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President Obama - please stand up for the whales |
| The people of the world are calling on President Obama not to allow the whales of the world to be condemned to commercial whaling |
To:
President Barack Obama
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Dear Mr President;
You took office promising to honor the US's commitments to uphold the commercial whaling moratorium and to ensure that decisions are made on the basis of the strongest possible scientific evidence.
Despite this, the new US delegation to the IWC -- appointed by you -- appears to be helping to lead that body back to commercial whaling.
The US appears to have surrendered its leadership role in whale conservation and has become the political fixer in backroom deals.
By rewarding the whalers with quotas, the US is legitimizing whaling and trade in whale products for years to come.
We need to be able to trust you to uphold the US traditional position of protecting the world’s whales, yet the litany of dead whales that will be left in your delegation’s wake will haunt your Administration for years to come unless the US reestablishes its pro-conservation stance.
Mr. President, please look to what the US is doing and saying in this debate!
Please don’t sacrifice the lives of thousands of whales, and your legacy, to political expediency.
The US can once again be the leader of the world in whale conservation and you can make it happen. The world is watching; will you lead?
yours truly |
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