill whales to study them in the 21st century.
More than 30,000 whales have been killed since a global ban on commercial whaling came into effect in 1986. Japan must not expand its whaling program!
Tell Japanese Ambassador Ryozo Kato to immediately stop the senseless annual killing of whales, including the endangered Humpback.
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God made these aniamls to.
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You should enjoy and honor these whales instead of killing them make them something tourist will want to come and see make them part of the attraction to your country. I am sure your you will be blessed for it and no longer ridiculed.
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I'm confused! Do the Japanese kill the whales & dolphins because they have nothing else to eat or is it an unneccessary delicacy. I think not!
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since 1986 Japan is fooling us around with there hunt on endagered whales!Sea Shepherd is so far teh only wan on teh arctic waters to stop the hunt. if the Japanese people life so close(in harmony) with the sea and the rest of nature, WHY the behave the not like THAT??? leave Antarctic waters alone..and stop making the high seas more emphty than what it is NOW!!!
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They call it a way of life, I call it disgusting.
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Our time is NOW to make an effort to protect them now and for the next generation to come.
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It is unnecessary for the health of Japan to Harvest Humpback whales. It is necessary for the ecosystem of our oceans, and the earth as a whole, to preserve these marine mamals. Please do not let the unnecessary desires or interests of one industry or country, to overweigh the needs of the planet as a whole. Please be a steward to our shared natural resources, and to the other creatures with whom we share this planet.
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drag yourself into the millenium stop behaving like a starving third world country who are desperate for food you money grubbing capatilist
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has everyone in this world forgotten what humanity is all about??? no wonder the world is in the shape it's in..when will it stop???
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You guys can try to justify the raping and pillaging of the WORLD'S oceans, but we see through you. When will you see that the whales won't last forever? Maybe they will last for YOUR lifetime, but what about your childrens and grandchildrens? Please do the right thing and stop these atrocities at once. Thank you.
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Stop this useless killing now!
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You know it is wrong to kill these magnificent animals...Listen to the worlds voice telling you to stop it now.....
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With a country as far into the future as Japan, why the old world slaughter of the whales that are already in danger due to mans pollution of the inviornment?
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We need these mammals for our eco system they are all Gods creatures and it make no sense but greed to kill them off. Please protect them!
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Killing whales is totally unnecessary. Research can and is done without killing them. No one needs to eat whale meat in this world. So stop now!
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Stop this cruelty now they are beautiful creatures and belong there, please save them
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Killing this number of whales must generate an awful lot of useful scientific results. It's a shame we never see any of them published...