Ask Iceland's 'NEW' government to save whales

Ask Iceland's 'NEW' government to save whales

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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/icelandic-whaling/ask-iceland-to-save-whales?utm_source=gpi-cyberactivist-list&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=iceland">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/icelandic-whaling/ask-iceland-to-save-whales?utm_source=gpi-cyberactivist-list&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=iceland</a><br /><br />Ask Iceland to save whales<br /><br />Dear Friends,</p>
<p><a href="http://links.mailing.greenpeace.org/ctt?kn=4&amp;m=32894097&amp;r=MjIyNjU5NDI3NQS2&amp;b=0&amp;j=NDg1Mzc5NjMS1&amp;mt=1&amp;rt=0"></a>The people of Iceland have chosen a new Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir. A well known opponent Iceland's whaling whaling, before the election, Ms Sigurdardottir's interim government made clear its opposition to Iceland&rsquo;s whaling legacy.</p>
<p>In the coming month, while the Prime Minister and her colleagues are busy creating a new government and working to regenerate the nation&rsquo;s economy, Iceland has a real chance to end decades of damaging policy, by becoming a world leader in whale conservation.</p>
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<p>Please ask Ms Sigurdardottir to make the best of this important opportunity: by cancelling Iceland's five year commercial whaling quota, and ensuring that Iceland's representative at this year&rsquo;s International Whaling Commission meeting votes for whale conservation, firmly establishing Iceland as an environmental model for other nations to follow.</p>
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<p>Ask Iceland's new government to save whales</p>
<p>May 2009: Iceland's new Prime Minister has an important opportunity this month to end decades of damaging policy, by becoming a world leader in whale conservation.</p>
<p>Please ask Prime Minister Sigurdardottir <b>to cancel Iceland's five year commercial whaling quota</b>, and ensure that Iceland's representative at this year's International Whaling Commission meeting<b> votes for whale conservation</b>, firmly establishing Iceland as an environmental model for other nations to follow. <br /><br />Iceland is already a leading nation in harnessing renewable energy, but the issue of whaling is a constant impediment to Iceland being viewed as a truly global environmental leader. Stopping whaling and instead strongly advocating eco-tourism and whale-watching as an alternative would not only be a strong signal of intent from the new administration, but it would also bring significant economic benefits to Iceland.

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