URGENT, CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGN TO SAVE WHALES. (7/18)

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URGENT, CARIBBEAN CAMPAIGN TO SAVE WHALES.

 

July 18, 2001

 

The Ocean Warrior, flagship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,

is sailing for the Eastern Caribbean today from its berth in Miami,

Florida, with a volunteer crew as the International Whaling Commission

prepares to meet in London on July 23rd, 2001(Monday).

( http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/caribbean/pr71201.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/caribbean/caribbean1.html )

 

Japan is using " fisheries aid " to bribe small Caribbean island nations to

vote against whale protection measures at the International Whaling

Commission.

 

Cetacean kills have risen in tandem with commercial fishing operations.

Ten years ago, the total annual kill for the cetacean harpoon hunts in

St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Dominica was estimated at no more than

30 animals. By 1999, the St. Lucia hunt alone killed an estimated

65 whales and 96 dolphins. The same year, St. Lucia's commercial

fisheries marked their sixth year of relentless expansion, with a 26%

increase in landings over the year before. Cetacean kills have increased

as St. Lucia has taken increasingly large chunks out of its declining

fish stocks.

 

In recent years, St. Vincent's and St. Lucia's small cetacean hunts have

included pygmy sperm whales, pygmy killer whales, false killer whales,

Fraser's dolphins, Risso's dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, rough-toothed

dolphins, and Cuvier?s beaked whales.

 

Before you send messages to the following Caribbean countries, please

also send a brief message to :

International Institute for Peace through Tourism.

Email: summit (@iipt.org )

(also send to : conference , (@iipt.org )

africa (@iipt.org ) )

(Reference website: www.iipt.org )

 

Please urge them to advise the Caribbean countries stop taking the

bribing from the Japanese government and its Whaling industry. Stop

vote for the resumption of cruel commercial whaling in International

Whaling Commission(IWC ) in favor of Japanese attempt. Tell them

the Caribbean countries is depending on the Tourism , not killing whales

and dolphins.

 

 

Now, let's send a brief message to following all of the Caribbean

countries government and its tourism office in Dominica, St. Lucia, St.

Vincent & the Grenadines etc. :

(The KEY POINTS and CONTACT INFORMATION are listed for each

island country ) :

 

 

KEY POINTS in your letter to them :

 

- Stop selling your vote to Japan and selling out the whales at the IWC

- Close the loophole in the SPAW protocol permitting local hunting of

whales and dolphins

- Replace local whale and dolphin hunts with Whale Watching business.

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SAMPLE LETTER : (you are welcome to write your own letter. thanks.)

 

 

Dear .....,

 

Your government continues to allow the killing of the whales and dolphins

that tourists come to see. The Whale Watching trip were confronted by

your fishermen trying to harpoon the whales.

 

Whalers in the islands of the Eastern Caribbean are killing whales and

dolphins in numbers that amount to one of the largest officially recorded

intentional cetacean kills in North and South America, according to the

International Whaling Commission (IWC).

 

Cetacean kills have risen in tandem with commercial fishing operations.

Ten years ago, the total annual kill for the cetacean harpoon hunts in

St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Dominica was estimated at no more than

30 animals. By 1999, the St. Lucia hunt alone killed an estimated

65 whales and 96 dolphins.

 

In recent years, St. Vincent's and St. Lucia's small cetacean hunts have

included pygmy sperm whales, pygmy killer whales, false killer whales,

Fraser's dolphins, Risso's dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, rough-toothed

dolphins, and Cuvier?s beaked whales. (see Reference # 1, # 3 ).

 

We would like to request your government to :

 

1: Stop taking Japan's whale-killing bribes .

Stop selling out the whales at the IWC(International Whaling

Commission) Stop support Japan to vote for very cruel

commercial whaling at IWC.

 

2: Close the loophole in the SPAW protocol permitting local hunting of

whales and dolphins. Stop killing whales and dolphins.

(see Reference #2).

 

3: Replace local whale and dolphin hunts with whale watching business.

 

 

If your government continues to receive bribing from Japan and

support Japanese bloody and cruel " Commercial Whaling " attempt at the

IWC, I will absolutely not go to your country for tourism and will spend

my money elsewhere. We will also advise all of our members, friends

and relatives to stop going to your country for the tourism.

 

However, if you stop supporting Japan in IWC meeting (International

Whaling Commission) and vote against cruel commercial whaling, we will

definitely volunteer to help to bring more tourists from our country to

your country to enjoy the peaceful and beautiful whale and dolphin

watching.

 

Thanks for your understanding, compassion and action to save the whales

and dolphins.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Name(s),

City, State

Country.

 

References:

1: http://www.seashepherd.org/issues/whales/caribbeanhunt.html

2: http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2000/2000l%2D06%2D20%2D02.html

3: http://www.hsus.org/specials/whaling/prowhaling.html

 

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

 

Contact # 1:

 

Send messages to St.Lucia Government :

 

Please COPY the following short email list and PASTE into your

BCC field, then put any of your own address in the TO field,

type the letter and then check everything correctly before hit the

SEND.

Address to Dear Honorable Minister in St. Lucia,

or simply to : Dear Sir ,

(Note: every address has @candw.lc )

(It must have a comma between each addresses, we already provided .)

 

 

govgenslu,

pmoffice,

parliament,

electoral,

atgen,

minpet,

admin,

mitandt,

min_com,

mineduc,

foreign,

health,

econdept,

mot,

 

 

Or you may click the following site and send your message

individually to each one of them , especially the

email address for the Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Davis Anthony :

http://www.stlucia.gov.lc/agencies/directory.htm

 

 

Contact # 2:

 

Click following Tourist Board and send your message to all of them:

Again, please COPY the following short email list and PASTE into

your BCC field, then put any of your own address in the TO field,

type the letter and then check everything correctly before hit the

SEND . Simply address to : Dear Sir ,

 

(It must have a comma between each addresses, it is already provided .)

 

(please remember to delete " (....) " at the end of each line.

it is only a reminder for you. )

 

 

slutour, (@candw.lc )

info, (@st-lucia.com )

stlucia, (@pwaxissm.com )

 

For more contact , please click the site :

 

http://www.stlucia.org/contact_us.htm

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Contact # 3:

 

Send messages to Dominica :

 

Embassy of the Commonwealth of Dominica

3216 New Mexico Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20016

Tel: (202) 364-6781 (in USA )

email: embdomdc (@aol.com )

 

Contact # 4 :

Call Consulate General of Dominica in New York:

(212) 768-2480 (office is in USA)

 

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Contact # 5 :

Send messages to St. Vincent, Grenadines, St. Lucia :

 

Embassy of St. Vincent and The Grenadines

3216 New Mexico Ave., N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20016

Tel: (202) 364-6730 (in USA )

 

 

Contact # 6 :

 

Send messages to ST. LUCIA:

: Mr Hilary Modeste

Saint Lucia Tourist Board

Please click following and contact or email to every one

of them as much as you can :

http://www.stlucia.org/contact_us.htm

 

,

P O Box 221

Pointe Seraphine

Castries

Saint Lucia

Tel (758) 452 4094/5968

Fax (758) 453 1121

Email : slutour (@candw.lc )

 

For more contacts : http://www.stlucia.org/

 

 

Contact # 7 :

 

Send messages to ST. Vincent :

 

Email Addresses: Copy the following list and Paste into

the BCC field, then put your address in the TO field ,

type the letter and hit Send :

( Address to Dear Sir , or To Whom it may concern ,)

 

(please remember to delete (....) at the end of each line.) :

 

 

svgtony , (@aol.com )

svgcan , (@home.com )

svgtourismeurope (@aol.com )

widktd , (@wanadoo.fr )

tourism, (@caribsurf.com )

 

More contact , you may refer to :

http://www.svgtourism.com/

http://www.tropicalislandvacation.com/grenadines.html

http://www.wheretostay.com/caribbean/islands/stvincent/index.html

 

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Contact # 8 :

 

Send messages to DOMINICA:

 

Please click the following site and

try to contact each one of them if you can :

 

http://www.dominica.dm/contact.htm

 

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Contact # 9 :

 

Send messages to GRENADA :

 

Embassy of Grenada

1701 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20009

Tel: (202) 265-2561 (in USA )

EMAIL: grenada (@oas.org )

Consulate of Grenada in New York, (212) 599-0301

 

 

Contact # 10 :

To the Grenada tourism industry :

 

Grenada Hotel Association Ltd.

P.O. Box 440, St. George's

Grenada, West Indies

Telephone:

+1 (473) 444-1353

 

Facsimile:

+1 (473) 444-4847

 

Email: grenhota (@caribsurf.com )

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Contact # 11 :

 

Send messages to ANTIGUA :

 

http://www.antigua-barbuda.org/aghome01.htm

 

 

Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda

3216 New Mexico Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20016

Tel: (202) 362-5122 (office in USA )

(consulates in Miami or New York )

 

 

Contact # 12 :

 

To the Antigua tourism industry:

 

Antigua and Barbuda Department of Tourism and Trade

25 S.E. 2nd Avenue, Suite 300

Miami, FL 33131

Tel: 305-381-6762 (office in USA )

Fax: 305-381-7908 (in USA )

 

 

Contact # 13 :

 

In Canada:

 

Antigua and Barbuda Department

of Tourism & Trade

60 St. Claire Avenue East, Suite 304

Toronto, Ontario

Canada M4T 1N5

Tel: 416-961-3085

Fax: 416-961-7218

 

Contact # 14 :

 

In the U.K.:

 

Antigua and Barbuda Department

of Tourism

Antigua House, 15 Thayer Street

London W1M 5LD

England

Tel: 071-486-7073/4/5

Fax: 071-486-9970

Website:

http://www.antigua-barbuda.com

 

 

Contact # 15 :

 

In Europe:

 

Antigua and Barbuda

Department of Tourism

Thomasstr. 11

D-61348 Bad Homburg

Germany

Tel: 49-6172-21504

Fax: 49-6172-21513

 

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Send messages to ST. KITTS & NEVIS

 

Contact # 16 :

 

The Embassy of

Saint Kitts And Nevis

3216 New Mexico NW,

Washington, D.C. 20016

Tel: (202)686-2636

Fax: (202)686-5740

Email : Copy the following 5 addresses and Paste in BCC field,

then put your address in the TO field, type letter and hit Send.

(must have a comma between addresses. )

 

(please remember delete (....) at the end of each line ) :

 

 

 

info, (@stsitts-nevis.com )

skbnevcan, (@sympatico.ca )

stkitts.nevis, (@btinternet.com )

mintc & e, (@caribsurf.com )

nevtour, (@caribsurf.com )

 

For more Contact info : Please click :

http://www.geographia.com/stkitts-nevis/offices.html

 

 

Contact # 17 :

 

To the St. Kitts tourism industry:

 

In the US:

 

Washington, DC

St. Kitts-Nevis Tourism Office

8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 905

Silver Spring, MD 20910-3602

Tel: (301) 587-1555 / (877) 533-1555 (office in USA )

Fax: (301) 587-0647 (office in USA )

Email : info (@stsitts-nevis.com )

Web: www.stkitts-nevis.com

Tourism Officer: Abdullah Skerritt.

 

 

Contact # 18 :

 

In Canada:

 

St. Kitts and Nevis Tourism Office

365 Bay Street, Suite 806

Toronto, Ontario M5H2V1

TEL: 416-368-6707 (in Canada )

Fax: 416-368-3934

Email: skbnevcan (@sympatico.ca )

Manager: Carolyn James

 

Contact # 19 :

 

In the U.K.:

 

St. Kitts and Nevis Tourism Office

10 Kensington Court

London W8 5DL

TEL: 0171-376-0881 (in UK )

Fax: 0171-937-6742

Email: stkitts.nevis (@btinternet.com )

Manager: Ester Smith

 

Contact # 20 :

 

In Europe:

 

St. Kitts & Nevis Tourism Office

Walter-Kolb Stra? 9-11

60594 Frankfiurt, Germany

Tel: 069 96216413

Fax: 069 610637

Tourism Rep: Walter Kolb

 

 

Contact # 21 :

 

In St. Kitts and Nevis:

 

Department of Tourism

Pelican Mall, Bay Road P.O. Box 132

Basseterre, St. Kitts, W.I.

TEL: 869-465-2620/4040

FAX: 869-465-8794

Email: mintc & e (@caribsurf.com )

 

 

Minister of Tourism:

Hon. G.A. Dwyer Astaphan

Permanent Secretary/Director:

Mrs. Hillary Wattley

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Above Reference Sources :

 

http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/caribbean/slaughterhousesix.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/campaigns/japan/japan1.html

http://dailynews./h/ap/20010712/us/ocean_warriors_1.html

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help

for whales plight.