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Protect Humpbacks from Whaling

Target: Ryozo Kato, Ambassador of Japan
Sponsored 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.
deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 75,000
 

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Last week, Japan agreed to temporarily end targeting humpback whales in this year's hunt.


Thanks to concerned citizens like you, the humpbacks are safe until they return to Japanese waters after this year's migraion. This is a step in the right direction, but there is still work to be done.

Please urge Japan to stand firm on its commitment to exclude humpback whales, and to end the hunt of all whale species!
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Dear Mr. Ambassador,

Japan kills more than 1,400 whales every year despite a global ban on commercial whaling.

Your government attempts to defend its whaling program by calling it "scientific" whaling. In reality, this deadly "scientific" whaling program is nothing more than unlawful commercial whaling in disguise. We don't need to kill whales to study them in the 21st century.

[Your comment here]

I respectfully urge you to persuade your government to withdraw its announced plans to kill 50 humpback whales and to end its unlawful whaling program.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
We signed the “Protect Humpbacks from Whaling” petition!
# 100:
12:52 pm PST, Nov 15, Robyn Vicaire, Canada
# 99:
12:52 pm PST, Nov 15, JAN KOCHAN, Canada
# 98:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
I'll pray for you.
# 97:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Anthony Tower, Canada
# 96:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Jim Carter, Canada
# 95:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Eric Boucher, Canada
# 94:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Kate Cob, United Kingdom
# 93:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Jaye Rice, Canada
# 92:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Debra Simpson, Canada
# 91:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Kathleen Bray, Canada
IT IS TIME TO STOP
# 90:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Yliana Rojas, Canada
# 89:
12:51 pm PST, Nov 15, Anna Mahura, Canada
# 88:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Michel Rouleau, Canada
Act now!
# 87:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
Please stop doing this.
# 86:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Lynn Van der Valk, Canada
Please stop killing whales.
# 85:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
# 84:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
# 83:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Ailleen Runstedler, Canada
# 82:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Marc Lemoine, Canada
# 81:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Jo Lawrence, Canada
# 80:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Isaura Maria, Canada
# 79:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Amanda Willett, Canada
# 78:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Susan Montgomery, Canada
# 77:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Darlis Dupuis, Canada
# 76:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Soumen Sengupta, Canada
Please stop killing the whales
# 75:
12:50 pm PST, Nov 15, Victoria Beeze, Canada
Stop killing all of the whales when they are gone they are gone and they wont ever come back....
# 74:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Alberta Mayne, Canada
It is way past time that you stop the killing of humpbacks. It is 2007!
# 73:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Brad Cowan, Canada
MAKE IT STOP
# 72:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Tessa Dunbar, United Kingdom
# 71:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Adrianna S, Canada
# 70:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, M Wei, Canada
# 69:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
# 68:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Canada
# 67:
12:49 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Switzerland
Please stop killing whales!!!
# 66:
12:48 pm PST, Nov 15, Sandy Woods, Canada
# 65:
12:36 pm PST, Nov 15, Mandy B, Canada
# 64:
12:26 pm PST, Nov 15, Irene Lhommedieu, New York
# 63:
12:25 pm PST, Nov 15, Nicole Hardin, Alabama
# 62:
12:20 pm PST, Nov 15, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey
# 61:
12:11 pm PST, Nov 15, Tita Lupa de gershevich, Mexico
# 60:
12:11 pm PST, Nov 15, Renate Rosol, Austria
it is enough !
# 59:
12:09 pm PST, Nov 15, Brenda Cruz, New Jersey
# 58:
12:05 pm PST, Nov 15, Haven Gramlich, California
# 57:
12:05 pm PST, Nov 15, Name not displayed, Indiana
# 56:
12:00 pm PST, Nov 15, Toni C, Tennessee
# 55:
12:00 pm PST, Nov 15, Toni Wright, Arizona
# 54:
11:53 am PST, Nov 15, Tracey Till, Ohio
# 53:
11:52 am PST, Nov 15, Karen Lee, New Zealand
Whaling is compleatly evil, Japans continued Whaling makes me never want to travel there. If it continues I will stop buying products from Japan altogether.
# 52:
11:50 am PST, Nov 15, Mrs. Jeff Straughn, Illinois
# 51:
11:47 am PST, Nov 15, Tom Baldwin, Oregon