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Help us to maintain first class animal care at SEA LIFE.
SEA LIFE CONSERVATION
As well as helping millions of people to discover the marvels of the marine world the SEA LIFE network has an important role to play in helping safeguard our seas and their inhabitants for the future.
As well as fostering conservation through enhanced awareness, SEA LIFE regularly makes a more direct contribution towards conservation and marine animal welfare. In recent years a special programme has been established to manage and develop these activities. That programme is called Save Our Seas – S.O.S for short.
Sea Life centres have supported the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society this week by sending letters to environment ministers across Europe urging them to block a request from Greenland to be able to slaughter 10 humpback whales.
Greenland is already allowed a quota of minke, fin and bowhead whales for 'subsistence', in other words to support the livelihoods of a small population of native Inuits. Unfortunately their whale hunt is becoming increasingly commercial.
It's a complex issue, but Chris Butler-Stroud, WDCS's chief executive, explains it very clearly in the article at the end of this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8545073.stm
2009 CAMPAIGN - STOP WHALING
Whales are such incredible animals, but they face so many threats. Lend your support to our latest campaign opposing the gruesome whaling industry, working in partnership with the WDCS (Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society).
To sign up to our petition please click here
WDCS is the global voice for the protection of whales and dolphins. SEA LIFE and WDCS are working together to make the world a better place.
SOS Successes
2001 - An SOS petition leads to a heavy fine for the Greek government and forces it to step up protection for the nesting beaches of Loggerhead Sea Turtles.
2002/3 - A second SOS petition helps bring about a ban on the grisly shark-finning industry in European waters.
2004 - SOS pressure helps get measures in place to cut down the needless slaughter of dolphins and porpoises in nets set for other quarry.
2005 - The day after SOS delegates representing eight EU countries visit the British fisheries minister in London, he and his EU colleagues agree vital cuts in fishing quotas.
2006/7 - An SOS appeal raises sufficient funds for work to get underway on a valuable new turtle rescue centre on the Greek island Zakynthos.
2008 - SEA LIFE campaigned to stem the slaughter of ‘Innocent Victims'...the millions of sea creatures that die annually in fishing nets targeting other species. The death toll includes sea turtles, sharks, porpoises and even commercial fish like cod and bass. Over 200,000 signatures have been collected which will be delivered to the United Nations urging urgent action.
Work with sea turtles is expanding rapidly, with the appearance of these amazing creatures at SEA LIFE centres across Europe and a successful appeal to help fund a new rescue centre on the Greek island Zakynthos. Visit www.earthseasky.org to find out more.
Spacious and imaginatively designed enclosures for families of Asian short-clawed otters achieve a similar objective for wild otters of various species.
Our work with seahorses continues to break new ground, and includes some intriguing research…including a survey in 2006 that cast serious doubt on the seahorses’ much-vaunted monogamy!
Our rapidly growing seal rescue network is not solely concerned with our own common and grey seals…but also actively campaigns to try and end the grisly slaughter of Alaskan fur seals.
As well as opposing shark-finning SEA LIFE and S.O.S have arguably done more than any other organisation in the last 30 years to persuade people that sharks are amazing and beautiful creatures worthy of admiration rather than persecution.
