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50,000+ Iceland Whale Pledges: Target Exceded!
by Brian Fitzgerald on 19 May 2004 @ 07:36 AM

EXCELLENT WORK, folks! We set a target of 50,000 pledges to visit Iceland if the government ends the whaling programme, and we've now passed that target well ahead of our mid-June deadline.

Thanks especially to all of you who joined the pledge challenge and recruited an additional 12,000+ of your friends to take the pledge. We now have five finalists for the challenge reward: a trip with the Greenpeace ship Esperanza to Iceland in June/July.

We'll be asking all of you shortly to help us decide who is going to represent the cyberactivist community on this trip - who is going to be the best voice for stopping Iceland's whaling programme.

The head of Iceland's whale watching association wrote to the members of parliament in Iceland last week that spring bookings for whale watching trips is down ten-fold this year against last. He points to Iceland's whaling policy as the reason, and appeals to the government to reverse its position.

The pledges we've gathered to date represent more than US $61 million in potential tourist income if Iceland stops whaling, against a commercial whaling value of only 4 million per year.

Clearly, whales are worth more to Iceland alive than dead.

Again, WELL DONE EVERYBODY! Let's keep pushing on:

Pledge to visit Iceland if the government stops whaling.

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Re: 50,000+ Iceland Whale Pledges: Target Exceded!
by lizardfish on 19 May 2004 @ 05:23 PM
Way to go Greenpeace! I knew we could do it. I bet we can get 100,000 pledges too :-)

Who would actually be in support of this inhumane and clearly unprofitable act? Only a hand full of people who are pocketing the money at the expense of the rest of the country that's who!

I really hope to see the Iceland government come out of this in favour of LIVE, free whales, rather than DEAD ones.

Lizardfish xx
Re: 50,000+ Iceland Whale Pledges: Target Exceded!
by Ann Novek on 19 May 2004 @ 06:51 PM
Hi Brian,
Maybe it was a little bit late, but I wrote to Swedens biggest animal rights organisation, Djurens Rätt, with about 50 000 members, and they will have our GP Iceland Whale Pledge, on their
website.

Ann
Re: 50,000+ Iceland Whale Pledges: Target Exceded!
by Anonymous on 24 May 2004 @ 10:11 AM
To all who took the pledge,

I'm proud to be 1 of more then 50,000 who put their names down for this. If the Icelandic government refuses to end the whaling now, then it is even clearer that their intentions had nothing to do with 'research'. Fingers crossed that sense and compassion will prevail.

From N.S.W.
Australia.
Re: 50,000+ Iceland Whale Pledges: Target Exceded!
by Anonymous on 26 May 2004 @ 05:30 PM
See how similar the situation with the turtles, could reflect what will happen with tourism and whales in the future if countries like Iceland don't shape up!

***Coastal communities around the world are losing millions of tourist dollars a year through the destruction of rare sea turtles, a report claims. ****

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3744661.stm


I feel that this a good lesson for whaling countries.

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