Schlagwort-Archive: WALE

VICTORY: California Becomes First State to Ban Breeding of Captive Orcas

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Dear SYLVIA,

Today, California became the first state to ban the breeding of captive orcas—ensuring that future generations will not endure the deprivation, stress, and frustration of being trapped inside a tiny concrete tank. Thanks to Assemblymember Richard Bloom, who introduced the California Orca Protection Act, state legislators learned how orcas suffer and die prematurely in captivity, and today, Gov. Jerry Brown signed this important bill into law.

The California Orca Protection Act prevents all California marine parks from breeding orcas for captivity and ensures that SeaWorld can’t reverse its decision to stop its sordid orca-breeding program moving forward. This monumental achievement follows the admission by SeaWorld’s CEO that the company stopped breeding orcas because „the data and trends showed it was either a SeaWorld without whales or a world without SeaWorld“—as well as last year’s California Coastal Commission ruling that SeaWorld San Diego could not build new tanks if it continued to breed orcas.

This is a huge win for orcas. Thousands of you responded to PETA’s action alert asking you to contact government officials and speak up for orcas kept inside tiny concrete tanks in California, and this victory could not have been achieved without your support.

As PETA celebrates this historic move, we encourage you to take the next step and urge federal legislators to support the Orca Responsibility and Care Advancement (ORCA) Act, which would ban the breeding of captive orcas throughout the U.S.

http://www.peta.org/action/action-alerts/federal-bill-end-orca-captivity/

‚Til the tanks are empty,

Tracy Reiman
Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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Neuigkeit zur Petition @GOOGLE: Werdet Ihr helfen?

https://www.change.org/p/google-helfen-sie-das-abschlachten-der-wale-auf-den-far%C3%B6er-inseln-zu-beenden-googlede-grindstop/u/17427260

Karl-H. W. Greve

Quartzau, Deutschland

29. Juli 2016 — Innerhalb weniger Tage baten fast 40.000 Menschen um #GOOGLEs Hilfe gegen den Faröer #Grindadráp. „So eine „Tradition“ braucht die Welt nicht. Google bitte handeln.“ – so lautete vor wenigen Stunden eine der letzten Stellungnahmen.

Heute habe ich die Google GmbH in Hamburg um einen Termin gebeten, um die gesammelten Unterschriften und Kommentare persönlich dort zu diskutieren und Möglichkeiten zu erörtern.
Ich hoffe, zeitnah hier über Resultate berichten zu können.


 

 

Neuigkeit zur Petition Richtungsweisend: Heute über 30.000 Unterzeichner

https://www.change.org/p/google-helfen-sie-das-abschlachten-der-wale-auf-den-far%C3%B6er-inseln-zu-beenden-googlede-grindstop/u/17333888

Karl-H. W. Greve

Quartzau, Deutschland

20. Juli 2016 — Kaum konnten wir gestern über das Erreichen der 25.000er Marke berichten, fanden sich weitere 5.000 Unterstützer, die den Grindadráp schnellstens dorthin wünschen, wo er hingehört: In die finsterste Vergangenheit.

Bitte verbreitet / verbreiten Sie dies Video weiträumig, um noch viele weitere Unterstützer für Abstellung der barbarischen Tradition zu finden.

DANKE


 

 

Neuigkeit zur Petition Dank #HannesJaenicke……

https://www.change.org/p/googledeutschland-google-helfen-sie-das-walgemetzel-der-far%C3%B6er-zu-beenden/u/17299208

Karl-H. W. Greve

Quartzau, Deutschland

16. Juli 2016 — ……hat diese Petition bereits am zweiten Tag die 3.000er Marke überschritten. Dies ist zu einem großen Teil auch #HannesJaenicke zu verdanken, der sie sowohl bei Twitter, als auch auf seiner Facebookseite verlinkte. Herzlichen Dank #HannesJaenicke für diese wertvolle Unterstützung!

Zusammen mit vielen Menschen, die ihrer Unterschrift auch einen Kommentar hinzugefügt haben, hoffe ich inständig, dass diese Petition weiterhin so schnell an Kraft gewinnt. Sie kann und darf von #Google nicht übersehen werden.


 

 

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Neuigkeit zur Petition Blutige „Tradition“ auch hier

https://www.change.org/p/jetzt-die-osterl%C3%A4mmer-retten-ostern/u/17289398

Karl-H. W. Greve

Quartzau, Deutschland

15. Juli 2016 — Nicht zu Ostern sondern jetzt in diesen Tagen beginnt vor den Faröer Inseln der sogenannte Grindadráp. Hierbei werden ganze Walschulen in die Buchten getrieben und dort massenweise vor Publikum abgemetzelt. Das Wasser der Buchten ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes blutrot! In früheren Zeiten mag das noch einen Sinn gehabt haben und wirklich zur Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Fleisch gedient haben. Heute hingegen ist es lediglich noch ein Spektakel, welches als „erhaltungswürdige Tradition“ verteidigt wird. Die Wale sind heute artenrechtlich geschützt, ihr Fleisch ist hochgradig belastet und deshalb nicht zum Verzehr geeignet. Ob und in welchem Maße die Inselbewohner sich nun tatsächlich aus „Tradition“ selbst vergiften, ist mir nicht bekannt.

Seit Jahren schon kämpfen Tier- und Umweltschützer verzweifelt gegen diesen Artenschutzverstoß an und wurden diesbezüglich häufig brutal u. a. auch von der dänischen Marine behindert. Nun ergibt sich die Möglichkeit, dass der Global Player #GOOGLE, von dem die Faröer zu gern ins Street View Programm aufgenommen werden würden, dem Gemetzel ein Ende bereiten könnte. https://www.change.org/p/googledeutschland-google-helfen-sie-das-walgemetzel-der-far%C3%B6er-zu-beenden

Bitte unterstützt / unterstützen Sie diese Petition durch Unterschrift und Weiterverbreitung.

DANKE!


 

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ICH  BIN  LUISE

 

Big win on whaling

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British Airways, stop supporting SeaWorld

It’s time to ramp up the pressure – tell British Airways what you think.

First I want to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who signed our petition urging British Airways to end its support for SeaWorld. More than 9,000 of you have signed so far! We want to get to 10,000 so if you haven’t added your voice yet, please sign and share.

http://uk.whales.org/campaigns/stop-british-airways-supporting-seaworld

We need to ramp up the pressure. Let’s show BA how much people care. Please take a few minutes to tell BA’s Customer Relations team why you think BA should end its support for whale and dolphin cruelty.

Fill in BA’s simple online complaints form, write them a letter or give them a call.

http://uk.whales.org/captivity/tell-british-airways-what-you-think

Personal messages from their potential customers could really make a difference, and it won’t take more than a few minutes of your time.

Follow the link below for all the details and some pointers on what you might say.

Thank you for your fantastic support

Iceland: A whale nation, not a whaling nation

Big win for our Stop Whaling campaign!

This is our chief executive, Chris Butler-Stroud, speaking at the European Parliament in June. Just days later, MEPs echoed our campaign and voted overwhelmingly to get tough on Japan’s whaling.

This resolution strongly condemns Japan´s continued flouting of international agreements and specifically mentions the current free trade agreement negotiations with the EU. It calls on the EU Commission and Member States to engage with Japan with a view to abolishing whaling.

You played a massive part in this victory. More than 270,000 people joined our call for the EU to make whaling a deal-breaker in the trade negotiations with Japan. Thank you!

Great news

Georgia Aquarium in the US has announced it will no longer take whales and dolphins captured from the wild.

Want to see whales?

Download our new guide to responsible whale watching. It’s free and you’ll find all the info you need on the best places to go to see wild and free whales and dolphins.

New look news

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Wildlife Weekend Walk

Wildlife Weekend Walk  26-28 August 2016

Join us for a sponsored walk in beautiful north east Scotland and raise money to help protect dolphins. Take a dolphin and wildlife watching boat cruise, enjoy the coastal scenery, come shore-based dolphin watching at Chanonry Point with WDC’s Charlie Philips.

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We need your help for two urgent campaigns

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Dear Supporter

This month we need your support for two very important campaigns. Please help us protect endangered orcas AND put an end to Japan’s whaling.

This is urgent – a group of orcas needs our help now.

The ‘Southern Residents’ are a highly endangered group of 85 orcas living off the north west coast of the USA and the south west coast of Canada. Will you help to ensure their survival?

The population was devastated when an estimated 47 orcas were captured by the aquarium industry in the 1960s and 70s. The Southern Residents were declared ‘endangered’ in 2005 and 2,560 square miles of ocean was given federal protection. This meant the orcas should be safe from newer dangers like naval activities, prey depletion, increasing boat noise, and coastal development.

Sadly, in spite of a decade of protection, the population has still not recovered. We are calling on US authorities to grant greater protection NOW, before it’s too late.

Your voice counts. Please support our campaign by signing the petition. And if you want to raise funds to help us continue our campaigns, scroll down to join Team Orca.

 

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Southern Resident orcas. Image: CWR/Rob Lott
Slaughtered minke whales

Japan’s whalers slaughter more than 200 pregnant females

Last week we were all horrified and deeply saddened by the news that the Japanese whaling fleet had returned home having killed 333 minke whales: 103 males and 230 females, 90% of whom were pregnant.

Remember that it’s not too late to join the campaign – if you haven’t done so already, please sign and share our petition.

Slaughtered whales

Progress on Japan’s whaling

A formal question has been put to the European Commission and European Council, asking if there will be any further condemnation of Japan by the EU over the Japanese government’s decision to resume research whale hunts in Antarctica over the next 12 years.

This is great progress for our campaign as it means that the issue is being discussed within the EU. An answer will have to be given at the next meeting in April and I’ll let you know what this response is in your next update.

Thank you so much to everyone who has signed our petition and supported this campaign.

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