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Iceland Could Resume Whaling - Please Act

Target: Einar K. Guofinnsson, Minister of Fisheries, Iceland
Sponsored by: Care2

Iceland's whaling industry is pushing for permits to kill 100 minke whales as well as some fin whales, which are an endangered species.

Iceland's Minister of Fisheries will make a final decision soon and whaling could begin in May. Please sign our petition today and urge Iceland to stop whaling forever!

deadline: 6-1-2008
goal: 10,000

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Dear Minister Guofinnsson,

I am deeply disappointed to hear that Iceland is considering issuing permits to hunt whales this spring, and I urge you to reconsider this plan.

As a wildlife lover and conservationist, I am concerned about the future of whales, especially as climate change causes rapid changes in their ocean habitats with unknown impacts on these majestic creatures.

And as a traveler and consumer, I would strongly consider visiting Iceland to whale-watch, but only if your country maintains the ban on whaling that you implemented in August of 2007.

Please do not issue any permits to kill whales, and protect your beautiful nation's whales in stead.

We signed the “Iceland Could Resume Whaling - Please Act” petition!

# 200:

11:09 am PDT, Mar 21, Emma Lloyd, United Kingdom

# 199:

11:09 am PDT, Mar 21, Name not displayed, Minnesota

# 198:

11:09 am PDT, Mar 21, Manuel Perozo, Washington D.C.

# 197:

11:08 am PDT, Mar 21, Susan Peck, Texas

# 196:

11:08 am PDT, Mar 21, Nasale McIntyre, Canada

# 195:

11:08 am PDT, Mar 21, Jamie Gibson, Texas

# 194:

11:08 am PDT, Mar 21, Joe Armer, Florida

# 193:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 21, Karen Gard, California
Please don't let Iceland resume killing these magnificent creatures. I would hate to see them on the endangered list or worse, extinct.

# 192:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 21, Laura Norman, Washington

# 191:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 21, Robert Prescott, Alabama

# 190:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 21, Marsha Valance, Wisconsin
Please deny all whaling permits. You are too admirable a country to preside over the extirmination of a species.

# 189:

11:07 am PDT, Mar 21, Jane Percy, Connecticut

# 188:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 21, Gemma Piscotti, Illinois
Why does Iceland feel they can take lives that are not theirs to take. You are not only killing wonderful animals uselessly, you are also efecting our waters which in turn effects the entire ecosystem. Im appalled and will be sure not to visit Iceland any time soon.

# 187:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 21, Oso Blanco Defence Commi, Texas

# 186:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 21, Eduardo Moreno, Illinois

# 185:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 21, Teal Church, Vermont
Please deny all whaling permits. The whales are already fewer in number and struggling without allowing more humans to kill them.

# 184:

11:06 am PDT, Mar 21, David Misch, California

# 183:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, John Dodge, Vermont
Please do not hunt or hurt the whales.

# 182:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Linda Kirschbaum, Utah

# 181:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Name not displayed, Colorado

# 180:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Cavell Kopetzky, Virginia

# 179:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Michael Collins, Massachusetts

# 178:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Brendal Davis, Florida

# 177:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Stevey Neff, Pennsylvania

# 176:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Rich Luzwick, Illinois

# 175:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Jim Rodway, Ohio

# 174:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Lin Penrose, California

# 173:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Stella L. Jatras, Pennsylvania
How sad that once again these beautiful creatures, friend to man, will be hunted down again simply for profit. It is wrong, wrong, wrong!

# 172:

11:05 am PDT, Mar 21, Sofia Natsis, New York

# 171:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Name not displayed, California
I'm sure there is food in abundance in Iceland. Why kill an endangered, beautiful species?

# 170:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Renee Mucci, Florida
I beg of you not to kill these beautiful creatures of the sea. Our world is being destroyed as it is, please leave the whales alone to live in peace as the world should do. thank you

# 169:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Donna Guardino, Ohio

# 168:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Michael Sodos, Georgia

# 167:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Tim Kelly, California

# 166:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Jeanette Williams, South Dakota
Please protect these beautiful creatures. Do not kill them. They are innocent. Just doing what they were put on this earth to do. Leave them alone.

# 165:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Ginger Hoffman, Massachusetts

# 164:

11:04 am PDT, Mar 21, Renee Merrifield, Mississippi
I have been looking at Iceland as a possible vacation destination to visit within the next year. I would much rather spend my tourism dollars going out on a boat & viewing these beautiful creatures in their natural habitat than eating one!!!

# 163:

11:03 am PDT, Mar 21, Aisha Kacinyan, Italy

# 162:

11:03 am PDT, Mar 21, William Glavaris, West Virginia
It is not necessary to kill anything on the endangered list. Please honor this request.

# 161:

11:03 am PDT, Mar 21, Sam Jones, Washington

# 160:

11:03 am PDT, Mar 21, Nikole MacDonald, Connecticut

# 159:

11:03 am PDT, Mar 21, Linda Walden, California
Whales are highly intelligent, sentient beings. The death of their calf affects them as much as a human baby death affects a mother or father. SAVE these beloved whales and we save our own beings.

# 158:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Lynne Nichols, Texas

# 157:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Robert Saunders, New Jersey

# 156:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Jane M Heaney, Pennsylvania

# 155:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, William Brown, New York

# 154:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Jordan Spiva, California

# 153:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Name not displayed, Louisiana

# 152:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Name not displayed, Colorado

# 151:

11:02 am PDT, Mar 21, Pat Miller, Tennessee

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