A message from James Taylor

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Dear Friend,

 

The U.S. Navy wants to put a training range for lethal

mid-frequency sonar right next to a key migratory route for

endangered right whales -- off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North

Carolina.

 

Click here and tell the Navy not to put its proposed sonar range

next to the right whale's migratory route:

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

 

I grew up in North Carolina. My father served in the Navy while

we lived there, and I have sailed up and down the Eastern

seaboard many times. Like so many people, I love the wild beauty

of the North Carolina coast, including its magnificent whales.

 

So I find it mind-boggling that our government would choose this

sensitive environment as the training ground for a type of sonar

that can kill whales.

 

The Navy's new Atlantic Undersea Warfare Training Range would

create a 500-square-mile hub of sonar activity -- assaulting

whales, dolphins and other marine life with a year-round barrage

of deafening sound.

 

That barrage would occur without apparent interruption -- even

during the peak, annual migration of the North Atlantic right

whale, one of the most endangered whale species on Earth.

 

Only about 300 of these whales are believed to exist.

 

Given what we know about the dangers of sonar, can we stay

silent while our military bombards the world's last right whales

with this deadly noise?

 

Click here to protect the world's last right whales from deadly

sonar: http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

 

The Navy itself has admitted that sonar can kill whales. Around

the world -- from Hawaii to the Canary Islands -- whales have

been found stranded or dying following their encounters with

naval sonar. And scientists have demonstrated that intense noise

puts right whales in additional danger of being struck and

killed by ships.

 

It's even happened in North Carolina! Thirty seven whales of

three different species beached themselves on the shores of the

Outer Banks following sonar exercises in 2005. Yet the Navy is

planning to build its new testing range just south of where the

mass stranding occurred.

 

If you and I wait for more pictures of dying whales on the

beaches of North Carolina it will be too late.

 

No one is asking the Navy to compromise its training or its

readiness. Certainly, I'm not. I'm from a naval family. I fully

appreciate the Navy's vital mission.

 

But we are asking the Navy to find a place and a time for

training that is less likely to torture and kill some of the

most magnificent creatures on Earth. Taking that simple

precaution is the sensible and moral thing to do.

 

Right whales should not have to die for military practice.

 

Please join me and the NRDC Action Fund in demanding that the

Navy consider less sensitive locations for its new sonar

training range and the deadly noise it will produce.

 

Click here now and tell the Navy to do the right thing:

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

 

I hope you'll also help us build nationwide opposition to the

Navy's proposal by forwarding this message to anyone you know

who cares about whales.

 

Let's not wait for whales to start dying in North Carolina.

Please speak out now.

 

Sincerely,

 

James Taylor

NRDC Action Fund

 

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/Act_Now_To_Save_The_Whales_NC?rk=w1AdbI61gKXM\

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