Greenpeace has come up with an interesting way to put a delicious and highlighting spin on the plight of the whales.
BAKE SALES TO SAVE THE WHALES!
Last year alone, well over 1000 whales died for profit. Although most of the world supports the protection of whales, a few countries are trying to open the seas to widespread commercial whaling.
In May of this year, the International Whaling Commission will meet on U.S. soil, to discuss the fate of the whales. No government is better placed to help bring this unsustainable and inhumane industry to an end than the U.S., but we need your help to make it happen.
What better way to sweeten up the Bush Administration than a weekend of Bake Sales to Save the Whales?
Whales have been on the minds of pretty much everyone here in town of late. It is Whale Watching season and the body of a rather large female Sperm Whale washed up on the beach. It's been making news here locally and nationally.
Over the weekend, a beached sperm whale turned up on the beach in Isla Vista, near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since then, there have been several reports of people using all manner of tools to extricate its teeth. - NPR
Federal agents are investigating reports that a college student tried to illegally hammer off the teeth of a rare sperm whale that washed ashore dead Sunday on a beach in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara.
"I arrived and this guy had a hammer and was hammering away on the teeth," said Shane Anderson, supervisor of marine operations at the UC Santa Barbara Marine Laboratory. "I explained to him that there was a federal law against doing that and that the specimen was important for science. He didn't want to hear it." - LatteTimes
and then there's this crazy little one that is hanging out by the harbor.
When a baby gray whale appeared in the Santa Barbara Harbor March 16 and didn’t leave, observers could only speculate as to why it wasn’t proceeding north to Alaska with the others of its kind. Marine mammal biologist John Hildebrand echoed the same mystification but said it was possible the gigantic juvenile wandered so far away from the other migrating grays that it could no longer hear them and became lost. Hildebrand, who works at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, is currently awaiting word from the federal government on whether he will receive a grant allowing him to study the effects of underwater noise on marine life in the Santa Barbara Channel. - The Santa Barbara Independent