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SAVE THE WHALES
Hi everyone,
The International Whaling Commission is meeting in Australia later this year. To help protect the whales and ensure they are safe from Japan's "scientific" expeditions, PLEASE sign the petition at the following site:
PLEASE sign as Greenpeace wants a million signatures to really show the IWC that the world wants whaling to end NOW.
Please forward this to as many people as possible.
http://www.greenpeace.org.au/globalwhalesanctuary/index.html

Dear dolphin friends,
Recently we have received the information about the „Parque oceanográfico universal" in Valencia (Spain) which is a huge project and a part of the new proposal is a new Dolphinarium. We are trying to stop this Dolphinarium from being built in order to save dolphins from being captured for it. These animals are made to perform in captivity, for the owner's interests and the visitor's pleasure. Most Dolphinariums are designed for entertainment and profit and not intended to inform and educate the visitor. What looks like a funny dolphin show is actually an artificial performance based upon starvation and domination and tedium. Dolphins live in the largest habitat on earth and they swim vast distances around the oceans and use sonar frequencies to communicate. In Dolphinariums they spend their lives in dull concrete tanks, continually circling through chlorinated or chemically adulterated water in an acoustic nightmare.

People who are willing to pay admission to see dolphins in captivity and isolation always startle us. Maybe these people do not notice the captive and isolated state of these marine mammals? There isn't much time left, so we need to count on your support.

Write to those responsible for the project either by post or by fax. Tell them, that education and information about marine mammals is really wanted but that there can be found a way without taking the freedom from dolphins.

You can either use the following text or you can emphasise in your own polite words, that these animals need to be protected and that there is no need to build new Dolphinariums. Ask them to respect these intelligent mammals instead of making some clowns out of them and to think about a different way to inform about the living and the needs of these fascinating marine mammals.

Director of the Project: Address: Dpto. Comunicaciones Miguel Ferrando Bataller Universidad Politécnicade Valencia Camino de Vera E-46071 Valencia, España Fax:++34-96-38 77 309

Address: S.M. Reina Sofia y S.M. Rey Don Juan Carlos I, Casa Real, Madrid, Spain

Dear Mr. Ferrando Bataller We have heard about the plans to build a Dolphinarium as a part of the „Parque oceanográfico universal" in Valencia. Dolphins are highly intelligent and sensitive creatures, which swim in the wild a distance once around Great Britain each month! Their social and family life is very important to them and every capturing of a dolphin means, that it looses its family and its social structures.
We urge you to think about another possibility to show the people the fascinating life of these marine mammals and to inform them in a way which helps the dolphins to survive. Information about their needs and their way of living shown without dolphins, would save some dolphins from being captured and closed up in a far too small tank for the rest of their life.

Name:_____________________ Address: ________________________ Signature:__________________ Date: __________________________

Sender: ecs-all-request@mailbase.ac.uk

A GLOBAL WHALE SANCTUARY BY 2000

As you read this, the Japanese whaling fleet is in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary illegally hunting their self-imposed quota of 440 whales.

It is no secret that whales still face a serious threat. Because they are mammals, their numbers are only very slowly recovering from the devastation of commercial whaling which took place most of the 20th century.
Yet countries like Japan and Norway are trying to continue whaling into the 21st century. While Greenpeace and its supporters continue to fight very hard to stop this happening your help would be very much appreciated. Greenpeace oceans campaigner Denise Boyd puts it plainly: "Whales still face the threat of commercial whaling. A sanctuary will provide a safe haven for the world's remaining whales. This petition for a Global Whale Sanctuary is part of the Greenpeace campaign to ensure whales survive the next millennium."
Please sign the petition at: http://www.greenpeace.org.au/globalwhalesanctuary/
then send this message to as many people as you know.
MORE ABOUT COMMERCIAL WHALING With the Japanese whaling fleet investing in new ships, they are still taking the commercial hunting of whales very seriously, albeit under the guise of "science".
The Norwegian whaling fleet is openly whaling in defiance of the IWC (International Whaling Commission) moratorium on commercial whaling, established in 1986 and numerous requests.
The solution is a Global Whale Sanctuary, to protect the world's whales once and for all, no matter where they are travelling, breeding or feeding. This is why Greenpeace has its Global Whale Sanctuary petition on the internet, and why we need you to help us collect as many signatures as possible before the IWC meets in Adelaide in June 2000.
The Global Whale Sanctuary website and petition were launched in September, 1999 by Australia's Environment Minister, Robert Hill. Since that time, 8,800 people have put their name to the petition and added to our target of 250,000 signatures on the Global Whale Sanctuary Petition by May 2000.
We must voice our concern to the Australian Government. Show Senator Hill that not only Australians but all fair-minded people throughout the world are opposed to the killing of whales and help ensure that the Australian Government takes the lead in proposing a Global Whale Sanctuary at the IWC meeting in June.
ACT NOW: Sign our petition to provide a safe haven for the whales in our oceans and put an end to the killing. Sign the petition on-line or download a paper version of the petition to collect signatures from your friends and family. http://www.greenpeace.org.au/globalwhalesanctuary/
Regards, Graham J. Clarke "WHALES IN DANGER" - Sydney - AUSTRALIA
Whales on the Net - http://whales.magna.com.au/home.html
email: gclarke@magna.com.au ICQ Pagers: 13257531 - 9456336

If you wish to let us and other dolphine and whales lovers know about what is happening and how we can help please e-mail to freedolphins@tarifa.net

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