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Foto: Monika Laubach ML/Copyright
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I am participating the project “Dolphin and Whale protection area Atlantic”
Support for a worldwide unique dolphin and whale protection project
The lobby for the dolphins and whales grows, fortunately, worldwide. Still it is not big enough yet. Many dangers threaten the sea mammals and some kinds could soon have become extinct if not as soon as possible sufficient preventive measures are decided and are moved.
ProWal demands amongst others:
-The establishment and monitoring of a protective area for dolphins and whales in the whole Atlantic
- Introduction of a moratorium to protect small whales, like dolphins and pilot whales
- The immediate ending of the whaling of Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands and the Saint Vincent Grenadines (Caribbean)
- Prohibition for catching, trading and importing of wild -caughted dolphins for the dolphinaria industry without any exeption
- Prohibition of any kind of trade in whale based products, nationally as well as internationally - like selling of whale meat in Iceland, Norway and Greenland and dolphin meat on the Faroe Islands
- Abolishment of the European Endangered Species Program (EEP) the breeding programs for dolphins. Every second dolphin in European dolphinaria are wild! After more than 40-year-old breeding efforts the breeding has failed. There are in whole Europe no dolphins who live in the 3rd generation
- Phaseout and Prohibition of all dolphinaria
- Establishment of a uniform system to the disposal of ship garbage on land
- Drastic sanction measures for the dumping of garbage disposal in the open ocean as well as dumping poisonous substances i.e. oil, gasoline or diesel, heavy metals and fertilizer into rivers and the ocean
- Implement the prohibition for the use of poisonous ship lacquer
- Prohibiting tankers and other ships with dangerous cargoes like oil and chemical from steaming through waters that are environmentally sensitive
- Supplying every harbor with garbage containers so that the huge and dangerous plastic garbage as well as used fishing nets can be taken care of on land and not be dumped at sea
- Noise interference should also be kept at a minimum and the prohibition of all underwater canons (which are mainly used by the oil industry for the detection of oil fields) should be put in effect. Furthermore, there should be an international agreement on the use of any kind of sonar (which are used by the military)
- Establishment of buoys that will detect the presence of whales in busy shipping channels to avoid collisions. There are for instance only 400 Atlantic right whales surviving and the cause of their deaths is mostly by collision with ships
- Prohibition to fertilize the water of the oceans for the purpose of binding the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to the water
- Immediate curbing and finding sustainable alternatives for overfishing the oceans before it is too late. Each week four species of fish are gone forever. 75% of the commercially fished species are by todays standards already overfished. (94% of the fish supplies around England and Scotland were exploited during the last 120 years and in other European waters it does not look different). Introducing more sustainable and selective fishing methods. Prohibiting the use of nets, namely stationary, ring, drift and especially dragnets which destroy everything that is living on the bottom of the sea. Also prohibiting net fishing in the deep sea. With one catch whole ecosystems are being destroyed and the food supply for the marine mammals is slowly disappearing
- Discontinuation of financial support for the fishing industry in the EU.
- Lost nets have to be retrieved. These nets are not degradable and will rot around the oceans for the next 100 years. The nets should be equipped with a detection device. Two thirds of the humpback whales in the Atlantic are meanwhile targeted by this danger. Whales and other marine mammals get entangled in the nets and die of strangulation or starvation. Therefore, every country should have at the ready a specialized team to save marine mammals that are in such danger. Some humble efforts in this direction are in progress.
Even if our demands are moved only partly and only in some regions, thereby exists furthermore the possibility to preserve the threatened dolphin and whale kinds from the extinction.
A WORLDWIDE UNIQUE PROJECT!
With a spectacular action Andreas Morlok, the manager of the marine mammal environment protection society ProWal will draw worldwide attention to the necessary establishment of a dolphin and whale protection area in the whole Atlantic. Andreas Morlok will cross the Atlantic from the east to the west in a specially designed rowingboat!
The 4.727 km trip will be accomplished by sheer muscle power and no help of motor power or wind will be used. The tour that will last about 100 days will conduct all alone, non-stop and without care from the outside.
In summer, 2011 the special rowingboat should be bought. The training and the preparations for a sure Atlantic Crossing will take approx. 2 years.
Your SUPPORT:
Please support, so that the worldwide lobby for the dolphins and whales still becomes much bigger and extensive preventive measures can be done.
PLEASE MAKE A DONATION!
You can support this project also with a donation:
Bank connection:
http://www.walschutzaktionen.de/656401.html
Thank you for your important support!
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