Help protect endangered whales from new sonar assault
There is an emerging threat to whales that demands your immediate action.
The U.S. Navy wants to put a testing ground for lethal mid-frequency sonar along the migratory path of highly endangered northern right whales, off the coast of North Carolina.
Please act today to protect the whales and other marine life of this offshore refuge from a year-round barrage of deadly, ear-splitting noise.
Go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?
and urge the Navy to consider less sensitive locations for its sonar training range.
As the site of more than 160 exercises annually, the Navy's proposed testing range would create a 500-square-mile hub of year-round sonar activity and other intense underwater noise. The range would lie along the migratory route of endangered right whales, fewer than 400 of which are believed to exist today.
Just one year ago, 37 whales of three different species beached themselves on the shores of the Outer Banks, near the proposed testing range, following Navy sonar exercises in the area. Scientists have linked the use of high-intensity sonar to numerous other mass strandings of whales around the globe, from the Bahamas to the Canary Islands to Japan. Yet, incredibly, the Navy's analysis of its proposed testing range does not even mention, much less thoroughly examine, this stranding.
Beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after encounters with this lethal technology.
Military sonar may also be interfering with the ability of these majestic creatures to locate food, avoid predators and mate.
Please go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?
and tell the Navy to carefully consider all the alternatives before proceeding with sonar exercises in this spectacular whale habitat.
Or, to make an even bigger impact, compose your own letter -- using the points in our standard letter -- and mail or fax it no later than January 30 to:
Keith Jenkins
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic Mail Code EV21KJ
6506 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508
Fax: 757-322-4894
Thank you for helping to protect endangered whales from the lethal effects of military sonar.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council
The U.S. Navy wants to put a testing ground for lethal mid-frequency sonar along the migratory path of highly endangered northern right whales, off the coast of North Carolina.
Please act today to protect the whales and other marine life of this offshore refuge from a year-round barrage of deadly, ear-splitting noise.
Go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?
and urge the Navy to consider less sensitive locations for its sonar training range.
As the site of more than 160 exercises annually, the Navy's proposed testing range would create a 500-square-mile hub of year-round sonar activity and other intense underwater noise. The range would lie along the migratory route of endangered right whales, fewer than 400 of which are believed to exist today.
Just one year ago, 37 whales of three different species beached themselves on the shores of the Outer Banks, near the proposed testing range, following Navy sonar exercises in the area. Scientists have linked the use of high-intensity sonar to numerous other mass strandings of whales around the globe, from the Bahamas to the Canary Islands to Japan. Yet, incredibly, the Navy's analysis of its proposed testing range does not even mention, much less thoroughly examine, this stranding.
Beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after encounters with this lethal technology.
Military sonar may also be interfering with the ability of these majestic creatures to locate food, avoid predators and mate.
Please go to
http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/takeaction.asp?
and tell the Navy to carefully consider all the alternatives before proceeding with sonar exercises in this spectacular whale habitat.
Or, to make an even bigger impact, compose your own letter -- using the points in our standard letter -- and mail or fax it no later than January 30 to:
Keith Jenkins
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic Mail Code EV21KJ
6506 Hampton Boulevard Norfolk, VA 23508
Fax: 757-322-4894
Thank you for helping to protect endangered whales from the lethal effects of military sonar.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President Natural Resources Defense Council
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