Global Moratorium on Commercial Whaling Upheld
Well, to my absolute delight I received an email this afternoon from Avaaz, the advocacy group that spearheaded the 1.2 million signature petition and counting, that the proposal to legalize whale killing was rejected!
I am even overjoyed by the fact that I, and 1.2 million others played a part in upholding the ban — we made a difference. I think Ricken Patel (Co-Founder and Executive Director of Avaaz) said it best when he stated: “this is an important victory for whales — and for global people power — together we demonstrated that international decisions can be shifted by a little bit of well-placed effort from a lot of people everywhere.”