MISSION
| Our focus is on:
ORCAS
DOLPHINS
WHALING
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Project Thursday's Child will support
Earth Island Institute's (EII), International Marine Mammal Project's (IMMP)
mission to work to make oceans safer for marine mammals worldwide; to strive
to eliminate dolphin mortality caused by the international tuna fishing
industry; to end the use of driftnets; to stop tuna purse-seine fishers
from encircling dolphins in their nets; to stop the resumption of commercial
whaling worldwide; and to promote sustainable fishing. |
ORCAS
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1. Stop any capture of wild orcas such as at Taiji, Japan in Feb. 1997. |
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2. Support the rehabilitation and freedom of captive orcas such as:
KEIKO
(Oregon
Coast Aquarium), CORKY (Sea World, San Diego),
LOLITA
(Miami
Seaquarium), VIGGA (Marine World Africa USA, Vallejo, CA.) BJOSSA
(Vancouver
Aquarium), TAIJI 3 (Japan) |
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3. Promote whale research in the wild, such as Paul Spong's ORCA LAB,
in British Columbia. |
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4. Do public education on whale issues. |
DOLPHINS
| Do public education on the new dolphin legislation (Public
law 105-42) which weakens dolphin protection. Support maintaining present
standards for "Dolphin Safe" labels on tuna cans. Advocate buying only
"Dolphin Safe" tuna. |
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WHALING
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Build public opposition to recent moves by countries to open up commercial
slaughter of whales by overturning the moratorium on whaling imposed by
the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. Norway and Japan have
been finding loopholes in the rules for years to kill whales, despite world
opinion supporting protection for whales. |
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