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PROGRESS: Demand Whale Conservation Over Killing

COMMERCIAL WHALING IS A NO-GO — FOR THIS YEAR
6/23/10 — This year’s bid to legalize commercial whaling is a no-go. Thanks to Kinship Circle supporters who spoke out against whaling now and many times over the years. Your comments to the International Whaling Commission help solidify wins like this one. Japan, Norway and Iceland are still hunting whales under the guise of "research." However, if commercialized whaling (what whalers do now, illegally) had been legalized — whaling nations could have won rights to openly slaughter whales. spacer


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Dear Mr. President and Honorable Government Officials.

The United States once played a vital part in protecting whales and their oceanic habitat. As a nonpartisan voice for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), it helped shape decades of sound conservation.

That's about to change if U.S. IWC Commissioner Dr. William Hogarth successfully removes a key safeguard for these giant marine mammals.

Whales are already vulnerable to pollution, global warming, seismic and naval sonar, drilling, fishnet entrapment, ship strikes, habitat loss and more human hazards. Yet Dr. Hogarth wants to dilute the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling.

Granted, the commercial ban has been difficult to enforce. Japan, Iceland and Norway have long exploited an IWC exemption for "scientific whaling." There is no rationale for butchering whales to analyze migration, age, ecology or behavior. Eminent scientists and legal authorities rebuke "scientific whaling." as pointless. In fact, science-based slaughter is a veil for commerce in whale meat.

Dr. Hogarth further undercuts whale preservation with his proposal to accept some commercial whaling and allow it in coastal waters. I encourage you to appoint the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as the U.S. IWC Commissioner and oppose strategies that endorse Special Permit catches or Coastal Whaling. I hope you will uphold IWC regulations and discount any type whaling presently forbidden under them.

The U.S. ought to use its clout to halt increased whaling from Japan, Iceland and Norway — not appease them with watered down rules. Japan, in particular, has continually defied international treaty obligations and hunted endangered whales. Moreover, whale hunts are profoundly inhumane. Harpoons literally explode inside their bodies. It can take a half to full hour for a whale to die. Some, tied to the side of ships, suffocate as they thrash in vain.

Please revitalize America's leadership in the IWC with a U.S. Commissioner who facilitates conservation instead of killing.

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OFFICIALS WITH EMAIL ADDRESSES:
secretariat@iwcoffice.org, iwcjournal@iwcoffice.org, webmaster@iwcoffice.org, owolff@doc.gov, webmaster@doc.gov, jcarson@ceq.eop.gov, horst_greczmiel@ceq.eop.gov, eboling@ceq.eop.gov, questions@friendsofhillary.com, jane.lubchenco@noaa.gov, mmc@mmc.gov, tragen@mmc.gov, bgisiner@mmc.gov, pthomas@mmc.gov

OFFICIALS WITH WEB MAIL ONLY:
  • President Barack Obama: www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
  • Nick J. Rahall II, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman: rahall.house.gov/?sectionid=9§iontree=9
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    President Barack Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Washington, DC 20500
    comments: 202-456-1111, switchboard: 202-456-1414
    fax: 202-456-2461
    web mail: www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
    THERE IS NO PUBLIC EMAIL ADDRESS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA
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    The International Whaling Commission
    The Red House, 135 Station Road
    Impington, Cambridge
    Cambridgeshire CB24 9NP, UK
    ph: 44 0 1223 233 971, fax: 44 0 1223 232 876
    email: secretariat@iwcoffice.org, iwcjournal@iwcoffice.org,
    webmaster@iwcoffice.org
    SOURCE: www.iwcoffice.org/other/contacts.htm

    Nick J. Rahall II, Chairman
    Committee on Natural Resources
    1324 Longworth House Office Building
    Washington, D.C. 20515
    ph: 202-225-6065, fax: 202-225-1931
    Communications Office: 202-226-9019
    web mail: www.rahall.house.gov/?sectionid=9§iontree=9
    SOURCE: resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php

    Otto J. Wolff, Acting Secretary of the U.S.
    Department of Commerce

    U.S. Department of Commerce
    1401 Constitution Ave., NW
    Washington, DC 20230
    ph: 202-482-2000
    email: owolff@doc.gov, webmaster@doc.gov
    SOURCE: www.commerce.gov/Contact_Us/index.htm
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    Environmental Quality

    722 Jackson Place, NW
    Washington, DC 20503
    ph: 202-395-5750, fax: 202-456-6546
    Jon Carson, Chief Of Staff for Nancy Sutley: jcarson@ceq.eop.gov
    Horst Greczmiel, CEQ Assoc. Director for (NEPA) Oversight: horst_greczmiel@ceq.eop.gov
    Edward Boling, General Counsel: eboling@ceq.eop.gov
    SOURCE: ceq.hss.doe.gov/ntf/contactus.html

    Ms. Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State
    U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW
    Washington, DC 20520
    ph: 202-647-4000, fax: 202-647-2283
    web mail: contact-us.state.gov...alp.php

    Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for
    Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator

    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 5128
    Washington, DC 20230
    ph: 202-482-3436
    email: jane.lubchenco@noaa.gov
    SOURCE: nsd.rdc.noaa.gov/nsd/pubsearch

    Marine Mammal Commission
    4340 East-West Highway, Suite 700
    Bethesda, Maryland 20814
    ph: 301-504-0087, fax: 301-504-0099
    email: mmc@mmc.gov, tragen@mmc.gov, bgisiner@mmc.gov,pthomas@mmc.gov
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