Start Your Own Greenpeace Page to Save the Whales 
Monday, November 19th, 2007

It's no joke:  Japanese whalers are departing right now to hunt humpback whales.  Above is a photo from greenpeace.org of a Japanese government whaling fleet setting sail from Shimonoseki, on its biggest hunt in twenty-plus years.

From Greenpeace.org:

  Japan's annual Southern Ocean whale hunt is conducted under the guise of science but has been condemned internationally. This season, Japan aims to kill more than 1,000 whales, including 50 endangered fin whales and, for the first time in 20 years, 50 threatened humpback whales will also be harpooned.

The International Whaling Commission has called for an end to the killing of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary under Japan's whaling program.

Our ship the Esperanza is currently positioned just outside Japanese territorial waters and will be following the Japanese whaling fleet as it heads toward the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. You can read the crew blog here >>.

"The Japanese government's "scientific" whaling program is a sham and a source of diplomatic tension between Japan and countries that support whale conservation, like the United States. Whaling has no place in Antarctica - it's a place of peace and science, and this is not science," said Karli Thomas, expedition leader aboard the Esperanza.

An opinion poll carried out in Japan by the Nippon Research Centre, in June 2006, showed that 95 per cent of Japanese people never or rarely eat whale meat. More than two-thirds of Japanese do not support whaling on the high seas."  Article continued here.

1.  You can create your own fundraising page to help GreenPeace end whaling in the Southern Ocean forever - it's fun, and it's free!  Or, if you don't have the time to run a page, but you'd still like to contribute, you can donate through our GreenPeace page here.  (We do not profit off of these contributions whatsoever, they go 100% to the GreenPeace organization)

2.  You can track the whales for free on Google Maps - cool to watch, and keeps you informed of what's going on!

   

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