Whales are still in danger. Since a global ban on whaling in 1985, Japan has continued to kill whales in the name of "scientific research." Yet legitimate scientists agree: there's no need to kill whales in order to study them when non-lethal methods already exist.
In fact, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has clearly stated it does not need the data obtained from killing whales: passing resolutions critical of Japan's research whaling program forty-one times!
Yet Japanese whalers continue to kill whales in horribly cruel fashion, harpooning them with explosive tips and then dragging them onto whale ships. Japan actually sells the meat from this "research" to restaurants. And now Japan is increasing the slaughter: doubling the number of whales killed in an international marine mammal sanctuary.
Unless they are stopped now, Japan will launch a return to full-scale industrial whaling; the last of which once drove whales to the brink of extinction. Only the tremendous resources and clout of the United States has a chance to stop Japan from destroying the world's whales.
Please sign the petition asking President Bush to oppose Japan's bid for permanent
membership into the United Nations Security Council until they comply with international laws protecting whales.
We signed the “Save Whales From a Cruel End: Stop Whaling Now” petition!
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10:01 am PDT, Apr 23,Glenn Goris, Belgium
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4:01 am PDT, Apr 23,Maria jose Duran, Spain
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5:30 pm PDT, Apr 22,Jenine LeCuyer, Canada
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6:59 pm PDT, Apr 21,Kristina McArdle, United Kingdom
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5:16 pm PDT, Apr 21,Carson Rhodes, North Carolina
Please, use your head when making important decisions. Stop the whaling in Japan!
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8:19 pm PDT, Apr 20,Janine Gober, Texas
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4:21 pm PDT, Apr 20,LuCy J. Boogaard, Netherlands
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10:11 am PDT, Apr 20,Victoria Salinas, California
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6:22 pm PDT, Apr 19,Jan Johnson, Florida
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2:34 pm PDT, Apr 19,Chloe Massoulier, United Kingdom
I still don't understand why Japan need to hunt whales...They don t need that to survive..I still can't believe that they are using the excuse of the research to keep hunting.With all the whales they hunted until now they should know very well the whale body...I don t understand that such powerful countries as United States, United Kingdom or France haven't stop this massacre..A species is disapearing,
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6:10 am PDT, Apr 19,Victoria Lord, United Kingdom
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9:10 pm PDT, Apr 18,Cami Williams, New Mexico
Just take pictures. I think you've killed enough whales to know what the inside looks like by now.
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5:49 pm PDT, Apr 18,Mary Slayton, California
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11:05 am PDT, Apr 18,John Brophy, California
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9:47 am PDT, Apr 18,Ilse Temperli, Switzerland
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4:34 pm PDT, Apr 17,Vanessa Garvy, Illinois
Whales are very smart and beautiful creatures. Please stop the killings.
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2:14 pm PDT, Apr 17,Enrique Pisani, Argentina
can i kill your childs to study them? its the same
# 104,938:
6:20 am PDT, Apr 17,Diana Lungu, Romania
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11:53 pm PDT, Apr 16,Amy Reeves, Australia
whaling sucks, you shouldn't even have to do a petition becuase whaling shouldn't be around anymore it's to DANGEROUS
# 104,936:
12:28 pm PDT, Apr 16,Adam V Paul, Romania
stop killing whales!! we live in the 21 century...there are other ways to study these creatures without harming them!!!
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11:52 am PDT, Apr 16,Caroline Cormier, Nevada
for heavens sake........stop it
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10:17 am PDT, Apr 16,Michael Grant, Illinois
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10:09 am PDT, Apr 16,Renata Proestopoulou, Greece
Lets become civilized again
