- Signatures: 27,741
- Goal: 30,000
- Deadline: 7-31-2007
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The U.S. Navy is still planning on undertaking a scaled back version of their testing of Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar in the oceans. LFA is proven to injure and destroy whales and dolphins. LFA noise is millions of times more intense than the Navy considers safe for human divers and billions of times more intense than levels known to disturb large whales.
In November, following a ruling by a Federal magistrate, the Navy scaled back its testing plans. But it hasn't scaled back sufficiently, as the sonar can seriously harm marine life. Sign now, and support a ban on such testing.
In March, 2000, during a Mid- range frequency (rather
than the Low Frequency bandwidth of LFAS) test in the Bahamas, four different species of whales and dolphins beached themselves suffering from hemorrhaging/bleeding in the ears. A National Marine Fisheries Service and Navy investigation determined the deaths were almost certainly caused by the LFA test. A follow-on study in February 2001, determined that at least one of those whale species no longer existed in the area.
Mid-range frequencies are already in use world-wide, and are now proven to be very dangerous in certain circumstances. The LFAS system is even more dangerous, as the sounds will propagate farther and be disabling at a greater distance.
Whales rely on their sensitive hearing for survival. A whale cannot survive without its hearing. The Navy's attempts to deploy LFA could result in the extermination of whales and dolphins world wide. SIGN NOW!
In November, following a ruling by a Federal magistrate, the Navy scaled back its testing plans. But it hasn't scaled back sufficiently, as the sonar can seriously harm marine life. Sign now, and support a ban on such testing.
In March, 2000, during a Mid- range frequency (rather
than the Low Frequency bandwidth of LFAS) test in the Bahamas, four different species of whales and dolphins beached themselves suffering from hemorrhaging/bleeding in the ears. A National Marine Fisheries Service and Navy investigation determined the deaths were almost certainly caused by the LFA test. A follow-on study in February 2001, determined that at least one of those whale species no longer existed in the area.
Mid-range frequencies are already in use world-wide, and are now proven to be very dangerous in certain circumstances. The LFAS system is even more dangerous, as the sounds will propagate farther and be disabling at a greater distance.
Whales rely on their sensitive hearing for survival. A whale cannot survive without its hearing. The Navy's attempts to deploy LFA could result in the extermination of whales and dolphins world wide. SIGN NOW!
| Number | Date | Name | State | Country | Why I'm signing this |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27,758 | 11:26 am PDT, Jul 30 | barbara orlowski | Hawaii | United States | The whales are sensitive to sound and could be driven off track to injur themselves even beached or to places they do not belong and die |
| 27,757 | 5:44 pm PDT, Jul 29 | Darlene Davis | Michigan | United States | |
| 27,756 | 6:56 am PDT, Jul 27 | Christina Braun | Pennsylvania | United States | |
| 27,755 | 11:39 pm PDT, Jul 26 | Charlotte Gutsell | United Kingdom | ||
| 27,754 | 3:13 pm PDT, Jul 26 | Helen Paterson | United Kingdom | ||
| 27,753 | 3:10 pm PDT, Jul 26 | Paul Johncock | United Kingdom | ||
| 27,752 | 7:18 am PDT, Jul 26 | Anonymous | Kansas | United States | I am ashamed that my government (although, truth be told, I didn't vote for the guy in office) would be considering using sonar that can harm the world's sealife. |
| 27,751 | 4:12 am PDT, Jul 26 | Michael Hill | United Kingdom | They have probably already deployed this system without telling us ! I just want to help create more public awareness so it can be stopped. | |
| 27,750 | 3:25 am PDT, Jul 26 | Anonymous | United Kingdom | ||
| 27,749 | 10:59 pm PDT, Jul 25 | David Paterson | United Kingdom | People talk about using alternatives. If there are no alternatives, then this system should still not be used. | |
| 27,748 | 7:04 am PDT, Jul 25 | Patricia Kanter-Kennedy | Texas | United States | Whales have enough problems trying to survive with depleting fish stocks and countries who hunt them. Now the 'good guys' are joining in on the act. Give them a break!! |
| 27,747 | 9:23 pm PDT, Jul 24 | Eddie Mercer | Arizona | United States | Are you all void of compassion? Have you, men and women of the Navy, lost the light in your hearts? Let's give thanks for our extraordinary sea creatures, including our glorious whales. Let's treat them respect, honor, and compassion. No Sonar. |
| 27,746 | 4:02 pm PDT, Jul 24 | Anonymous | Michigan | United States | I am sure this will affect all species that rely on sonar for survival. I am tired of the government trying to protect and not thinking of the BIG picture. Evreything that happens today affects tomorrow. |
| 27,745 | 11:17 am PDT, Jul 22 | Anonymous | Greece | ||
| 27,744 | 9:12 am PDT, Jul 22 | Cindy Morrison | North Carolina | United States | Why are humans intentionally murdering these beautiful, intelligent creatures? It is inconceivable, senseless and totally preventable. It makes me sick. These animals should not have to needlessly suffer and die at the hands of our so called protective government. Please make it stop immediately. |
| 27,743 | 6:34 pm PDT, Jul 21 | Shera Oliveria | California | United States | Dolphins are such amazing, intelligent, majestic creatures. They should not have their natural habitat invaded and have to be subjected to this kind of cruel insanity at the behest of the Navy's need for testing of new technologies to go invade the habitats of other living creatures and wreck havoc. Stop the madness! |
| 27,742 | 4:58 pm PDT, Jul 14 | Ayesha Future | Australia | Whale Watching is a much better alternative and non lethal, therefore everyone can benefit. | |
| 27,741 | 4:01 pm PDT, Jul 13 | Hannah Donahue | Illinois | United States | |
| 27,740 | 12:54 am PDT, Jul 13 | JOSEPH BARNETT | California | United States | BEING A NAVY VETERAN I HAD TO SPEAK UP. THE NAVY NEEDS TO FIND OTHER WAYS,HEY HEARS A CONCEPT,WHY NOT THINK OF WAYS TO PROMOTE PEACE,INSTEAD OF DEATH IN THE WORLD! |
| 27,739 | 8:32 am PDT, Jul 12 | Anonymous | Georgia | United States | |
| 27,738 | 8:30 pm PDT, Jul 11 | Dana Victor | Alaska | United States | The Navy needs to look at less harmful ways to maintain their comfort level of security. This sonar is harmful to ALL life, humans included, and needs to stop. With all the research and funding available I have no doubt that a better alternative is out there. |
| 27,737 | 3:04 am PDT, Jul 11 | Carrie richardson | Australia | ||
| 27,736 | 7:54 am PDT, Jul 10 | Suzy Breslin | Ireland | ||
| 27,735 | 1:04 pm PDT, Jul 6 | F Meetze | South Carolina | United States | Why NOT!? |
| 27,734 | 12:31 pm PDT, Jul 6 | Ariadne de Carvalho | North Carolina | United States | Another government induced horror paid for with our tax dollars -- when is this nightmare going to end... |
| 27,733 | 6:33 am PDT, Jul 6 | Ron Alexander | South Carolina | United States | I am a writer who has just returned from Eleuthera, Bahamas, where there was a U.S. Navy base until 1980. Doing research on base there, I have a written statement from a former Oceanographic Tech. there who said they "killed all the whales within a 90 mile radius when they turned up the Sonar in an experiment." He wrote that the sonar was used to track Russian Subs. and that the base was closed at end of cold war. There was a similar Navy based closed in San Salvador, however there remains an "Autec" base in Andros, Bahamas. This "Oceanographic Tech" rose to prominence in the Navy Fisheries Dept. |
| 27,732 | 11:30 am PDT, Jun 26 | Anonymous | Georgia | United States | Whales need a place to live without pain of humans destroying everything around them. Stop sonars in the oceans!NOW!! |
| 27,730 | 4:26 am PDT, Jun 15 | jack mccarthy | United Kingdom | because i agree | |
| 27,729 | 4:17 am PDT, Jun 3 | Sherry Mayo | Florida | United States | I love the Humpback whales and all whales of our mother earth. I want to preserve them for our future and our future generations to enjoy thier beauty and their songs. |
| 27,728 | 6:07 pm PDT, Jun 2 | Anonymous | California | United States | to prevent any injury to whales |
| 27,727 | 7:49 pm PDT, May 30 | Erin Kelsall | Australia | ||
| 27,726 | 7:20 pm PDT, May 30 | Marilyn P. Lackey | North Carolina | United States | We must share our waters with not only each other but with that which inhabits it. |
| 27,725 | 3:10 pm PDT, May 29 | Elena Pristave | California | United States | |
| 27,724 | 1:30 pm PDT, May 21 | Soozin Chandler | California | United States | |
| 27,723 | 1:25 am PDT, May 21 | Loren Beringuela | Philippines | ||
| 27,722 | 8:45 pm PDT, May 20 | Lori Thomas | Florida | United States | Our country needs to take measures to protect itself, but not at the cost of harming and causing suffering to marine mammals. |
| 27,721 | 2:55 pm PDT, May 16 | Jessica Juarez | California | United States | |
| 27,720 | 10:36 am PDT, May 10 | Daniele Walker | Texas | United States | |
| 27,719 | 9:51 am PDT, May 9 | Tara Bolt | Hawaii | United States | We are beings of Light, our Souls reaching out on this Earth level to others, with Love, to all Sentient Life. |
| 27,718 | 11:16 am PDT, May 8 | Kelly Marie | Alabama | United States | This should have never been an issue. If you find out something is dangerous to whales, dolphans and humans, you trash the program. |
| 27,717 | 5:50 pm PDT, May 7 | Sympa re | Massachusetts | United States | |
| 27,716 | 5:01 am PDT, May 5 | Regina Marino | Connecticut | United States | |
| 27,715 | 4:31 pm PDT, May 1 | Martin Ward | Maine | United States | to save the whales! |
| 27,714 | 11:20 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Essencejoy Evangelista | Texas | United States | |
| 27,713 | 8:14 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Ann Slayter | Washington | United States | because what they are doing is wrong and we have to stand up for those who cannot. |
| 27,712 | 10:52 am PDT, Apr 27 | REBECA GONZALEZ | Mexico | SAVE THE WHALESSS | |
| 27,711 | 11:18 am PDT, Apr 26 | Anonymous | Florida | United States | I am signing this petition because I am currently taking an ocaenography class and I have seen the effects that the sonar waves have on whales. |
| 27,710 | 4:54 am PDT, Apr 26 | Anonymous | Minnesota | United States | donna perry |
| 27,709 | 11:34 pm PDT, Apr 25 | jay h herdt | California | United States | support! |
| 27,708 | 7:43 am PDT, Apr 25 | Sheri Kametz | Pennsylvania | United States | |
| 27,707 | 9:03 am PDT, Apr 24 | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | |
| 27,706 | 8:09 am PDT, Apr 24 | Anonymous | Florida | United States | It's about keeping the Earth in balance...What the creator has created has a right to life... |
| 27,705 | 10:08 pm PDT, Apr 23 | Edward Leon Killian | California | United States | |
| 27,704 | 7:05 pm PDT, Apr 23 | Billy Dillingham | North Carolina | United States | |
| 27,703 | 5:42 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Andrea Fuenzalida | Armed Forces Americas | Chile | |
| 27,702 | 8:25 am PDT, Apr 20 | Brianna Quinn | New York | United States | |
| 27,701 | 12:39 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Debbie Clancy | Hawaii | United States | To Help not only the whales but, all marine life & the Earth Mother we are only guests on this planet, we should honor her with Love & respect NOT DISTRUCTION!!! |
Save Whales from Navy Sonar deployment
The U.S. Navy is planning on deploying Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar across 80% of the Earth's oceans. LFA is proven to injure and destroy whales and dolphins. LFA noise is millions of times more intense than the Navy considers safe for human divers and billions of times more intense than levels known to disturb large whales.
In March, 2000, during a Mid- range frequency (rather
than the Low Frequency bandwidth of LFAS) test in the Bahamas, four different species of whales and dolphins beached themselves suffering from hemorrhaging/bleeding in the ears. A National Marine Fisheries Service and Navy investigation determined the deaths were almost certainly caused by the LFA test. A follow-on study in February 2001, determined that at least one of those whale species no longer existed in the area.
Mid-range frequencies are already in use world-wide, and are now proven to be very dangerous in certain circumstances. The LFAS system is even more dangerous, as the sounds will propagate farther and be disabling at a greater distance.
Even the Navy acknowledges the danger of LFA. An internal study briefly exposed a 32 year old Navy diver to LFA sonar at a level significantly below what it is designed to operate. The diver had to be hospitalized, and two years later was still being treated with anti-depressant and anti-seizure medications.
Whales rely on their sensitive hearing for survival. A whale cannot survive without its hearing. The Navy's attempts to deploy LFA could result in the extermination of whales and dolphins world wide.
We have fought long and hard to stop international whaling efforts. It is hypocritical and absolutely wrong for the U.S. government to sanction the LFA sonar system that could lead to massive extinctions of marine animals. We demand the immediate halt to the deployment of LFA sonar!
In March, 2000, during a Mid- range frequency (rather
than the Low Frequency bandwidth of LFAS) test in the Bahamas, four different species of whales and dolphins beached themselves suffering from hemorrhaging/bleeding in the ears. A National Marine Fisheries Service and Navy investigation determined the deaths were almost certainly caused by the LFA test. A follow-on study in February 2001, determined that at least one of those whale species no longer existed in the area.
Mid-range frequencies are already in use world-wide, and are now proven to be very dangerous in certain circumstances. The LFAS system is even more dangerous, as the sounds will propagate farther and be disabling at a greater distance.
Even the Navy acknowledges the danger of LFA. An internal study briefly exposed a 32 year old Navy diver to LFA sonar at a level significantly below what it is designed to operate. The diver had to be hospitalized, and two years later was still being treated with anti-depressant and anti-seizure medications.
Whales rely on their sensitive hearing for survival. A whale cannot survive without its hearing. The Navy's attempts to deploy LFA could result in the extermination of whales and dolphins world wide.
We have fought long and hard to stop international whaling efforts. It is hypocritical and absolutely wrong for the U.S. government to sanction the LFA sonar system that could lead to massive extinctions of marine animals. We demand the immediate halt to the deployment of LFA sonar!
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