SAVE Whales from military sonar

Dear NRDC Earth Activist,

We need your immediate help to defend whales around the world from the Navy's use of ear-splitting mid-frequency sonar.

NRDC has just filed suit in federal court to force the Navy to begin taking humane precautions that would spare countless whales and other marine mammals from being maimed, deafened or killed during routine training.

You can help stop the Navy's needless killing of whales by CLICKING HERE and making a donation to support this historic court fight.

Hundreds of whales have already died after getting blasted by mid-frequency military sonar. And scientists suspect that many more are being injured and killed without our ever knowing.

Mid-frequency sonar is designed to detect enemy submarines by flooding tens or even hundreds of square miles of ocean with sound waves. Warships carrying sonar blast the ocean with a noise level up to 245 decibels -- billions of times more intense than the level known to disturb whales.

That intensity of sound is roughly comparable to a Saturn V rocket at blast-off. Some beached whales have been found bleeding around their brains and ears after sonar training exercises.

But the Navy refuses to take common-sense precautions during sonar exercises that would prevent whales and dolphins from stranding, suffering and dying!

The mounting death toll is not only preventable, it is illegal. The Navy is violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other environmental laws by refusing to adequately protect whales during training and testing.

I'm sure you agree that whales should not have to die for naval practice. And the Navy should not get away with breaking our environmental laws.

But it has become clear that our military will go right on conducting business as usual unless NRDC intervenes to stop them. Please CLICK HERE and lend your immediate financial support so that NRDC can go to court and stop the Navy from needlessly injuring and killing whales in the course of routine training.

Let me know you'll stand with us at this decisive moment in the fight to protect our planet's whales. Thank you.

Sincerely,

John H. Adams
President
Natural Resources Defense Council