Protect Whales from Sonar!

[rumpel]

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/biogems_whales_0707_nsb

just got this in e-mail - thanks for you help

I have to run.....

[poverlay]

1. As I sent it out yesterday in an email, I'd like to thing it reached you through the

grapevine. Even if it's a second grapevine...

Everyone, please:

Pass it on...

[lazer47]

2. Which Sonar are you speaking of? mechanical or the sonar whales use

themselves to communicate

[Kagemusha]

3. They mean US navy sonars.

Hence the concern.

[Atman]

4. I didn't click the link, but I'm assuming it's the Navy's new super sonar.

I posted about this three or four YEARS ago. The military has a new ultra-sonar that destroys the navigation system of whales and dolphins. Totally fucks them up, it's so loud. Causes hearing and brain damage. I believe some group even attempted to get a moratorium imposed on it, but it failed. Terra, y'know. Al Qaida could be comin' over in submarines! FUCK THE WHALES!

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[Kagemusha]

5. Well, from a prior story I did read, you would seem to be correct.

It's as you describe. Normally I'll give a decent amount of leeway but.. Al Qaeda has no submarines. Well, I'm not going to pretend to understand. I'd prefer they keep the option of using it if they really need to... and then not using it.

[rumpel]

6. to clarify:

this is the National Resource Defense Council

Send a Citizen Comment urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to reject the Navy's plan for worldwide deployment of dangerous LFA sonar.

you can just sign the letter if you like.

and this is further info:

In July 2006, NRDC and our partners won a victory restricting the Navy's use of whale-killing, mid-frequency sonar during a massive international military exercise in the waters off Hawaii. We are now waging a separate battle in federal court to force the Navy to take humane precautions when training with mid-frequency sonar throughout U.S. waters. In support of these courtroom campaigns, NRDC BioGems Defenders and other activists have sent hundreds of thousands of messages in recent years urging the Navy to limit its use of deadly sonar.

Nonetheless, the Navy is now seeking permission once again to deploy its dangerous low-frequency active sonar system across 70 percent of the world's oceans, potentially threatening the survival of populations of whales and other marine mammals. Five years ago, NRDC went to court and blocked a similar deployment, forcing the Navy to dramatically restrict its use of LFA sonar. But the Bush administration is poised to grant the Navy's new request and we are mobilizing BioGems Defenders right now to register their opposition.

In addition to helping to protect whales from deadly sonar, BioGems Defenders are currently campaigning to save the whale habitats of Alaska's Western Arctic Reserve, Mexico's Upper Gulf of California and Alacran Reef, Chile's Patagonia Coast and the Hawaiian Islands -- and the migratory routes that connect them.

And BioGems Defenders have joined NRDC and our Mexican partners in a race to safeguard the world's last unspoiled gray whale sanctuary in Mexico's Laguna San Ignacio by buying up the surrounding development rights (click here to learn more)

http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/