Message from Pierce Brosnan: Help stop the killing of whales for profit

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The following message, urging you to tell President Obama to reject any plan to

legitimize commercial whaling, was sent to you by http://www.SaveBioGems.org

 

Dear Friend,

 

I was appalled to hear -- on Earth Day of all days -- that the International

Whaling Commission has put forward a deal that would legalize commercial whaling

for the first time in a generation.

 

Even worse, the Obama Administration has backed this deadly proposal, which

would suspend the international ban on whaling and make it legal once again to

kill whales for profit.

 

During his campaign, President Obama promised he would oppose the killing of

these magnificent creatures. It's time for you and me to hold him to that

promise.

 

Please call on the White House to oppose any deal that would legitimize the

hunting and killing of whales.

 

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Obama Administration officials claim that the IWC deal would be a 'step forward'

for whales because it could rein in Japan, Iceland and Norway, which have killed

thousands of whales since 1986 by exploiting loopholes in the whaling ban.

 

But, in fact, this new deal is a giant step backward. It rewards those three

nations for years of defying international law. It does their bidding by

suspending the whaling ban for 10 years. It opens up the Southern Ocean Whale

Sanctuary to whaling. And it will not stop them from trading in whale meat or

killing whales under legal loopholes like 'scientific permits.'

 

Don't believe for a minute that this kind of deal would phase down whaling.

Instead, it would breathe new life into a dying industry.

 

Worst of all, the deal gives moral cover to the absurd notion that we can save

whales by killing them -- instead of by banning their slaughter.

 

There is no moral justification for killing whales. There is no scientific

justification for killing whales.

 

And if the Obama Administration persists in supporting a deal that encourages

the killing of whales, it will tarnish not only the White House but our entire

nation.

 

Please join me in telling President Obama to vigorously oppose this deal and

instead push for a deal that closes the loopholes and ends commercial whaling

once and for all!

 

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Thanks to the efforts of NRDC, you and I have prevailed so many times in defense

of our planet's whales. We saved the gray whale's last untouched nursery in

Mexico's San Ignacio Lagoon against Mitsubishi's plans for industrialization.

And we reined in the Navy's use of dangerous sonar systems around marine

mammals.

 

Now, with our own government supporting an unthinkable deal that would legalize

the commercial killing of whales, we must unite again and say: Not on our watch!

 

I hope you'll make your own voice heard inside the White House today. Thank you.

 

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Sincerely,

 

Pierce Brosnan

Natural Resources Defense Council

 

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