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Conversation Society

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Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization.

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Dont Sale The Whale

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Why take action?

If you really wan to make a difference in our community simply log onto to dontsalewhales.weebly.com to share your part in this to help this problem. After the right amount of names are signed up are done we will take the law to the government to ban illegal whaling around our world. Making this law will assure that

How to take your action:

Just press the pledge now button and sign your name(just first name) in. Tell your friends and family as well as our final goal is 100 people. Once our goal is achieved we will take this to the international governments to prove that we do care about whales and that we need them on Earth.

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S- specific

what do you want to sustain?

The whales and their way of life. So our Earth’s future generations can live to see them alive and also whales are a more natural and sustainable way that helps our Earth survive.

why are human actions affecting the systems?

They are killing whales in a harmful way, which can affects the world's temperature which affects the ecosystems and all life on Earth, including us humans.
M- measurable

timeline

what international organization would assist your efforts?

Sea Shepherd which is an organization who helps support marine life and they also focus on whales.

what change need to happen immediately?

We need to stop Japan from hunting whales because
A- achievable

what change is achievable for you alone?

What change is achievable with help from the UN?
To start a sub-organization which doesn’t donate money but instead substitutes that are naturally sustainable for all the things they use of whales, with an occasional exception for eating them as it is a part of their tradition. This way they will get use to using these sustainable materials and not in the habit of killing whales.

what change is achievable with help from the public?

People could start raising awareness and some could take action and the more people getting angry about japan hunting for whales it could prevent japan from hunting for whales and find other resources to replace what they get from the whales.

R- relevant

How can we evolve with our changing systems?

Since we can’t stop the Earth from evolving, which isn’t a bad thing. But we HAVE to make this ‘evolving’ change into a good, better what that will not only help us but our whole world. We have to start thinking Win-Win situation, for the whales and also us.

How can you make people understand the relevance of your campaign for change?

By talking to them about the whales and how they help with the ecosystem and what they do to help us and we do not even know that they help clean the air.

T- time bound

Can life be sustained with this action occurring?

Life wouldn’t be sustained without whales because without whales the food chain wouldn’t be stable because of the many things it does like stopping sea animals  from overpopulating and will destroy the population of the other sea animals  example if whales we gone one of the things it easy like krill would overpopulate and the krill would eat so much of the plankton which is many other sea animals food like fish and the fish would have limited food and this could happen to so many other sea animals and all cased because of whales not bringing alive.

How can your campaign for change sustain life?

If we prevented Japan from hunting whales its population would increase  and would help because the resources the whale give help like how the whales poop stimulate the growth of phytoplankton which pulls the carbon from the atmosphere to provide

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 Our Campaign Mission:  What is the mission of your Campaign for Change?

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 Our Campaign Mission:  What is the mission of your Campaign for Change?

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Our Global Context: Globalisation & sustainability

Reason for using this Global Context: We chose the global context because we know that whales help the ecosystem, how well they help bring plankton up the sea level where they suck the carbon and go to the bottom of the ocean and leave all the carbon there and that keeps cycling and that is how whales help clean air in the ocean. Without that the ocean life and land life would be gone. Because of the movement of the whales they also help with the temperature levels of Earth. If they were gone we would be stuck in a world in a even worse global warming crisis.

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National Geographic -  Advocacy Spotlight

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National Geographic -  Advocacy Spotlight

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The Whale Ship Ann Alexander

Along with the story of the Essex above, this is the only other certain case of a ship being attacked and sunk by a whale. This account is related from "Whales and Whaling" by Charles Boardman Hawes published in 1924.

"The New Bedford whaler Ann Alexander was cruising the offshore sperm whaling grounds in the Pacific on the 20th of August 1851. Whales were sighted and two boats sent out. About noon the mate's boat struck a whale and was off on a "Nantucket sleigh ride" when the whale stopped, turned on the boat and "chawed it up". The other whaling boat with the ships captain John S. Deblois came to the rescue and the men taken back to the ship.

Once again the men went out to search for the stricken whale and once again the mate's boat made a strike and was smashed up requiring another rescue by the captain. Once on the ship, they headed for the whale who at last sounded (surfaced) and began to swim rapidly towards the ship. As he came near the ship "hauled on the wind" and let him pass. They tried to get another chance to strike, but it was too late in the day and the chase was given up for that day.

The ship was making about 5 knots and the captain was at the rail when suddenly he saw the whale rushing at the ship at about  three times her speed. There was no time to make any avoiding action and the whale struck the ship which juddered as if she had hit a rock. The whale had hit abreast of the foremast about 2 feet above the keel and had knocked a great hole through the bottom. Water rushed in and anchors, cables and anything that might help keep her afloat was thrown overboard.

Finally the captain ordered all hands into the only two boats that were remaining while he jumped from the sinking ship into the sea and swam to the nearer boat. The ship lay on her beam ends (on her side) with topgallant yards under water (ropes servicing the uppermost sails). They waited by her all night and the next day the captain boarded her - none of his crew would take the risk - and cut away the masts. She then righted herself and they were able to retrieve some supplies and set out for land.

They must have all known the grim story of the Essex and its crew, but had no other choice. Fortunately for them however, two days later on the 22nd of August, the ship Nantucket from that town picked them up and took them to land."

The story then goes on to claim that the New Bedford whaler Rebecca Sims struck and saved a large whale and found two of the Ann Alexander's harpoons in him along with several pieces of ships timbers in his head - this latter part does seem to be stretching the story a little too far - for the sake of a better ending to the yarn maybe?

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What information do you need for your audience?
We need reliable information so we can show our audience the truth about whaling and how much whales die every year. We also have to show them how many whales have died each year so we can show them if the death rate is going higher or lower so they will be connected and maybe support us. With also need to tell them what we are doing and why so if they like it they can support us.

What events should they know about?
They should know about how many whales die every year and why it’s bad for the environment and why it’s good to keep whales. If we tell our audience this they might support us because they know what we are dealing with. They should also know the most amount of whales killed in a year and protest against that.

What indicators should you use to educate your audience?
We do research and share it with random people and ask what do you think about whale and we will give theme a survey about what they personally think about whale and we will raise awareness and we will be able to start taking action.

What are the important trends and relationships?
The important Trends for whale blubber is really high because it is what whales are known for and also whale oil. This is Important because Whales are getting killed for this and the Japanese government support this because they say it’s a culture to kill whales.

What human actions must change?
Human action needs to take place by not killing to much whales a year and keeping them because it’s a huge part for our food chain and we need to educate people who kill too much whales. We would also want people to not ignore these beautiful creatures and help them learn about them instead of killing them.

How will these changes create sustainable systems?
We know that whales help the ecosystem how well they help bring plankton up the sea level where they suck the carbon and go to the bottom of the ocean and leave all the carbon there and that keeps cycling and that is how whales help clean the air for the ecosystem.

Resources:

CIA World Fact book

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Economic Complexity

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/explore/tree_map/hs/export/sgp/all/show/2012/

Earth Systems & Cycles: International Geosphere-Biosphere Program

http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/earthsystemdefinitions.4.d8b4c3c12bf3be638a80001040.html

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President Obama imposed diplomatic sanctions on Iceland for its illegal commercial whaling. But that nation has resumed its slaughter of whales — and Icelandic companies tied to whaling should be targeted for tough economic sanctions.