The U.S. representative on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has proposed a five-year plan to lift the international moratorium on whale hunting. William Hogarth, a Bush-era appointee and current IWC chair, brokered a proposed deal that would allow Japan to do new "coastal whaling" in exchange for ramping down so-called "scientific" whaling over the next five years.
But a slow decline in one type of whales being killed in exchange for opening a new group for slaughter is not a compromise that's acceptable! Hogarth's proposal puts the threatened coastal Japanese whales at even greater risk. The IWC needs to instead focus its attention on stopping whaling altogether.
Urge President Obama to instruct Hogarth that the U.S. does not condone whaling. We cannot give Hogarth free reign to destroy years of conservation work and potentially wipe out whale species.
We took action on “Urge Obama to Stop Plan to Slaughter Whales”!
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7:46 pm PDT, Oct 26,Elodia Resendez, Michigan
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5:11 pm PDT, Oct 26,Mekeah Penny, California
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9:36 am PDT, Oct 26,Shirley Biscotti, California
End all whaling! We have to protect whales from extinction!
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7:42 am PDT, Oct 26,Elaine Dixon, Florida
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5:13 pm PDT, Oct 25,Amanda McCullough, Florida
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11:52 am PDT, Oct 25,Nancy Juskowich, Pennsylvania
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7:07 am PDT, Oct 25,Tattiana Delfino, Florida
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5:16 am PDT, Oct 25,John and Martha Stoltenberg, Wisconsin
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10:45 pm PDT, Oct 24,Diane Shaughnessy, Washington
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8:37 pm PDT, Oct 24,Lynn Elliott, North Carolina
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2:55 pm PDT, Oct 24,Kristen Lamb, New York
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8:15 pm PDT, Oct 23,Samantha Polk, Nevada
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7:03 pm PDT, Oct 23,Name not displayed, California
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9:44 am PDT, Oct 23,Michael Lord, New Mexico
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11:07 pm PDT, Oct 22,Roger Panning, Ohio
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5:03 am PDT, Oct 22,Anita Lock, Ohio
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6:52 pm PDT, Oct 21,Caro Liu, Pennsylvania
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2:34 pm PDT, Oct 21,Chantal Dothey, Ohio
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12:35 pm PDT, Oct 21,Name not displayed, California
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8:48 pm PDT, Oct 20,Angel Bai, California
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3:41 pm PDT, Oct 20,Kathleen Lybarger, Nevada
I can not believe this, i every where i look now there is whaling. What did the whales ever do to us, that know the U.S is starting support whaling.
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7:02 pm PDT, Oct 19,Tristan Lestat, Alabama
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3:34 pm PDT, Oct 18,Tabatha Horn, Virginia
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7:01 am PDT, Oct 18,Kim De Vroe, Spain
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12:22 am PDT, Oct 18,Alexa Peters, Texas
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6:48 pm PDT, Oct 17,Katherine Reed Piana, Washington
We must put an end to bloody illegal whaling, before it's too late, for all future generations to come. Please do the right thing.
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6:40 pm PDT, Oct 17,Kyle S, New Jersey
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5:14 pm PDT, Oct 17,Gwenn Meltzer, Pennsylvania
__ Humanitarianism First..
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7:48 am PDT, Oct 17,Michael Meredith, California
No more whailing
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2:53 pm PDT, Oct 16,Diana Hulsey, Texas
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12:11 pm PDT, Oct 16,Delia Barrett, New Mexico
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1:07 am PDT, Oct 16,Chris Farmer, Texas
Dear President Obama please instruct Hogarth that the U.S. does not condone whaling, it is just wrong to be whaling if we keep this up there won't be any whales & people in the future will look back & blame us for not doing anything to save them, yours truly Chris Farmer of Texas,
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10:44 am PDT, Oct 15,CINDY O, Louisiana
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10:22 am PDT, Oct 15,Paul RW Anthony, Idaho
NO MORE WHALING BY ANYONE, ANYWHERE - EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8:43 am PDT, Oct 15,Sheila Peterson, California
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5:49 am PDT, Oct 15,Lynn Swartwood, Kentucky
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4:44 am PDT, Oct 15,Michael Pacholski, Ohio
These beautiful intelligent mammals that should not be allow under any circumstances.
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10:28 am PDT, Oct 14,Celeste Kaisershot, Nebraska
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1:14 am PDT, Oct 14,Can Atik, Turkey
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8:14 pm PDT, Oct 13,John Rokas, Michigan
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3:39 pm PDT, Oct 13,Brad Clodfelter, Arkansas
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12:12 pm PDT, Oct 13,Clare Hornbuckle, United Kingdom
