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Stopping Japanese whalers – our toughest challenge?

The Japanese whaling fleet returned today from the Antarctic. We are sickened to hear that on board are 333 minke whales: 155 males and 178 females.

This year, no information has been released on how many of these adult females were pregnant, but there is a high probability that many were. We suspect that this information has not been released, to lessen public outrage, after it was confirmed that last year more than 90% of adult female whales killed, were pregnant.

The whaling ships set sail for the Antarctic on the 18th November 2016 despite failing to get approval from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), and despite its whaling being condemned by the International Court of Justice.

Japan continues to exploit a loophole which allows countries to hunt whales for ‚research‘ and they continue to push for even greater numbers.

 But we won’t give up.

We will continue to fight Japan’s attempts to get a compromise at the IWC. We will continue working with governments and other NGOs, providing expert evidence and exerting influence on many levels to end whaling. This is the only way to achieve real, lasting change. Will you help?

Last year, you and nearly 270,000 others, signed our petition asking the EU to say ’no‘ to a free trade agreement until Japan stops whaling. This trade agreement has yet to be agreed. If you haven’t already done so please follow the link below and add your voice to our Twitter campaign to pressure the EU ahead of its discussions with Japan.

We desperately need your support to help put an end to the cruel killing of whales; please consider making a donation today. Together we will stop the whalers.

Please donate today

Thank you.

Astrid Fuchs
WDC Policy manager – Stop Whaling programme lead

 

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Your March whale and dolphin news

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News from the world of whales and dolphins

Hi

I’ve got some good news and some sad news for you this month. I also wanted to say a massive ‚thank you‘ for your support – it is truly appreciated and makes a big difference for whales and dolphins.

If you haven’t done so already, please sign our petition below and before I get on with sharing the news with you, I thought you might enjoy this picture, snapped by my colleague Charlie, of dolphins having fun in the wild in Scotland…

With very best wishes,

Julia Thoms, WDC campaigns manager

Sign our Care2 petition

Thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales die in fishing gear in UK seas every year. We need to protect them. If you haven’t signed our petition yet, please take a few seconds to do it now. If you already have – THANK YOU!

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Fin whale hunt called off

Iceland’s main whale hunter has announced there will be no fin whale slaughter in Iceland this summer, saving the lives of up to 184 endangered whales. This is fantastic news. My colleague Vanessa explains how you helped make this happen.

READ VANESSA’S BLOG

Virgin listened to you

We celebrate another leap forward in our campaign to stop UK holiday companies supporting whale and dolphin captivity. Virgin Holidays has listened to you and won’t sign up any new attractions that feature whales and dolphins for ‚entertainment‘.

FIND OUT MORE

Hunters target pregnant whales

A new documentary makes the shocking revelation that around 90% of the minke whales killed by Norwegian hunters are female, and the majority of them are pregnant.

READ MORE

Swim for WDC’s Team Orca! There’s still time so sign up and take part in the Great London or North Swim 2017 and help raise money for WDC’s international whale and dolphin conservation projects. MORE INFO

Mother’s Day gift inspirations Every mum deserves a special treat for Mother’s Day and we’ve got some lovely new gift ideas. Every penny you spend goes to help whales and dolphins around the world. SHOP NOW

Tell Entertainers to Cancel Their Performances at SeaWorld Food Festival!

 http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/seaworld-food-festival/

SeaWorld Orlando is hosting a „Seven Seas Food Festival,“ and we need your help to let the entertainers scheduled to perform know that it’s wrong to support a company that deprives complex, emotional, and social orcas of everything that’s natural and important to them. Even though compassionate artists and dozens of other bands— such as Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Barenaked Ladies, and 38 Special— canceled their performances at the abusement park, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lee Brice, Bill Engvall, Styx, Justin Moore, ZZ Top, Phillip Phillips, Village People, the Commodores, Oscar D’León, Olga Tañón, and Grupo Manía are still set to participate, which will lead their fans to support a company that forces highly intelligent orcas to do confusing tricks and live in concrete tanks that are, to them, the size of a bathtub. Entertainers listen to their fans, so please ask these performers to cancel their appearances at SeaWorld.

Tell Entertainers to Cancel Their Performances at SeaWorld Food Festival!

http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/seaworld-food-festival/

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SeaWorld Orlando is hosting a „Seven Seas Food Festival,“ and we need your help to let the entertainers scheduled to perform know that it’s wrong to support a company that deprives complex, emotional, and social orcas of everything that’s natural and important to them. Even though compassionate artists and dozens of other bands— such as Willie Nelson, Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Barenaked Ladies, and 38 Special— canceled their performances at the abusement park, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lee Brice, Bill Engvall, Styx, Justin Moore, ZZ Top, Phillip Phillips, Village People, the Commodores, Oscar D’León, Olga Tañón, and Grupo Manía are still set to participate, which will lead their fans to support a company that forces highly intelligent orcas to do confusing tricks and live in concrete tanks that are, to them, the size of a bathtub. Entertainers listen to their fans, so please ask these performers to cancel their appearances at SeaWorld.

Tilikum, SeaWorld’s Most Exploited Orca, Has Died

Action Alert Dear Sylvia, Tilikum—the ‘star’ of Blackfish, the damning documentary about SeaWorld’s miserable practice of ripping orca babies from their ocean families and then breeding them in captivity—is dead following decades of exploitation in the marine-mammal abusement industry. Tilikum died without ever again knowing freedom, along with 11 of his children who died prematurely before him and leaving 10 more who will continue to suffer in tiny concrete tanks. PETA is calling on SeaWorld to do the right thing and move the remaining orcas to coastal sanctuaries, where they could enjoy a more natural life, and on caring people to shun facilities that enslave animals for our “entertainment.” Act Now https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2945&autologin=true&utm_campaign=010617%20Tilikum%20Has%20Died%20&utm_source=peta%20e-mail&utm_medium=alert Thank you for your compassion for animals. Sincerely, John Di Leonardo Animals in Entertainment Campaigner People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Thank you for helping us save whales!

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Thank you for your support !

Our brilliant Stop Whaling team are back from the meeting of the International Whaling Commission and Astrid and Carolina have asked me to say a massive thank you to everyone who enabled them to be there to fight for the whales.

We won some and we lost some but all-in-all it was positive and we are so grateful to you for giving us the support and motivation we need to face challenges like this.

You can find out what happened in Chris or Astrid’s blogs, but in a nutshell – we didn’t get the Southern Atlantic Whale sanctuary (again) but we did get a commitment from nations to go all out to try to save the little vaquita from extinction, and we did get agreement that the IWC needs to have more control over Japan’s so-called ’scientific‘ whaling.

The biggest revolution of the meeting was the overwhelming number of votes in agreement that whales are vital for a healthy planet and are our allies in combating climate change. WDC has pioneered this thinking and Astrid and Caro took every chance to discuss it with delegates at the summit.

As Chris, our CEO, said in his blog „we are only just beginning to realise that we don’t just like whales we actually need them. If we are to fight climate change and help bring this planet back into some state of ecological-security for our grandchildren, then we cannot afford to lose one whale, but we actually need millions more swimming in our oceans.“

I’m proud of our team and what we’ve been able to achieve, but these successes are a work in progress. We’ve a lot more to do to make sure the whaling nations are held to account and can no longer ignore the opinion of the rest of the world. If you are able to make a donation to help Astrid and Caro continue their important work, we promise to put it to work straight away. Together we can create a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.

Thank you again for your support – with it we achieve great things.

With very best wishes,

Julia Thoms

WDC campaigns manager

Make a donation to help save whales

Astrid and Caro reflect

If you want to find out more about what we won and what we lost, have a read of Astrid’s blog.

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Bitte mitmachen: Helfen Sie, Wale zu schützen

Fordern Sie, dass die Internationale Walfangkommission IWC Wale besser schützt.

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Fordern Sie die Regierung auf, sich für Wale stark zu machen

Liebe/r SYLVIA in wenigen Tagen treffen sich die Mitgliedsstaaten der Internationalen Walfangkommission (IWC). Es ist ein entscheidendes Treffen, denn es ist das erste, seitdem die japanische Walfangflotte sich erneut in das Walschutzgebiet im Südpolarmeer aufmachte und 333 Wale tötete, obwohl der Internationale Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag den japanischen Walfang für illegal erklärt hatte. Bei der Konferenz wird außerdem über die Schaffung eines neuen Walschutzgebiets im Südatlantik abgestimmt. Doch leider werden die Entscheidungen der IWC noch immer stark von Interessen der Walfangbefürworter beeinflusst. Wir wollen, dass die IWC Wale künftig wirksam schützt. Dafür benötigen wir Ihre Hilfe! http://www.ifaw.org/deutschland/get-involved/machen-sie-sich-den-schutz-der-wale-stark Erheben Sie Ihre Stimme für die Wale! Wir brauchen Ihre Hilfe, um beim Treffen der IWC-Mitglieder zwei Forderungen durchzusetzen: Alle Länder, die Naturschutz ernst nehmen, müssen sich gegen die Fortsetzung des japanischen Walfangs zu angeblichen Forschungszwecken aussprechen. Dies ist das erste Treffen, seitdem die japanische Walfangflotte in die Antarktis zurückkehrte, um Wale zu töten, nachdem der Internationale Gerichtshof ihre früheren Walfangaktivitäten für illegal erklärt hatte. Wir fordern, dass die Mitgliedsstaaten der IWC ein neues Schutzgebiet für Wale im Südatlantik beschließen, welches Wale vor der Jagd und vielen anderen Gefahren schützt. Alle Länder in der Region unterstützen den Ansatz, doch die Walfangbefürworter wollen dies erneut verhindern. Fordern Sie die deutsche Regierung auf, sich gegen den Walfang zu angeblichen Forschungszwecken und für die Schaffung eines neuen Walschutzgebietes einzusetzen. http://www.ifaw.org/deutschland/get-involved/machen-sie-sich-den-schutz-der-wale-stark Jetzt unterzeichnen Zusätzlich zum Walfang in der Antarktis beabsichtigt Japan, seine Walfangflotte auch in den Nordpazifik zu entsenden. Wir müssen jetzt handeln und dafür sorgen, dass die Mitgliedsländer den angeblichen Walfang zu Forschungszwecken verhindern und Walschutzgebiete fördern. Helfen Sie uns, den Walen den dringend benötigten Schutz zu geben. http://www.ifaw.org/deutschland/get-involved/machen-sie-sich-den-schutz-der-wale-stark Machen Sie sich stark für Wale Ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Unterstützung! Patrick Ramage IFAW Programmdirektor Wale PS: Wir brauchen die Unterstützung möglichst vieler Regierungen, um den japanischen Walfang zu stoppen. Fordern Sie die deutsche Regierung auf, sich auf der IWC-Konferenz für die Wale einzusetzen! http://www.ifaw.org/deutschland/get-involved/machen-sie-sich-den-schutz-der-wale-stark	Helfen Sie uns, die Wale zu schützen! Wale sind heute mehr denn je in Gefahr. Helfen Sie uns, beim Treffen der Internationalen Walfangkommission wegweisende Beschlüsse für den Schutz der Wale auf den Weg zu bringen. Fordern Sie die Regierung auf, sich gegen den angeblich wissenschaftlichen Walfang und für die Schaffung neuer Walschutzgebiete einzusetzen. Unterzeichnen Sie jetzt unsere Petition an die deutsche Regierung Auch teilen hilft

Wale retten durch anprangern der Walfleischtransporte

http://www.erdheilungen.de/newstop/326-wale-retten-durch-anprangern-der-walfleischtransporte

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Veröffentlicht: 28. Juni 2015

• Wale

Bitte unterstützt diese Avaaz Petition. Die isländischen Walfänger laufen unter der Billigflagge der Inselstaaten St. Kitts und Nevis.

Avaaz wil diese Torismusländer wegen der Walfleisch transporte in das Visier der Öffentlichkeit zerren und so über einen möglichen Imageverlust Einfluss nehmen.

https://secure.avaaz.org/de/days_to_save_whales_loc_tta_tst

Neuigkeit zur Petition: Petition in der Zeitung

https://www.change.org/p/delfinarium-im-zoo-duisburg-schlie%C3%9Fen/u/18079151

Fabian Neubüser

Deutschland

7. Okt. 2016 — Sehr geehrte Unterstützer, erfreulicher Weise hat die „WAZ“ einen Zeitungsbericht über diese Petition verfasst.
Herr Winkler nahm in diesem Beitrag Stellung und sagte: „er könne über dies Petition nur müde lachen“, „seine Petition wären die Besucher“.
Ich habe mich mit weiteren Zeitungen und Radio Sendern in Kontakt gesetzt um weitere Unterstützer zu werben und von unserem Anliegen zu Überzeugen.
Außerdem habe ich eine Facebook-Seite erstellt die als Austausch Ort dienen soll und euch auf dem laufendem hält.
https://www.facebook.com/DontBuyATicket/
Ihr könnt die Seite auch bei Facebook suche unter dem Namen „Stoppt Delfinarien“.
Außerdem könnt ihr dort Fragen stellen, Kritikpunkte anbringen und euch mit anderen Gleichgesinnten vernetzen.

Viele Grüße und ein schönes Wochenende
Fabian Neubüser

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Thank you we won for porpoises!

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We won – thank you for your support !

I want to say a massive ‚thank you‘ to everyone who took action to get better protection for harbour porpoises in Scottish waters. I’m thrilled to report that once again, public pressure paid off. The Scottish government will create the largest conservation area in Europe for harbour porpoises.

http://uk.whales.org/news/2016/09/victory-for-harbour-porpoise-protection-in-scotland

Almost 9,000 of our amazing supporters got involved with our campaign proving yet again that we can achieve great things when we stand together.

I hope that the Welsh, English and Northern Irish governments will follow Scotland’s lead and create protected areas for these vulnerable little creatures too.

Thank you once again on behalf of the WDC team and the porpoises. You’ve achieved something brilliant and lasting.

With very best wishes,

Julia Thoms

WDC campaigns manager

 

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