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Saturday 12 May 2007

This National Day of Action is part of a Regional Day of Action with Events also taking place in New Zealand and Tonga.

NDA Jervis Bay 11th & 12th May

The JERVIS BAY community launched its support for the National Day of Action to Protect Whales with a celebration of the impotents of these marine mammals to Jervis Bay and the rest of the world.
With representatives from Community Groups, Commercial Whale Watching Operators and approx 50 students and their teachersfron Huskisson Public School, Jervis Bay Marine Park Authority and general public.

The National Day of Action brings people together to highlight the plight of the whales and to call on the Government to take legal action to stop the sham that is Japanese ‘scientific’ whaling.

NDA Sydeny 12th May

IFAW is again organising a National Day of Action to Protect Whales, Saturday 12th May.

Communities all around Australia will be doing similar things as a collective group to support Whales. Saturday 12th May at midday there will be one-minute silence for the thousands of whales killed under Japan’s ‘scientific’ program in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary.

27th May

Saturday 30th June at the “Huskisson Celebrates Jervis Bay” Day.

Get your whale tail template to cut or colour in online or on Saturday 30th June from 9am at the “Huskisson Celebrates Jervis Bay” Day and wave your whale tail during the Maritime March at 11pm. Place your whale tail in the “Sea of Whale Tails” in Voyager Park at Huskisson to celebrate and welcome the whales for the season.

5th September
Bondi beach

SAVE OUR WHALES event targets APEC summit.
Time is running out for Australia’s humpbacks. Today whales face more threats than ever before. Urgent action was taken to save Australia’s humpback whales

The Australian Government can end ‘scientific’ whaling once and for all and save our humpbacks and secure the future of whale watching not whale hunting.
The wide support across the country has demonstrated to the Prime Minister that humpback whales are extremely important to communities and civil society in Australia.

Representatives from the legal and scientific institutions and the whale watching industry turned out on Wednesday 5th of September at Bondi beach with Dr. Michelle Lemon Marine Mammal Research Group from Macquarie University and Scott Sheehan Photographer from the Community of Jervis Bay, who signed a open letter requesting that PM John Howard raise the issue of whaling directly with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when they meet during the APEC summit this week.

The day was an opportunity to celebrate the Humpback whale population as a whole as they once again migrate past the eastern Australian coastline and to drawing attention to the fact that 50 humpback whales are to be targeted from this November by Japanese whaling fleets that will set sail and commence its annual hunt of whales.

Saturday, 3 November 2007
Time is running out for Australia’s iconic humpback whales

Fight for Fifty Day is a national event coordinated by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) and coincides with the imminent departure of the Japanese whaling fleet for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.  Fight for Fifty Day brings together over twenty communities around Australia to demand action to stop Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling program as Australia's iconic humpback whales migrate south to the killing fields of Antarctica.

We had a great day with Matt from Dolphin Watch Cruises Jervis Bay, watching humpbacks breaching, peck slaps and tail slaps. The whale communication was at its best as we watched two separate pods across the bay both tail slapping & breaching and then traveling to join together.

Whales are not saved.  Despite a global moratorium on whaling, since 1986 more than 30,000 whales have been killed for commercial purposes.  Today the Japanese Government conducts whaling in the Southern Ocean on a commercial scale for 'science'. 

The aim of Fight for Fifty Day is to gain the attention of the Australian community and inspire them to voice their opposition to whaling and demand that the Australian Government takes firm action to save our whales, before it is too late.