Last Chance for E Letters to Protect Pacific Coast Leatherback Sea Turtles

[Omaha Steve]

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Action Alert:
Last Chance for Letters to Protect Pacific Coast Leatherback Sea Turtles

Published 08/09/06

Speak out for Leatherback Sea Turtles by sending a letter to oppose a proposal that would authorize the killing of the leatherback sea turtle, the humpback whale, fin whale, and sperm whale.

If you have not yet sent a letter please help us reach our goal of 5000 letters by clicking below to send a letter today. Final deadline is Thursday, August 10.

Send a letter by going to the Action Alert page at www.seaturtles.org.
Background

The fishing permit the National Marine Fisheries Service is poised to issue will eliminate a highly effective leatherback conservation area created to reduce the destruction caused by Drift Gillnet fishing along the California and Oregon coast. The same fishing method has been banned on the high seas by the United Nations. Now the government wants to expand it off our coast.

The proposal would authorize the killing of the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle, humpback whale, fin whale and sperm whale. Drift Gillnet fishing has been closed since 2001 in over 180,000 square miles along the West Coast for a four-month period each year to protect the leatherbacks. This important Leatherback Conservation Area has resulted in no leatherback deaths since it was put in place. It is unacceptable that the government plans to rollback these protections.

Take action! Go to www.seaturtles.org.

For further information see www.seaturtles.org/pacific or contact Karen Steele at [e-mail].

This alert is posted on behalf of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.

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