Stop whale experiments in Norway

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Tell Norway’s prime minister you are horrified by cruel whale experiments

For the second year running, the Norwegian government is allowing minke whales to be captured, trapped and bombarded with noise to test their reactions to it.

The stress could kill them. Even if it doesn’t, the ordeal will be dangerous and terrifying and we just don’t know the long-term effect it could have on these intelligent and highly sensitive whales.

These tests are funded by the US and Norwegian governments and defence agencies, as well as the oil and gas industry. It would be illegal in US or UK waters but by ‘offshoring’ to Norway, maybe they hope no one will notice.

Tell Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that the world is watching and we’re disgusted.

What can you do?

Tweet the Norwegian prime minister. Click on the message below and it will create the tweet for you.

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Dear Mr Støre

The appalling experiments on minke whales at Vestfjord, Lofoten, are inhumane and unnecessary. Existing research already tells us what we need to know about the effects of underwater noise on whales. We know that noise created by oil and gas exploration and military sonar scares whales and can cause them to strand and can even cause internal bleeding, organ failure and brain damage.

Please cancel these experiments on animal welfare grounds, especially given that data gathered from similar studies on dolphins and other toothed whale species has failed to translate into practical conservation and management measures. The welfare risks for these intelligent, sensitive individual whales are just too great.

Yours sincerely,