I’m shocked. Greenpeace just received a leaked proposal that the US plans on submitting to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) next week, and the news is terrible. In July

Here’s what it says: “lethal sampling (also known as whaling)…is appropriate in relation to achieving the stated objectives.” Translation: You can kill as many whales as you want if you promise to run experiments on their dead bodies.

It’s killing whales disguised as science. And it’s something that the US government has long rejected. Until now.

Take action and tell the US government to drop this proposal to kill whales.

As unbelievable as it sounds, we’ve actually been here before. Four years ago, there was a proposal discussed that would have legalized commercial whaling for the first time in over 20 years!

Thanks to millions of people like you from around the country, we were able to stop those plans. We can do it again.

Just this March, the UN International Court of Justice ruled that Japan’s whaling program does not have any scientific purposes — and the number of whales being killed was not justifiable. Japan even decided to end its Southern Ocean whale hunt due to the ruling.

We (and the whales) were celebrating then. Now we have to speak up. We only have until Thursday to convince the US government to change its proposal.

Tell the US government to drop this insane proposal to kill whales in the name of science by sending a message to President Obama, Secretary of Commerce Pritzker and the US IWC delegates today.

Despite the IWC moratorium on whaling, Japan has been killing minke whales and critically endangered fin whales for years, selling their meat and claiming to be conducting scientific research. Greenpeace has been working with governments from around the world to put an end to this practice. And we’ve made a lot of progress over the last few years. This plan threatens all of that.

Back in 1975, Greenpeace launched the world’s first-ever Save the Whales campaign. The images we brought back from our first voyage sparked an international outcry and moved a generation of environmentalists into action. After a decade of intense activism, the IWC agreed to ban commercial whaling.

It was one of our pivotal moments as an organization — it was also one of the greatest moments for activists like you.

We could lose it all by Thursday if we don’t take action and change the US government’s mind.

For the whales,

Phil Kline
Greenpeace USA Senior Oceans Campaigner

P.S. Greenpeace has received a leaked US proposal to legitimize “scientific” whaling. Take action to tell President Obama and the US government to drop this horrifying plan.