Copyright: Trish Franklin ©The Oceania Project & iWhales.org
This is Lolita, the Humpback whale that I've adopted to show for IFAW. Isn't she lovely?
The aim of the campaign is to protect this vulnerable species, now being targeted by Japan’s whaling fleet in an internationally recognised whale sanctuary. The threatened humpback has been protected from whaling for more than four decades after being driven to near extinction by commercial whaling during the last century. Despite this, Japan has now added 50 humpbacks to its target list as it sails towards the Southern Ocean Sanctuary in Antarctica to hunt the humpbacks plus almost 1,000 other whales.
Japan claims its expanding annual whale hunts are for “scientific” purposes, but little science has been produced and the whale meat is put on sale in restaurants and supermarkets.
I am very happy to support IFAW’s campaign to protect whales by adopting Lolita. Whaling is cruel and unnecessary and I receive many letters about this issue from my constituents.
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