I am calling it Whale Celebration Day as I think being anti often just makes the anti’s more hard nosed and resistant to being told that they are wrong. So I am going to get together with like minded people and celebrate the fact that whales… these mysterious behemouths of the sea… do exist…. and I have had the good fortune to  peer into their marvelous world.

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This is a tragic loss of a human life and I am also not surprised that this happened. I am not in favor of Cetaceans being held in captivity because it is unnatural for the them to spend their lives in a confined enclosure and does lead to abnormal behavior as expressed by this very sad incident.

The Humane Society has long campained for Marine Mammals to be removed from aquarium theme parks. Joyce Tishler, founder of the Animal League Defense Fund says, ” These behemouths are denied all of their natural instinctual inclinations.” She compares an Orca’s life in captivity to, ” keeping a human being in a bathtub for his entire life.”

I can imagine that if I was kept in a bathtub for my entire life and forced to do tricks for Cetaceans I would be very unhappy, develop abnormal behavior, and eventually lash out at my captors, just as this Orca did.

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Happy New Year 2009!!!

I have not sent a post for awhile as I have been involved with another project. I am still passionate about raising human awareness about the preciousness of the Cetacean species and have been following the world events that affect their livelihood.

I feel that my previous posts in 2008 and 2007 are still relevant today so maybe I should just resend them…. and yet there is still a lot more to talk about. So I will be posting again.

I recently saw the movie, Whale Dreamer, produced by Julian Lennon. You can rent it online or at Blockbuster. It is a beautiful uplifting true story about Australian aboriginal connection to the Whales.

The European Commission has been working diligently to establish this joint position, and even though the 27 nation bloc is not yet a party to the International Whaling Commission it can still take a strong role at the IWC meeting in Santiago, Chile later this month by using it’s moral, political, and economic weight to ensure more effective protection of whales worldwide. 

For all the details about this go to www.seashepherd.org and read Captain Paul Watson’s recent post.  

This is an about face and a defiant  in your face act towards the global moratoriium on commercial whaling. Captain Paul Watson says, ” The Icelandic whaling industry is a criminal operation supported by government lies and corruption. the civilized world needs to boycott all things Icelandic including tourism, Icelandic sweaters and icelandic vodka, which is appropriately labeled ‘black death’.” 

This is such a sad state of affairs…  that there are still people in three nations, Japan, Norway, and Iceland that have such little respect for whales. As I have said before they are just covering up their own deficiency and lack of value because if they did recognize their own value they would not want to take the life of another sentient being- especially the magnificent whales.

In my book, Messages From The Dolphins, one of my chapters specifically addresses how and why humans are harming the earth’s environment, species, and indirectly each other.

I am not surprised that these nations are still killing whales as many of our human species are still living in the dark ages. I think they are trying to avoid their own dark night of their soul. They may put it off but they cannot avoid it and when it comes it will be even darker because of the unneccessary suffering they are causing.

I sent the prime ministers of these nations my book and guess  what … I never got a response… not surprising.    

For more about what her organization is doing go to www.teensagainstwhaling.com 

This is very heartening to see teenagers so aware of the preciousness of whales and taking positive action to protect them. I sent her an email today congratulating her and connecting her to my site. I am also sending her a free copy of my book. Way to go Skye!!!!

They blame the failure of the whaling fleet on Sea Shepherd and call Sea Shepherd the criminals- not wanting to face the truth that they are the ones that acted illegally by targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on commercial whaling.

Thank you Sea Shepherd for intervening on the whales behalf!!!!   

A Consevation Officer, Mr. Smith, who was present at the time said, “I don’t speak whale and I don’t speak dolphin but there was oviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude of being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea.” He said, ” The whales have not been seen since, but Moko the dolphin, had returned to its usual practice of playing with swimmers in the bay.”

” I shouldn’t do this I know, we are meant to remain scientific,” Mr. Smith said, ”but I actually went into the water with the dolphin and gave it a pat afterwards because she really did save the day.”

Sounds to me like the whales and dolphins were able to communicate with and understand each other and it is nice to have a happy ending for a change.