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An ad campaign has been launched to promote whale-friendly policies in the Caribbean in the run-up to the 59th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

www.caribbeanwhalefriends.org

Although the killing of whales has been banned for 20 years, the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have voted with Japan to try and overturn the ban on commercial whaling.

These countries support Japan’s continued commercial hunting of great whales, which now includes six internationally protected whale species: southern and northern minke whales, sperm whales, sei whales, Bryde’s whale and fin whales.

Commissioned by Lord Ashcroft KCMG, the production of the ad campaign and a supporting website have been facilitated by EIA. The ad will be showing on prime-time television in all six Caribbean countries that vote with Japan.

At the end of 2007, Japan intends to start killing humpback whales, arguably one of the most charismatic species on the planet. Caribbean support for this kill is crucial to Japan.

To watch the ad and find out how to put pressure on the Caribbean countries to vote for whales, not whaling, visit: www.caribbeanwhalefriends.org

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