Today, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts introduced legislation to help protect and save whales.
The International Whale Conservation and Protection Act of 2010 addresses major threats to whales including commercial whaling, ship strikes, entanglement in fishing gear, ocean noise, and climate change and reasserts the U.S. as a leader in whale conservation.
Thank you Senator Kerry for caring. Whales face so many problems including loss of their environment and they badly need protection and rescue. Thank you for standing up and speaking out on behalf of these magnificent animals and the cruelty they face.
Elements of the legislation include:
* Promoting international efforts to conserve and protect the world’s whales throughout their range.
* Strengthening the whale conservation and protection efforts of relevant international organizations including the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), and the International Maritime Organization.
* Ensuring that the IWC commercial whaling ban is neither lifted nor weakened and that the related illegal and lethal scientific whaling is ended.
* Reducing and, where possible, eliminating sources of human-caused death, injury, harassment and disturbance of the world’s whales.
* Initiating and expanding research to improve our understanding of the world’s whales including health and reproduction, whale habitats and the impacts of human activities and other threats to whales.
“Thousands of whales die each year from commercial whaling, ship strikes, and habitat disruption,” said Senator Kerry. “We should be leading the effort to protect them.”
You can read more about this here.
All I can say to that is Amen.
