Save the whales

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There is an emerging threat to whales that demands your immediate action.

The U.S. Navy wants to put a testing ground for lethal mid-frequency sonar
along the migratory path of highly endangered northern right whales, off the
coast of North Carolina.

Please act today to protect the whales and other marine life of this offshore
refuge from a year-round barrage of deadly, ear-splitting noise.

Go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/ta...p=2&item=53246
and urge the Navy to consider less sensitive locations for its sonar training
range.

As the site of more than 160 exercises annually, the Navy's proposed testing
range would create a 500-square-mile hub of year-round sonar activity and other
intense underwater noise. The range would lie along the migratory route of
endangered right whales, fewer than 400 of which are believed to exist today.

Just one year ago, 37 whales of three different species beached themselves on
the shores of the Outer Banks, near the proposed testing range, following Navy
sonar exercises in the area. Scientists have linked the use of high-intensity
sonar to numerous other mass strandings of whales around the globe, from the
Bahamas to the Canary Islands to Japan. Yet, incredibly, the Navy's analysis of
its proposed testing range does not even mention, much less thoroughly examine,
this stranding.

Beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after
encounters with this lethal technology.

Military sonar may also be interfering with the ability of these majestic
creatures to locate food, avoid predators and mate.

Please go to http://www.savebiogems.org/whales/ta...p=2&item=53246
and tell the Navy to carefully consider all the alternatives before proceeding
with sonar exercises in this spectacular whale habitat.

Or, to make an even bigger impact, compose your own letter -- using the points
in our standard letter -- and mail or fax it no later than January 30 to:

Keith Jenkins
Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic
Mail Code EV21KJ
6506 Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk, VA 23508
Fax: 757-322-4894

Thank you for help