Help Poland to save whales!

The Polish Minister of the Environment has a chance to protect the whales if he acts now.

Every year at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Japanese Government delegation and other pro-whaling countries do everything they can to try to lift the moratorium on commercial whaling.

Japan has spent a lot of effort and money to get countries that support its position to join the IWC. In 2006 the pro-whaling countries were almost strong enough to start taking away the protection that have been put in place for whales.

Now is the time for Poland to stand up for the whales!

Poland is a country that supports protection of whales and would like to see the moratorium on commercial whaling stay in place. But it can only do this if it is a member of the IWC. Poland has started to join but time is running out.

Please send an email or letter to the Polish Minister of the Environment and ask him to hurry up and complete the paperwork to join the IWC, the whales need Poland now.

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Dear Mr. Minister,

I observe with consternation the actions of the Japanese whaling fleet which every year organize bloody slaughter of South Ocean whales at the place that was made Ocean Whale Sanctuary by the international agreement. This year Japanese government under the pretext of the ostensible purpose of science research is planning again to kill there 935 minke whales and 10 finn whales which are on the brink of extinction. I think this is an international scandal in face of which an Environmental Minister cannot stay silent!

Poland is one of the few last countries in Europe that have not ratified Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and is not a member of International Whaling Commission (IWC). We are the only Visegrád Group member, that despite its declaration from 2003, is still not a member of IWC. Only a fast Polish ratification of Convention, and active participation in Commission works, can help save endangered whale populations.

I ask you, Mr. Minister, to take immediate actions for ratification of Convention, so that Poland could join IWC before end of 2008 year. I also ask you, Mr. Minister, for active support of other initiatives involving protection of sea mammals, and in the name of Polish people to support initiatives to eliminate whaling for good!

Sincerely