ACTION ALERT: Please ask President Obama to keep his promise to stop commercial whaling. This link will give you the opportunity to write the President an e-letter:

http://www.wdcs-na.org/obamaletter

Watch the YouTube video below, with its spectacular images of minke, finback and humpback whales. "President Obama Keep Your Promise to the Whales" was created in response to the March IWC meeting in Florida, where the US IWC Delegation's actions confirmed that the US supports commercial whaling. We must make President Obama aware that his administration is helping Japan, Norway and Iceland to kill whales, and ask him to reverse this policy immediately.

Watch the video:

Now send an e-letter to President Obama:

http://www.wdcs-na.org/obamaletter

The video is the creation of CSI Director A. Daniel Knaub, from his unmatched Whale and Marine Life Video Archive at http://www.whalevideo.com/. CSI Director Paul Knapp provided humpback songs he recorded in Tortola. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society's Chris Stroud enabled the e-letter text link, and WDCS will generate the letters. We're all trying to save whales. Act now to help us, by using the link above to send an e-letter to President Obama!

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In honor of the 90th birthday (October 2009) of Director Emeritus Dr. Robbins Barstow, Cetacean Society International is pleased to reproduce this Report of "WHALES ALIVE" (IWC/35/19), the first-ever "Global Conference on the Non-Consumptive Utilisation of Cetacean Resources," for which Dr. Barstow served as Conference Coordinator. The Conference was convened at the New England Aquarium, in Boston, Massachusetts, 7-11 June 1983, co-sponsored by the International Whaling Commission, the Connecticut Cetacean Society (now CSI), the Republic of Seychelles, and 6 other national and international environmental organizations, with added contributions from seven more.

With the help of modern technology not imagined in 1983 CSI has reproduced the original report so that today's cetacean scientists and conservationists will have Internet access to the seminal concepts and conclusions of the visionary and eclectic assembly of contributing experts. Happily, the photographs show many familiar faces still active in cetacean conservation and science. Their collective papers, discussions and conclusions initiated the modern era of cetacean conservation. Most of the papers presented at "Whales Alive" are available to qualified studies upon request.

The report is reproduced here as a PDF file.

• Colt
• Rocker
• Silver
• Sockeye
• Mars
• Ember
• Thorn
• Fin Whale
• Salt
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