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"No living animals have captured our imaginations as have the great whales... They fire our imaginations and stab at our emotions. They inspire our art, literature, and music. And so they should. The indescribable blend of grace, power, and beauty of a whale as it glides underwater, leaps toward the sky, or simply lifts its flukes and slides into the sea symbolises a vanishing poetry of the wild."
- Dr James Darling, With The Whales The cetacea org
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Global Whale Sanctuary Greenpeace Australia and the country's government are petitioning for a Global Whale Sanctuary, for, despite the International Whaling Commission's 1986 moratorium, Norway and Japan continue to hunt cetaceans. Over 1,078 whales have been killed in 1999 alone. It will also promote research and conservation of many forms of marine life, including cetaceans. More than 1.4 million whales have been killed during the 20th Century. In the process, commercial whaling systematically depleted whale population after whale population. Of the great whales, only the Antarctic minkes were spared and only as a result of the worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling coming into force in 1986. Now more than a decade after enactment of the moratorium, Japan and Norway continue their whaling programs which directly undermine this cornerstone international conservation decision.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific is asking for whales to be given safe haven in all waters through a global whale sanctuary. Toward that goal they are calling on our government to give whales sanctuary in the waters that wash our shores and to support whale sanctuaries wherever they are proposed.
For more information visit
the Global Whale Sanctuary website
and join the other concerned world citizens by signing the petition to protect the whales.
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