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Saving the last right whales from a deadly
sonar assault...
Click here to stop the Navy's plans to unleash lethal sonar off
North Carolina's coast:
http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/T7AX69n1_ulc/
I find it hard to believe, especially with what they know.
The U.S. Navy wants to put a training range for lethal
mid-frequency sonar next to a key migratory route for endangered
right whales -- off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Like so many people, I love the wild beauty
of the North Carolina coast, including its magnificent whales.
So I find it mind-boggling that our government would choose this
sensitive environment as the training ground for a type of sonar
that can kill whales.
The Navy's new Atlantic Undersea Warfare Training Range would
create a 500-square-mile hub of sonar activity -- assaulting
whales, dolphins and other marine life with a year-round barrage
of deafening sound.
That barrage would occur without apparent interruption -- even
during the peak, annual migration of the North Atlantic right
whale, one of the most endangered whale species on Earth.
Only about 300 of these whales are believed to exist.
Given what we know about the dangers of sonar, can we stay
silent while our military bombards the world's last right whales
with this deadly noise?
Join me in speaking out to protect the world's last right whales
from deadly sonar.
The Navy itself has admitted that sonar can kill whales. Around
the world -- from Hawaii to the Canary Islands -- whales have
been found stranded or dying following their encounters with
naval sonar. And scientists have demonstrated that intense noise
puts right whales in additional danger of being struck and
killed by ships.
Strandings have even happened in North Carolina! Thirty seven
whales of three different species beached themselves on the
shores of the Outer Banks following sonar exercises in 2005. Yet
the Navy is planning to build its new testing range just south
of where the mass stranding occurred.
If you and I wait for more pictures of dying whales on the
beaches of North Carolina it will be too late.
No one is asking the Navy to compromise its training or its
readiness. Certainly, I'm not. I'm from a naval family. I fully
appreciate the Navy's vital mission.
But we are asking the Navy to find a place and a time for
training that is less likely to torture and kill some of the
most magnificent creatures on Earth. Taking that simple
precaution is the sensible and moral thing to do.
Right whales should not have to die for military practice.
Please join me and the NRDC Action Fund in demanding that the
Navy consider less sensitive locations for its new sonar
training range and the deadly noise it will produce.
Tell the Navy to do the right thing by clicking here:
http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/T7AX69n1_ulc/
I hope you'll also help us build nationwide opposition to the
Navy's proposal by forwarding this message to anyone you know
who cares about whales.
Let's not wait for whales to start dying in North Carolina.
Please speak out now.
sonar assault...
Click here to stop the Navy's plans to unleash lethal sonar off
North Carolina's coast:
http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/T7AX69n1_ulc/
I find it hard to believe, especially with what they know.
The U.S. Navy wants to put a training range for lethal
mid-frequency sonar next to a key migratory route for endangered
right whales -- off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
Like so many people, I love the wild beauty
of the North Carolina coast, including its magnificent whales.
So I find it mind-boggling that our government would choose this
sensitive environment as the training ground for a type of sonar
that can kill whales.
The Navy's new Atlantic Undersea Warfare Training Range would
create a 500-square-mile hub of sonar activity -- assaulting
whales, dolphins and other marine life with a year-round barrage
of deafening sound.
That barrage would occur without apparent interruption -- even
during the peak, annual migration of the North Atlantic right
whale, one of the most endangered whale species on Earth.
Only about 300 of these whales are believed to exist.
Given what we know about the dangers of sonar, can we stay
silent while our military bombards the world's last right whales
with this deadly noise?
Join me in speaking out to protect the world's last right whales
from deadly sonar.
The Navy itself has admitted that sonar can kill whales. Around
the world -- from Hawaii to the Canary Islands -- whales have
been found stranded or dying following their encounters with
naval sonar. And scientists have demonstrated that intense noise
puts right whales in additional danger of being struck and
killed by ships.
Strandings have even happened in North Carolina! Thirty seven
whales of three different species beached themselves on the
shores of the Outer Banks following sonar exercises in 2005. Yet
the Navy is planning to build its new testing range just south
of where the mass stranding occurred.
If you and I wait for more pictures of dying whales on the
beaches of North Carolina it will be too late.
No one is asking the Navy to compromise its training or its
readiness. Certainly, I'm not. I'm from a naval family. I fully
appreciate the Navy's vital mission.
But we are asking the Navy to find a place and a time for
training that is less likely to torture and kill some of the
most magnificent creatures on Earth. Taking that simple
precaution is the sensible and moral thing to do.
Right whales should not have to die for military practice.
Please join me and the NRDC Action Fund in demanding that the
Navy consider less sensitive locations for its new sonar
training range and the deadly noise it will produce.
Tell the Navy to do the right thing by clicking here:
http://www.nrdconline.org/ct/T7AX69n1_ulc/
I hope you'll also help us build nationwide opposition to the
Navy's proposal by forwarding this message to anyone you know
who cares about whales.
Let's not wait for whales to start dying in North Carolina.
Please speak out now.