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On May 20, Iceland announced that it would allow 40 minke whales to be killed over the next six months. This is in open defiance of the commercial whaling ban that the International Whaling Commission implemented in 1986.
TAKE ACTION
The killing has already begun, with at least one minke confirmed dead in the first week. Please write to Iceland’s fisheries minister, Einar Kristinn Guðfinnsson, and tell him to end Iceland's whale hunt once and for all.
Consequences of Iceland's Whaling
Iceland's return to commercial whaling in May 2008 presents an imminent threat to minke whales and with them, entire marine ecosystems. The ocean floor is a nutritional desert. Many animal species rely on whale carcasses to feed. Research by Craig Smith, a marine biologist at the University of Hawaii, has shown that deep-sea extinctions may have already occurred in the North Atlantic where populations of 13 species of whales were greatly diminished by commercial whaling in the 1800s. Whaling continued into the 1970s in the Southern Ocean, and extinctions there may still be occurring.
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/take_action/
http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/iceland_whaling/iceland_and_whaling.html
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