WHALES IN DANGER, HELP STOP ICELAND'S ILLEGAL WHALING from NRDC 18FEB11

SEA SHEPHERD has been waging a very successful campaign against Japan's whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, and this year's Operation No Compromise may turn out to be the most successful in the whale wars. Iceland continues it's illegal whaling under the media radar. Please participate in this action from the NRDC calling on the Obama administration to impose trade sanctions on Iceland and keep them in place until they honor the bans on whaling as established by the ICC International Whaling Commission.

Whales in Danger Help stop illegal whaling Before the international moratorium on commercial whaling was established in 1986, an average of 40,000 whales were hunted and killed every year. Today, that number is dramatically smaller, but countries like Iceland continue to flout international law by hunting whales. In recent years, Iceland has increased its self-allocated quotas, killing 60 minke whales and 148 endangered fin whales in 2010 alone. The country also exported more than 750 tons of whale meat and other whale products -- a sharp increase from previous years. In light of these alarming developments, NRDC and more than a dozen other organizations are asking the Obama Administration to certify Iceland under the Pelly Amendment of the Fishermen's Protective Act, which allows the government to impose trade sanctions against another country for undermining conservation agreements. Administration officials have publically condemned Iceland's disregard for the whaling ban, but the country has been turning a deaf ear to such international criticism. Ask the Obama Administration to impose trade sanctions against Iceland for its escalation of commercial whaling and trade in whale products. » Take action against Iceland's illegal whaling.