Almost 90% Of Indian Ocean Dolphins Are Gone. Help Save Them, Before It's Too Late.

How much longer do you think we have, before they're all gone forever?

Add your name if you want to save these majestic creatures from extinction!

"A damning new report by an international group of scientists indicates the dolphin population of the Indian Ocean has been decimated, with almost 90% of the animals wiped out by industrial fishing since 1980.

"The study suggests this extraordinary extermination is due to the widespread use of huge gillnets used to catch tuna," reported The Independent.

Have you heard of these horrible, destructive devices before?

The same source described them this way:

"Gillnets are walls of netting that are hung in the water column and are either allowed to drift from floating buoys, or can be fixed in one place. They range in size from 100m to more than 30km in length, and operate from less than 5m to more than 20m in depth.

"The size of the holes in the netting are designed so tuna can get only their head through the netting but not their whole body. The fish's gills then become caught in the mesh as it tries to back out of the net. As the fish struggles to free itself, it becomes more and more entangled."

The worst part is, even though they're illegal, the use of these lethal nets is still widespread.

"We combined results from 10 bycatch sampling programmes between 1981 and 2016 in Australia, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan to estimate bycatch rates for cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) across all Indian Ocean tuna gillnet fisheries.

"The vast majority of the cetacean bycatch is dolphins.

"Estimated cetacean bycatch peaked at almost 100,000 a year during 2004−2006, but has declined to 80,000 animals a year, despite an increase in the tuna gillnet fishing effort.

"The declining cetacean bycatch rates shown by what we can measure suggest current mortality rates are not sustainable.

"The estimates we have developed show that average small cetacean abundance may currently be 13% of the 1980 levels," said Dr. Putu Mustika, from James Cook University in Australia.

"Dr. Mustika said the research indicated the gillnets deployed in the Indian Ocean had killed about 4.1 million small cetaceans between 1950 and 2018 as fishers pursued tuna.

"But she said the true figures may be "substantially higher" as the available records take little or no account of factors such as delayed mortality of cetaceans which escape from the nets or mortality associated with ghost nets — those nets lost at sea," reported The Independent.

This is heartbreaking.

You know we have to stop this brutal murder of the Indian Ocean's dolphins.

But how?

By holding fishing companies accountable for breaking the law by continuing to use those horrendous gillnets.

According to the scientists whose study revealed this tragedy the solution is simple:

"There is a need for improvements in monitoring, analysis and governance and for changes to fishing practices if dolphin numbers are to recover," per The Independent.

Making this happen is going to take a coordinated international effort.

That's why we're calling on the Asian Parliamentary Assembly to form a united front, and implement the necessary measures indicated by scientists, and more importantly, follow up on those measures by prosecuting the fishing companies that ignore the law.

Don't you want to stop this cruel, heartless massacre of the Indian Ocean's few remaining dolphins?

Then add your name to ask the Asian Parliamentary Assembly to take immediate action to save the precious dolphins of the Indian Ocean by increasing ocean monitoring and punishing the fishing companies who continue to use illegal gillnets!