SAVE THE WHALES!...
The magnificent white beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are headed toward extinction. Today, there are some 300 belugas left in these increasingly industrialized waters -- a 77 percent decline from the 1,300 whales that lived in the inlet in the early 1980's. Their situation is so desperate that the World Conservation Union added them to its "Red List" of threatened species as "critically endangered" in April 2006. The next category is "Extinct in the Wild."
The National Marine Fisheries Service is finally proposing that the Cook Inlet belugas be protected as an endangered species.
But in the face of industry opposition, that proposal will not become reality without an outpouring of public support.
It's truly zero hour for this special population of belugas. With only three weeks until the public comment period ends on June 19, we must act immediately to save these 300 surviving whales -- one of the smallest populations of marine mammals left on the planet!
Even the slow-to-act National Marine Fisheries Service admits that "no similar beluga habitat exists in Alaska or elsewhere in the United States." Yet industry and business groups -- backed by all three members of Alaska's congressional delegation -- are opposed to the whale's endangered species designation.
Please seize the moment to save the belugas while there is still time. Send in your Official Citizen Comment now and help give belugas a fighting chance. Here is the link to take action and tell the Bush Administration to Protect the Last 300 Beluga Whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet...
http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/actionfund_beluga_0507
The Baby Belugas THANK YOU!
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